Pokemon Challenge Wartortle #8

WARTORTLE!

What an odd pokemon.  Never been a huge fan of Wartortle.  It was always just a bit odd to me.  I can respect em though.  <3

With this design I tried a pose from memory and no reference again.  Again I'm pretty surprised with how it turned out.  Not without it's flaws of-course but that's nothing that future studies cant fix.  I had noticed a habit of mine to place the torso in a forward 2/3rds rotation sometimes facing upward a bit.  This time I tried changing it up a bit by having her face left and facing down just a little.  Not too bad.  I also think that I'm getting a better understanding on how legs work.  For the longest time they were a mystery to me but now after many hours of studying them I think i finally understand them a bit.

I want to talk more about health and stuff but im actually really tired so i'll do it next time xP

Pokemon Challenge Squirtle #7

Squirtle!

I kept getting hung up on this one for a number of reasons but for some reason i got hung up on the head the most.  I need to not do that, dont get hung up ahh just do it!!  Sitting around being confused is worse than just moving on.  Always move on.  Always keep moving.  Always keep training.  Also turn off distractions.  Need to take my own advice.  It's ok though.

Pokemon Challenge Meowstic #678

Meowstic!

This one was a little interesting.  Again, i chose the random pokemon thing and got Meowstic.  At first I was really intimidated about taking on this character.  Not exactly sure why.  I noticed i have a bit of trouble trying to draw characters I really like.  I can't quite understand it, but it is a hurdle none the less.  A hurdle that I think I smashed this time around!  I kept working with her proportions and tweaking things till I got things looking decent.  On the pose, I decided to just go with the same pose as Meowstic.  I wanted to see if I could get the human form in that pose without any additional reference.  Think I did pretty good and feel genuinely proud of this one. 

It's starting to feel like all those studies I've been doing are really paying off.  At least in a small way.  I'll have to return to more rigorous studies.  I'm starting to really crave the knowledge.  and this excites me.  I need to dive into a hefty bowl of tutorials and go nuts!

MORE TRAINING!

July 19, 2015 - HUGE Blog update Notice

Finally getting around to updating this blog.  Things have been pretty quiet around here but that doesn't mean i haven't been drawing!  I will be using the blog's schedule thing to post things on the correct date. so anything after April 7, 2015 to this date was put in just recently.  I may not remember all the details on the particular studies so pardon the absence of info on some.

Edit::  UPDATE COMPLETE!

Tons of new things that I've done.  I wasn't expecting it to literally take all night.  Then again I wasn't expecting to work on it all night.  I was honestly surprised how much I had drawn between now and the last update.  For some reason I thought it was way less than it actually was.  That's pretty awesome.

Anyway, everything but 2 pictures fit where it was supposed to after April 7th.  I found 2 pictures I hadn't uploaded from March that can be found Here


There will also be a few things changing here on the blog.

Titles
The title will change from a "Date" to "Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc."

Challenge Posts
Challenges have become super fun for me to do so I've decided those entries will now get their own post to help keep things organized.  With a challenge "Master Post"

Regular Uploads
Now that things are finally settled in personal life land, let's try to get the daily studies back again!  While I think I'm in a pretty feel good mood right now, I would actually like to try another challenge like the 1000 drawing in 1 week challenge.  If i can get back to that level...  OH MAN!

Nightly Art Streams?
This isn't final yet and I'm still not sure if I want to do it, but I've been thinking about doing a nightly art stream.  It will probably be nothing too fancy and will likely not have a mic.  But hey we'll see.  I'm just thinking out loud with that post.

That's all i can think of for now. I'm way tired.  Off to bed.

July 18, 2015 - Pokemon Challenge Charizard #6

Charizard

How do you make a pokemon any more epic than Carmeleon?  I dunno, turn it around and have it reach for the stars?  Haha. I decided on this pose because I wanted something a little different.  I'm not sure how well it turned out as far as pokemon go, BUTT I think it turned out pretty great (see what I did there?)

I really like how I was able to pull out the basic shapes of the pokemon Charizard.  I tried to reconstruct it  with those shapes and forms and it worked surprisingly well.  I think as far as the actual pokemon go I'm just gonna focus on trying to figure out the basic shapes and forms of the character and perhaps less so on making a unique pose for them.  Maybe a little bit of both?  I dunno.  I'm not setting any hard rules for this challenge other than the wanting to draw the monster girl pokemon and the actual pokemon.  So we'll see where we go in the future.

July 18, 2015 - Pokemon Challenge Charmeleon #5

Charmeleon

Wasn't entirely sure how I was gonna do this one.  Charmeleon is a but edgier than charmander so I wanted a bit of that to show through.  I originally had her with her arms crossed but I ended up changing it because I felt it took away from her unique arm design so I uncrossed them.  I think it got the full effect either way.  Another one I'm pretty pleased with.  I'm still focusing on learning forms and such.

Here is the original pose.

I would have likely went with this pose but like I said.  I think it took away from the unique arm design for charmeleon.  Something that I think kinda sets it apart from Charmander.  Along with the head shape of-course.

July 18, 2015 - Pokemon Challenge Charmander #4

Charmander!

Charmander turned out pretty freakin adorable.  I got hung up on whether or not I should give her hair.  I decided to because why not?  Shouldn't get hung up on tiny details, just gotta try it to see if it works.  If it doesn't then take it off!  Which is what I did with her clothes.  But it's fine.  She's a pokemon calm down.
I only think her face could use a bit of work.  It looks a bit too "default charmander" for my liking.  but other than that im pretty pleased with the end result.