07-16-2024, 07:42 AM
I’ve had a busy few months since last posting with the usual emotional ups and downs. I was supposed to finish ages ago, but I didn’t have too much time because I was so worried about getting a grade 9 in Latin, therefore a lot my time was devoted to learning the curriculum and studying for the exams. Any less and my money would have been wasted. (Booking the exams was a pain and so much money. 
) I saw an online course that wants to widen the gap between people learning classical based subjects and I wanted to challenge myself that I could ‘self-teach’ myself a GCSE. I lost interest, but then interest sparked up again when I wanted to create a fanart project of some of my favourite comic book characters as Cowboys. I started with some research on Pinterest and Google of looking at images of cowboys, this being good practice to draw hats and shirt folds. I’ve been practising that a lot lately and I’m finding it super enjoyable. After learning of the ‘5 basic folds’ from the Morpho books, it’s good to see them out in the wild and be able to spot them!
My neuroticism got to me again, with worrying about using references, or I am using references now, but for example finding ‘the perfect ref’, but then worrying of really just focusing on one reference to base an image on. Thus, I stopped. Then I came across the artist I’ve mentioned before that could have been if I continued and wasn’t so nervous to create as a teenager and got emotional. He’s so successful that I feel like I can’t avoid his art. After that settled, I felt weirdly motivated and got all eight sketches pumped out in only a couple of days. There are anatomy errors, like Apollo’s hands should probably be visual, but I just couldn’t get it right and used his hair bun and hat to cover it. Angie ‘Da Engineer’s’ Spica right hand was hard to read from the ref, so it’s not super completed, but hopefully you feel the vibe. The angle of Midnighter gun fingers should be sharper, ect. But, I am my own worst critic.
I figure it would be better to post the sketches here, before I colour and finalise the design. The plan was to render out with coloured pencils, but I’m not sure about digital colouring, because I still haven’t finished the other images I started. Haha.
Here's an update of the Japanese school girl. I still haven't figured out the right/best setting for a scanner, so an image isn't 'washed out'. I suppose it's possible to image edit in Clip.The bottom right seems rather perfunctory compared to the rest of the images and that's because I lost the refs I used to plan the image. However, at that point I just wanted to get it done.
My Authority, but Cowboys! project:
I’m super happy with Jenny Q’s picture. There’s so much personality! I based it on one pose and though ‘Fuck it!’ and just went for it.
The preliminary sketches are in another sketchbook along with some fold theory. :)
) I saw an online course that wants to widen the gap between people learning classical based subjects and I wanted to challenge myself that I could ‘self-teach’ myself a GCSE. I lost interest, but then interest sparked up again when I wanted to create a fanart project of some of my favourite comic book characters as Cowboys. I started with some research on Pinterest and Google of looking at images of cowboys, this being good practice to draw hats and shirt folds. I’ve been practising that a lot lately and I’m finding it super enjoyable. After learning of the ‘5 basic folds’ from the Morpho books, it’s good to see them out in the wild and be able to spot them!My neuroticism got to me again, with worrying about using references, or I am using references now, but for example finding ‘the perfect ref’, but then worrying of really just focusing on one reference to base an image on. Thus, I stopped. Then I came across the artist I’ve mentioned before that could have been if I continued and wasn’t so nervous to create as a teenager and got emotional. He’s so successful that I feel like I can’t avoid his art. After that settled, I felt weirdly motivated and got all eight sketches pumped out in only a couple of days. There are anatomy errors, like Apollo’s hands should probably be visual, but I just couldn’t get it right and used his hair bun and hat to cover it. Angie ‘Da Engineer’s’ Spica right hand was hard to read from the ref, so it’s not super completed, but hopefully you feel the vibe. The angle of Midnighter gun fingers should be sharper, ect. But, I am my own worst critic.
I figure it would be better to post the sketches here, before I colour and finalise the design. The plan was to render out with coloured pencils, but I’m not sure about digital colouring, because I still haven’t finished the other images I started. Haha.
Here's an update of the Japanese school girl. I still haven't figured out the right/best setting for a scanner, so an image isn't 'washed out'. I suppose it's possible to image edit in Clip.The bottom right seems rather perfunctory compared to the rest of the images and that's because I lost the refs I used to plan the image. However, at that point I just wanted to get it done.
My Authority, but Cowboys! project:
I’m super happy with Jenny Q’s picture. There’s so much personality! I based it on one pose and though ‘Fuck it!’ and just went for it.
The preliminary sketches are in another sketchbook along with some fold theory. :)