Poetry's drawings and stuff

uhhh this holiday isn't going as well artwise as I wanted it to I'm working so damn slow fuk

almost got artblock so I went ahead and rendered some yearold+ lineart

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Oh lawd am I slow. Lineart done for now. Won't bother wasting another post on this so I'll just edit this post when I'm done with the colors.

A lot Most of the poses look hella stupid. Going to work on gesture and anatomy again once I'm done with 25~ more hands in my sketchbook.

a-at l-least it beats my old animu stuff in nearly every aspect

final image:

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notes:

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• ambient occlusion is a great way to get an initial 'foothold' when painting

• it seemed more important to focus on making shadows enhance the form than be 100% correct

• you can stack mulitple cast shadow layers (just make one a primary on 100% opacity and the others secondary on lower% opacity) to make things extra solid by implying multiple sources of light
  

• it sounds like common sense but for the first time I really focused on trying to distinguish every part of her through contrast between values, when working without lines its the only way for a clear read

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aaand some more dinky watercolor