Compositionally Challenged

 Took two of the previous drawing/trace overs and had to come up with 2 focal points and one design goal each. The focal points weren't too bad, but the design goal was way harder than I expected. Goes to show how much about composition I actually have a feel for... and it's not much.

imagine not using Rnotes, couldn't be me.

 Been doing a lot of compositional stuff lately, want to do illustration and not suck at it badly. Using Rnotes to take notes and draw out mindmaps or whatever you call them, they definitely help though. Easy to learn too, I've been using it now for a few months and it's great so far.

One week of ART

 I am dedicating the next 7 days solely to art, gonna use anime for breaks and cut out video games. Sometimes you get too lost in the moment and time just flies by, think you will play for an hour but instead do two or three. Is video game addiction real or a myth, who knows.

These drawing's aren't trace overs, they're from observation. Still trying to get better at shape simplification while still going for accuracy, I think I know more now than I did yesterday.

I AM APPROACHING NEW UNDERSTANDING!!!

 

I am approaching new understanding, or I think so at least. I think I'm onto something with learning how to integrate gesture and form better and not rely on specific anatomy like the spine or the ribcage direction. Getting back into drawing more gesture stuff lately, we'll see what comes of it.

Learning a proper anime face shape would be nice

 

I was showing my friend my process and whatnot, came up with this real fast. The bottom half is not entirely... well... I'm sure you understand.

What do you know about concept design

Cooked this up in 5 minutes or so, this isn't me trying to concept design for the record, but it got me thinking about it. You hear from the industry that you need to make dozens of polished designs and ideas really quickly, and covering a wide range of subjects while at it. Not only that, but some of the best concept designers have pro level illustration skills as well... definitely a hard field to get into.

Back to basics

 Going through another course, this time it's back to basics. Old me would've thought that I was beyond this class, but after learning how important the basics are I won't be making the same mistake again. Doing this just to cover my bases before moving on to new stuff, which should come up in a few months. 

Anyways, these are traceovers of still life photos from the internet. Yes, you read that right, traceovers. The goal was to simplify the shapes as simply as possible, very surprised how bad I was about details on A compared to D, gonna keep working on it more to nail what I'm learning down.