AfricanVoodoo's Sketchbook

[AfricanVoodoo]

: Thank you! But a couple of questions. 

• What specifically is unfinished? 
  
• And what do you mean by pushing the "standing figure" more? Do you mean the pose itself or me doing lineart of it?
  

I do want to do that sort of practice regiment some more but I think I am afraid of it because I work pretty slow so I thought it would be too time-consuming. Guess I would have to speed up. 

Anyways, thank you for visiting!

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can someone buy me this game please thanks




Whoops, I was suppose to mark which ones were reference and which ones were from imagination in PS. Sigh. I guess all you need to know is that the majority of these are from reference and all those heads with the planes are from imagination.

(Art): So it is mostly just figure studies again with more cubes and cylinders. The main problem I had while doing this set was the inability to rotate a box and leg placement, which you can see prominently on the bottom half. The box for the pelvis always screws me up whenever the figure is in like... 3/4 view and I honestly do not know why. But I did sort of successfully rotated the box by drawing the side plane first, then the rest while keeping the midpoint in mind.


(Source: Croquis Cafe)
and this was the pose that got me fuckd up

Next is the legs. If you look at the figures at the bottom, its hard to see but I was looping the line of the right leg back in order to find the true thickness of the right thigh. In hindsight, the solution was is really simple. Just find the line for the bootycrack (and the form of the butt in general) and then loop it around to the front. Even though I did that in the study, I didn't have this mindset while drawing it. If I run into that problem again I definitely need to think about this.



(Art): A few gestures at the top, then went into figures with more forms and some head and lips from imagination. I could've drawn more on this page but I went on Photoshop to...



(Art): ...finish this thing up. Jeez, it was a just a tiny sketch and I did the absolute most with this one. I might have to straighten up some of the linework and then I would be done with this shit. And I see the tiny blue triangle in Rowlett's left eye, im deleting that asap.

I obtained some techniques from actual comic book artists. Like to make your colors seem a little bit more unified, you just get a single color on a separate layer on top of everything, and then (at least what I did) put that layer into Screen mode and then adjust the opacity or the color itself to get the mood that you want. 

I also do this thing where when I use the lasso tool to get a part of the art, I fill those parts in with just a random color in a separate layer and then turn that layer off. Now if I want to go back to the selected lasso part(s), I would turn on that layer with the random color, use the Magic Wand tool to select the part(s), then turn the layer back off and the selected part(s) would still be there! Now I can do my work without retracing everything with the lasso tool over and over again. It really works, and it is a time-saver!

So... yeah. I would like my digitally painted art to look something like this. Actually, to be a little more accurate...

(Source: JinsOnlyGurl) Thank you Patrick!!

I want my art to pretty much look like this in the future. I like the simple, cel-shaded, comic book-y type of work and artists like BrotherBaston, Nuri and theCHAMBA (links) leave a pretty big impact on me. Of course, I want more variety in colors and, like theCHAMBA, have more complicated forms and shadow shapes on the subject unlike the example above. I know it is too early for me to be thinking about style when I barely do portraits, let alone value studies, but let a man dream.



(Art): And some buff bois to end off the night. I gotta dig up some of my old art and find some anatomy studies similar to this to see if i improved because I don't actually see that much progress aside from seeing the forms of the muscles a little bit better.

Also, with the front view body... the chest looks really small. Probs because of the lats I gave this dude.

(Source: VishStudio)
 its definitely the lats.

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Okay yeah, I'm done now. I should continue with drawing the stupid pelvis already because that is a goal that I made for myself so I should make it. Then I got two more digital art things to think about. One is the random Demon Soldier thing I was working on and then coloring Arron with the goggles. I should do the lineart for that demon first because I KNOW I will not get back to it if I just leave it. That also requires studying rotten flesh, bone structure, and actual black and white comic book illustrations. I'll jot that down.

Anyways yeah, bye.