AfricanVoodoo's Sketchbook

[AfricanVoodoo]

Whop whop two weeks later (i actually started this post two weeks ago but y'know me)

Ooooo in two months, it will be my one year anniversary posting on this website. That post is going to be a behemoth because I want to analyze the fuck out of my progress as an artist. But until then, Imma keep on chugging on.

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(More crowded sketches that only i can decipher sorry)
(Art): Pretty much my warm-ups and cool downs that I do. I just take some 2 dollar cardstock and just fill an entire page of bullshit in it. I am certainly experimenting a lot with dynamic poses, simplified styles, and overall exploration with the construction of the human body. I feel genuinely shocked that I can put some character into my poses now holy shit... Also some exercises from Sinix and random boxes in some places. 



So I finally watched Sinix's video on the design theory of Big-Medium-Small. It was stuff that Keinan Lafferty already taught in his videos but it is nice to see bigger art channels spreading the word to future artists out there. But anywho, the video made me think about the drawings that I do and whether or not I subconsciously put the design theory in my drawings.

Yes, I said subconsciously because I almost never think about it unless it is specifically said to me. I used the "Bullfrog"'s helmet to see if I did incorporate the design.



Notes: Verdict? I actually did follow the design theory but it came with a few hiccups. I'm not going to change shit now, nothing to lose sleep over.




(Art): A bunny florist and a fully digital fanart of literally the best thing that came out of Pokemon. Let's be real, this thing is cute af. I'm still working on the cell-shaded style. Should I look at how BrotherBaston does it? I make it look complex and almost painterly while keeping the very flat shadows that cell-shading is known for. I should of drawn eyes on the top Oddish, the red makes Oddishes pop out more imo.






So, on my first day of school, my art teacher randomly gave me this extremely tiny sketchbook. I originally didn't know that this was suppose to be a sketchbook but I wanted to draw in it anyways because it was blank i dunno. No joke, I take this thing out every single time I get in class. It is such a bite-size sketchbook that no teacher is going to drag me for because they can't even see it. 

There are a few more pages than this, but the others are unfinished sketches and I kind of what to finish them first.

(Art): More character design-type things while drawing in my bite-sized sketchbook. Also edited versions for the social medias.

Fun fact: I was listening to this piece of music when I was drawing bare-fist Arron up there.


The composer usually does normal, chill, jazzy shit. But I can tell he was inspired by some RPG's and he wanted to create some good-ass battle theme of his own. I genuinely think this is his more weaker stuff but this song made me experience that nostalgic Final Fantasy vibes. So that inspired me to do that drawing.



So... yes. At the end of the summer, I asked a very tiny Youtuber called "TTBN Gaming" if I could do some art for them because as an artist myself I always empathize with lesser known entertainers and I try to support them as much as possible. I showed him my """(((portfolio)))""" and he liked it so he hired me to do his Youtube banner. 

Let me fucking tell you... although he appreciated all of updates and sketches I presented him, I had this constant anxiety lingering over me like a fly that won't go away and this was primarily on the illustration. As you can tell by my thread, I don't do illustrations with backgrounds a whole lot. I just had to remind myself that this man was extremely fucking enthusiastic about the stuff I showed him (he even changed his profile pic and banner IMMEDIATELY on all his social media after I gave him the art which was cool but I never felt anything...) and I should just push through.

I'm happy that I actually finished it for someone and pushed my anxiety aside but the final product for the banner is not okay with me.

(Art): So he asked me to do a banner and to remake his logo so I can put it on the TV in the banner.  I actually like the balloon aesthetic I did with the logo and I made it a little bit more vibrant and colorful than his old logo that he had. 

Then there was the illustration... Here is the thing, the Youtube banner was going to literally crop everything but the rando's head and the TV. Everything else was going to get cut (at least in the web and the mobile version)(And that also explains why I just said fuck it when doing the table...). I should of used reference for the guy's head because I am not that well-versed in the back of the head views (I used ref for the TV, the "Playstation", and even the letters for the logo but not the dude's head... sigh, why am I like this?)

I also, tried to do a static effect on the TV but... you just have to squint REALLY hard to see it.
 
And I applied Big-Medium-Small on the shines for some reason.

Yup. That's it.