Sketchbook & Progess Log - The journey is the reward!

[Cyprinus]

@Sam: Mattessi is pretty cool, I really like the energy he conveys in his drawings, exaggerating like him really makes me help feel the pose more. Would you be very disappointed if I told you that the recent life drawings were done with a woodless graphite pencil, with a broad lead and stuff, which I already consider very messy XD? The thing is, I can't really get messy. I can't give up control. It's something I've been thinking about for a really long time already though and right now I'm trying find a solution that works. I need to relax a little. Thanks for the input as always!!! <3

@aks9: Hey, thank you for stoping by my sketchbook! Glad you like what you see so far, I'll try to work a litte harder!

@Jaik: You're welcome (: Yeah, I'm trying to do some every day; it's bothersome though, the quality is changing from day to day, I guess it depends on how relaxed I'm inside...I really want to master this though. I have a hard time sometimes though when I try to translate the gesture into "real anatomy". It kind of starts with a fluent gesture and ends up stiff like always. Guess I gotta keep pushing a bit more. I'm also planning on exploring the style of the sci-fi portrait a bit more in the future, glad you like it!

@ZombieChinchilla: Thank you so much! Glad you like my stuff!

@ImSkeptical: Ahhh thank you so much! I'm glad you see it this way, because I kind of had problems with the weight for a long time, all my figures looked like they were floating XD I'm really happy if that is better now! Can only agree on Kim Jung Gi. I love how everything in his works just looks so three dimensional. I think I need to go on studying more of his works, I feel I could really benefit from it. I think the confidence really plays a big part as well. It's something worth working on as well :3

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I'm always surprised how fast time passes sometimes! I haven't been idle since the last time I posted here, but I also didn't really excel at pumping out the studies. At the moment though I'm also trying to sort mental things out, as I noticed that sometimes I really tend to get to wound up about things and I overthink. It doesn't exactly help me with my drawings so I'm kind of exploring methods to find out why I'm like that, how I can relax and change my attitude. Just some mind-work. It all starts there anyway...
I continued my studies of the "Force" Book though, went to life-drawing, did some study sketches and work from imagination. I just haven't bothered to scan everything yet. I also got a bit back into digital painting, somehow.



Flat-brush only, kind of unfinished. It was taking too long...



Didn't plan on the flats here but I somehow forgot how to blend. I just couldn't do it anymore

And some stuff from my train sketchbook





The other day when I was doodling in the tram, somebody suddenly tapped me on the shoulder and I almost got a heart attack and mentally prepared myself to be reprimanded, because "I was shamelessly sketching other people without their permission" or something like that. Instead the woman said this to me: "Your sketch looks really great!" and she expressed this with such a genuinely happy face that I was really pleasantly surprised. And relieved! It was the first time somebody actually reacted to me sketching like this in public...

Oh, and the little experiment I did, which is now my new avatar



I should probably write less and draw more...