Happy Halloween 2024

 Just wanted to sketch something a little spooky, it is Halloween after all. If anything, it's a reminder to continue the hair arc...

The prophesied Hair Arc begins

 

I only got a couple hours of study in today but here are a few examples of what I've been drawing. I'm trying to make as many observations of my own as I can with whatever knowledge I have. Later I'll learn as much as I can from other artists and then try to apply anything new I learn to the next series of studies. This part will be going on for a few days at least.

Smile

 Just watched the Smile 2 today, it was ok. Only had time to rough this out.

Upwards faces

 Who knew drawing with perspective diminishments was important for making something look realistic... I know, I know, breaking news here people. Before I would just draw without perspective, kinda like an orthographic view, but I tried drawing out the vertical vanishing point and it helped a lot more than I thought it would. Lesson learned at least.

On the bright side, at least the hair came out decently.

Back to the old ways

 Back to my old way of sketching heads, suits me better I think.

Sleep Deficieit

 Body is still feeling real tired even though I woke up and slept extra late, oh well.

5Head

 

Welp, wasn't free today either. Attended a neighbor's birthday party but I it was nice and I ate a lot of brisket which had me slumpt for the rest of the day. I tried drawing something to figure out a way to go from a 2D shape to 3D face but it just left me with a massive forehead.

I mean, what is a "sketch" anyways

 

 

Really pushing the boundaries here on what is considered a sketch. Only putting this little effort in because I don't have time today, as I was away from home for the whole time. Should be free tomorrow though.

Need sleep

 My sleep is just about back in order, so I will be commencing the grind as per usual. Also, this character is someone, see if you can guess who.

Wait I forgot about eyes

 I just realized I don't have any go-to shapes/patterns for anime eyes like I do with realistic eyes. I guess I kind of do but they aren't really set in stone like with realistic ones, they're just kinda wish-washy, might have to work on that. In the meantime, I'm getting my sleep-schedule back in order.

HAIR ARC (coming soon) (fr this time)

 

I don't think I can continue drawing faces anymore without being solid on my hair drawing skills, it has tortured me for too long. I haven't started the grind yet, but it will soon for a solid week. Drawing, copying, analyzing, you name it, it'll happen - consider this the announcement post.

Yasuwho?

 I'm on a 6 loss streak in League of Legends right now in Emerald 3 because my team isn't looking at their map. I did a lot of drawing today but nothing interesting to show. I'm gonna play Yasuo mid even though it's not my main role but my team can deal with it.

Slackster

 

Sketched this out in 10 minutes time, I woke up like 20 minutes ago (11:30) from a nap and I didn't have anything to show for so I cranked this out, not much else to say.

Getting steep

 It's starting to get tough, I'm having trouble with edge's - specifically in the hair. Just gotta do a few more finishing touches to wrap it all up, but I'm really happy with the progress considering what I've learned from it. I'll go into detail when I finish it.

Tiramisu

 Did a bit more work on the bust painting with some halftones. I kind rushed this step but I'm gonna check over everything to make the edges right - or I might even redo it. I didn't have a lot of time today so this is it for now.

WOOOOOAHH IT'S ANIMATED!!!

Well, animated in the frame by frame sense. This is just a bust painting I'm working on, really trying to get the shading as smooth as possible so I'm taking it slowly. I drew the sketch yesterday which took a little less than an hour (again - trying to be as careful as possible). The painting probably took around an hour as well.

Of course, I'm not finished yet, I still have to do some mid tones and passive highlights, as well as defining the Ambient Occlusion shapes some more. I'll finish this soon though, I'm set on it.
 

Do not let me draw hair

 

Been doing some more rendering, actually this is the result of several hours over the course of 3 or 4 days, probably about 5 hours or so. I would've just posted it alone but I didn't work on it today, so it wouldn't really be "sketch-a-day" material. I'm definitely improving my rendering skills a lot, but I should probably make something with the ones I have. 

Also, the guy I drew reminded me a lot of those characters from Hades, lol. Although, I'm not sure which ones, I've never played it before.

I'm scared that painting well takes more time than I think it does

 

Whipped up the drawing and the rendering in about an hour, not too bad if I say so myself, although... I'm coming to the realization that if you want something polished you have to put way more time into it, and reference probably. Although, I don't want to become one of those artists who can't draw anything appealing without reference, so that's why I'm doing this. 

Tomorrow I'm gonna see if I can do better with a full figure with reference, hopefully it'll teach me a few things. Maybe I'll do the digital 'alla prima' approach and go one layer.

Spooky year

 I just drew this to get a post in, took like 3 minutes. The real post is below it, trying to lock down my painting skills again and I'm trying to apply what I learn, been pretty busy drawing so here's what I've been up to.

  I didn't want to just post the bottom one because I thought it'd be disingenuous since I've been working on it here and there for the past few days.