Didnt have a lot of time or brain power today, but I did some Yoh Yashinari studies. I think these are from one of his sketchbooks?
Really liked how they turned out, but I just had a lot on my mind. Tomorrow mom's getting a dr's report on her body scan. Just one of those things i cant control. I hate it.
good studies though.
Trying to understand the basic shapes of the human figure.
First time in a long while I finished one of these.
I dont know how good of a job I did. But im just trying to learn what I can. Follow the fun. FOLLOW THE FUn.
Speaking of following the fun. I opened my resource folder and randomly picked something to draw. Found these monster girls and tried to redraw them.
Really really happy with how they turned out! These were Disgea characters. Im really happy. Trying to see the shapes. Trying to see the anatomy. Trying to have fun with it.
Good studies.
I tried doing this "Class" option on this new Line of Action website
It starts with fast gestures then slowly builds up into longer and longer.
I think the first few were 30 seconds then it slowly ramps up to 10 min.
I almost feel as though my time would be better spent doing anatomy studies during my "study" time. I kind of have an idea for a few things but I need to really have a nice refresher.
Next few were just free sketches.
First one was pretty basic. 2nd one. man i really like the 2nd one. I had a lot of fun with that one. I have a lot of different characters and species in my stories. I might explore this concept further in the future. Then the 3rd iw as trying to do some crazy foreshortening. I hate foreshortening. But I've never really done it so... might as well start somewhere.
So I went and did some perspective work.
Just some simple stuff.
I tried doing the same set of blocks in slightly different angles. not sure how well i pulled it off but hey.
Random anime face:
I hate how it still feels like I have so much more to learn. But ... I guess it will be ok. I had a lot of fun with todays character doodles. and even kind of enjoyed the perspective work I did. I'm still shaking off a bit of mental rust i think. But we'll see what happens.
good session.
Trying to shift my focus a bit to just have fun with the entire art thing again.
Not so much focused only on the "Study" part of it all, but rather just enjoying the process. Having fun with characters and stories and. I feel somewhere along the way I lost that. I was always really good about that, even in the study aspect, but something changed over the years.
A small mental shift. Instead of thinking about "tools" why not "toys"? It's an idea I have always had when thinking about game design stuff. Why not in all areas of art? Why cant everything be toys not tools?
Anyway, here's the pictures from the night.
Ran through pinterest and used that for inspiration for all these.
I've began uploading all the art I have created since 2018.
I spent the entire night combing through my own personal files to get them all posted here. After only managing to get up to 2019 uploaded I thought I would look at the raw files just to see what was going on there.
Turns out I have tons of unrendered studies and drawings that I just never saved out as pngs. This is both great and annoying at the same time. I think it will be fun to go back and render all these out to upload to the blog, but that only means it will take much much longer to fully get things up to date on here. So here's the plan:
My personal collection of drawings has ALWAYS been a mess. And even moreso after I started streaming. So I want to do this right. I want to properly organize all my personal collection of art files. This is actually a massive task that will take an incredible amount of time and I dont want this bog to "live in the past" while I work on getting all that updated. And i dont want to put all my personal projects on hold to update 3 years of posts on here. So I'm going to be working on the backlog of this blog as a side thing.
I'll be posting all old art on the correct date with as much information as I can remember from the time. Bad thing about posting art 3 years late is that you forget a lot of the context... 😆
As for modern work, I'll just pick up with my more recent stuff and we'll just go from there.
Everything uploaded with a " ~ " in the title is part of this. Past work that I might not have full context for everything uploaded but wanted to share it anyway.
So that's the plan for now.
Yoruichi Shihouin from the bleach!
Not super feeling how this one turned out. But hey. Not the worst thing in the planet right?
