Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

Hi, I'm seing an interesting evolution while flipping through your sketchbook.

The colored pencils in the workshops that you posted a few days ago are truly alive, I really felt like I was there with these people. I hope you showed them the result and they got good vibes from it.

A word about "Imagination is memory". We cannot find references for everything, especially when drawing a comic. However, when trying strokes on paper, we can progressively hit another type of memory that doesn't come from models but from life itself. Everything you looked at without seeing on the street and everywhere you went is still in you, just hidden until you dive in. Have you noticed that the more you draw, the more you see around you?

I'll get back to your comics and other topics a bit later. Just wanted to leave a few words for now.

Hi Leo, yeah I chose this internship, because it was the opportunity to do something creative. Most internship are for the STEM and engineering kids, which is why I believe this program was made. My host wasn't my first choice, but I liked that my host allowed me a lot of flexibility. He discussed what they do and the different branches of the social enterprise and that they were going to be making their own brewery. I suggested the idea of doing an illustration project. My original plan was to draw a comic/or graphics depicting the process of making a beer. There were issues with making the beer, so I just took pictures of the process. He was really pleased with the first couple of images, that he wanted to draw the whole company. You are only seeing around half of what I drew. They had a really good response. At the end they hung them up in their bar. Basically my first 'commission', in a way.

Yeah, might not be able to find the exact reference for what we 100% want the piece to look like (perhaps that's a good thing), but we can combine multiple and create a composite. Are you refering to 'drawing from memory' here? 'Have you noticed that the more you draw, the more you see around you?' Kinda. 

Nice updates, you've been busy!  I would keep practicing the figures with gestures and breaking them down into simpler shapes.  Right now I think you can benefit from drawing an ideal figure so I highly recommend the material of Andrew Loomis' to help you with that, I think that can be extremely beneficial to you at this point in your journey.  Keep it up!

Hi, I went back to gestures and trying to break them down, but I'm stuck at how to make them stick. I pull the ref away and the it looks nothing like how I wanted it too. How to you practice learning a pose(s) from imagination? Have Loomis figure book, might peruse again. Thanks.

I'm back, about water painting. The shiny strings of reflections or foam on the water surface should hide the underwater things more than the other areas of the surface do. On your two drawings, you did not represent the reflections, only the patches of water, which obscure the underlying character. This produces an inverse impression, and the patches look like additional objects on the water. I hope this helps.

Still not ready to formulate my thoughts about your comics, I need to get my mind back into this form.

Thanks, for the crit, I knew I didn't quite nail it. So on the foamy parts, you shouldn't see anything underneath? I might try to do some studies. If you know of any relevant tutorials, I'd love to know.

Started drawing some fandom images I've wanting to create since I was 13. X-Men: Evolution was one of my very first fandoms. Always wanted to draw images of Remy and Rogue (Romy), Kitty and Piotr (Kiotr) and Wanda and St. John (Jonda) at prom. The original brief was them just slowly dancing front to front together, but I wanted them to look more dynamic.  I have a plan of colouring it in the future. I have a plain pencil version, just in case a traditional version doesn't work. (But if Valoofle can do it!) 



Ran away with it and did prom photos, too!


My goodness it up turned faces difficult! Had to do this head a least three times. Wanted St.John slightly bowed, while cheekily pointing at the audience/camera.


Wanna start to do more costume designs. 


Really loving Piotr Jablonksi's dark moody work and costume design. Brough some of that in here.

Went back to gestures:

Trying to recall a past pose. The same one I refed for the Barda piece. How does one learn dynamic anatomy? How long do you spend on a pose, before trying recall it? After 30 seconds or a longer study. Wanna get to a point where I can just riff away on my head and it come out correct or at least convincible.





Drawing male ballet dancers because they are graceful and beautiful. <3



Started to get back into digital after a lagging issue caused me to stop. When back to Huion, but couldn't get the driver to update, so pulled out the Intuos, where I had to reinstall. Thank God I still had the original box and CD. I'm using CSP.
Finding it hard to create a hard edge in it, my best bet with this was the 'Oil paint flat brush' brush. Getting the likeness of the model wasn't my aim with this, I just wanted to finally learn how to tackle digital painting.



Female Thea bust shot. Still figuring how to use Clip to render. They're supposed to be a green tinted blue, but not sure how over lays work. How do layers even work? I do a sketch later, then flats, like the tutorials, then get lost. I try to create another later then blend the flat colour via colour picking, but it won't let me. I suppose, because it's on another layer. But, I'm sure I've done it before. Not sure if Clip has a 'Colour Blending' mode like Procreate. Right now I'm blending on the flats layer, because I'm not sure what else to do.


Must better than my first attempt after not using Clip for almost a year.


Put the Lara Croft crouching pic into Clip to attempt to draw. Consider this a W.I.P. Want more like Adam Hughes colouring, but no idea how he does it or how to do it on Clip. Or at least 'painterly-like'?