Knight's sketchbook

[dimensional-knight]

aere cgmythology Thanks, I'm happy you liked these!

I'm still working on getting values under control—they're so harder to analyze than hues!—but for someone who a month ago had no clue about how to convey them with a pencil I now feel comfortable enough to start chipping at other weak points.

One is lines. I'm still figuring out what I like in them, but most importantly I'm still figuring how to draw them. :'D


Suggestions Request!

Before burying this post in pics I'd like to ask you guys for exercises suggestions to increase spatial awareness and line accuracy. I'd love to hear not exactly what is done in schools but what you like to do, the weirder the better.

Judging distances, angles in 3D shapes and curvatures are hands down my weakest points. They don't come naturally and so far I have not much success in cultivating muscle memory for these.

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Finally, the update. Nearly all of these precede the digital sketches.

Weeks 02-04

Things that happened:

- Found an eraser and a cache of 2B pencil leads.
- Accidentally killed my hand.
- Discovered I love drawing fish, the spookier the better. Case in point:



- Bailed on drawing loose stylized stuff.
- Came up with a silly exercise to build up confidence to draw hands and limbs: Tree roots.

To expand on that a bit, they're pretty nice for keeping the frustration of getting things wrong in check. They also have foreshortening, get you used to taper shapes, and feel way closer to what you'll need to do for limbs than drawing cylinders. While I can't use this for every situation that's where that previewing fingers with wavy lines came from. Straight lines never helped me much, wavy give me the approximate silhouette and angle in addition to length.










+ a detail from a page spread I intend to fill with up more skulls. Eventually.




Two new digital things. First one is in fact a bit old, a previous sketch from imagination I fluffed up and scribbled on with a reminder about best ways to slice people in comics. I'm doing a short one for fun and to learn how to tell stories in this medium. Sharing because it's the type of sloppy indulgence I like to work on, hah.




90s gestures (except for the 5min guy in mid-kick, you'll know which one).



I'm pretty sure I'm not ready to do these yet. They're not honing a single aspect of my skills, they're just stressful. My bet is on the lack of spatial awareness I mentioned. Do you know when you're know something is wrong, you understand what is off, yet it's almost as if you're physically unable to not repeat the same mistake?