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17 days later

Jan '24

Sprint Retrospective #1 of 2024 - (1/1/24 - 14/1/24)

What a nice way to start this sprint on a Monday! :sweat_smile:

To make this more enjoyable, at the end of each goal/progress, I put a GIF of my overall feeling rather than me explaining for 5 minutes why I feel justified to be upset. :sleeping:

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

Anatomy II

I have seen the lecture video but haven't practice to it as I was more interested with clothes drapery. However, I have seen in the next term, Term 4 has explores into anatomy of the Upper and Lower. So, perhaps, just a brief understanding might suffice for the time being.

But I still need to do the homework provided at the end of video.

TD (Total Drama) Work

I have done another TD x Sport art comm - starring Courtney as Raiders Cheerleader

What made this comm unique is I livestream this comm process with the commissioner himself so he ask a lot of question or comments about work in real time - thus putting real pressure to showcase myself as an artist but in a good.

In other news, I have 2 new TD art comms with price:

  1. 2 chars in a GIF comic style - $50 USD
  2. 2 chars with background - $25 USD

So far so good.

NOTE #1 - Yes, I may have said that I will never do art comm again. But personal money to buy my stuff without my mum invovlement.... it's worth it. :grin:

NOTE #2 - Yes, I have known that there are 2 new TD seasons with new contestants. However, not really that interested to watch it compared to previous seasons. Just watching it to get more references lmao.

Artist Study

Unfortunately, like my anatomy study, haven't had the time to study a particular cartoon artist on Twitter or X. Next sprint, I should be able to solely focus on my cartoon improvement via artist study.

Outside Work

At the first weekend of this year, my family and another family went to Dubbo to visit Taronga Zoo. Now, there are 2 Taronga Zoo in NSW and the one we are going to is more exotic.

Initially went to zoo to relax and chat with my family friend on his passion of animal, I had a bit of Aaron Blaise inspiration and decide to do some sketch on the animals I found interested.

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As you can see, I was more interested in animal leg - maybe because I'm more intrigued by the structure. :sweat_smile:

But yeah, it was fun to not draw people for the time being.

Drapery

Dunno know but I got more into drapery studies. Most likely because it's more relevant to my cartoon work/improvement than anatomy. Even though cartoon simplifies the fold to be easy to understand, I feel the need to do a comprehensive study on each fold.

A particular video I watch is Bucci one - highly recommended.

Understanding Every Type Of Clothing Fold

I made some notes and paid particular focus on diaper fold.

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Fair to say, I'm planning to spend more time in drapery, more in cartoon than realism.

TD Doodles

Decide to bring back one of my old habit from last year which is random doodles based on a particular theme. I think it's nice because it emphasise more on experimentation and allow me to commit mistake and learn from it.

So the past 2 weeks theme were cheerleader and exercise.

Book Review - Art and Fear

From a charity store, I bought a book called Art and Fear. While it was cheap, it got me hooked as it explains artist fear of doing art working and why so many people quit art making.

I wouldn't really recommend buying and reading it as it's a bit too boring but nevertheless it has some key points.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Art-Fear-David-Bayles/dp/0961454733

  • Becoming an artist means both learning to accept yourself do personal artwork AND following your own voice to make unique artwork
  • Making art is the not the same as Viewing art as both have different perspective
  • Artist can stop all the time once their current art has reached the points of the diminishing returns and thus can find another art path - you can only quit once.
  • It's fine to let your vision races ahead of execution - that could be new upcoming goals to work on
  • Art is basically starting a sentence without knowing the ending. Art is basically chance. Embrace the uncertainity it brings.
  • The best way to find your next area of improvement is from your last work. ASK YOUR WORK WHAT IT NEEDS, NOT WHAT YOU NEED.
  • There's a different between acceptance and approval from the audience. Ensure that the audience doesn't shape your art development too much.

After reading this book, it kinda reminds me of this scene from one of my favourite movies - Little Miss Sunshine.

Little Miss Sunshine -

Goals for upcoming sprint

  • Progress on 2 art comms
  • Start studying on a particular artist
  • Practice more on cartoon drapery

Oh right, that's all from me this week. Hope, it's more fun and visual than just text lol.

Jan '24

That was all a lot of fun to read through! The gif memes really make it all more entretaining.

And I haven't watched that movie, but that quote certainly hits hard!

It reminds me of another quote, one from my favorites

There are other similar ones, about how success is always built on failure.

This can be hard to grasp, especially for a younger person like the little girl. You fear failing. but once life has pounded you a few times, you kinda lose that fear and move to learn from it instead. Best way to overcome fear is to face it.

And hey, all that cheerleader work looks great!!

Jan '24

LMAOOO

Noice!! Is it on your youtube channel or is it private? :smiley:

Haha XD but don't you work tho? like didnt u get a AWS cert for work?

ur animals are SO cute! I rly like how they are shaped... its almost like a chibi but not quite XD idk how to describe it

The gifs are hella fun too haha

Jan '24

Thx for your kind word. Tbh, if I found it hard to even read my damn sprint blog, then it's clear there's a problem. :sweat_smile:

Answering your question

  • I livestream on my private DIscord server. I don't upload it as we say weird stuff sometime LMAO.
  • I work full-time as a software developer - thus why AWS cert is linked to that. The money I made from tech work is more for other usages aside from my selfish personal purchase; such as home loan and grocery. While the art money is 100% my decision. XD
Jan '24

ahh i see haha

Jan '24

Interesting updates with the gifs and video.
I like the doodles.
Another quote I heard of. The difference between a master and a student is that the master has failed more times than the student. It was from the anime Assassination classroom.

Jan '24

Sprint Retrospective #2 of 2024 - (15/1/24 - 28/1/24)

Welcome back! Look like the new way of writing blog got some people intrigued so I will be continue to proceed that way.

Anyway, let go!

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

TD (Total Drama) Commission

As i mentioned in previous blog, I currently have 2 art commissions. Doing 2 at the same time is a lot for me as I prefer doing 1 at a time. Hence, I have made a lot of progress on 1 art comm (2 chars in a GIF) and no progress on the other one (2 chars with background).

Ngl, I'm kinda suprised at how quick I'm progressing with the current comm as I'm nearly at the end/final picture of GIF before calling it done. I was mostly expecting to just get the draft done by the end of this sprint, not the whole thing damn it!

I post my draft work and current commission progress here but just want to post possible reasons why I was able to get most of it done despite my low expectation

  1. Single Focus - Due to time limitation, I have only really worked on this art commission. Maybe I acknowledged how much work there is and decided to just sorely focus on it.
  2. Livestream with commissioner - 50% of the time, I livestreamed this on my Discord server with the commissioner as he gets to watch me do the work and ask question to me. Now, this is called peer pressure and I noted that I have work harder when somebody else is watching my every movement.
  3. Fck on perfectionist mentality - There wasn't a time where I have to redo EVERYTHING because it doesn't look right. Only changes I have made is the facial expression because the character doesn't look appealing enough - but it didn't involve me going back to the drawing board - just some modification and viola!
  4. Some interest in this comm - Now, commission is meant to be all-business interest-optional type of work. Now, I accept comm ONLY if I'm slightly interested in it. Wouldn't say it's my type of content but it's a bit hilarious.
  5. Reward - With the commission money, I'm buying an NBA jersey on sale. Perhaps that motivate me to finish and finalise this so I can wear it with no guilt? :sweat_smile:

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Just one more final image left and I'm done with this comm! :smile:

Artist Study

Frustratingly, made no progress at here at all! Rather than blabbering on about it, made some changes to it

  1. Switch to a new artist inspiration - if the current one is not inspiring me to do something NOW, then it's not for me at the moment
  2. Replace some art study with the new artist study - Those artist study have short-term benefit.

Hope that will force to do some cartoon study.

Drapery

Same as artist study, made no progress into it. Focused too much on that art comm I was working on. Perhaps, it's best to make some summary notes to force me to study on cartoon drapery as I have multiple different notes from different artist/youtubers.

TD Doodles

Was watching NFL Playoff - Go 49ers! :smile:

Goals for upcoming sprint

  • Finish current comm and start new art comm
  • Start studying on a particular artist NOW
  • Practice more on cartoon drapery

Oh right, that's all from me this week. Thx for reading and hope you have a productive month!

Jan '24

Reply to

Gordon003

Haha well you're doing the right thing by prioritizing commission work :smile: I'm sure the client thinks so as well.

The animation looks great xD, not sure what's going on, I guess it could go in a very good way or a very bad way, but either way the work itself is fun to watch!

Good luck with the next sprint! Glad to see things seem to be working out!

Jan '24

Nice work on the commissions. Were you commissioned to make the Total Drama characters into football players?

13 days later

Feb '24

Sprint Retrospective #3 of 2024 - (29/1/24 - 11/2/24)

One month down... damn that's too quick! Oh well, let go thru this retrospective.

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

TD (Total Drama) Commission

Completed the boxing commission right on time!

Next up is 2 TD comic comms - so one of the goal of this sprint is to complete the draft and get approved by commissioner.

Artist Study

Started studying on this artist "Carazar" - https://www.instagram.com/carazarzone/?hl=en

Key notes taken
1. Strong and expressive gesture
2. Simplified Basic shape
3. Focus on simplicity and expressivity over complex detail

Gonna keep studying and trying to incorporate some of his style into mine.

I'm basing my approach on an SPRINT idea - to get the best idea, remix and improve.
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remix-improve-sergio-oliveira-pmp/

Drapery

May did some random doodle there and here but not an actual study/practice session on drapery. Maybe, it's better to just doodle for the time being.

Others

Completed my Total Drama facial reference - using Courtney character.

Will most likely use it as reference for generated TD facial work in commission. Should be easier to practice facial gesture.

Goals for upcoming sprint

  • Complete draft of comic comm
  • Continue studying on Carazar
  • Practice more on cartoon drapery

That's all from me. Have a great and productive day! :smile:

Feb '24

Good work on that comision and studies!

Aye, it's impressive a whole month has already gone by. Heck even know I feel like it was just the start of Feb and it's already the 12th.