Slink's Sketches [C&C Welcome]

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Started posting stuff again as I realized what i'm missing is feedback.

Wow! It's actually been like a full year since I last posted anything. I have neglected art in the last year or so, and now I have a full time job so my free time is being SLAYED (but hey I have money at least so that's something). Nevertheless I am once again drawn back to the ethereal monster that is concept art.

Here's some stuff from the last 3 weeks or so. Haven't got references for everything (apologies), I will make sure to have them for future posts.

Literally my first pic getting back into it. Left is ref, middle is my sketch, right is someone's elses much better attempt. Lined them up to compare values


Colour


Another


And another


Meow


Cyborg Samurai for CA.org CHOW


Frog ref and study




Anatomy doodles with no opacity pressure


Various gesture








15 mins head studies


Still life [about 5 hours total]


ref


enviro thumbs from ref


started doing the noah bradley 21 day challenge. pretty much just study something an hour a day for 21 days. i chose master landscapes cos i suck tits at landscapes. here's the past 5 days. no ref for these sorry. will include them from now on.

day 1


day 2


day 3


day 4


day 5


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That's it for now! Biggest change I have made recently is changing the tip feel on my tablet. I'm a very soft drawer and have turned the sensitivity all the way down to soft. It has made drawing digitally SO much easier. I don't like to press hard, and now I get a fuller sense of value in my work.

At the moment my process for study is something like this:
1. Study and capture
2. Replicate from imagination
3. Apply to original work

I do a lot of number one. Not much of the latter two. I really struggle with laying down value in original compositions. Any thoughts regarding this are appreciated.

p.s: apologies for using imgur, tried using the attachment system and found it a slow