@mitsuki-youko, @patrycja.lerch, @snakker Thanks everyone! Sounds like it's an acceptable state, but I'll keep working to improve it.

Next in the list of the course companion guide is to do a bust from imagination. I've been kinda doing these, but I figured I would try to do a more detailed one for a change and also try to "ink" it as part of the inktober challenge.

I also needed to do a bit of a look design for one of the characters for an upcoming chapter, so it all works out.

Not sure if inktober has any particular rules other than just use black and white "ink"? hopefully it can be digitial since I don't really have physical ink.. or any practice with physical ink...
So anyway, here's the character bust potrait sketch, I'll try to start inking it tomorrow.

I assume I can also do several ink pieces. I do want to get some practice with pure BW ink and this is the perfect time to try it. The potrait is fairly simple, since it's only intended to be an exercice, but I'd like to try something more dynamic as well.

Next is Zbrush, which I'll take a look at, but most likely skip, and even more anatomy practice.

Also working hard on the manga! but only one more page to share for now.

That's about it. Back into the grind!

@patrycja.lerch Thanks!

Couldn't sleep well last night, so ended up trying to ink the sketch.

It was certainly an interesting experience and a lot of fun to dedicate more detail to a sinle piece!

I first tried to do a lot of cross hatch, but then I inked over that and liked better the high contrast of pure black and white. I also refrained from using any type of gray scale, since it is supposed to be only ink.

So first piece for inktober! (And also the bust from memory exercice Marc's course asked for).

Also been hard at the manga. I've been working on my time/quality ratio, and I think so far it's working out fairly well. So far each page takes about 4.5-5.5 hours in average, which is pretty decent and work well with my schedule.

That's it for now! Thanks for dropping by! I'm off to the grind!

Several points over my last post.

It's not inktober yet. It was 3 am, my brain somehow made me think it was already october. That was weird and embarrasing.

Though the piece was great practice... after looking at it with fresh eyes I was not satisifed with it. I kept thinking.... I can do better. And so I set out to try to do so.

Same idea, same character, similar design, but tried to make it better. And I think I finally found a proper way to use screentones, in combination with ink (which I think is their main purpose). Also experimented with resolution resizing which worked great!

All in all, I feel I learned a lot from doing it! and got a better piece to start inktober when it actually starts!... though I guess this counts as an early start.

Also started watching the zbrush videos.

I've been bouncing back and forth on doing the exercices or not. On one end, I can just do them to learn something new, on the other, I don't see myself using it in my pipeline anytime soon.

Then I noticed the license cost and... yea.. I'll be skipping the exercices, but at least I'll watch the videos to know about it.

I do use CSP 3D capabilities... sometimes... barely. Honestly when I need a reference I'll just look for one, use google maps, or take a photo of the angle or piece I want and use that as the reference.

Anyway, still got a lot to do in term 3.

And also been hard at work on the manga! 3 pages to share for now. Almost done with chapter 24!

Back to the grind! Thanks for stopping by! Later!

Thanks man! I think I'm finally starting to understand screentones more. Mostly because i'm forcing myself to work in Black and Whites.

Yea, if I were to start learning 3D, I'd probably chose Blender. I don't plan to incorporate 3D in my pipeline any time soon though.

I mean, I get why it's in the course, since there are many people trying to get into an industry where 3D is widely used. If that was my case, I'd probably do an investment on it. Instead my interest is on the manga side, which is why I purchased my license for CSP

It's all good, to each their own.

Thanks!

I probably won't do all 31 days, probably not even most of them. I wish I had the time for it, but in between everything else it's unlikely.

I will at least do a few pieces though! It really is very useful to try out different techniques.

I wasn't really familiar with the challenge, only that it existed. Just did a quick search and found the details you posted.

In the end, I guess anyone can take the challenge as they see fit and adjust it to what they want to achieve.

Personally I want to try it to test different digital drawing techniques, and doing just BW is a good fit for someone who is trying to do manga. To get better understanding of screentones and some practice on BW style drawings.

I realize part of the objective is to be consistent... though I'm not sure what frequency I'll aim for. Maybe only 2 or 3 pieces per week? I'll keep practicing and we'll see how it goes.

I'm also excited to see what drawings you all do though!

Just a bunch of exercices this time as we continue to watch the zbrush videos. It's interesting to watch while I do other stuff.

Some muscles identification with The Rock. Guy has some wide abdominals.

I think I starting to memorize them more!

The some gesture practice. 2 mins. Nothing extraordinary, just trying stay warm.

finally some cloth exercices to dress up some nakey characters from previous exercices.

By that last one I was feeling tired so I ended the sesssion and went to get some air. I feel it could had been better, but it's all good exercice none the less.

And one more manga page! almost done with chapter 24. Good practice for mouths and more expressions

Wew, back to work. Gota keep grinding.