Sarenji
leaf-faced
In sum: I am a horrible artist. But I've made a goal to become a great one.
I started out doing 30-minute speed sketches a day, but that turned out to be non-sustainable (I have a full-time job). But, hopefully, I'll continue drawing for an average of an hour a day for the next couple months, maybe years.
This thread is also a little kick so I don't stop drawing until it becomes habit.
I took inspiration from a dude who drew every day for ten years. Look at the first page. Then the last few pages. It's pretty rad. If he can do it, I sure as hell can too.
My eventual goal is to become better than yosinori. Hey, when you can dream, dream big.
Requests are welcome. Critique is better, because I'm basically doing deliberate practice without a teacher. (If you wanna teach me, contact me!)
I don't have a scanner so I can't show you any of my pencilwork. Sorry!
DAY 1 — Jan. 23, 2012
Reflections: I need work on stroke and consistent lines. All my lines look very shaky. I need to improve in pretty much everything.
DAY 2 — Jan. 24, 2012
Reflections: Got a little better with lines, I guess. I spend way too much time getting lines right. Hopefully it gets easier as you go on?
DAY 3 — Jan. 25, 2012
Reflections: I like being sketchy but there's something missing and I can't put my finger on it. Also, I have no idea how to make rocky textures/forest backgrounds. Also, I really need to practice hands.
DAY 4-5 — Jan. 26-27, 2012
Reflections: Oops. Come home from work less tired or take a nap!
DAY 6 — Jan. 28, 2012
Reflections: I need to practice more realistic women. Overall I'm happy with how I've improved, but there's definitely a long way to go. The lines still look sloppy and I can't put my finger on what looks wrong with my hand. Possibly because my finger is attached to my hand.
DAY 7
Reflections: A different brush can really hide my flaws in drawing, which could also be a bad thing.
I need to keep proportion better. Anything I can do to help with that?
I tried sketching then sketching again over that - it takes longer obviously but I think it's helped.
(Feminine) Mienshao (Ritter)
In general I tried making a new pose with lots of curves.
More hand studies/anatomy
Rorona Zoro + Gallade (PKGaming)
1 hour I think? Zoro's face needs to be rounder.
DAY I'M TOO LAZY TO FIGURE OUT THE DAYS ANYMORE
My hand is pretty tired from all this sketching. I tried one of those 1 hour long "lessons" in wick's link which turned out just to be several 30-second figures then 1-minute then 5/10/30. You can pretty much tell which is which.
[hide='Cute' Purugly. Cat/animal anatomy is something to work on! (For Ritter)]
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DAY 27
DAY WHATEVERS
wip for above (i actually like the eyes/face better here...)
INTERVAL OF TIME AS I FRANTICALLY LOOKED FOR A PLACE TO LIVE
My game!
I started out doing 30-minute speed sketches a day, but that turned out to be non-sustainable (I have a full-time job). But, hopefully, I'll continue drawing for an average of an hour a day for the next couple months, maybe years.
This thread is also a little kick so I don't stop drawing until it becomes habit.
I took inspiration from a dude who drew every day for ten years. Look at the first page. Then the last few pages. It's pretty rad. If he can do it, I sure as hell can too.
My eventual goal is to become better than yosinori. Hey, when you can dream, dream big.
Requests are welcome. Critique is better, because I'm basically doing deliberate practice without a teacher. (If you wanna teach me, contact me!)
I don't have a scanner so I can't show you any of my pencilwork. Sorry!
DAY 1 — Jan. 23, 2012
Reflections: I need work on stroke and consistent lines. All my lines look very shaky. I need to improve in pretty much everything.
DAY 2 — Jan. 24, 2012
Reflections: Got a little better with lines, I guess. I spend way too much time getting lines right. Hopefully it gets easier as you go on?
DAY 3 — Jan. 25, 2012
Reflections: I like being sketchy but there's something missing and I can't put my finger on it. Also, I have no idea how to make rocky textures/forest backgrounds. Also, I really need to practice hands.
DAY 4-5 — Jan. 26-27, 2012
Reflections: Oops. Come home from work less tired or take a nap!
DAY 6 — Jan. 28, 2012
Reflections: I need to practice more realistic women. Overall I'm happy with how I've improved, but there's definitely a long way to go. The lines still look sloppy and I can't put my finger on what looks wrong with my hand. Possibly because my finger is attached to my hand.
DAY 7
Reflections: A different brush can really hide my flaws in drawing, which could also be a bad thing.
I need to keep proportion better. Anything I can do to help with that?
I tried sketching then sketching again over that - it takes longer obviously but I think it's helped.
(Feminine) Mienshao (Ritter)
In general I tried making a new pose with lots of curves.
More hand studies/anatomy
Rorona Zoro + Gallade (PKGaming)
1 hour I think? Zoro's face needs to be rounder.
DAY I'M TOO LAZY TO FIGURE OUT THE DAYS ANYMORE
My hand is pretty tired from all this sketching. I tried one of those 1 hour long "lessons" in wick's link which turned out just to be several 30-second figures then 1-minute then 5/10/30. You can pretty much tell which is which.
[hide='Cute' Purugly. Cat/animal anatomy is something to work on! (For Ritter)]
DAY 27
DAY WHATEVERS
wip for above (i actually like the eyes/face better here...)
INTERVAL OF TIME AS I FRANTICALLY LOOKED FOR A PLACE TO LIVE
My game!