Snakker's sketchbook - My Art Journey

[daceronine]

I think I'll also eventually need to work a bit more on physical, but I'm also used to all the digital features it's gona be a rough adjustment. Other than ctrl+z, last time I tried it I was constantly trying to flip, zoom or click on my pencil to enable eraser.

Muscle memory is quite something.

What paper is that though? it's very... yellow and has a lot of texture to it.

[snakker]

haha XD it's actually normal bond paper, I used the old paper filter on adobe scan on my phone to pimp it up

[gregorya]

The way I go about it for now is to make a palette first for highlights, mids, shadows, and some variants, then compare it to the image and modify it if I'm very off

I see.

What I do keep in mind a lot is getting the values about right and thinking of warmth/saturation in shadows/giving a hint of the light source in highlights and getting some sort of complementary color or contrast to the background to make it pop

I see. So it helps to make sure the shadows and light complement each other.
I don't know who Gurney is. Is that James Gurney, or someone else?

The pose looks good. the left arm holding the hammer looks a little wider toward the hand. And I think the lips look a little too big.

[snakker]

Heheh yeah, that face came out horrible tbh XD. And yes, James Gurney, the dinotopia guy. A big inspiration for me and he teaches really good stuff!

[mitsuki-youko]

XD it's terrible not having ctrl-Z

haahaha omg yes

it came out not too bad for someone who can't use ctrl z mine have come out way worse loool

[snakker]

no filters XD
Pencil sketch HB

cheers

[snakker]

Sketch in graphite HB

I gotta get some sleep it's getting late!

cheers!

Edit: it's so hard to take a good picture of graphite on paper in the middle of the night XD. Here's another attempt. K I'm out, night everyone

[Pattu_w]

Dahm, the values/contrast on this one and the hatching was really well applied, impressive stuff!

[daceronine]

Oy there's some impressive improvement there. My guess is you're just getting used to the medium. That last one looks great!

[alix28]

This pose is super dynamic, and you pulled it off really well! Also your pencil work looks really nice!

[snakker]

@Pattu_w @daceronine @alix28 thank you! And yeah, it’s definitely the adjustment to a new medium. And think in the past i didn’t give the pencil enough love, nowadays theres a certain badass indie vibe I get from graphite. It’s such a simple tool but very powerful, i love the sort of freeing feeling of working on a physical canvas and it’s nice to see how all I am learning in the art course is transferring to my ability to draw stuff with a pencil

Cheers

[gregorya]

Nice work on the sketch. The shading is very good.

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh this looks super good!! esp since its traditional

[snakker]

Thanks! @mitsuki-youko @gregorya

Barely had time for a portrait study, it's full of mistakes XD Oh well, was still fun and it's way too late to fix right now, off to bed

cheers!

[daceronine]

That looks good man. As you said there's a few points to correct, like the right part of the face and eye being a bit skewed, but overall it looks really nice. Seeing you work on physical makes me wanna try it too. Maybe once I get more bandwith I'll give it a go.

[snakker]

Haha I swear my brain was like, where’s my liquefy tool? XD

[gregorya]

Your portrait study looks good. The right eye does look a bit off to me.

[garrok.dev]

looks great ! Is it the actress from ex machina ?

[jasminerosepowell]

hoenstly that's so good! drawing traditionally is so hard

[snakker]

Hey everyone, been busy on a derma tour and now travelling again. Managed to make this mid flight sketch, man it can be hard to draw in those airplane seats 😅

Cheers!