AfricanVoodoo's Sketchbook

[AfricanVoodoo]

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I do understand quite a bit. Like the 'is this better' answer to that question isn't enough anymore whether it garners an approval or not. I think I upped the stakes from 'is this better' to 'would you buy this'; which is a totally different scenario altogether. I recently went and sold at a convention and my sales tanked hard. That got me to thinking to approach a veteran artist who's in the same business as I am and try to get pointers.

Which in turn, going back to the matter at hand, have you tried approaching local working artists in the same field you're doing and ask for their opinion? Audience and amateur opinion is one thing, someone doing it as their job is another.

Facts. It just isn't a strong enough reaction for me, especially since improvement is GOING to happen anyways if I keep at it.
Aaaaand.... no, I have not tried to talk to people in the industry nor locals because that requires driving and I have school work to do. Well... there is no excuse after all since we have  

THE INTERNET 

  and I can talk to them whenever I want, but honestly it never crossed my mind to do that sort of thing (and I don't like to be a burden). And an opinion on what? My art? OOOOOOOOOOO, time to get fucking destroyed. im ready. But in actual seriousness, I might just talk to character designers and people in the animation industry mostly about design, fundamentals, marketing yourself... I should write this shit down.
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 sup, there is only one piece of art here

and its this piece of music here
Saturday - Sunday


(Art): An update on this sudden burst of motivation to open my Paint Tool Sai for once. 

Hmm... I guess I am a little bit more aware about line weight and the blocks of shadow nowadays. I tried really hard to make the piece not boring to look at and I don't know if I succeeded in that. I'm not sure if the bold outline is like... a crutch, y'know? Like the bold outline is obviously making the character and lineart pop but if I take it away, will it look as appealing to people anyways? I shouldn't worry about it because I know I'm not going to experiment with that. On the plus side, if I color this, it could be a sticker or those enamel pins that I see. But that requires value studies... 



and skin and color studies...



I started getting random screentones from Google and using it in the hair and such. Just a little experime- OOOOO I should warp the screentone to go along with the rhythm of his hair! Why didn't I think of this?! (probs cause it was 11 at night when i was doing this)

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Yup, I only had the weekend to do some shit. Now essays and reports are coming out of the wazoo and I couldn't do anything in terms of art. I got into an AP Drawing class and it requires me to put up a portfolio of sorts for the big bad business people to see. Anxiety is still hitting hard because I still do not know if people who are actually into the arts and shit is going to even give me their time of day. I refuse to get jaded by random strangers and friends who compliment me, I love them (not the strangers ew) but having low expectations is key... I guess I really do need to talk to some people from the industry... 

shhiiittttt, I did so much figure studies!! UGH. I wanna get back to it, I am going to prepare my workspace tomorrow so that when I come home from school the figures (and maybe portraits ooooooo) will be there for me because this is the third week in a row where I only did tiny sketches of characters and shit. Not only that... it is time to get structural with my anatomy. It is hard to find a good balance between gestural and structural but knowing me, I'll find a way even if it doesn't make sense.

So... goals. 

• use more boxes and solid shit for figures
  
• actually draw the figures
  
• draw more hooman faces
  
• sleep
  
• write down those fundamental vocab cause i still didn't do that