AfricanVoodoo's Sketchbook

[AfricanVoodoo]

Yo yo yo! I'm back!



So for the people who didn't know, I use FireAlpaca as my main digital program. And... I feel cold about it. It's great for linework and mainly casual stuff, but I want to incorporate some painting into the mix. It is hard to paint on FA without it looking messy and rushed, even if you spend so much time on it. I'm still going to use it because I feel bad for barely using it and not finding out it's true power. Most of the videos using FireAlpaca are mostly linework, channels like Magna Omega (link to his channel), and his style is extremely good. There are also channels like Twarda8 (link to her channel) that actually succeed in doing a painting of various Pokemon with using Fire Alpaca and Gimp. I might need to hone my skills so I can make my stuff look like Magna's cause... wowzers.

(Art): I was doing tiny thumbnails of tribal people for a design that I wanted to do for a character design for my soon-to-be comic. At the bottom of the page was a few male lips from reference.



Oh, that's right my art. When I drew this character design... I started doing this weird foreign thing called hatching. There is book called "The Edge" illustrated by Chris Riddell (you can look him up on Google). His art style is consisted on highly detailed line drawings with absolutely no shading. Even though I honestly do not like how he draws his characters (mostly his almost ugly looking character designs turn me off), I study how he uses line to define clothing and faces and literally everything. He's amazing.

(Art): An executor design that I randomly decided to do. I actually started to do my style that I always wanted in this piece. Now it is time to refine it.



Here's a little more insight into what style I wish to obtain. This is a line drawing of Freyr, Norse God of Prosperity. Notice how the lines wrap around the form of the muscles and clouds. These kinds of illustrations really appeal to me... and I'm not sure why. But by doing this, I pretty much have to do form studies like crazy and brush off my lighting skills (whatever skill that I have in that department.). Also, when I eventually gain Photoshop, I am going to try to incorporate this hatching in my work but with color this time... not sure what it is going to look like. Only time will tell me.

In the Executor design, I utilized this technique with some soft shading in it. If you guys have ANY feedback, please tell me! 



Speaking of Photoshop, I have finally decided to get the thing. Like I said, I am about to turn a cold shoulder towards FireAlpaca because of how limited it is (especially in brush customization... ugh). Finding out that you literally need a monthly subscription for the thing was disheartening, I just want to buy the thing and go. I almost considered the "Single App" option which was 19.99. But there was a "Photography" Set which included both Lightroom (whatever the hell that is) and Photoshop.... for 9.99 a month. 

...hmm.

Is there anything that I am missing? Why is getting two programs cheaper than getting one. Oh well, 10 dollars off is amazing to me.

(Art): A bunch of sword poses from reference (it was pretty fun actually), angry eyes, and some knight that I like.


(Art: Women figures, superimposing lines for better linework, and werewolf poses I found on the internet. I like how the werewolf have a subtle triangle body shape, which implies that they are dangerous beings that should not be taken lightly. Also their head is usually positioned lower on the body than normal, a physical trait common on bulky characters.

Anyways, that is all I got. Until next, bye now!