AfricanVoodoo's Sketchbook

[AfricanVoodoo]

Aiyo!!










Got my new scanner back. I should leave the contrast bar alone this time. I actually like the gray and obviously pencil marks from my last post. This is too dark for me... and I need to clean it. I see crumbs on it eww.

(Art): Boring shit. 

Okay. The funny thing with the circles was that I was only going to do one page of them for a warm-up right. But then I saw a video of Anthony Jones recommending an exercise that involves drawing circles in one stroke, just like the one I was doing above. I immediately made it a routine to start doing 1-2 pages of just circles. I got better at it at a frighteningly fast pace. But they aren't good enough to me honestly. Gotta keep on chugging it along.

I was honestly pleased with myself that I actually took the time to get up and do some boxes and cylinders for once. At 12:00 AM I just randomly decided to do a whole page of 25 boxes. So I told myself to do more things like these until I reach 200 boxes (which is 8 of those). They look... okay. Nah, they look below average but I could do worse, not going to lie. I should do that thing Draw A Box do and get a colored pencil and check my work with the boxes. Even though I didn't do that, I still see MAJOR fuck-ups in there (still accepting advice and critiques though)

Two-point perspective is also fucking me up though. I understand what happens if the box is in between of the two vanishing points but what happens to the box if it is not in the middle? What if it is far on the left or right? Do I just make up an imaginary vanishing point so it can look like it is in the middle? "Fuck it", I said while I doing this shit.

 

(Art): Very quick and loose figure sketches. Still thinking about Hampton's balance between story, structure, and exaggeration in the poses. Which I do not think I did awfully here but I am still finding that perfect balance. I was also trying to use less lines too.  





(Art): More figure drawing but I was focusing a little bit more on the upper body and structure in general. I still do not have this feeling that what I am creating looks stable . Like, a figure with actual form and stability is not my strong suit even though I have been doing figures since the Bronze Age.


 


(Art): Did some studies on the abdominal muscles. I learned that abs are sneaky bitches and can hide behind fat to confuse artists like... what bunch of assholes. Also, I ultimately need to visualize lean abs ass just two simple cylinders, aka the "Twinkie Bar" abs. And some figures from imagination, which looks okay but the proportions look wrong. Will I ever be satisfied?



So... in the story that I want to do, there were ninja clans that go around conquering, overthrowing and espionage and normal ninja shit that they do (Ninja clans and ninjas in general are not as common as they were before the beginning of the story). I wanted there to be a class system where when you rank up, the clothing will change and become slightly more complicated than the previous costume that they had. So, I did some sketches to see where it will lead me.

My goal is to sketch so much ideas on paper that I can just pick out the ideas that I like and just create actual designs.



(Art): I added a background to a (now) cleaned up sketch of Morgan in Photoshop. Nothing to say here I 'm fucking tired right now...