Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah Staying Awake

[Vicianus]

Wow!! Your guys's comments really mean a lot to me, I logged on for the first time maybe a couple weeks ago and saw all your support and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. ;A; Sorry I've been AWOL!

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Replies

@Farvus
Yes, absolutely. I agree completely, it's something I also noticed and I've been trying to better but I def need to continue working on emphasizing sharper lines. Lots of attention to this in drawings to come!

@CrackedSkull
Thank you!

@Fedodika
Here u go <3<

@ZombieChinchilla
Ahh thanks so much, I appreciate it. I love creepy/weird/sexy vibes, I try and get it in my work. c:

@Lungcell
Oh man thank you so much!!!! ;v; I appreciate that a lot, I think hearing that people like my designs is my favorite, since that's what I want to do.

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Updates

I've been up to a bit since my last post. I've been pretty busy working a full time job in a call center, I got some decent commissions from my coworkers though. c: I populated the whole office with sketches HAHA it was like, a hot trend to have me do art for them. Sweet deal.

I finished two books on perspective: Perspective Made Easy (I highly recommend this one) and Perspective! For Comic Book Artists (eh.) I understand perspective much better now and how to allude to it! Reading more on it has helped me clarify some issues I've had, like maintaining eye level (or even deciding it ahead of time, purposefully) and turning things in space, etc.
I did a lot of perspective drills, like putting boxes in a single eyeline, some houses, various constructed objects in space. They all look pretty gross and I literally throw them away so I don't have anything here. I'm definitely much clearer on how to approach drafting environments. My compositional sense isn't strong enough right now to make good layouts though, which makes practicing environments aggravating and I have been holding off while I learn more about composition/design.
I also did tons of ellipses, on boxes and what not. As a drafting exercise, I have also been doing hundreds of squares and circles to practice maintaining proportions free-hand. I have finished 700/1000 of those circles in squares. I perceive better how circles turn into ellipses as they recede in space.

For drafting exercises, I've really wanted to increase how well I can indicate volume in space, especially with added detail. I set out to do 50 drawings of complex shoes, I'm at 18 at the moment; as well as 50 tires so I can get details like tread rolling across relatively simple forms to help describe them. I'm only at 3/50 tires LOL that crap is hard. =v=;;;

For anatomy, I completed Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy and copied every drawing in the book that I legibly understood. I understand arms, hands, and legs much better now, though I'm still working on fixing my natural inclinations with anatomy. I intend to also go through The Human Machine (Bridgman) and Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Loomis) in due time, as well as re-visiting Constructive Anatomy periodically in the coming two years as I find it's solidity for imaginative applications extremely useful; I'm sure I say this a lot, but I really want to master human anatomy!
I also have been working on doing 100 skull drawings. My document says I'm at 50 but I'm not sure that's accurate, I might have lost some information. =v=;; Oh well! I'm somewhere over the hump. Using skulls also to practice rendering/drafting/anatomy, quick BS anything-goes sketches.

For design, I'm reading Creative Illustration by Loomis; awesome book. I'm trying to find some solid ideals to grab onto with design, because I'm a really analytical type of thinker. It's helping out already, I'm not very far in the book though. I'm also trying to go through Albrecht Durer's The Just Shaping of Letters so I can enhance my proportional sensitivity. In the last couple of days only, I've begun to feel a real magnetic pull for design choices, shapes, composition/etc. so I'm really excited to push forward and embrace more solid design choices!

I went to a couple workshops; Composition with Marshall Vandruff (which also helped me begin to think more about design, little to show for it now though lmao); Light & Color with Nathan Fowkes; and a lecture/demo with Kim Jung Gi. Awesome stuff. They think how I expected they do, they were awesome lectures though that really pumped me up!! I'm happy I got to go to these lectures before I move away from the entertainment design hub.

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Artwork

I honestly don't have a lot to show. Almost everything I draw is stuff I throw away, and I'm trying to work hard to push forward to a much better level so I feel like almost everything is crap! But here's a small dump of what I've been up to:




Skulls:



Shoes:




Imaginative art:






I don't think any of this is great. I've been learning a whole lot, though. One of the biggest humps I got over was a crippling fear of failure though HAHA I've been working on it for a while, even posting all my crappy sketchbook pages before, but I was never really over it. I've been making tons of crappy art, in public, all the time; I'll take credit for it, even. "Yeah, I made that page of poorly composed ellipses!" I'm more okay than ever with just sitting down and doing the work, which is allowing me to begin to move forward and work on slowing down and trying to make the correct, informed choices. Right now mentally I'm trying to work on discipline, making sure to sit down and do the drawings and finish them well instead of checking out and getting frustrated.a
I am happy with the composition choices on Wonder Woman, though! Even if it's a single figure on a blank background, I think it has good flow, focal points, harmonies and contrasts. c:

I have one painting in the works for a side project, it doesn't have any hands though LOL so I don't want to post it until it does, that'll come up sooner or later.