These may be too low quality

 

I was doing another value study but realized this seems kinda low effort. I mean, I did it just like the others, there's just not a lot of detail in the image to group. Hmm, not too sure, also did some figure drawing studies today, but I'm sure you're tired of looking at those.

Lost progress AGAIN, and it's alot.

 

After I saved this drawing, clip studio asked me if I wanted to save my progress and I clicked no thinking that I just opened up the file. Not only did I not just open it, I opened it up like 7 hours ago, apparently I've had clip studio open this whole time.

And today I woke up after a rough night's sleep and said I would take it easy today on the studying, but I didn't even draw for more than half of that time it was open, it was just on my desktop. So a little more than 2 hours of work gone, wow.

It wasn't anything that special anyways, I was just drawing what I wanted, testing some new ideas. I think I've gotten better at anime faces again, kinda. Anyways, expect the grind again tomorrow, fingers crossed that progress will be saved at least.

5 or less values, guaranteed.

Alright, 5 or less values guaranteed if you don't count the gradients. This is everything I did today so far (took about ~6 hours), I might do some for fun sketching here for the next couple hours. I take daily morning walks now, takes around ~40 minutes from start to finish, trying to help that circadian rhythm figure out what time of day it is. Being cooped up in my house most of the day is likely not doing me any favors, hopefully the exercise helps with my daily energy as well. I use to fall asleep a lot while studying but today felt pretty good with little fatigue.

Also, the references used are as goes left to right;  Slack Bay, Up, Mill of the Stone Women, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I haven't seen the first or third, but the compositions looked nice, I browsed and took the references from FILMGRAB.

Color is theorying

 

This is NOT my drawing (originally).

 

Long story short I found someone's speed painting on youtube and painted on top of it to test some theories I learned about color, whipped it up in a little over an hour. I'll post my screengrab below to show where I started from, note that they only just started on the screengrab, so if you want to see their finished work I will post the link to the video as well. I tried to stay close to the originally drawing but I did end up pushing and pulling some form/edges.

Basically I just wanted to test how well I could abide by color temperatures, and basically just choose what colors I wanted accordingly. I never really thought in temperature before while painting and oh boy was that a mistake, several years worth. I still don't think I'm great at it but thinking in temperature is way better than not doing so. I also tried to stick to their values they created in the value study they put on the side, which was very well done.

Here's the screengrab and the link, make sure to check out the finished version from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dP2PWLlQ3Q

Just another value study

 Did the study of that vermeer painting... again. It's from Bill Perkins' Color Bootcamp series, just trying to grasp the value grouping concept. I think I'm decent at values, but I wanted to go ahead and do it to prep myself, for the color work that comes later on.

Who is this person???

 

 

 

I swear I sketched this face before a while back, maybe it's that sameface syndrome kicking in full blast. Also, pretend that scythe or whatever is angled properly, I drew it originally for a different pose but thought the arm looked better this way, so I changed it but not the scythe. Was thinking about making some part of her face/body showing her skeleton, but then I realized how much work that would be and just thought "no". At any rate, looks like those skull/head studies yesterday paid off, it looks decent even when I flip it. Very rare I know.

Is this really in my head.

 Some head/skull studies, I originally did them against a white background and a low opacity line brush, but it was too hard to see. After I did these I made the background gray and made multiples of the same drawing layer, then set them to multiply, made it much easier to look at. Also, if it has a green I next to it, then that drawing was from imagination. I did most of these today and it took a little over 4 hours.