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Shinmera posted:
Spotted Kandria in the itch.io bundle for Palestine! Congrats:)
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 21:56 |
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i'm going out of town for a couple weeks, but i promise to keep drawing while i'm gone!!
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i got an apple pencil when i got an ipad pro a couple of years ago for like sheet music and practice stuff and decided to dust it off to work on learning how to art. i drew video game characters and cars and stuff when i was a kid but was never any good, took art my senior year of high school but that was a bunch of craft projects and i took every opportunity i could to bail on assignments except for doing a piece with stippling, weirdly enough. every night for the past four days i've sat down and worked on art stuff for about an hour to 90m. currently i'm: - working on drawing more confident lines and getting to sketching/perspective on drawabox - doing some gesture drawing learning at proko (i am very bad at this) - 30m of just loving around/doing a small piece the last couple of nights of loving around i've been drawing simple pokemon like voltorb or diglett and then painting them using a watercolor-style brush in procreate to see how close i can get to the 90s pokemon art style. here's tonight's diglett: and here's the least heinous pose from the gesture drawing session. feel like i'm flailing a bit doing this but every time i do it i feel like i capture more of the pose so it's headed the right direction, i suppose. Shinmera posted:Chapter 4 Page 8 (Chapter Gap) also just wanted to say i'm enjoying this comic a lot
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Southern Cassowary posted:and here's the least heinous pose from the gesture drawing session. feel like i'm flailing a bit doing this but every time i do it i feel like i capture more of the pose so it's headed the right direction, i suppose. Nice! I've also been experimenting with gesture drawing (and just figure sketching more broadly) and have found it really rewarding. I aim to marry my eye and my hand, with as little thought as possible between them. Like a meditative thing almost. Regardless, I'm stuck as stuck can be these days. Trying to just slop some paint onto paper every night.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJ43rSb4_I
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NSFW? Not a Dickman, just shape Edit:oops forgot to spoiler, my bad Jestery fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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day 5 - did ghosted planes at drawabox. line confidence is improving. - some art friends pointed me toward line of action for practicing gesture drawing, so i did a session there. i think this is starting to bear fruit, i feel like i'm getting a pose which is recognizable and captures the motion of the figure more often now. - i had an absolutely terrible attempt at painting jigglypuff in a unique pose, then i decided to dial it back a bit and really invest like an hour into a still life of a pear. messed around with shadow color and really blending to get the feel of the values right. learned from the mistakes and successes, so as always, i am happy. here is the pear.
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Southern Cassowary posted:i think this is starting to bear fruit
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Southern Cassowary posted:i got an apple pencil when i got an ipad pro a couple of years ago for like sheet music and practice stuff and decided to dust it off to work on learning how to art. How do you find the pro and pencil combo? I've been looking at the Pro for a few weeks and debating cost and functionality. How accurate is the pencil to what you want it to do?
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Arc Hammer posted:How do you find the pro and pencil combo? I've been looking at the Pro for a few weeks and debating cost and functionality. How accurate is the pencil to what you want it to do? i am in no way an experienced digital artist so grain of salt, but it's very classically apple in that it does the thing, it does it well, and it does it in the way you'd expect with no fuss. the screen looks nice and i've never been frustrated using the pencil in procreate due to a hardware thing. all my serious artist friends with a decade+ of experience are on cintiq and ipad pro combos at this point, and they pretty much all think if they gave up one it'd be the cintiq because the ipad pro form factor is so convenient it's a gamechanger. i pretty quickly found i wanted some kind of stand for the ipad so i got a sketchboard 2. locking the ipad at a 20 degree angle with two little legs on my desk like the mid-sized huions or wacoms is huge in terms of ergonomics and helps me draw better, more comfortably. now that i have one i can not imagine life without it. https://www.amazon.com/SKETCHBOARD-PRO-Black-11-inch-4th-5th/dp/B0CPTMM3JS art friends also said i should get a screen protector with a paper-like texture and recommended some that aren't 45 dollars from paperlike. i ordered a magnetic one because i am a disaster at applying screen protectors and i'm going to give it a spin.
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Southern Cassowary posted:day 5 I like this pear
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Lol at my new AV / Text It's very good Thank you truly
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day 6 if yesterday was fruit, today was beans - draw a box today was learning to draw ellipses. probably did, idk, 50, and three were really good. this number will go up with practice. - figure drawing i worked on learning to draw the torso bean at proko, and then i did a figure drawing session where i only drew a bunch of beans in 45 second intervals. i feel like i get a good bean and then i try drawing the centerline and it all falls apart. the way i've been approaching the proko stuff is i watch the first video explaining the concept, try it myself, flounder miserably, then go back and watch him do the assignments to see what i'm doing wrong to apply, and i'll do that with him drawing torso beans. - tried a still art of a coffee cup, was a failure - perspective was wonky and then i realized i was painting on the same layer as the lineart so i just spent like 5m roughing in some kind of shadows to say i completed an art piece today. one of the things i like about learning art is even the failures are engaging and you feel like you learn things from completing an attempt at trying something and missing the mark. i'm finding myself thinking about my experience learning guitar a lot while doing this - one of the things that can be frustrating about music is trying to play things just past your skill level and doing technical work can feel like a frustrating grind. in art, even the failures are relaxing, and i've been doing a good job coming away from them with actionable things i can work on. it's nice.
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Jestery posted:Lol at my new AV / Text Thank you for sharing your progress and thoughts! Very cool and encouraging
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Sitting Here posted:Thank you for sharing your progress and thoughts! Very cool and encouraging it is my hope that one day i'll be posting on like day 1000 and my day 6 struggles will feel quaint
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Did some scribbles while waiting at the DMV yesterday
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Toyed around with Procreate to get a feel and produced a confused looking dude.
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HopperUK posted:Spotted Kandria in the itch.io bundle for Palestine! Congrats:) Yea, not the first bundle either, glad I could contribute. Southern Cassowary posted:also just wanted to say i'm enjoying this comic a lot Glad to hear! Best of luck on your art journey. You'll definitely think your past struggles are quaint after a thousand pieces. For instance, this was onesie #2 (not my second drawing, mind, just #2 in the series) And this one was #1000: Anyway, on with comicssss Chapter 5 Page 1
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day 7: - continued ellipse drawing practice, i felt like i was doing worse than i did last time then i actually looked back and more of them were correct. negative feelings are not to be trusted. - 10m gesture drawing session where i did more gestures better than usual. this is trending upward and i feel like i'm getting better at observing what the form is doing. very happy about that. - a whole bunch of practice drawing torsos as beans and then seeing how proko did the same torso. this helped me understand what i was missing with him drawing on the center line and i got better at this. still room for improvement but i'm happy with the jump. - i had been thinking about the really rich burgundy and gold mix of an apple all day for some reason so i decided to paint one and try to capture that. i absolutely got there on the color mix and implying the texture of the apple but the reference photo had a specular highlight on it and i have zero idea how to do that. i attempted it and it looked bad so i decided not to bother. lol Shinmera posted:Glad to hear! Best of luck on your art journey. You'll definitely think your past struggles are quaint after a thousand pieces. thank you for the inspiring words, i love the painterly look of the background in onesie 1000. Southern Cassowary fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Chapter 5 Page 2
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Used white crayon for the lettering, couldn't see that the 'layered' Vs were so far apart haha... I'm drawn to geometric scenes but am scared to commit. I feel like they'll only work if I'm very precise, and I know that I lack both fundamental knowlege and certain technical skills. So I just go super loose instead. We picked a perfect night to catch a game at the new soccer stadium.
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Flambeau posted:Used white crayon for the lettering, couldn't see that the 'layered' Vs were so far apart haha... i love the color in the sky, your dmv stuff was also great. be fearless, friend. day 8: - i had a mental breakthrough on ellipse drawing practice that made me get a feel for doing them down. not consistent yet but we're trending upward. happy about this. - did a 30m gesture drawing session where they threw me a foreshortened guy driving a spike into a stump and i actually managed to capture the pose legibly. i am very happy about this. eyeballing love life drawing because they teach how to do gesture and figure drawing a little more systematically than proko does and i think that'll work better with how i approach things, but rn i'm getting results just yoloing and putting the time in with proko's videos. - more proko torso beans, these are getting better but they're still really sketchy. need to work on that. - decided to try more still life watercolor fruit but without lineart, blocking in a high tone. really like how this turned out, it really came together when i painted in the shadow at the bottom in a way i didn't expect. honestly i was kind of in a poo poo mood as i was doing this and felt frustrated, like i was spinning my wheels. as i'm typing this out i realize it was a very successful day of practice. i almost said fruitful. lmao Southern Cassowary fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Never be afraid! What's the worst that'll happen, you'll draw a bad picture? Oh noooooo
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HopperUK posted:Never be afraid! What's the worst that'll happen, you'll draw a bad picture? Oh noooooo I've never recovered to this day Chapter 5 Page 3
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Thing I did up today for a Twitter challenge. Ended up turning into a sorta Mikey crossed with Shredder mecha.
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day 9 - more ellipse drawing practice, more improvement there. i do the last ellipse drawing homework for draw a box tomorrow, then we start drawing boxes - first about six sheets of drawing boxes in perspective, rotating them, etc, and then we just draw 250 boxes. i absolutely love dumb challenge stuff like this to get better so i'm looking forward to leveling up on perspective some, as i need it. - i did the first day of love life drawing's fresh eyes 10 day course for figure drawing stuff. on day one they break down 2d poses into a series of shapes designed to teach body observation. i really liked this - it got me to notice the angle of the pelvis, orientation of the ribcage, collarbones, angle of the legs and arms, etc. i struggled the most with placing the arms, but at the end of even one day of this i was seeing results in my observation skills. i drew the shapes afterward also. - the above took about an hour and a half, so i took a break, then came back to do my piece for the day later. an art friend said to draw articuno and do ribbons for the tail. i did a pose from imagination because i am a crazy person - it didn't turn out great but, for like, drawing for a week it's a good sight better than it would have been before i started and i can see the issues in perspective with it. right now i'm trusting the process and assuming that the wide variety of work draw a box does with constructive sketching in perspective will help a lot with this. e: articuno was bothering me and i couldn't sleep so i tried shifting stuff around to see if the perspective could make more sense and it totally does. v messy cause i was sketching on the lineart layer and did shadows on a diff layer which looks bad but the experiment worked, i think Southern Cassowary fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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Chapter 5 Page 4
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day 10 - drew funnels for draw a box - day 2 of love life drawing - attempted a sphere in pencil today was a struggle day. i know about, idk, 20% of days are struggles from music - sometimes you just don't have it and have to put the time in anyway. took me five minutes to figure out how to draw an ellipse and my gestures were worse at capturing the pose. i've been playing with doing a sphere in pencil in procreate and i burned out one of those and wasn't happy with it but i did the thing today.
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Shinmera posted:
was excited to see four pages today. love the ducks these are so cool, are you working on a game? day 11: - drew boxes in 2 point perspective at drawabox. - worked on gesture from the side at love life drawing - looked up a video on simple head construction from marc brunet and took a crack at that i split this into sections as i was worn out after doing like ten boxes in perspective. felt really good in the second half, boxes and gesture were flowing. decided to take a crack at starting to learn head construction and it's pretty jank but it's a start. Southern Cassowary fucked around with this message at 12:18 on May 2, 2024 |
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