Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

Darkiste: yea i sketched around to find a pose i liked, but you can always explore more, and then do micro explorations of that pose. thanks for the paintover, and that's a good point about the silhouette reading, i'll remember that on the fly next time. The obsession as you say with no ref, was me exploring what i could do without it; it's good to do because you hit the dead ends quicker, and come to important realizations. What i figured out from the last one is several things,

1. Drawing little stick men before a more finalized drawing is actually fun and relaxing, you can explore and not invest anything, just the idea of what a pose could be. that may end up being part of at least my imagination workflow forever
2. I need to see if i can create an accurate turn around of the body even in a static pose. I'll need to get proko's course and lay into hogarthe more to make sure i understand all the important muscles and can indicate them solidly in a turn around from memory; that'll be a big goal of mine this year.
3. Always always always figure out the whole pose inside and out before you add clothing, even if you're looking through limbs, make sure they are connecting properly, as its easy to lose them in foreshortening and clothing.
4. i really like the concept of dark natured things in beautiful bright and soft backgrounds. 
5. i use a generic indication for imagination things, like a  face or a hand; which can be fixed with reference, but it's something i'll remember.

So today was suuper frustrating, which i suppose is a good thing. This portrait was a master copy from watts and was absolutely comically bad, that even me with a half hour with it in painter, doctoring and fixing it couldnt save it from looking comically bad lol. The shaded pose has horrible shading that made me realize i had been sharpening my pencil wrong the entire time; which i proceeded to correct with more education. Its really vital to do that in watts style at least, you cant do these drawings right if you dont. 

Also in the shaded drawing the calves are way too big, but the distortion from my camera made them look almost correct! i can make a list of all the things i see wrong in these, but im just gonna suck it up and do better tomorrow. possible may redo the portrait, and try some other things out, right now im gonna dip back into some super basic fundamentals like how to hold a fucking pencil; cheerio till then