First, have a comic page:
I wonder if I can make that (“anything sequential art”) a regular thing, like with the microfiction. I really wish I could loosen up and not get lost in details too much.
Then, have some other stuff:
Well, what with cold and otherwise induced brainfog, this was a dead month, blogging-wise. Let’s start the next one off, then.
I’m way more proud than I should be about finishing the Zodiac Chickens series. If you want to see all on one view, try the “Zodiac” tag.
Insect Photos:
Stag beetles are supposedly very rare, yet we keep finding them in our garden. I think it’s because our family tends to leave treestumps in the earth; the beetles’ larvae feed on rotting wood.
Flowers and other Nature stuff:
And some old-ish buildings:
I’m still not drawing much, but here’s the crop from last month:
I had some technical problems, and all older links are broken now. The following pictures aren’t in easy-to-click-through order, either, but here’s stuff I haven’t shown yet, anyway:
…before I forget it entirely.
I’m currently somewhat stressed with studies, will try to post more interesting things soon-ish.
Some images from the end of last year, some done (or at least finished) this year.
And a few worldbuilding-realted rough sketches.
Kinda overdue, that.
First, stuff drawn for other people:
There’ll be at least 3 more coming until the end of the year, hopefully.
The Coffee Bird card is already for sale in my Etsy shop, and I’ll add the Panda cards later today or tomorrow.
Sometimes, it takes some additional input to understand advice.
One thing is the “draw lines with one long stroke, not by adding up lots of smaller lines” one. I never understood how that would be possible, until I came across advice on how to improve your handwriting saying you should use your shoulder and back muscles, not your wrist and fingers for writing. Doesn’t mean I can magically DO it, but at least I have some idea of what I might try to learn.
Another are the scribble pictures. I remember doing those in art class back at school. Here’s the idea:
You scribble random loops and lines on a piece of paper
Then you look at it, and turn it into an image of whatever you happen to see in it.
I thought the idea was drawing over the lines as they were on the paper, so mostly I ended up with blobby rubbish, like snakes without heads, three-story mushrooms, or faces like this one:
Then I came across a tutorial at deviantart, which is not safe for work due to nudity, and looking at the example… You could add stuff. You could turn a circle into a face, or a hand. Yeah, I see how that might actually be fun, rather than frustrating, and result in more interesting images.
Here's the original scribble; lines darkened digitally to make sure they show up; actually I use very light pencil lines. I also turned the sheet around a bit until I spotted something...
I saw a head and a wing, and went from that...
Added feet and tail and refined some details. Would look better if I traced it on a clean sheet in ink, but I'll leave it as the little warmup practise it is.
I guess that’s a good time to upload some of the more interesting results of those warmup-practises.
The following four are other sketches, from my figure drawing class, and people who want to avoid nudity should avoid those.
I haven’t been drawing much lately, but what I’ve been drawing has been quite a change of pace – characters, both belonging to others and my own.
I’d like to put some more different species of more or less my own creation on paper, too. We’ll see about that.
Here’s stuff I drew this week, mostly Daily Drawing prompts.
I also noticed that when you access the gallery embedded into wordpress, the loading time for each site just about doubles; I’ll see if I can do anything about that. :/
