What are hands? How do I shade? FORESHORTENING GAH. (Art isn't easy... that's a line from a musical. I'll give you an imaginary cookie if you can figure out where it's from.)
-Atlas
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I colored one of the digital sketches for funsies. (Ha... ha... I don't have a tablet or anything, so using my trackpad it is. Gah.) Digital art (or semi-digital art) is going to be the death of me and I LOVE IT.
-Atlas A somewhat grainy picture of *gasp!* someone other than Nadine. Who is she? Will she come back? I have no idea.
In other news, I figured out how to re-size pictures, which is very nice. -Atlas Why not try out digital art, right? It's pretty fun (but also time consuming). Though what I call 'digital art' is basically 'scanning stuff from my sketchbook, tracing it on GIMP, cleaning up the sketchy look, and then sort of coloring it.' I'm too much of a wimp to try coloring with, y'know, actual color.
Also: Nadine looks older and un-Nadineish (if that wasn't a word before, it is now) in the top image. Shmeh. -Atlas Yet more sketches (these are from a few days ago--I'll upload newer stuff soon, I promise!)
Aren't the notes I write to myself so encouraging? -Atlas Apparently it is a thing, folks! Woo! I drew this a while back, when I was still mainly focused on poses. I'll probably get back to that soon. I think. There's a lot of things I want to improve in my drawing.
I've still got such a long way to go... eh. I'll manage. -Atlas *cues movie montage music*
In which Atlas draws a lot and makes little progress. These were hair-focused (you can probably tell.) I'm also working on drawing different face shapes and expressions, so that my characters don't all look like clones. It's very inconvenient when that happens. -Atlas In these I was working on a little bit of everything with varying results--a bit of hair design (Add volume they say. It'll be easy they say), a bit of expressions, a bit of hands... the list goes on. All in all, I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.
Bottom: Is--is that an ear? *gasp* -Atlas The hoodie returns! And so does the inking (I think it makes the piece feel more finished. Do you think so, too? I like the sketchiness, but I also like the clean lines. Decisions, decisions...)
I changed the design of the hoodie a bit--I'll most likely experiment with it more in the future. (I like the hoodie. You can probably tell.) Also, I drew this without a ref (remember when I said that all my characters stood around like useless lumps until I focused on poses? Exhibit A here, folks!) -Atlas Just another sketch (you'll be seeing a lot of those), which I traced in pen because I can.
Also, I gave Nadine a hoodie because she's awesome and I wanted to try something new on her. The hoodie may or may not return in future drawings. -Atlas |