WHEW sure have been busy the past couple weeks going to doctor and finding a new place to live and working a lot of hours????? So not much time to make sweet sweet art in between all that (and being lazy i guess???) but anyway managed to doodle out some stuff and do a few gestures the past few days so that'll have to do for now!

Gestures. I had a DA slideshow going and then some bad anime drawing popped up so I decided to do a "gesture" of it too lol.

Doodle of Touhou character Suwako. I don't really know anything about the series but she's a cute character so...


A character I made up on the spot to sort of draw alongside a friend's character. Look at those massively long legs wow. I think I went overboard trying to make her look tall & thin haha.
Quick little doodle I did in SAI of Corryn the lion goil. Standing around looking like a grouch as usual eueh.

A couple weeks ago I decided to start thinking more about the lives of my characters in terms of their history and future, in order to get a better feel of how they are outside of their "present". Basically I wanted to flesh them out, so this is my character Owl drawn as a 16 year old high school kid rather than the snot-nosed 11 year old boy he is in the present. I feel like I did a pretty good job keeping the character "real" through the aging process and also keeping him recognizable although obviously aged. Maybe it's easier for me to tell because I draw him almost every day, but anyway...

This post is full of a lot of pictures despite me saying I haven't done much art the past couple weeks.

Nudies 2009

BOY HOWDY I sure spent hours doing some 2-3 minute gestures today and I am feeling good about them for the most part! I think that's a good thing? Anyway, these were all done from photos I snagged from DeviantArt (thanks artists!) since I don't really have an array of naked people sitting around in my apartment waiting for me to draw them :( Although that is every figure artist's dream I'm sure.



Along with continuing to study anatomy/random art stuff my next goal is to work on my 3d modeling skills! I really want to get a job in the videogame industry, but it seems like that's impossible unless one knows the basic workings of either Maya or 3Dsmax depending. I absolutely loathe 3d probably due to having to endure two shoddily taught classes in college where I literally learned nothing, but I'm going to give it my all and hopefully produce some decent stuff.....eventually. Haha.

Box stuff

WELP finally felt comfortable with the initial part of Vilppu stuff to move on to drawing figures with boxes. I already use boxes in my art to help me visualize 3d shapes and block out the jist of the figure so it wasn't too tough to understand what was going on. I felt like it was a lot easier for me to do this part than to do the really loose gestures from the beginning, and I also noticed that doing a bazillion of those gestures the past couple weeks helped me visualize the flow & movement of the shapes better, as well as overall proportion. I think I'll continue practicing these steps together but I'm eager to start challenging myself a little bit more now that I'm actually starting to see and feel an improvement in the way I "see" and do things. And draw them too haha.

GESTURES & STUFF

Here are some gestures I did at starbux today. I have random pose generator app from posemaniacs on my ipod so I can do some more interesting drawings than "man sitting at table drinking coffee" or "woman sitting at table eating scone" or the ever popular "2 people sitting at a table talking while drinking lattes". Anyway:


Two of these gestures have been turned into Rachael and Penny (My pal Mokou) for whatever reason lol. Anyway, I also spent some time doing a quick digital painting. I want to start getting better at it so that I can paint my own drawings, so I figured I'd combine figure study and painting for my first exercise since it's more fun than painting an apple or something (I'll do that later)




Obviously plenty of errors and things that can be fixed, but I feel like it's not too bad for an hour and like zero experience haha. Anyway I'm excited about doing more of that in the future! That's it for now!