Rotohail's "Reclusive" SketchBook

[Rotohail]

loving the chairs... and howloween, very cute! i dunno whats going on in the squire dudes picture, in a forest maybe? composing forests is hard because we wanna draw roots and trees everywhere, but it takes a real expert to cut it down to just a few important elements to read as a forest me thinks :)

Yeah I barely never do studies of trees yet I keep trying to use them on my drawings. Guilt is really eating away at me. Alright next page thjere'  gonna be tree studies.

Hi,

You've got a nice mixture of studies and characters etc here.  I like that you're exploring cartoony and fantasy styles.

I actually really like your vibrant color choices.  I struggle with that myself.

Keep up the great work

Thanks man! Well I saw on your SB you use pastels so vibrancy with those must be tough! I guess maybe try acrylics? Something thicker? Or markers!

I can't wait to see where you take the two larger images further - and if you're going to use a dark background in the forest to make the fairies pop out ;)
Woods guy has a broken tibia I feel (left facing leg), unless he has a very supple knee.

Ha! If you want do any redline or draw over what you see wrong with the leg, I encourage it! I dunno, I feel I wanted to do a curved view but ended up half-assing it a the end! Legs bother me a bit but I can't put my finger if it's one or both that need changing.

Great Halloween sketch, really gets me in the spirit of the holiday! Love the chair perspective sketching too.

Thanks man! Are you going to do something for the season? It's a good excuse to try sketching something fun!

Hey! I loved your sketchbook! Those small perspective studies are gorgeous! Do you have any personal project in mind??

Heya! What perspective studies? The boxes and chairs and all that? I wouldn't call them studies, I construct them to warm up. Is industrial design stuff! Practicing drawing shapes and forms, and doing cuts. Peter Han touches on that if you are curious! Check him out!
Personal project? Well, just improve overall my quality and do better. Maybe that's more my personal goal... ha! maybe project would be what I do now? I have usually a target in mind or something I want to improve on so I make some kind of exercises to try out new stuff, these are sort of that I guess? Do pages weekly where I do a mix of illustrations/sketching mixed with studies or anything else that catches my attention, trying to follow some theme.


Leaving the last page colored. I feel I should probably work it out more but, is already been a week with this one and I'm starting to get all jittery wanting to start a new one. So gonna wrap it like this.
Overall howloween could had turned better with more cheerful colors I feel but tried to go for darker/muted colors, I would had liked to do fur better, so studies on that soon. I would also would think the fantasy one could use darker values on certain points, but I wanted a sort of whimsical feel to it too. Also again trying daylight with magical effects. I think the answer to do these would be always keeping the effects behind a dark place or shadow area, or broken within points like those so you can show well enough the brightness without darkening the whole scene.