the duality of man

You know, I spend my day with two trains of thought. One being "wow I actually don't go outside and draw anime girls", and the other, "ah yes this person's art is so good I cannot wait to never make anything like it".

Well, maybe just the first one. I don't feel all that bad about my art, but my occupation-less lifestyle is another story. Actually when I make anything that looks good in my eyes, I don't really feel satisfied, rather I don't feel embarrassed like I would when I make something awful to look at, which is uncommon so that alone feels better.

For instance the anime girl in this post, yeah, I know it's bad, I don't like it either, but it is designed entirely based off my own model. I didn't use reference and I know I can draw that in every angle that isn't hyper foreshortened, would I read a manga or watch an anime with this artstyle? No, but I took a look at my drawings from January and I've got to say, I can't believe I considered myself good at that point, it's hilarious. And just from a couple weeks recently of drawing in the anime style, I think I've gotten way better than I was before. I know what I need to work on, but it will take a couple more weeks.

Also, the image below is a homework assignment for my composition class. The original image is a Sargent piece, Breakfast in the Loggia. Had to identify compositional elements like line, mass, and form, and each are on their own layer in the psd. The form shapes are the brightest value, while the value masses are grouped with the other two values. Really made me appreciate the work he put in for the composition, the original is very pleasing for me to look at now.

Still at the drawing board

 

Sorry guys, I still cannot share what I have been working on recently. Rest assured I am working on it and making progress though. Also, her eye kinda looks like an egg yolk.

animu style

 

 

I don't know how to draw anime style yet but that is what I am currently working on.

some hampton studying

 

It's that time of the year again, refreshing on some anatomy with hampton. Last couple of days I didn't blog because I passed out on my bed before I reminded myself. I wake up at 5am so I go to sleep at 9.

I'M YUNO POSTING

 

And there's nobody that can stop me.

This was drawn 1 to 1 from Asread studio's character sheets for the anime.

I am uninstalling league (again)

Some composition theory from a pre recorded course I'm taking. Briefly demonstrates some principles of shape and value composition and how to spot them, as well as some examples. Gonna uninstall league, it's been draining my time again, but I'm getting back on track.

have you seen cyberpunk edgerunners

Just a thumbsketch for today, tried to make her head tilt a little to her right and sell it by using some things as perspective clues, like her eyelashes hair and nose, harder than it looks.

Debating if I should watch Cyberpunk: Edgerunners or not, I keep seeing it everywhere, but I have a bad feeling it's really overated because of the flashy animation and bright lights (a studio trigger special). People nowadays have a shallow need for visual fidelity, they can't fill in the blanks I guess. But if the story is good then the show is good, that being said, I haven't seen much talk about the story...

not trolling really i swear

 I SWEAR

my sleep schedule is a dissapointment

 

 

 

Because of my atrocious sleep schedule, I didn't make too much today, so here's a sketch of a head using Michael Hampton's construction method. I know how to construct it with realistic features but I'm working out how to incorporate stylized features in there too. I think I will have to end up trading the form for style. After all, anime girl's faces are not as 3D as reality, so it doesn't make sense to draw them as such, at least, that's my working theory.

maybe some hair studdies are needed...

 I don't know what I'm drawing for the hair, just some lines that make up a squiggly triangle. This was studying for the figure drawing class.

I don't want to do the hair.

Hopefully this more rendered one makes up a bit for the recent afkness...

This is mostly a soft round brush, and a more process based approach to rendering, and I don't want to paint the hair.

painting and some more

So I did get a paint sketch in, but I ended up doing it a lot of my homework too, so here's everything I did today. The line portrait will be painted over.

paintings incoming

 

Alright gonna post some painting assignments tomorrow, woohoo. Hopefully I can get better at edges, and see if all this drawing this year paid off.

gestore

 

More figure construction, I really like how the legs turned out, especially the calves. I don't normally draw them that well shaped.

figure construction

 Some homework for the figure drawing class. Process goes as gesture, tilt, connections, box construction, center line of torso/pelvis, and just shaping out the forms from there. Took 20 minutes from reference.

anime style

 I don't draw anime styled faces often and this kinda shows it, it's a blend of cartoon with anime eyes. It's to help sort out some things with the stuff I'm drawing lately and see where I need to improve. I got to figure out how to draw hair and find some eye shapes an facial features that I'm comfortable with drawing, especially the mouth.

yay

 

Made a bunch of thumbnails of illustration I'm working on, I will see this one through as best I can.

Also, got no sleep last night, woke up 3 times in the middle of  the night and got only 6 hours of rest.

Feeling restless

 

I've been falling asleep around 1am recently and waking up at 9:00, but even with a full 8 hours of sleep I'm still falling asleep on my bed for naps, and generally just being tired mid-day. Gonna go to bed even earlier and see if it fixes it for me. Maybe I'm the kind of person who needs 9 hours of sleep for a full day. Still studying.

Guess I trace now

 

Some shape trace-overs for the composition section of a class I'm taking. The goal was to simplify the shapes as much as possible to make them clear and have simple lines.