Doolio's doodles

[Doolio]

I think you're working hard and you do a good mix of studies and imagination already, so you're definitely heading in the right direction! (: It's good that I read all that now, because yesterday I was thinking about my schedule and my frustration for January being over already and my feelings of frustration XD Your thread is really a gold mine!

Ha ha, thank you for these words:) I mean, I was pondering whether to create a blog where I will pour all of my ramblings and trials and tribulations or keep it all in the sketchbook, to retain it's main purpose, but now couple of you guys have said that you actually like that and can relate, which is cool. (I might still create a blog though:D).

Well, yes, I too think that you can't really go wrong if you have the right approach and you simply draw stuff. Though I think schedule and organization could be a big thing. There are a lot of things to learn. I mean, I haven't done Hampton or gestures for a couple of days. Which is okay, but I certainly lost some of the flow I had going on with that stuff, both in skill and comprehension. So I think it's a good idea to have a schedule which simply doesn't let you slip and get tunneled or complacent or whatever.
Now, it might seem like I'm brooding over stuff constantly. I am a thinker, yes, but it's not pathological:) I just put all that in this coffeeshop-sketchbook thread:) I am actually not tensed about this at all, as I have plenty of time to arrange my practices and a relatively plenty of time to progress to some solid level (I gave myself two years, which isn't much, but I have the ability to practice a lot during the day and I am not at absolute zero, so, we'll see:) ).

I like your last combination of studies and application, I especially like the first set and how you've done the skin shading. I always find it difficult to apply a more realistic approach of shading to a rather stylized anime face.

Thanks!:)
I kinda like it, I mean, I usually over-contrast things or simply break the style. But this SAI blending is magical:)
About the anime stylization, well, you can see how it fails when I tried to do that sadamoto-like stylization and apply the somewhat realistic shading to it. It's like shading the Simpsons:)
But, this korean approach actually allows for much more of that realistic shading and some variants allow a full hyper shaded faces. A lot of "true" anime stylization simply doesn't allow it and it's in fact, impossible to even translate it fully to 3d space - so you can see some anime figures being simply painted over across the face, not to break the style.
On the other hand, I often break the style even with this realistic kinds of anime. For example, I can't really tell now, but my blonde girl is either not anime or veeery close to fall out:)

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I prefer the 'apply' pieces, personally. Great job, especially the blonde.

Thank you very much:) I think the blonde is okay by itself, though it's on the verge of being a westernized doll (which is some other aspect, but still).