animey

 

 

Sorry lads, a bit of a low-effort post streak going on. However, I've been itching to put in some work so please stay tuned. On a side note, I think my anime faces are a lot better looking back into the beginning of the year, especially my first post.

How do I even form

 

Low effort all-around today, didn't even do any drawing except this, Tried drawing details on top of some form, especially where the form turns, such as the strip going along the nose and cheek. Tried doing the same thing with the head circles but couldn't really show it turning direction well, unlike the nose and cheek. I'll be spending time figuring how to do that better.

imagine the hands are good

 

Made a nyx noggle drawing, a noggle is like a bobblehead figure but a little but more proportional, took like 10 minutes. I play her often, especially in arbetrations, prime variant of course. The reference was like 1 inch tall on my screen so I guessed a lot of the details. Especially the hands, pretend those are hands.

Or not

 Well, did a rough sketch on a design I thought up only for this post. I didn't have anything in my head other than "fast" and "triangle shapes". This is one of those screw ups that I wouldn't usually post and throw it out from the blog, which has happened many times. Initially, I thought I would just say no-way to posting it and scrap it, but then I felt like the entire seriousness that it held fell apart. I got to thinking, if I took my work more seriously because it was going to be seen by other people, then I would have incentive to make it as best as I could. But, I said screw it, who cares if it doesn't have a good composition, form that reads well, or has a interesting design... right? Nah, who am I kidding - I care, and therefore will most likely be re-doing this one. When, who knows at this point, I surely do not.

I should draw warframe (at all)

 

 

Quick 10 minute sketch from the poster-boy himself. 

 

I've been playing Warframe longer than I have done art (2014), but I don't think I've ever drawn anything from the game at all. Mainly because when I was a beginner, it was so daunting to draw the frame's each and every squiggle, crack, and edge that were intricately carved with. Well, after I got better at art I realize that's no longer the case. Even without color and details, anyone who has played or even seen the game knows who this is, regular players could probably guess from the silhouette alone, maybe giving myself too much credit there. 

 

Surprisingly, Excalibur is still my most played frame, even though I mained Saryn Prime for most of my memory. She's not far behind though, and is easily the strongest frame in the game, so I may have to pick her up again sometime, definitely drawing her soon.

Manga when?

 

Couldn't show any of what I worked on today so this will have to do. Sketched out a small little idea for a panel in a manga or something like that, all of that perspective studying this year paid off it seems. Not in the sense that it was difficult, just that if I didn't know the details and the "why" perspective works, I wouldn't have been able to draw it up this fast and how I wanted. The diminishments would be correct, but the placement of objects wouldn't want what I wanted compositionally, and the scaling would likely be incorrect.

Would you like a tip in these trying times

 

So the family stuff had a bit of a part two today but things are looking a lot better now. I made some pencil sketches for the blog at a family member's house, but I forgot to take a picture and left them there. Instead, here's a little tip that helps with nose placement especially with anime/flat style eyes. Got this from the artist I've been studying recently, TenTen. I kinda figured this out before hand when I was dealing a lot with 3d models, but this diagram explains it best. Mouths are kind of a different thing though, you can place them anywhere and they will have a different "effect" or feeling. Like with anime mouths, you can place them forward, back, high, low, and they will all give of a different vibe, yet still look "right" - if the it fits the piece.