Doolio's doodles

[Doolio]

Ok, like I said, I'll reply to all the posts now...

Do you ever go through your quick gestures and pick out a few good ones to develop into figures? If you're good with the kind of free-flowing stuff why not use it as a starting point for something. Sometimes when I try to do a longer figure, the 'pressure' gets to me and it comes out not so great, but if I do gestures without thinking about making something cool with it, I get some really great poses that turn into nice figures. Just an idea anyway, great stuff still! I like the low-angle shrine girl type figure in the middle above ^^

Well, I'm kinda sometimes doing that... well, not really lol... with pure gestures, I just leave them as gestures or develop them to the more constructed state, but they're still constructive studies and not some "creation" stuff. But I sometimes (if the arm allows it) flesh out things from imagination a bit more. I mean, I always start with the gesture, it's just that I'm not "counting" referenced gestures towards "my stuff", so I'm not building upon them, I leave them in the universe of study material, so to speak. It's a quirk of mine as of late, I don't reference anything directly, I only reference it through studying and then later I use whatever is left in my brain from that studying.
In other words, if I'm suppose to draw a girl standing on a tiger tank, I would draw standing girls from references and tiger tanks from references, and then, when I would sit to do the illustration itself, I would do it from scratch, without referencing.
It's kind of my goal to be able to do an illustration of whatever someday, without consulting any outer source. Or at least a realistic variant of that:)
As for the shrine girl, thanks, I fleshed her a bit, although in a weird hipster style I guess:D

Yay for gestures, boo for hand stuff.. Hope it gets better soon. Keep on keeping on though.
Try doing face gestures too. I found this incredibly difficult but it helped me get a lot of bad pics out of my head! :)

I'll do face gestures, as I'm going to go through hampton's head chapter, so I'll go through head gesture and construction. Though, I don't know how much I should concentrate on that, as I want to super seriously delve into the anime facial stylization mechanics, which I think could take like years to decipher.

Glad to hear some good news on your hand situation! You're doing all that studies with busted hands, and I need to go feel ashamed! :D Wish you full recovery!

I think you misread about the good news:D But hopefully it would go for the better:) Thanks for the wishes, I hope they work:D

Doolio! Good to hear from you! Take care of your arm, don't worry! We will be here! Can you finger paint? On second thought don't stress your hand... Pray your arm fully recover soon!

Again, thank you and I think I could really use that praying energy you're sending to me:)

Good to know you're not dead! Focusing on your arm definitely is the right thing to do right now, don't worry about internet stuff and sketchbook updates or similar. That can wait until you're fully recovered. We won't go anywhere in the meantime :)

Keep your head up, take care. Sending lots of strength your way. <3

Thanks for the support and the strength:D And yeah, I'm not dead, which is like cool:D

Good to hear from ya again Doolio I wish you all the luck with your arm man, us internet lurkers can wait, we are'nt going anywhere.

Thanks man:) Oh, I'm the biggest lurker here these days:)

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Ok, an update... I've decided to split it into two parts, the reference study part and the part from the imagination...

First, the reference study stuff:

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And the stuff from imagination, it's so random in every possible aspect, I'm like a teenager don't knowing whether to become a metalhead or a techno guy:)

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ffs, the script screwed me over... anyway, the referenced stuff ends with the large 1900x1900 pic with bunch of constructed gestures and then it's personal stuff from then on...