28 days later

Sep '24

I yam back and here to drop term 2 stuff, things during the start of term 2 were going very well. Unfortunately, during week 2 I got covid after going out once in the past months!! >:frowning: so I was out of commission for about 3 weeks due to it and the aftereffects. x_x


this worksheet took me way longer due to me just staring at the colors while I was struggling with covid xD

I had to redo my simple creatures due to the creatures I drew at first not being simple xD

I have more to post but I gotta get it together lol
also, I need to stop trying to be so perfect when doing my face studies for anatomy bc I just be zooming in and focusing on details that you can't even see when it's zoomed out.

oh yeah! and I joined the discord the other day, it's a bit intimidating with so many people there lol

Sep '24

oh nooooooo RIP covid sucks :frowning: hope you are feeling better

omg ur creatures are so CUTE XD esp the one with its tongue out

Sep '24

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Runi_Kazoonie

Oooof hopefully you are all good now. I've only gotten COVID once, but it was a rough time.

You did a great job with the little critters. Back then I only did one and it didn't turn as good xD.

Edit: Oh! and what's your Discord id? Do you have a blog there? My ID is daceronine, feel free to touchbase whenever you want :smile: Discord is indeed intimidating, because of all the channels and options, and things seem to move so fast. Eventually you settle into just a few channels and things start to make sense. I recommend focusing on the Term channel you are on, maybe a few blogs of some friends, and the daily art channel if you want to see things move at the speed of light.

Sep '24

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daceronine

I've only had icovid twice now and the first time I got it, I thought I was gonna die. The second time I didn't feel like that but that doesn't mean it wasn't super awful to deal with xD

lolol yeaa, it be like that. The first one's I did was too much, and it was just taking soo much time. They were also okay to look at xD

if you look in the server, you should be able to find me with Runi_Kazoonie, lol will do!
yea exactly!! it's so big that there's so many people there so it's a buncha eyes on your stuff but in turn, it's so big that it moves so fast it's like there's no eyes on it xD

I don't have a blog but i've been lerking around in term2 and have only messaged in it like 3 times lol

16 days later

Oct '24

HELLOO!! :smile:
I've been feeling much better and did some soul searching in general :3
Here's the game box that I worked hard on and had to stop myself from doing more with the art bc that wasn't really the focus of the assignment, I just did a quick sketch based off something I was working on.

Oct '24

Here's muh character forward head studies :3 very fun to do tho I would say that the simplier heads like Sora and Riku's was harder for me xD I dunno why, maybe it's because I struggle to draw dudes lol


Oct '24

This is a study of an Artist I follow "Niwa Rhythm" and they are fantastic at hatching and cross hatching, I don't have enough words for how sick I think they are. I also just happened to find out what brush they use, I ended up really loving it.

Oct '24

All great exercices! I see you're keeping an eye out not just for the form, but also for line weight and shading!

Oct '24

of course!
I really like linework, so it's fun to see how others use it to show different elements off.
tho someone's line weight I don't really understand is Eiichiro Oda's, it just seems so random at times. I just chalked it down to, sometimes he needs things to stand off the page more or to show that something is closer to the viewer.

Oct '24

I think that's exactly it! While weight can be used to define some soft shade, distance (foreground vs background), it is also heavily used to highlight importance, as more weight pulls the eye. So you'll usually see the contour with a bit more weight, eyes with more heavy weight (eyelashes), or if something on the panel simply demands attention, like letters, or a specific asset, like a knuckle or arm.

Oct '24

oooo that's guud to know!
gonna keep it in mind :3

5 months later

16d

lol I'M BACK~
took some time to hit the books without the pressure i was putting on myself to post things.
I went more
I also figured out that I was learning too much without actually applying it to my own work so I am doing that now.

but to pick up where I was here was my first portrait study, It didn't turn out how I wanted it to!
I felt it was good and it was pretty but it didn't feel like her. I put it in the discord and was told that eyeballs arent that "bright" and to push my values more and yea, I agree.
I tucked that into muh mind and then simply went next.

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16d

next was more portraits just line work. Again I ran into the issue of the person not feeling like the picture, these two were very much like this. After I drew them I stopped and dove into why it felt like that.
The first one was I couldn't get my eyes to look forward, when I would draw the iris's towards the top as if you're looking at someone head on.
and then none of my people felt like they did in the picture.

I started with the eyes and just drew some eyes.

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I got very frustrated and tired doing this bc it felt like I was hitting a wall in my brain, like I wasn't learning my problem.

...So I did what any sane person would do in a time of frustration, I walked away and read BL's in bed lol during this one of the guys looked at me straight on, I noticed this and studied it. EVERYTHING CLICKED in my brain. I ran to my sketchbook and just started drawing eyes with what I observed and things started looking alot better.
Here was my findings if you can understand my brains ramblings xD

when I figured it out, I realized that eyeballs have so many intricacies that I never thought of before.

16d
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Once I had the eyes more so under my belt, my next hurdle was the feeling of the person. I went to the vibes of the person, I found out that for me I needed to feel the vibe the person gives off and AT A GLANCE tell myself what was unique about the person's face.

tho doing this and messing up at first I told myself "well you messed it up once so the second time you draw it can't be as bad as the first and if it is then you may wanna take a break" lol this made me feel like I could mess up and it's okay not to be perfect.

I also found out that the less I look at someone the better for me lol it forces me to work on only the important parts. so doing that I was able to start filling out the rest of the page.

I turned them anthro for practice incorporating animal ears into hair on the head.
I tried to also practice using the persons features for a character with a different gender, like seen on the bottom.

with all that practice, I felt more comfortable doing my next portrait study.
Here's the notes page where I did it and also studied other things.
lol the notes at the bottom were things I wrote down and then fixed but kept there to allow myself to know that i'm not perfect and didn't draw my little doodle at the bottom like that first try.

and then here's just the study itself.

and with that, I'll probably leave that here for now and then update the rest tomorrow or somethin lol.