Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

Oh, it makes sense that changing the inclination of your board disturbs your muscle memory. When I draw on the tablet, which I set parallel to the edge of the table, I tend to draw everything tilted because of being conditioned by having my sheet of paper at the same angle as my forearm.

Wow, contour drawing is hard. You weren't allowed to do some gesture first to block the general shape?

I'm not understanding the symbolism in your concept drawing, sorry. Opening the door is a welcoming sign but her expression seems absent minded.

So I've been meaning to discuss your comics and conlang for a long time but you are still into other things and it might not be the right moment. Anyway, I wanted to say that in some panels you nailed the expressions and interactions between the characters very well. Some panels are weaker and we can discuss these when you feel like it.

Did you make the conlang just for this linguistics project or was it already part of the world you created? I had some insane conlanging periods but it consumes so much time :O

Took a loong break from drawing, because I was depressed and simply didn't have the motivation for it. 

I drew a picture of my cousins for my aunty and uncle for Christmas, thinks like that and the images I did earlier for the social enterprise I make sure to use my adjustable table desk, because there is nothing more aggravating then getting having with the layout of a sketch and you lift it up and everyone's been pulled to the side by a broken taffy puller. As I remember correctly not really. We just spend out time trying to compete the one picture and making sure it's to scale/in proportions from the sheet to our sketching paper.

Regarding the latest drawing I see Tran Nguyen and the Miles Johnson's of the art work doing conceptual girls with elements detached, or with houses. If you google, especially Tran's you'll see what I mean. I'm being seeing a lot of art work of 'split people'. (Could have swore, I saved a pin on Pinterest. Will post in an example, if I come across it) I'm just getting in the habit of spitting out any ideas I have onto a page, rather than screwing them up straight away. 

The conlang was part of one of my last modules I ever did as part of my undergrad degree in Linguistics. The first assignment was about the basic morphosyntactic elements of 'Thea', the second assignment was about the pragmatic features. I have been interested, but never created an actual constructed language before. However, I had created phases and numbers, before, but with no internal structure. My knowledge of Slavonic languages really helped give me an anchor! I really got into it, it was super fun. That's why I created their designs, map, writing system, and then finally comic. Feel free to give feedback, I want to improve my comic panelling! I can see on Instagram (and Reddit), there are quiet a few eager conlangers out there! I'm really only a beginner, but I'd recommend the book of the course: The Art of Language Intervention by the one and only David J. Peterson. It definitely gave me a good overview of where I could start. 

Nice to see you keeping up with your figure studies, very solid proportions with those recent studies.  Nice work on the new sketch as well, very interesting concept and composition there.  Keep it going!

Thanks, Buddy! I can see some of the 'taffy pulling' on the figures, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. :) We'll see if I can develop it.  

Just uploading some of my latest sketchbook work. I'm trying to get back into digital, but when I follow tutorials the program is still not doing what I want it to.



Using refs to create fanart. Here's Swift and The Engineer from The Authority.
 



Was looking for references of people holding mics and ending up doing sketches of one of my favourite Nu-Jazz/Deep House singers: Clara Hill

The deadly hands of Kung-Fu bros themselves! Shang-Chi and Iron Fist. Had a lot of fun converting refs into characters! Want to try and colour them at some point.



Drawing these was some of the most fun I've had drawing in a long while. :)