Poetry's drawings and stuff

I like the flow in a few of these, as well as the construction method but its all still very so rough.




Random mech, trying to go out of my comfort zone(?) Did the initial sketch with a perspective grid. Learning to create those myself.

Still life paintings. The rose was done from a single torch shining beneath it, v fun.



Lines for something new

Well I did a terrible job on the face. I'll rework it after I study it further. Proud of the metal, although I sort of lost control/ went sloppy in a few areas, particularly the sword hilt and his left arm. I also feel like the silhouette doesn't emphasize the perspective I've chosen. The bottom edge of his cast shadow doesn't follow the perspective of his knees as much and that warps it a bit, something to consider for next time.



Still life number 14. Working on subsurface scattering now. Getting a few more ideas on how to control color and the subtleties behind it, starting to realize how the relationship a tone has with its surroundings is much more important than the tone itself. I realized it was easier to think of a tone as 'its like X but closer to Y' instead of 'its just Y'. Learning but I still have a long long way to go



Now its time to B R I N G O N T H E H E A D S A N D P E R S P E C T I V E

in other irl bloggynews

i am in the midst of my finals for my second semester of my first year of uni ;-;

only just 4 more years to go~

purple referenced green imagination

Painting from imagination. The uh, weird snow one was just me playing around with the magic wand to select interesting shapes/patterns. I also really like eating ikura owo



Restarting Loomis, its been 2 years since I last read this book and I haven't improved much at all smh


Newsketchbook is gonna be focused on uh, drawing from life/urban sketching I guess



1 more exam

MORE HEADS

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WATERCOLOR STILL LIFE STUFF


FIGURES

Still Life, both done drawing on my surfacepro3 screen instead of using my tablet



More Watercolor fun

master study of just a section of a still life


notes on it

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Notes:
- Trad palette:

• ○ Im detecting spikes in saturation randomly in the piece, most evident in the background with the yellow marks, this is probably from residual paint on the brush and parallels the random saturation spikes that artists such as Krenz and Ruan employ in their work.
  
• § To do this digitally I had to initially lay down a flat, saturated shape and then go over it with a textured brush, letting the saturation show through in the gaps of the texture, or I just straight painted it in
  
• § These spikes also appear to occur more commonly at edges (?)
  
• □ They help to distinguish shapes, and can also be easily used to denote effects such as subsurface scattering
  
• § These spikes also seem to give harmony and texture, paint from the lemon is showing up in the grapes, paint from the background is everywhere in tiny dashes
  
• § These spikes also occur from the imperfect mixing of paint, I could see residual blue in the green used for the cloth
  
• □ the spikes are thus related to the color they occur in
  

- Accuracy

• ○ Go along with 'instinct' as well, when I drew the grapes, I drew them such that the shape I got gave me the same 'feeling', that 'feeling' is probably more important in accuracy than straight 1:1 precision, and will definitely be the main guiding force when working from life
  
• § This 'feeling' also seems apparent in the individual curves that make up the outline of the grape, they each have an apex and it’s the relation of the apexes of the two sides (left and right) of the grape that give that 'feeling'. This is probably relevant to the curves in gesture drawing.
  
• ○ Just like colors, they're relative. if you make the first mark wrong the whole piece can probably still be salvaged as long as everything relates to that initial mark in the same manner as the components of the reference
  
• ○ Pls avoid autopilot mode, always try to engage the position of a shape relative to EVERYTHING ELSE, not just one thing next to it, keep the whole painting COHESIVE in that sense
  

- Advanced Tools:

• Vary that pomegranate up, you need 3 digital brushes of different texture to emulate just 1 traditional brush, and even then its not very convincing. The repeating patterns of digital tools makes them predictable and controllable but also sterilizes an image
  

original reference:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736...5ab56b.jpg


And something I'm procrastinating. Fanart of Hachiko, I watched the movie and cried my eyes out. I overlaid the grid after the blue sketch, and I'll use it to get everything tight.

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

Still Life trying to apply what I learnt from the previous master-study



notes:

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Watercolor pomegranate, I was only happy with the straw, until I decided to go over it with black, now I'm unhappy with everything.



Decided to study the different parts of an ar-15. I was never big on drawing when I was little, but whenever I did draw, guns were my favorite thing.

i uh

fukfukfukfuk almost at 20% FUUUUUUCK

Going to fix up something proper to end the year with. Hopefully it blows the thing from last year out of the water but I don't really feel as if Ive progressed as fast as I want to.

Going to draw 100 female heads before continuing though, 20 a day for a week gives me enough time spare. I don't want to f'uck this up.

Thumbnails:


Where I'm at now:

I've been binging on kingdomhearts2 recently. Heres the 100 heads. Forgot about the 'female bit'

imagination

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reference


Going to do even more now zzz

4 more years.

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Going to fix up something proper to end the year with. Hopefully it blows the thing from last year out of the water but I don't really feel as if Ive progressed as fast as I want to.

Going to draw 100 female heads before continuing though, 20 a day for a week gives me enough time spare. I don't want to f'uck this up.

Thumbnails:

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Where I'm at now:

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I'm late.


Full

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Studies from other artists

This image is from http://weibo.com/u/1652330001?is_all=1#_...2439106696, its pretty much a terrible reproduction but I think I learnt a bit from it.



Railgun was just from a screencap but I tried to emulate kr0npr1nz's style as a challenge

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Tried to apply what I learnt to something from imagination this time.



Bonus: Weird fruit I saw while on vacation in Taiwan. Painted from memory.

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Two holidays in a row and getting a girlfriend got in the way but not again zzz

Old Sketchbook Stuff:


two more

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Value stuff:

From Life:

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Imagination:

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Gouache Sketches

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