But anyways, sorry that I've been out of the loop again. I had a few weeks where I just didn't feel like drawing at all but eventually I got into the jist again.
This first one is a drawing of my character from one of the RPGs I'm in. She's actually sorta elven-ish, but that's not so apparent in this picture because she has some human blood in her too. She covers her ears with a knit hat.
If I did this drawing again, I think I would have done more detail on the hair and maybe the facial features. I also wish I could have made her look younger, but in the reference I was using she looked to be about her late twenties. My character is supposed to be 18 so it was pretty hard. But the main focus here was just to make it look realistic instead of cartoonish. I wanted to so badly change into my anime style because she didn't look young enough. But I love the knit hat.
The rest of these are going to be pretty sketchy because they're from the Life Drawing panel I went to at Otakon this year. I think I got a lot out of it. We sketched for two hours: 30 second sketching, 1 minute sketching, 5 minute sketching, 10 minute sketching, 15 minute sketching, and then one 30 minute sketching. It was real difficult.
Forgive me for the quality btw. I'm bad with scanning.
This is the 30 second drawing I did. or well, drawings. We did a lot of 30 second ones. They were frustrating but the curves and lines I got on some of these are actually pretty awesome, in my own opinion. I think I got a lot out of these. I'm so lucky they had this panel; the demonstrators were awesome.
These are the one minute drawings. I like the middle one and the one on the center right, although it kinda got overlapped by the other one. Oh well. These were fun to do. I wrote some notes for myself near the bottom left. There was a webcomic artist there that gave us advice on how to draw the figure.
These are all the 5 minute drawings that I did. One of them's cut off though (obviously). It was hard for me to learn to draw boxes and shapes for the head and chest and such instead of drawing the outline curves which I'm so drawn to as a beginning artist, I guess. In my later drawings here I hope it's noticeable that I started drawing shapes beforehand and worked on the curves later.
These are my fifteen minute sketches. I remember the feet being a pain for me to do on the first one. I couldn't see close enough I think. On the second one, the head is where I had the most problems with. Ugh, these scanned came out really bad, I'm sorry. D:
This piece I'm really happy with. Yeah the faces suck, but those were hard figures to draw. I used shapes in the beginning, like triangles, squares, uhh, polygons...to get a feel for where I wanted them, and then I worked on the curves afterwards, and this is how it came out.
Now to use those art books, get some supplies to finish the chapters in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and start painting and coloring my penciled work.
