Sankari's art blog

[daria.matejczyk]

Hi!
I'm Sankari, I'm 31 and I'm complete noob when it comes to art. I've only recently started learning properly and I'm a little overwhelmed by how much is there to learn.

I've tried to draw in the past, a little bit, but it never seemed to stick. Hopefuly this time is better.

Some of the past "works":

And some more recent quick sketches:

Cats are adorable, but they don't want to pose.

Looking forward to learning!

[daria.matejczyk]

I've decided to try to draw something at least once per month.

3 months of the 1 year plan to learn drawing (and 3 weeks of the art school program)

It's unfinished, the lineart is a mess and the shading is probably all wrong, but it's something.

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My cat decided to cooperate for more than 1 minute. Still working on line confidence, though.

And disappointing my organic chemistry teachers one wobbly hexagon at the time.

Bees are great, I like bees.

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Line confidence is getting better, I think.

And I'm experimenting with brushes.

I don't quite know what I wanted with that rock, but this ain't it. It will get better with more practice.

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Here's the latest prompts:

This was supposed to be a makeshift kettle, but ended up more of a drink dispenser:

Fantasy instrument:

Not really a prompt, I just wanted to draw a weapon. Mechanical objects with clear lines are hard.

Fairy mushroom village:

A very rough sketch of a ratfolk alchemist. Might use it in a campaign someday. The players won't know what hit them.

[eleonora.aurelia.gueli]

I loved the rat! Please keep up the good work!

[daria.matejczyk]

Hi there, I don't check the forum that much so I missed your reply. I'm happy you liked it!

Some more prompts this month.

An arcade-style game:

(That was too many layers to work with )

Mushroom fairy:

Under the sea (shadows not found )

I also tried to dabble in trad art. I only have graphite pencils and charcoal right now.

More faeries and their daily struggles:

Perfectly normal bookstore ad float:

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Tried to draw a landscape. I don't quite know how to shape river banks.

Flying on a paper plane:

Tried my hand at hatching for shading:

I got a new tablet (Huion Kamvas 13) and trying to get used to it.

...That thumb might be broken.

Cozy:

[cedricgo]

Hi! You're doing good! It's nice that you also seem to be able to point out certain things that you think don't work. That's something that will definitely help you improve. So keep on drawing!

[daria.matejczyk]

Thank you for your kind words, I certainly will!

Drawing pine branches kinda feels like cheating, it's too easy. Plus derpy birds

And speaking of birds:

This started as a simple clouds drawing, but it seemed a little too empty.

Some more environments in trad. The persepctive of the pavement sort of lost me. But it was rushed, so yeah.

My attempt at action scenes. I changed the pose several times. It's still not great, but either we win, or we learn.

An attempt in ink:

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I saw a cloud formation the other day. It looked like a pack of wolves running away from something big. So I drew it.

Some more experimenting with brushes:

And a few recent prompts.

A cat dragon:

A circus element, but make it creepy:

A plant creature:

It's using human clothes to better blend in, but has no eyes, so it can't see color.

Warfare, but with rats:

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I haven't posted here in a while. Turns out, I'm not that good at keeping an art blog as my accountability buddy.

Seeing how it's the end of 2023, might try and sum up my art journey so far.

• January - I was doing the 30 days drawing challenge on my tiny Wacom tablet. I struggled so much >_< Still, it was something - 30 days of uninterrupted drawing.

• February - Somewhere around here I started the "1 year drawing" challenge. Although I got only to month 3 or 4, before I dropped it completely due to conflicting schedules. I did learn something about perspective and basics of gesture drawing.

• March - I started the ART School program. I did get through about half of term 1, but then put it on hiatus. I do intend to finish it one day, but it might have to wait. I still see some merit to it - it's a very sprawling program, with a lot to teach. I just found it not that good for complete beginners like me. If I can't even draw a straight line, what am I even doing here? I do realize that my tiny tablet was a part of the problem, but still.

• April - I started Drawabox (still ongoing ). And as part of its dreaded 50% rule, I started drawing for the sake of it. It was rough, for sure, but it got me to experiment with brushes, topics and techniques.

• May - experimenting continues, and I'm slowly trying to incorporate my favorite topics into my art.

• June - my art got noticeably less scratchy. Only took 6 months or so.

• July - I bought a new tablet, Huion Kamvas 13. It felt like learning how to do digital art all over again. But it's so much easier overall when I can see my hands.

• August - I tried to focus a little more on the traditional art.

• September - experimenting continues, this time with shading and reflections. I am still not doing any other art courses than DaB.

• October - Inktober time! While I failed to do all 31 days, I still tried to participate as much as I was able.

• November - I finally got some colored pencils. Still mostly working in trad. Even with a better tablet, trad is just much easier.

• December - I fell out of practice a little when it comes to figure drawing, but that's okay.

In the coming year, I hope to be able to finish Drawabox. After that, who knows? I got ART School on ice, might go back to it.

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I started learning how to draw with the goal of one day being able to create my own NPC portraits for a D&D game I was planning to run. And... didn't do a whole lot of that until last December. I'm mostly going off of an old DnD-cember list to generate ideas for characters.

Kenku monk:

Drow cleric:

Elf ranger (patiently waiting for his favored enemy to appear):

Bonus:

My character (changeling thaumaturge) from the PF2 campaign I'm currently playing in, reading a perfectly harmless book:

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This month was mostly in trad. I did some digital drawings, but nothing to write home about.

Some characters from my previous games:

Lilith the Cleaner, a tiefling slayer. She was using a sword cane as her preferred choice of weapon.

Shirin Mistwalker, a skinwalker hunter and her lynx companion, Blue:

And some characters I haven't used in any games yet:

Half-elf monk:

Centaur druid:

I need to work more on body proportions. And get better at taking good pictures that don't distort my drawings.

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I drew a sketch of this Totoro, then I went to do lineart. And -then- I realized I did the whole lineart on the sketch layer.

Here's another character from an RPG campaign I played a while back. Qemri the Firebrand, the only explicitly evil character I made, here seen burning down a warehouse for no particular reason. The warehouse was unoccupied by then.

Another Promptathon went and passed. This one was pet themed. These are my favorite pieces:

A coat designed after a tortie cat's patterns:

Said tortie drawn as a medieval queen:

Her brother, commiting a crime as usual:

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I messed up the shading on that palm, because it looked too metallic, so I doubled-down and made an alien landscape

Messing around with animal generator may not have been a good idea. But it was fun to combine various parts into an abomination.

More Pathfinder characters, an elf mesmerist. That thing in his hand is a hypnotic pendulum, because I don't know enough about drawing facial expressions to depict a gaze attack.

A little fantasy weapon design:

I had fun making the mosaic. It's unfinished, it still needs colors, but I kinda like how it looks now.

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This post is a little later than usual, because I forgot to upload last week.

The prompt was, a fan that unfolds to a picture of a cat. So I drew one of mine.

Something I drew for the Revenge of the 6th. From memory. So it's Wish-level Star Wars now.

This prompt was "elven diplomat/envoy with a book or a scroll". The face turned out decent, somehow. The hands... not so much.

This was supposed to be a completely different drawing. But I messed up the initial angle of the character, and instead of redrawing it, as may be sensible, I just kept adding stuff until a pose emerged. And I liked the energy of it. The flag is not really representing anything, it's just there.

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A sketch of an OC from a story I might one day finish writing. I kinda want to ink it, but I'm scared that I'll mess it up. Might just redraw it later.

Another OC from the same story.

A somewhat unrelated building. I might incorporate it into the story, but I'm not sure.

And now for something completely different. Willy Wonka as a chemist.

A unicorn had to get a job at a farm.

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I just realized the cast shadow of this thing should probably be in different direction.
As for what it's supposed to be? A ghost of sorts, except completely solid.

Some more world building. This crest was (re)designed based on its written description.
And around it are different variants I tried along with the canon design, which I sort of disagree with because I think it looks goofy.

Everybody needs a hobby.

Apologies for the quality, I swear this is actually better visible IRL.

This is my first ever D&D character. And yes, she is supposed to have no visible eyes. They are glowing as it's a feature from her prestige class.

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This month's theme was Star Wars. No particular reason.

A lightsaber, katana-style:

A Jedi temple statue:

A Sith temple:

And with that, I finished my first sketchbook.
My new sketchbook doesn't have the ring binder, which is pretty handy, I've got to admit.

An amulet of fire protection: