Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah Staying Awake

[Vicianus]

@JavierP
Thank you so much!!! ;A; And also thanks for the clarification, too. I really appreciate the encouragement! <3

@Lurch
Ahh thank you so much! n_n Even stuff like this really cheers me on! (Though I'm happy for any crits you might have, too...!)
Yeah, I got kind of tired of it faster than I expected, so it ended as a scrap. I have a "back-of-my-head" intention to do every chow as they pop up, I really wanted to do the cave dick one LOL but agh. Anyway, one of these days I'll do a full design.

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WHOO friday figure dump

Photoref - I did these by hand today because my tablet's been pissing me off, and I have to pay more attention to my proportions if I do it in pencil because I can't just resize the parts I missed (which I was doing a lot.)


Life Drawing -


I keep trying to do proportion problem solving on longer pose pieces, starting with a part and just going and it SO isn't working for me... I just end up with the same problems I always have LOL. I imagine maybe in five years I'll have this stuff ingrained enough in me that I could do something like that, but I really need to focus more on the structure and proportion stuff I've been studying and using it even in "composed" "pretty" pieces LOL because the drawings I'm doing in a shorter time are WAY better than the other ones I'm trying to do... >O<

Self portrait sketch study for a charcoal piece I'm gonna try to do for a contest in the next couple days -


PIG STUDIES -


Imaginative Art -


I did a little Micheal Hampton, just the armature tho so nothing to see! :o I flipped through his book and I was like OH MY GOD, THIS IS INCREDIBLE. JUST WHAT I NEED. I love his breakdowns, just looking at it has helped me solidify ideas I've been trying to beat into my head! I'm gonna go thru the whole book, I'm only on the first couple pages of "gesture" for the moment.

Uhhh painting the pig head... wowww I'm mega rusty with painting... or more like, I haven't learned enough about it since I haven't studied it at all >w<!; I know how to render forms, I feel like I can pick colors well and sell the forms but as a lot of people have pointed out my treatment always ends up "soft..." I know where & how to put harder edges now but besides that, I'm struggling with knowing how to get a really nice finish on it, areas of slightly higher detail and maintaining the right sizes on those details... I dunno, when I was doing the head I felt like I nailed the stuff I'm good at right away and then I was flopping around trying to learn a little more about doing a better finish and it just went NOWHERE looool it just looks exactly the same.
So I want to practice painting more, maybe do some general focused material studies... and if anyone has any reading/video suggestions for high-finish digital painting process, I would really appreciate it! I'm honestly lost on where to look.