Jan 6

Hi!

My name's Logan, I'm 23 and have absolutely NO art experience. I wouldn't even consider myself that much of a creative person, but I want to work in game development, and eventually, I had to bite the bullet, so here I am! I expect stuff to be pretty not great for a while, but I'm to really any constructive criticism!

First assignment, done! Only piece I'm really not too happy with is the Mei editing. Spent a while on this, but just could not figure out how to make the legs look okay while keeping the umbrella/clothes from getting blown out.

Jan 7

Oops! Also meant to add the pen control

Jan 7

Welcome to the forums! You can't be great from the start, but the fact that you want to learn is already a lot.

Nice work! Mei is the hardest one to do. I spent a lot time on it and still got it wrong

Jan 8

Day 2 of Pen control. Managed to get significantly more lines in on section 2, so improvement there, and I think section 1 went a bit better.

Jan 11

Day 4! Skipped a day of posting, but man, spent a TON of time on the vertical lines. Worked on hand speed, so the lines turned out a bit straighter. Circles and gradients were ok, no real improvement there. I don't really know what to do to make those better lol.

Jan 12

I personally wouldn't worry too much about it. It's just mileage and muscle memory really. Unless your main objective is perfect straight lines, just do em for the practice and warm up and believe in the process. What I do think makes a big difference is ergonomy - working comfortably, being able to use your shoulder more than your wrist for things like lines and circles unless going for details, and having your tablet or canvas propped up rather than flat IMO helps a lot.

cheers

Jan 14

Day 5 of Pen Control. I think tomorrow I'll be starting Week 2!

Jan 18


Starting on week 2! First run at Joints and LoA. Any feedback welcome!

24 days later

Feb 10

Kinda forgot to post my progress here, but I think I might go for less frequent posting anyways. Show progress over bigger chunks. But! Here's my most recent run at the new pen control:

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And, my first copied lineart. I enjoyed doing it so much that I did color and some shading as well: