Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

Drawing these was some of the most fun I've had drawing in a long while. :)

 You can chalk that up as a win :) 

Great to see you back and flexing your drawing arm. I am considering going back to or alternating with traditional media for practice too - soemthing I come back to painting programs and forget where to start.

Hi, I got really excited when I actual drew the people/characters I was interested in, who knew? Drawing Clara in particular was pretty meditative. I've just been staying with traditional pencil and paper, but I really want to get to grips with how digital art/Clip works. When I have a break from digital the learning curve starts all over again, because I'm not sure what button does what or how I drew before. I do do my due diligence and research tutorials, for example using the fill tool, but it never seems to do what it's supposed to do. Which is why I would love to  attend a live digital drawing/painting classes, but they are few and far between. 

I've only just discovered the 'clip to layer' thing, so you can colour inside the lines. I guess that's why artists like to make a grey silhouette at first? Right now I'm oscillating between different images that I haven't finished. I wanna get to a point, like you, where I can say a piece is finished. I'm getting frustrated, because the colour picker isn't right and I'm not sure how to add detail. I want to work on my edges, but I'm not sure which is the best brushes to use for that. Any suggestions as I see you also use Clip?

Good stuff in here. One small note for you. I think you tend to divide hair and fabric into evenly split divisions. If you mix it up using big, medium, and small divisions you can get a more interesting/appealing look.

Thanks, I tried to look at what you mean. I think I can see it in the Clara Hill pictures? I was following the refs, but I guess I did try to simplify it by dividing them into divisions. But, overall I like the effect, but thanks for the tip to be considered in future pictures.