May '23

Wow a forum that's still running? Discord didn't manage to kill all of them then. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Hi, I'm Mason, been drawing for a long time, about seven years, but I feel like I'm stagnating. I've improved alot since I started, but I'm not where I thought I would/should be.

I've done alot of figure sketching, but not much in the way of rendering, and need to nail some more detailed anatomy and improve other weakspots, like drawing heads. I'm hoping that by following a course I can put some structure into imroving, instead of following the wims of whatever self-assigned "homework" I have at the moment.

Like many others, I have ideas for characters and stories that I want to get out. But trying to draw the same character consistently still eludes me.

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May '23

Welcome to the forums Mason!

Those are nice looking gestures!

May '23

Welcome Mason :blush: Really nice gesture drawings!

May '23
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Welcome to the forum!

I'm curious. What is your problem with drawing the same character? Do you find it boring or do you feel like you can't get the facial features right in different perspectives?

May '23

Welcome to the Forums, these gestures are looking awesome, full of energy, good stuff.

May '23
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Norma

Thank you. More the latter. I tend to find my "style" shifts as I draw a character over again, the eyes become a slightly different shape, the line of the cheek more more or less prominent. This is conflated with difficulty with faces - like, you draw an eye that's just a smidge in the wrong place and it looks like a completely different person.

So practice - I gave myself an hour each for the two characters - ones the older sister from the third episode of star wars visions season 2, I tried using multiple screen shots from the show and a photo of someone in a pose as reference. The other is Maika, from the comic Monstress, a direct copy of one of the illustrations.

May '23

Sigh! Who does not know that.