23?

Um i dunno how this happened but apparently i have 23 posts? and that cannot do. this si just to straighten them out.

i really... i have not been doing anything lately art-wise. i've been sketching as usual in my books, but digitally i have nothing new. I shud probably try colouring some of these sketches that i have here, and i have a couple.

Pocket full of Poses

I've been looking for some pose references on dA. currently have the same set of like eight poses i use over and over again, and that ain't too good for composition purposes.

meet laro-laro on dA, an awesome awesome artist, and who I am currently getting poses from.

Missed a day

I literally have nothing new to report.

Um new irl sketches? I'm trying to practice drawing bigger.

Double

I haven't been watching it lately no.

I'm about to do a ton-load of sketches. Subsequently, I'm trying to learn how to DRAW BIGGER. I DRAW TINY AS HELL. and i'm getting there, i'm getting there.

Self Portrait

I just finished a sketch for a self portrait due for school tomorrow. I notice I get a lot of sketch practice in... but only to a specific extent.

I mean I'm constantly doing character sketches. really freakin tiny character sketches, yet I very rarely do like still-life or anatomy sketches. I wonder how I expect to magically get better? I'm sure it'll be spectacularly far-fetched. I'm always preaching about the character designing process, yet I can just barely draw. You know what I do? Cartoons. And that's it.

Not saying cartooning is not significant. It's just I don't really branch out and that's where a lumberjack comes and cuts me down for paper. I can draw anime though. And I can kind of draw like Danny Antonucci. but I actually haven't tried to do it in a long time.

I need to remember to do more sketches of things & people. I need a better grasp of light.

I mean look at this...

This is some watercolour painting practice by a dude named NAN0jam on dA. This guy is one of those examples of people I want to draw like. He is incredible at inking, his stylization is exceptional, everything's sharp and clean, yet soft things still retain softness. AND HE CAN PAINT TOO...

sigh. day-by-day man.

School stuff

Just telling ya'll if I forget to update plz don't hunt me down. School is getting hectic so I have to prioritize.

Artistically Inactive at the moment

Um. I haven't really been working on the sketch page lately. I think I'll probably start back on the weekend.

Due to me actually doing work, it may be possible that I may only be able to do big pieces on the weekend. If so, it is my responsibility to you the reader that I produce enough content on the weekends to last through the following week.

Since I did a style revamp of one of my old OCs entitled "Ghost" which I'm considering renaming as "Paranormal" not sure... But yeah, since then I have been redesigning characters previously considered complete and perfect. The main drastic difference in design is the inclusion of mouths, creating a semi-complete face.

What had actually happened was that I reached a point in my art where I realized that I need to be able to convey the emotions of my characters better. In what they do and how they speak yes, but also how they look. They all originally had only eyes, and with only eyes and eyebrows it was difficult to display a character's emotions.

So for sake of expression, and to add to the versatility in designing characters, I gave them mouths. Now whereas with before where one could say that this person and that person look alike cuz they have the same eyes, now you have NO EXCUSE.