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Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

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BattleCattle
May 11, 2014

finished as much as I could before my stylus broke! Tried a couple new ideas for simulating wood grain, and neither worked as well as I’d hoped, buuut it looks fine.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
sketch:



finished

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
Generic anime headshots are my crutch, but I'm trying to get in the 'draw a day' habit and starting in easy mode isn't the worst idea.

BattleCattle
May 11, 2014

I don’t have a stylus anymore, and I can’t draw with my finger very well, so here’s a flan who’s really happy to be a flan.



I also figured out how to do woodgrains. The answer is “cheat with downloaded textures and a mesh transform layer”.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
sketch



finished

Shinmera
Mar 25, 2013

I make games!

Still trying to settle on a design for this character.



I think I'm getting somewhere now. I'd still like to add blue tones somewhere, but I couldn't figure out anything I liked using blue in this one. Mostly I'm worried that there won't be enough colour contrast in the leg area to make this work well in the very small sprite sheet.

my buddy Superfly
Feb 28, 2011

Pixel art is fun and I like to do it.


Geomancing
Jan 8, 2004

I am not an egghead. I am well-read.
For the past six or seven years I've been using a Wacom Bamboo, with a roughly 4" x 6" working surface. Today I got a previous-generation iPad, my very first 'draw on the display surface' tablet.



Working on getting a handle on Procreate's controls.

digital penitence
Jan 3, 2008

Still plugging away at my sketchbook

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
work in progress maybe

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
Found a picture from last year, which is useful for measuring. I'm practising blocking out shades on a large scale.


Now:
Previous: [timg]https://i.imgur.com/o0GzYRi.png[[/timg]

my buddy Superfly
Feb 28, 2011

coolusername posted:

Found a picture from last year, which is useful for measuring. I'm practising blocking out shades on a large scale.


Now:
Previous: [timg]https://i.imgur.com/o0GzYRi.png[[/timg]

I love the way your new drawing looks!



I also wanted to redraw something I made July 7th 2017 when I was first forcing myself to get used to drawing stuff with a tablet. Also I'm mad that I can't play the fancy new tetris right now.

Today:


July 2017:

folder
Oct 9, 2016

lol

digital penitence
Jan 3, 2008

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011


got reeeaaal sloppy and impatient at the end doing the walls and floor but you get the point

Flavius Aetass fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Nov 12, 2018

lofi
Apr 2, 2018





gently caress this, gently caress the world, I hate comics, why am I doing a comic :suicide:

Pentaro
May 5, 2013


Stan the Man.

folder
Oct 9, 2016

Really like this

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext

i kind of love this??



I'm trying to practise Realistic Heads with the Loomis method but while I get the horizontal axis okay I'm having a really hard time conceptualising the perspective and the bottom of the chin on the up/down angle. Anyone got any tips?

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



coolusername posted:

i kind of love this??



I'm trying to practise Realistic Heads with the Loomis method but while I get the horizontal axis okay I'm having a really hard time conceptualising the perspective and the bottom of the chin on the up/down angle. Anyone got any tips?

The underside of the jaw gets real complicated real fast as a consequence of the number of muscles crammed into such a small space. I find that the Loomis method starts to break down the more extreme the tilt of the head gets.

One method I sometimes use to try and conceptualize extreme tilts is a "coke can" head:



The most prominent feature of extreme head tilts is the curved horseshoe shape of the underside of the skull as it begins to wrap around the various muscles that attach to the base. By cutting a hole in the middle of the coke can (a simple cylinder), you can define the curve of the underside of the jaw in space in a specific enough way that you can then start to figure out the rest of the features. Using box shapes and adding more angles into the construction can also help you to conceptualize the planes. Realistically, a lot of it simply comes down to practice and study: the more you fumble around with it and figure out the major curves and angles, the easier it becomes to start figuring it out in space. As always, Stan Prokopenko has a good video on it if you want a more detailed explanation.

Shinmera
Mar 25, 2013

I make games!

Today: some preliminary dialog profiles.



And here it is in the engine:

lofi
Apr 2, 2018




I think the change of styles is hurting you - the contrast between pixel-graphics and vector-style lines hurts both. You might have some joy with artificially pixellating your larger figures?

Pentaro
May 5, 2013


Picachu

digital penitence
Jan 3, 2008

folder posted:

Really like this

Thanks!

dupersaurus
Aug 1, 2012

Futurism was an art movement where dudes were all 'CARS ARE COOL AND THE PAST IS FOR CHUMPS. LET'S DRAW SOME CARS.'
Got around to doing some actual daily drawing for art fair prep


smallmouth
Oct 1, 2009





lofi
Apr 2, 2018






Turns out ice rinks are really fun places to draw people. The local pop-up one even has a warm caff for me to lurk in!

Also, I'm a massive fan of watercolour gesture work with a flat brush, just discovered it and it makes me very happy.

folder
Oct 9, 2016

lofi posted:

Also, I'm a massive fan of watercolour gesture work with a flat brush, just discovered it and it makes me very happy.

Oh nice idea... gonna give that a go. Do you work from studies or just make the drawing fit the brushstroke?

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext

Vermain posted:

The underside of the jaw gets real complicated real fast as a consequence of the number of muscles crammed into such a small space..

Thanks! I'll check out Proko's videos. The Loomis books are being kind of a mixed bag for me, seeing it with visuals in motion will help.

Got the flu, just messing around with shapes for my once a day.

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph

This one real cool

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer

lofi posted:



Turns out ice rinks are really fun places to draw people. The local pop-up one even has a warm caff for me to lurk in!

Also, I'm a massive fan of watercolour gesture work with a flat brush, just discovered it and it makes me very happy.

I love these and I'm going to start using this idea immediately.

OtherworldlyInvader
Feb 10, 2005

The X-COM project did not deliver the universe's ultimate cup of coffee. You have failed to save the Earth.


I haven't drawn anything for the last few years until I took another figure drawing course this semester for fun and have been enjoying working with newsprint and quick poses again. I've been wanting to do more so today I messed around in digital with the help of some random pose site that grabs pose photos off Deviant Art or something.

10 minute poses from photos:


Some 10 minute poses from class:


I need to figure out what kind of brushes/settings I want to be using for line drawings/sketches, and put some time in on practicing heads/faces/hands/feet. I think I also tend to have some leg length and/or head size issues. I've made a lot of improvement on how quickly I can construct a figure though, it used to take me ages.

content
Feb 13, 2014


These are really cool and inspiring.

lofi
Apr 2, 2018




:3 Thanks all, I really enjoyed doing them! I think the colours really helped bring them to life.

folder posted:

Oh nice idea... gonna give that a go. Do you work from studies or just make the drawing fit the brushstroke?

I did a real quick gesture study with the brush, just three or four chunky marks while I could catch someone's pose, then went back in with a pen once the colour was dry. I was using a 3/4" flat brush on A4 paper, which was maybe a bit thick - 1/2" might have worked better.

folder
Oct 9, 2016

lofi posted:

I did a real quick gesture study with the brush, just three or four chunky marks while I could catch someone's pose, then went back in with a pen once the colour was dry. I was using a 3/4" flat brush on A4 paper, which was maybe a bit thick - 1/2" might have worked better.

Thank you!

Doctor Dogballs
Apr 1, 2007

driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station


a new piece of art

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer
Watercolor I did over the weekend while on vacation:

Phylodox
Mar 30, 2006



College Slice
I've been drawing Sylvanas a lot. Decided to try her in Bruce Timm's style.



I am happy with this.

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lofi
Apr 2, 2018




Open mike nights = free models who entertain you while you draw.

Spectacularly lovely lighting, though.

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