Some cartooning practice. Also, a Space Marine.

A quick face study that I snuck in during lunch, between meetings, calling my insurance company and eating steak rolls. Gotta get back into regular practice.

Another quick digital doodle. It’s a goblin, or a genie, or something.

Some quick digitals. The green brute is a perfect example of one of the advantages of digital sketching, you can do things like flipping your canvas horizontally (flipping it left to right). One of the problems with drawing is that your eye learns the image as you are drawing it. In other words, you can miss obvious mistakes because your eye has learned that pattern. In fact a lot of art is about learning to overcome they left-brain habit of replacing what they eye sees with learned pattern representations for those things, but lets not get onto that now. The point is, when you flip the canvas you present your mind with an image it hasn’t seen before and so it re-evaluates it. And suddenly obvious flaws jump out at you.

Unfortunately I forgot to do that early with my brute sketch and realized too late that that the one arm was too long/close to his body. In fact that drawing has too much symmetry, the human body at rest tends to distribute its weight unevenly, leaning more on one leg, that kind of thing. Both sides balanced like that tends to create an unnatural posture. If I did it over I’d move one of the legs a bit back, give the arms/shoulders more swing perhaps.

The shaven-headed chick was me playing with a more “chalky” brush. I need to start learning to utilize texture brushes better.

Doctor, I think we have a pulse!

Sigh, another long coma for the art blog. Sorry about that, work has gone…mad. I feel like exhaustion is bleeding from my eyes, like I”m all hollowed out and grey inside. I honestly haven’t touched a pencil or put in any practice in about 3 weeks.

Time to get back on the wagon. Starting with some doodles. All done without reference, I can really see how those studies I was doing has helped me, I’ve got a better grasp on anatomy and am finding it easier to “construct” figures from pure imagination. Construct is actually the the best word, my drawings used to feel more like chance but now it feels like I can visualize the muscles, move them in my mind, build the human body up out of an understanding of the parts.

Still a long way to go but I’m especially happy with the nude chick, the female form is trixy with its curves.

The first picture is of Morrigan from the upcoming Dragon Age video game. I was practicing drawing her for an idea I had about a DA comic. I actually did end up doing a DA comic, but with a different theme, you can see it here :

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I may do some more comics, in time.

Assorted shtuff. Enjoy.

The art class held a extra lesson tonight, as they had a model in. We pencil sketching types joined up with the painting class and drew and elder male model. Quite chuffed with my results, they are actually fairly good likenesses of him and there is nothing obviously cringe-worthy in the pictures, even looking at them a few hours later. The practice I’m putting in is paying off, I can see it.

A piece I did for art class. First time using chalk. Didn’t turn out badly, I thought.

Some rough concepts of one of the factions in SoW.

Some more poses, this time of fishermen. #47’s proportions may look a bit weird but he was wearing this long, over-sized shirt that came down past his waist by quite a bit.