whew tired! this was a quick commission, obviously i could do a more refined job, but this person was on a budget
painting is just labor at this point, i like drawing more, it's just so freeing and you can get more done. I have painted a fuckload though, i was going through my old folders, I just cant imagine doing all that shit over again, too crazy
aight, pretty good day downtown. This is all i managed to sketch up today though, gonna study some necks/armpits tomorrow since those are still tricky for me!
man today was very educational... Broke out the hampton and copied just a few like collarbone neck areas. I noticed that deltoids are so much more complex than I had been drawing them, they are like three parts. Also, I'd reccomend for learning anatomy is instead of copying, trying to actually invent the thing you're studying, because it forces you to get it right and keep refferring back to the reference.
Man I see how some of these are skewed, but some I am happy with. Another thing, is to spend more time like adding line weight, even if it doesn't enhance the drawing much, you might discover some cool things in there you never thought of if you just invest more in the lines. All the secrets are in the lines, spend the most time on them. And don't sweat if your lines are scratchy, studies are about understanding, not perfection, that comes naturally with time, and I find it will only look good if it is genuinely effortless to make those marks without hesitation. that only comes from mountains of understanding and experience.
The pen is the true determiner of where I stand, i find. What I truly know and don't where I hesitate, it's all there you know, and it adds up because with digital things are so flexible, you really appreciate the tool.
more stuff, these are looking much more coherent, but since they're from imagination they're not going to be 100% accurate unless I had some exact reference I'm basically trying to place the shapes the best I can logically; Also FEEL THE SCRATCHY LINEZZ
Should probably do some application sketches like of something cool, because I know these aren't the most exciting things to look at. Not that my art thats even refined is exciting or anything, lol
Took a good nap today and came up with this composition. Did a few thumbnails to nail down a few angles and fidgeted with it a lot to get the comp to how I like it. Gonna go hard on it tomorrow, diggin up refs for wings and stuff, we'll see how it goes!
T0000000XICPUNDA!!! Much appreciate ;) you're doing awesome too!
more work on this, I'll put prolly a few more hours into finding cool shapes, then start slowly adding color, it's gonna be an orange ish kind of pallette kinda like a Jun Suemi painting (thx Jonez)
yea. worked on this a lot today, bout 8 hrs... Need to get back to the less is more school tho. Even if this is a simpler more effective comp than I've done before, I feel I could go even simpler on detail and stuff, make the shapes read better. I had a thumbnail earlier that was actually better with the angle than this one.
Also, I tend to use the same tricks over and over, which I'm aware of. It's like uuh, Blue with some teal and some hot highlights, obviously I love doing the white whispy hair, the kinda super hot highlighted white colors, could probably try some different brushes and value ranges for metal stuff or faces. Probably should get a reference for the colors next time, so i don't end up repeating myself, since that seems to be what happens when you just paint off the dome.
Also gonna get back to sketching a lot more since painting is just labor at this point. I wanna make sketches that just feel strong on their own, and don't even need color or even much tone. That just comes with practice, and I noticed I need to pay more attention to the little bones and wedges in things like hands to give some dimension.
The colors you chose for the illustration are nice though. For example, the dude on the bottom left is obviously suppose to be blue, but you also add in some purples, greens and teal to not make him stale looking.
I do agree that the original sketch's angle of the winged person was better because it gives her (him?) a lot more authority and power when she towers over the entire picture. In the new version, they almost look like a squad and the winged dude is the leader. Considering you used the triangle composition and you put a halo around her which both signifies that this person is ultra cool and important, I feel like she is more than just "a leader".
Your figures are getting better and better every week bro. I appreciate your speech on how studying should not be about perfection, but understanding what you are studying (which is what studying is in general but it seems like I missed the big picture)
Voodoo: Hey thanks man I really appreciate you stopping by. Yea, I need to thumbnail and plan more, it's always been a weakness of mine. Maybe sit on ideas for a while even, since I think I made a mistake not going with that more towering composition. It's good that this is becoming the central problem now as opposed to my perspective and stuff being totally fucked lol. and yea, make pretty stuff for clients and your folio and scribble and figure shit out on your own time.
Anyways I made a bunch of studies of fingers today because I wanted a better at constructing them. Hogarthe has a cool method that he never really describes but I can pick up on it looking at his work. Basically, use simple cylinders, but then add these curved bones and then solidify the perspective with these long tendons that run through the fingers into these bumpy knuckle shapes.
I need to work more on figures, and get comfortable to where I can draw them in decent poses without too much scribbling and add coherent faces (that aint too small.) of course I could do it in pencil, but I want the confidence to execute in pen since I'll know for sure I understand what I'm doing. I really want to be fast as fuck like with high quality, and I'm willing to grind those shapes and suffer to make it work even with an unforgiving medium like pen. But it's fun and feels like I'm getting shit done.
Also wanna practice with marker more since I notice my lines are unhinged when I go to do caricatures. Just working on the same shit but developing a better handle for it, since the size of the line massively changes.
aight, made a big breakthrough with my understanding of the collarbone and the bone that goes in the back, kind of under the traps. Thing is, I always thought the deltoid was connected to the trapezius (stupid I know,) but now I understand there is a bone that separates them
most of these are from imagination and problem solving as I'm drawing while glancing at hogarthe and hampton. Just gotta do so much more and get all these itchy lines outta me, so it can just be smooth sexy understanding. also stole a few tricks from Walent, so shout out ta him
sooo... signed up for new masters academy today, stared with the vilpuu anatomy. coming threw....
Just takin one shot today, a smaller one. I took so many notes but most of it is just simple drawings and info, and i don't by any means think these drawings are good, they're super scratchy since my brain is trying to process all this new info. I learned so much today, I felt like I hit a wall and started watching a fifth hour of vilpuu and my brain just said (okay that's enough dude) lol
But I do really really really like it like holy shit. 10X better than schoolism IMO. Shoutout to Walent for being awesome.
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