Monthly scraps - December 2016

Scraps - part... whatever

At the beginning of the month I was into perspective and all.

I grabbed a pencil and started constructing buildings and stuff. I was doing this for a week or so, and then I jumped into the Krita, and it didn't work out.

I mean I lost fate in my own brain activity after I shifted the bell tower in the wrong direction. Twice.

she's so hot she ain't need no worm clothes to fight a gang of penguins in snow blizzard... or something. 

embracing anime-ish vibe

I had no idea how to draw snakes, so I needed some "studies". More like visual notes really.

It wasn't suppose to look good. 

smoking -self-explanatory really

after Leyendecker studies I wanted to recap knowledge I acquired so I started this.

That's all for now,

So long

Masterstudies of Leyendecker

I did a studies of one of the Arrow Collar Man illustrations made by Joseph Christian Leyendecker. 

Not entire illustration 'tho. The full illustration shows 2 man sitting in a room. One of them is holding a golf club and the other one have smoking pipe in his hand - and that's how you'll find it.

I painted just a small piece of that.

I painted this small because I didn't want to focus on details.

All I was using is hard round and soft round brush.

When it comes to colours I have that problem they look fake so the goal was to learn how to make something look alive.

Another things I got hint of was how to outline things, how to do rim-lights, and how to make work with as few strokes as you can.

I mean I still know shit about all of that ^^, but now, at least, I know the direction.

That's it for now,

So long

Herbie, speedpainting | December 2016

Do you know that Herbie from those movies? like with that old Volkswagen Beetle? 

So I went into DrawCrawd and I saw that the challenge of the day is "cars".

My brain instantly popped out that transformer-Herbie kind of stuff... 

Like no thinking at all.

I sat my myself over the tablet and made use out of that.

And here's the process.

If you find yourself looking at a picture and thinking "that doesn't work, but it took me some time and I don't know if I can do that again so I won't scrap it" -

STOP

C'mon! You did that once, you'll be able to pull that out again and this time it'll take you even less time, because you know what mistakes to not make.

It's a speed paint made in one sitting. 

That's it.

So long

Shooting Target Knight

#HeroPetChallenge

Piece made for #HeroPetChallenge

Albert and his penguin Arthur... or something.

Oh boy, that was fun to draw :D

Here's full pic

and...

So yeah... I'm uploading process here now, and I'll update the text as soon as it's possible :D

So long

Self-portrait 2.0

Year ago I did  portrait studies. Everything was off. 

Now it's off, but slightly better.

I started by blocking out basic shapes like beard, eye sockets, beard, hair and beard.

Then on top of that I sketched indication of facial features, and then I looked into the mirror...

When you draw with pencil you don't have that luxury of moving and twisting, erasing and redrawing all these mistakes...

In digital drawing in the other hand it's not a problem, tho you may not have all the control over the line quality and precision that you have got with pencil.

Trade-offs...

Any way I figured out that I've fucked up the placement of facial features, so I just cut them of, moved where I needed them and then I started painting with colours.

The rest of the process is just softening edges that need to be soft, placing hard edges where you need them sharp, and continuous battle with dull, muddy colours.

During that process I was constantly checking my values in B&W mode. I know that at this point my values may be off but I don't want to push myself too hard. 

Just hard enough to progress. 

I don't want to put more effort into that than I've put a year ago either. 

I'm just using that entire self-portrait thing to evaluate my current level of painting skill. 

I'll try to make that an annual thing.

That's self-portrait potato from last year for a comparison

And here you can find entire process... If you want.

So long

Anime_something_something

^^ I named original file like that and well...

When I'm exporting step-by-step pics I have that tendency of calling them with the first letters of whatever words I've used in the original name.

For example exports for Cell_shaded_01 would sound something like "CS_export_01.png", "CS_export_02.png" and so on and on... 

That name may cause some confusion...

Any ways - I kind of pushed myself once again a bit further than I was...

I've never rendered clothes (wasn't event drawing them that much - really :D), wet surfaces.

Never made full illustration. Never drawn properly looking hands... 

Basically 70% of what you see here I did for the first time and I failed. 

I mean not tremendously, but failed. 

Every time my friend was pointing out a defect in my piece, I was like "eh... artistic liberties", "too hard" or "I'll fix it later" but I didn't.

It's not that I don't want to fix these mistakes. I rather draw something from scratch than fix something that I was working on for last 6 hours...

I can scrap things I know I can redraw in no time but stuff I don't know how to draw... that's another story.

Now I at least know on what I should focus more.

But let's talk about something that happened rather than something that didn't - shall we?

I knew I wanted to do something that resembles images of people like Marc Brunet, WLOP, Evan Lee or Saejin Oh.

Especially Saejin Oh. 

^^made her butt a bit too big (I mean that's what my friend said :D) so I toned it down.

I know that I know nothing about drawing torso(all these diagonal torso muscles), so even if I knew that none of these muscles will be visible later on, I decided to sketch them just for the sake of practice. 

I do that from time to time.

^^That's the typical for me manifestation of frustration

I started with B&W values and blocked out composition.

Then I started the refinement process and of course forgot about making all that step by step mambo-jambo.

^^If you're not sure what to do try making some notes about what you want to achieve or at least what you don't want.

You can always change your mind half way through as I did.

And yup - my writing is that terrible.

So long.