Gevo's Sketchbook

[Watercolour]

1st timer in this topic, love your style! Looks very comic/manga inspired and I have a softspot for that.

Re likes and socials, (haven't rad all replies so sorry if I’m repeating) - the key to likes is not just good artwork, there’s too many aspiring influencers out there, so simply making something gorgeous does not mean someone will see it.
Making your posts visible on socials is a job of it’s own, I tried playing with hashtags etc a while ago and it was working to an extent, but it’s so tedious and time consuming I’d rather just not. It also helps a lot to schmooze with strangers on the internet, complement them on their art etc (regardless of what you actually think) so then they have to go see your page .. stuff like that.

So if you ever feel bad about the numbers, you can always just remember more likes = hours of not drawing but instead updating tags and liking random strangers’ art. If that doesn't put you off it idk what will

[gevo]

thank you for those words cedricgo. i will keep going.
theres days where i literally dont have anything else to do it feels like, i dont have much irl friends except for one person or even online friends, much of a social life, so the one thing i always end up doing from either 10-20 hours per day is drawing.

so if it wasnt for art/drawing, i literally dont have anything better to do.

[gevo]

@watercolour hey watercolour, thanks for joining the conversation and appreciate the style comment.

yeah i tried hashtags when i first started ig many years ago and i realized either bots are liking the post from the hashtags or its the kind of people who just want follow for follow which are worse than bots in my eyes. so i just stopped using them since id rather have 4 real people like it than 40 bots/fake people. but im not worried about the numbers or feel bad anymore.

I always kind of knew in the back of my head when i started art, when i starting taking it seriously, and even currently, that i would never really get popular, or make much money out of it. and my goal has always been since a child to make a comic or manga, regardless of how many see it, i want to make a great comic, not a popular comic. thats why i never went to art school, and why i majored in something completely different. art was always a plan b, i was just hoping maybe to make a few bucks on the side too from it, but i get maybe 1 commision per year or per 2 years. So my work isn't appealing enough or aesehticlaly pleasing enough unfortunately.

[mitsuki-youko]

Woah just found ur thread cus of the cute cat pic XD Your art is SO good!!

It's like pro mangaka level good! looking forward to seeing more

Do you have a personal project atm or u just drawing whatever u wanna draw whenever rn?

[gevo]

@mitsuki-youko

Hi, first of all, appreciate the kind words but I am far from mangaka or pro level, maybe one out of 100 drawings looks almost like it could be. i am inconsistent. Personal project I was starting a webtoon but im lacking in the story/script/writing aspects, so i did some panels and stopped, but i plan on doing it soon. my final goal/project is prob a manga since turning a webtoon into a physical comic book will be not ideal, and i think having my own comic in physical medium is a dream. past few months i just do random doodles or random studies, i think i have 1 -2k drawings/doodles but im just drawing without uploading them to social media. and havent checked this thread in weeks, maybe next year or the year after ill upload again, not sure. definately plan on uploading the webtoon or manga though.

[mitsuki-youko]

haha i see, having a roadmap of what you want to see imo is quite helpful in managing large projects hope it works out well for you

I'm working on a mega project that spans across 2 worlds, with 5 mcs and 200+ side characters and the story itself will have about 24 arcs of which i will make 6 animated trailers for... so i wont b able to publish til maybe like 10+ years later but i want to make sure the plot is solid before doing all that so im working on a huge artbook to flesh out the worldbuilding so that i can better the plots too.

in my personal opinion (as a plotter rather than a pantser) its good to write out the whole plot in detail before starting the manga so that you dont have any plot holes or inconsistencies

[gevo]

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[gevo]

I also am the same, i want to make sure i have something solid before release, but to be honest, I haven't had the time nor motivation on working on those aspects, life kinda busy, maybe when i find the time. usually when i draw, i spend the whole day drawing and not really thinking about story ideas. 24 arcs is a lot, so the story will be long like one piece? I love one piece. I think mine will be at most 400-500 chapters, but its probably unrealistic to have that many when i wont be able to do it fulltime. I agree about the whole plot in detail before starting, i still think about the thing more important than the plot or writing, and thats the message I want people to take away from the work itself, I think it will be to not give up on your dreams which is done in one piece but i think mine will be a lot more dark and realistic tone, maybe depressing haha. i want to show how unforgiving and unfair the world is yet u shouldnt stop reaching for dream. thats the message i want people to take.

[gevo]

Also I only posted 5 percent of what I've drawn the past few months and yet it is so much...spam, I will remove some of these later, I don't like the thread being that long in just one post.

[brohawx]

I hope you make the time, because it sure is hard to find it. It's kind of like money in that regard.

You are an artist, and a force of nature. The cats and the Patrick and crabs are one heck of a stand out act amongst the post.

There is a song that keeps me going by Aesop Rock, that I heard over 20 years ago called, "No Regrets". It's worth a listen. Here is the third verse.

[Verse 3]
Lucy was 87, upon her death bed
At the senior home, where she had previously checked in
Traded in the locks and clips for a head rest
Traded in the charcoal sticks for arthritis, it had to happen
And she drew no more, just sat and watched the dawn
Had a television in the room that she'd never turned on
Lucy pinned up a life's worth of pictures on the wall
And sat and smiled, looked each one over, just to laugh at it all
No Rico, he had passed about 5 years back
So the visiting hours pulled in a big flock of nothing
She'd never spoken once throughout the spanning of her life
Until the day she leaned forward, grinned and pulled the nurse aside
And she said, "Look, I've never had a dream in my life
> Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued
> I knew what I wanted and did it till it was done
> So I've been the dream that I wanted to be since day one!"
Well! The nurse jumped back
She'd never heard Lucy even talk, especially words like that
She walked over to the door and pulled it closed behind
Then Lucy blew a kiss to each one of her pictures and she died

You keep doing exactly what you want gevo. I know there are many, if shown, would be quite envious.

[gevo]

thanks brohawx!

[mitsuki-youko]

Woah these drawings all look so good!

so the story will be long like one piece?

haha it will be long.. but not as long as one piece i think XD

. i want to show how unforgiving and unfair the world is yet u shouldnt stop reaching for dream. thats the message i want people to take.

That is so awesome! do you have a website for ur story?

mine is: https://mitsukiyouko555.wixsite.com/portfolio/personal-project

[gevo]

i love how organized and detailed your project and page is, really impressive that u learned to code and made a website for ur own story, i def. going to spend some time on this website later once i have more freetime.

I havent a website for mine, still in the writing stages sadly. But I will post on twitter, instagram, bluesky once I have something substantial. On instagram its GevoDraws, Twitter is GevoArt or gevoianA, and bluesky is GevoArt

It will probably be tapas or webtoons I will upload to at first, for the first comic, for the later manga I'll do, i don't know yet, maybe too soon to think about haha, first need to complete first one/webtoon.

[gevo]

Not really sure if this is something people are interested in learning but I made a video on how I go about drawing and designing anime eyes with no reference. First video I made relating to art so I'll try to improve for future videos, im thinking about making three videos after in the coming months.

Heres the link -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSCmAZ30w0&t=1141s

1. How to get started learning art, and how I started taking it seriously.
2. How to draw Hands
3. Why you should still draw even if you get 0 likes when you post your art.

[gregorya]

These are all pretty good drawings. I like the faces and the foreshortening.

[gevo]

@gregorya
Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

I haven't drawn in almost 2 months because of surgery, but decided to try to draw a little this past 2 days. Some hands out of a batch of hands I drew, used ref. Will do a hand tutorial on youtube once i recover fully.

[gregorya]

Nice work on the hands. Get well soon.

[gevo]

uploaded timelapse + tutorial on how i draw hands on youtube.

[gevo]

1st image - imagination doodles, need to fix still, pretty sure head is too big and wrongly placed, or hair too big. But still want to upload the wip because despite those errors, i like the feeling it gives off, or the expression idk. Also one eye is def. lower than the other.

2nd image - used pinterest photo as ref for pose, turned into oc

3rd and 4th image - some cursed art and a 5 minute spongebob doodle imagination, just turning brain off and drawing at end of day.

5th image - car studies, except for the top left one.

[gevo]

1 minute doodle imagination