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javavenos · May '20

Day 3 of digital gestures!
Although I've been doing gestures on and off for a couple years now, what Marc said about how the poses need to feel grounded has really helped a lot! I try to put feet in on every pose now, although sometimes in the images, the feet aren't visible. so then I don't. I've also been trying to focus a lot more on the pose itself before building up the form, which creates much less complete looking drawings, but I think there's a lot more to be learned this way.

Unfortunately I'm still busy with commitments to other art projects, so I can't get through assignments very quickly, but I figured that just doing 30 mins of gestures every day can't hurt!

Anyways, here are my gestures! I'm more happy with them than yesterday and I also made a photo set, so that I can track my progress on the specific photos, which is exciting!

javavenos · May '20

Here's my gestures for day 4!
Today I took the advice of @Shellac-Belly to add markers where the elbows and knees are. I think this made my poses a bit stiffer and it definitely took a lot more time away from things such as form, but it definitely did help me to be much more aware of where the joints actually are. I also decided that it would be helpful if I drew basic ribcage and pelvis markers. This helped me to understand where the legs attached a lot more than without.

The suggestions I've been getting have been really changed my view on what it is to make a gesture drawing. It's difficult, but I'm sure I'll learn a lot from it!

javavenos · May '20

Day 5 of gestures!

I didn't get round to doing any yesterday, oops! I'm not too worried about that though. I think it's more important to do it as frequently as possible rather than being incredibly strict with a streak and then feeling like you've ruined everything if you miss a day.

Currently, what I have learnt with doing gestures in a lot more of a structured way than usual, is that it has been helping me to spot the line of action a lot more quickly and to begin to spot subtle bends in joints and such. I wonder if this is because I'm using the same photos over and over again, or if I truly am learning. Maybe I should mix it up and try some different photos to see if I can apply my skills elsehwhere. Idk
I think today I was a bit too stiff with everything. Hopefully I'll loosen up a bit tomorrow!

Also, as a bonus, here is a WIP of some Lucifer fanart that I'm making. I usually prefer much thicker lines, so this feels quite odd tbh.

Vonschlippe · May '20

Good work on the line-art!

Using thin lines feels weird because thicker lines tend to hide mistakes. As students, we should aim for thin lines because they require confidence and more attention to detail to suggest volume. Keep at it, I promise that when the thing is finished, the sketch will look crude in comparison to the final line-art

javavenos · May '20

Thank you so much!!

I actually really like thick lineart because of the line weight variance that you can get. Since starting to make comics this year, I've been leaning a little bit more on thin lines. It's funny because I feel like you can get away with more having thin lines, since they're less noticeable when coloured. I dunno. Thinner lines are definitely making me more conscious about proportions though! In hindsight, I think using thicker lines made me make the features of my faces, such as eyes and noses a lot bigger than they really should be, because I simply couldn't achieve enough detail with the right sized features. Ahh I've been doing art for so long and yet I have so far to go. It's an exciting, albeit occasionally irritating journey haha.

javavenos · May '20

Here's day 6 of gestures!

Today, for some reason, I think I fell back on some old habits. Like I kept forgetting to put markers in for joints or drawing the direction that the head is facing. In the first 30 second gesture, I even forgot the line of action!! Oh well, we all have our bad days. I'll make sure to try to fix these issues tomorrow

javavenos · May '20

Day 7 of gestures was a failure D:<

First, half way though my 30 second gestures, my drawing program decided to do this thing where it basically freezes until I reboot it. So, I restarted it and decided to start from scratch. Ok, take 2. Now, usually no-one messages me on my phone, so I don't put it on full silent, just a buzz. Well, someone I barely know started spamming me with messages. That sort of repetitive, intermittent buzzing really stresses me out. I guess it's like a sort of sensory overload. I paused the Quickposes timer thing and turned my phone onto silent. I continued with my gestures, although I was just feeling annoyed at that point. I did more gestures and then my stepdad starts calling me because he wants to play on my Nintendo Switch. That's fine, but like WORLD GIMME A BREAK I JUST WANNA PRACTICE MY ART!! Even worse was, I guess I forgot to press pause, so I lost my place with the poses.
Ehh, I guess the world is telling me to get on with comic work because I have deadlines coming up.

Anyway, here are my wonky 30 second gestures. They look so bad. I guess this just proves that you need a calm work environment to work well.

dangras-almeida · May '20

I totally understand what you are saying. And you already got it: when practicing, try to get a "disturbance-free environment" mas much as you can. This way you can progress with no one disturbing you and you will feel less annoyed or stressed, which will definitely have an impact on the pieces you are making.

What usually works for me is to practice in a time where everyone is sleeping (I wake up very early 😅)

In any case, keep up the amazing work!

Cheers,

javavenos · May '20

Do you have any tips for waking up really early? I usually sleep through multiple alarms :')

javavenos · May '20

Day 8 of gestures!
I feel really rusty today, but at least I wasn't interrupted so much like yesterday ahah.
For the 1 minute poses, I used a different brush that usual. I don't like the effect that it gave though, so I won't be using it for my gestures again I don't think lmao.

javavenos · May '20

Day 9!
Wanted to finish chapter 2 (which I didn't even end up doing.. Things were taking a lot longer than I had estimated) of my comic today, so I only had time for 30 second gestures, at least I'm being semi consistent though

After tomorrow, which is when I WILL finish chapter 2, I'm taking a week's break from working for the comic (Which is taking priority at the moment since it's for a competition with a deadline) which means that I can actually focus on some of the proper assignments for the lessons. I'm very excited!

Also here's a really messy doodle that I did today too! It's of my OC Lucien from my (non competition) webcomic, Fragments! https://tapas.io/series/Fragments1

javavenos · Jun '20

I've been taking a break from anything too intensive, art wise this week because I felt myself burning out while making chapter 2 of my competition webcomic and I didn't want to burn myself out before chapter 3! (Chapter 2 is here! https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/superpose-soldier-h/list?title_no=428513)
So this week I've just done one and a half pages for my personal webcomic as well as some crafts and I sketched my friend while we were at the park and stuff.

Today I did do a little 30 minute study of my friend's dog, because it was the dog's 9th birthday! Here it is <3