Usually when I do my drawings, I go through around 3-5 sketch passes before lining. I feel like those are....a lot of sketches. It's like I am never definite with my lines and that I need to undergo multiple roughs before it makes sense for me to line. This becomes more so when I'm drawing dynamic s...
2018-05-24 14:20:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I'd like to say thank you so much again for the support!
I added a new sketch request tier! I was thinking the other day about refining how I translate designs into my current style and I thought this would be a neat way to do it!
So if you want me to draw any character you'd l...
2018-05-23 01:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh jeeze I got a bit excited and skipped to coloring. Don't be like me and actually do this, looking back at this, i need to fix things!
I'm just gonna (continue to try to) love the process for this one.
2018-05-22 09:28:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Working on these studies for the past weeks, i realized that my observational drawing can use some work. I can even say it’s total garbage now haha. This is why I’ve decided to do portrait studies in this session.
What i would do was that i would draw from a reference I’ve picked. Aft...
2018-05-18 03:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Just like hands, feet are tricky as well. While I feel that they can get less expressive compared to hands, they don't get as much attention so they're less familiar to me.
Given that, I decided to look back into learning how to construct them. The basic shapes that make the foot are harder ...
2018-05-14 08:04:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Update on this thing I've been slowly working on on and off! I'm basically going in blind with this and just winging a bunch of things. Gee animation is hard!? There are so many things to keep track of it's making me dizzy a bit! It's like combining everything you know about drawing!
I ...
2018-05-11 02:23:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A neat way to keep the posing of busts interesting is to switch up the perspective while also making the head and chest face different directions and angles.
I'll be getting back to my studies again soon! Just got caught up with some projects!
2018-05-08 12:52:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I should post my WIPs here? Anyway, I have limited knowledge in animation but I want to try my hand at it again from roughs up until compositing. I'll have to give this a second rough pass.
Let's see where this will go!
2018-05-02 07:03:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Some more hands! I wanted to try out some tricky poses that look awkward when drawn. I tried pushing the arcs, but I don't think I'm quite there yet.
Reference used:
2018-05-02 06:24:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hands are difficult!!! I think that once you've figured out how to break it down into parts, it becomes easier. Here's me reviewing how I construct and draw parts of the hand as well as the stuff I keep in mind when drawing them. It's all about the ARCS yo!
Gonna work on more hand...
2018-04-30 10:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey!! It's been a month already since I launched this thing and I would like to say my sincerest of thanks to those who have pledged to this Patreon. I hope you have been learning from the stuff I've been doing for the past month!
I hope this stuff hasn't come off as boring but rest assured that I...
2018-04-27 02:10:20 +0000 UTC View Post
On to reviewing arms!! This one has more notes than usual!
Just when I thought I had this part of the body down in terms of memory (mostly), I finally learned how the muscles go in the forearm! Guess I learned something new today!
Memorizing the muscles can be a bit overwhelming, but i...
2018-04-27 02:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Some more additional torso sketches to see how I fare with them. It turns out that I feel more confident with my female torsos now and just torsos in general! I believe I can attribute it to how I would construct the hip and waist area before.
I suppose the next step is to learn how to push and ad...
2018-04-25 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Wrapping this up now with some final reviewing. I barely used references for these drawings and you can see how I do my construction when drawing torsos. It's funny that before I found it easier to draw female figures over male, but now it looks like it's the other way around. I feel like you can ma...
2018-04-25 02:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
An oldie, but I still like this one. Here are some tips for getting that mean art block out of the way using the power of references and how it can help in developing your style!
2018-04-24 14:06:22 +0000 UTC View Post
A bit of a late post but here we are!!
I realized that doing these studies takes me a while to do! I find myself trying to absorb as info as I can.
Anyhow, I'm almost wrapping this portion up. I'll most likely do a "review" study where I draw things from memory kinda like that one drawing sh...
2018-04-23 01:36:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, these were supposed to be anatomy studies but I ended up with gesture studies. I got my references this time from Bodies in Motion (link is below!) and since I didn't have a subscription, the images were somewhat low resolution so I couldn't study the anatomy up close. I...
2018-04-19 03:11:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Refreshing some memory on how the muscles of the legs go. A good tip to construct legs is to draw in the sartorius muscle (the long muscle that extends from the hip to the knee. I feel it helps a lot in defining the contour of the leg.
I'm still...slowly working these anatomy studies.
... 2018-04-18 08:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's have a different sort of post this time! I was going through some old work and stumbled across old fan art I did of Dota 2 characters. For a strange reason, I wanted to draw them again and I ended up drawing 3 different characters today during my breaks.
While I was doing these, I took this ...
2018-04-16 14:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Some more studies on female torsos and jeepers I still find myself stumped.
I managed to study from this album on Facebook which featured women doing action poses. I wanted to see how female torsos work when they're hunched and twisting as well as being in perspective. Finding the right contour fo...
2018-04-15 02:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing to mindlessly sketch to figure out how I can develop my shape language. Still trying to focus on the shapes without relying too much on construction.
I have a long ways to go in terms of neatness but at least from what I\ve noticed when trying to draw with as few lines as possibl...
2018-04-13 13:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I did a quick demo the other day to my school org about using shapes in designing characters. I cleaned these designs up for the sake of this (small) tutorial.
Essentially, I chose certain shapes (in this case, trapezoids and ovals) and distributed them throughout the designs. I used this way of d...
2018-04-13 01:54:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh geeze I'm rusty! This took me quite some time to work on. I realized that I still have some troubles joining the torso and the hip so I wanted to focus on that for the most part of these studies.
Compared to male torsos, instead of focusing on shapes (of the muscular structure), I feel th...
2018-04-11 03:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Heading towards torsos now! I started off reviewing my knowledge on the locations of the major muscles for the front and back torso. Looks like I more or less had it down but I still decided to review again. Though the back muscles are somewhat tricky for me, still! There's still a bunch to learn, I...
2018-04-09 13:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Not really a study but more of some self-reflection-sketches (??). Sketch thoughts maybe??
I'm trying to process the way I compose my drawings and hopefully I can use that info to figure out how to further push my stuff forward.
I get a lot of feedback that my art comes off as dynamic...
2018-04-07 01:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Expanded a bit and wanted to focus on things I kinda noticed in my drawings: my faces sometimes come off as flat, especially the eyes.
Apparently, a technique to resolve this is to match the corners of each eye to the contour of the face, which I sometimes forget to do. I'll make sure to keep more...
2018-04-05 13:58:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The head studies continue and boy, I realized they're a bit tricky to nail. Going through Uldis' book, they divided the head mass into two parts: a cylinder for the face, and an egg for the skull. Actually it's three parts if you include the neck (but that's j...
2018-04-04 06:14:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Kicking this week off with basic head studies! I've started off with going back to learning how the skull is constructed. Doing this made me realize that I usually construct the head with a circle. I need to keep in mind that a more accurate shape would be an oval or like an egg!
I also sque...
2018-04-03 09:08:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Feel that your drawings are stagnating? Maybe there’s something missing? For those struggling with their styles and finding inspiration, this might be the thing for you!
2018-04-03 09:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post
For those artists who spend loads of time trying to figure out why their art is not coming out the way they want it to be, making thumbnails (or making studies) is the thing for you! It’s also great of getting rid of the habit of zooming in
2018-04-03 09:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post