I really like the gesture drawings, I think it captures the emotions very good!

@anir Yeah, this one is more quick and simple, here is rawness is more natural, but also some shapes is pretty cheesy, brushstrokes are sloppy and random. I want to achieve more controllable rawness. Balance, as always. Thanks! :sparkles:

@nadjia Thanks, but there is no limit to perfection :grin: :octopus:

I am lovin this stuff, keep making things. You've got some nice energy in this. =)

@stealcase Sadly, all my energy is spent on these things, and it's still not so much, lol. Anyway, Thanks! :sparkles: :octopus:

Summer portrait practice:

20-40 min thumbnails for practicing of new techniques :octopus:

Wow, that´s how practicing should look like :+1:

Ah... even though you said you're 21 (I am currently 22 learned from the internet as well), even though you said you're still searching for what to do (still searching for that myself), it was pleasing to scroll through your sketchbook slowly. Almost feels as if you're having fun with the whole process of "Just go on a journey" and let it unfold.

Shall be bookmarking this sketchbook as a rules of thumb about having fun and keep going no matter what. Keep been you, keep doing, keep practicing Roman.

PS : Love the overall looseness in your way of painting + sketching. Those gestures makes me want to do gestures drawing again, even though I am focusing on landscape right now. Possibly will just introduce such practices with nature elements instead.

:penguin:

@brianhermelijn Sometimes I feel like "Damn, I have too many possibilities! I can start to draw characters, robots, environments, etc. and after some time of practice I'll begin to make progress in chosen field. But which field i should choose?" and struggle with this mindset can take a veeeery veeeery long time. But for now I mostly just say to myself: "Hey, man, go and do anything, just anything!". And It seems that fun and interest come to me on the road. So it turns out like "If you want to practice more...you should practice more". Appetite comes with eating. Paradoxical, but as it is. So, man, thank you for your comment, it's really inspirational and for me too. Keep going and have fun! :penguin: :sparkles: :octopus:

Another bunch of quick thumbnails, 30-40 min each

Shit this is inspiring. I gotta come back here more often.

those thumbnail sketches, do you have reference or inspiration in front of you?
They just seem so varied and crazy for 60 sec thumbnails. Like, you got amazing imagination.

@stealcase Yeah, all the 1 min as well as 20-40 min thumbnails are from imagination. I had a long time when I completely didn't use any references in my work. And now for me easier to draw something from scratch than use any additional materials. And it's not so cool as it sounds. :confused: :octopus:

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