Thursday, June 17, 2010

Recent Drawrins


Just a couple of things I've done in the past week! The very colorful lion girl is a new character of mine & the other is a character belonging to a friend.

After doing a lot of gestures I find that it's easier for me to draw a figure, but somehow it's getting harder and harder for me to apply solid, simple digital lines. Maybe because I'm getting so used to sketching? Who knows.

Monday, June 14, 2010

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!

Friday, June 11, 2010

Old vs New

SO the other day a friend of mine from years ago IMed me and suggested that we each pick an old piece of art to update. This idea seemed extra fun since we were friends back in the day & remembered seeing those old pieces when they were brand new anyway! So I picked a drawing for him and he picked this drawing for me:
That was drawn in like 2004 and I remember being proud of it for a really long time. Even still I am surprised at how much better it is than a lot of stuff I was making back then. The anatomy is terrible but there are some parts that look halfway decent. ANYWAY I decided to spend about 15 minutes in OC sketching up a redo and this is what I came up with:


Certainly not the best drawing I've ever done, but definitely a fun experiment! For me this ended up being less about the actual update in skill and more about just how I feel about the drawing in general. For example in the 2004 version it's a buff male wolf guy straight up holding a gun looking pretty boring also wearing ridiculous belts and stuff. The 2010 version is much more lively, a hot babe, and wearing ridiculous um... what even is that anyway lmao

Anyway I want to do a bunch more of these just because I feel that they're good exercises in sort of comparing my new processes to my old ones and thus sort of gaining a better understanding of the way I do things now. That way I can improve/change/etc and actually KNOW where I'm coming from rather than just sort of let my scribbles drift everywhere intellectually. Does that even make sense?

Sunday, June 6, 2010

OKAY I'M READY TO GO

So I've neglected this blog since November. I thought Tumblr might be a better way to keep up an art blog but it turns out I was wrong, not to mention lazy.

Finally though I'm starting to do some serious art homework and so i'll just be posting scribbles more frequently blah blah generic "I'm back" blog post. Instead of words here are some figure studies!!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

WHOOPS

Like right after I made sketchblog I got really busy with school so HERE I AM gonna try to actually do this. Here's a pic I drew yesterday of Mabe



I apped her in some tegaki group and can't be bothered to remove the info but w/e. Drawing in tegaki is fun but I'm always afraid to spend time on stuff since I can't properly save and since it's flash-based it always messes up when I send also no layers etc.

Anyway today Brian and I went to Starbux and they made me a really bad caramel macchiato but that's okay because I drew this gr8 pic of Brian Lee


It's real good.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

HELLO HERE'S MY FIRST POST WHOA

HEY Y'ALL look at me startin a sketch blog HERE'S THE DEAL it's fun and a good way to just kinda upload art to yet another place and whatever so in honour of FIRST POST 2009 here's some stuff I drew like a month ago lol what a bad start :(

ANYWAY I like to listen to songs and draw characters to them sometimes so here's some KATAMARI SONG CHARACTERS I MADE!!!

KEEP YOUR EYE OUT I'm gonna try to update this thing every day with sketches and stuff. I'm gonna be busy with school for a while but I want a place to dump my work in order to show progress with stuff I'm learning and to get feedback and WHATEVA.

SO OK WELCOME TO AMBLOG POST #1 HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL SEE YOU LATER!!!!!!!!