merry xmas :)

 🎄merry xmas🎄

My art journeys continue... :D

Hi it been while but I am back :D

lost September and October my dad had heart attack and went to the hospital 2 times (catheter coronary angiography and coronary stenting) it was family time but he is ok now and will go for his doctor for follow up to work on some tests in the blood the numbers need some doctor advice but his heart is good now breathing, blood pressure and that stuff is ok :)

Had been watching a lot of game design videos and game mechanics to know what the design going to be use in... idk I like research all sort of things and that question been on my mind for some time so research :D

Here some of my sketches in the past couple weeks or so (there few from August last week ) I think around 28Oct I re start and went on my art journey after dad come home and start getting better :)

Creatures mostly from the sea I think some bugs but idk I do not see me going to do bugs soon maybe animals like mammals I guess I need to wait and see ;)

Transportation I really got into that train look very cool shapes all those little details idk how it function only basic but wow I like it & few ships but trains was my favorite :)

Portraits ofc :) I think I can fill one more page with the scrap tries but I want to keep organize so delete some no more than plan phase so yeah.. but something start to happen when switching for other area away from human in transportation... went back and idk my portraits start to look better idk is it just do something away of the normal (break the focus zoom mood) or just the many sketch get some improve after time I still want to do more but take it to render not just sketch :)

design 1, 2 my ultimate goal (all studies not my own design) some anatomy, weird tries forms, silhouettes, the flour stack, reptile texture it was headache but good to know to try make some texture studies later, few environment but I don't like the road it break the composition.. hmm need to do more environment to see composition, few isometric tries room and few page layout for portfolio presenting stuff

It had been mix all over the place but my render start to get somewhat in the going so good :)

rendering I am very very happy with how I start get some human rendering portraits :) those done with no sketch I sketch as I go with shapes of the shadow :) done on one layer only the frame on second ofc there so much to improve but oh my finally but from where I was to do studies after old master and somehow get human likeness is big jump for me feel amazing 

Did few studies from my collection environment I feel I like more to go full-scale not high or low key... still get to know the grayscale keys so still so much to understand :)

PS some of my reference

FZD student work, dynamic sketching pages , DK publish books, manga books , The skillful huntsman book , Michael Hampton anatomy ofc :) , LOL game concept art from artstation , many artists I like, few real portraits for head tilt, old master Sargent :) , knkl show & Phil design corner those two on YouTube are very helpful :D

My art journeys continue...

feeling excited 

portraits and weapons practice :)

hi

last week practice :)

- it was slow week but still :)

working on the rendering of the face still need more practice accuracy and give more time to do more rendering and work on the edge control soft to hard :)

- also had done more old weapons

reading history to my surprise and it is fun :D

i start to like the silhouette fast render sketchy way i think i will play on that way and see how can i improve it. it more effective than sketch in line for later use in shape ;)

going to keep practiceing :)

have great day evening week :)

2 week practice :)

hi

my two week practice 

- trees just playing with silhouettes :) first and last lines are copy the mid lines i was playing with mix idea of trees to small plants growing even after it dry out it from my own jasmine had dry and green for little while but now my poor plant dry again from the hot climat not sure if it going to get up again i still water it though :) anyway was just having some fun doing some silhouettes :D

- weapons found good book about real weapons and start with axes i really enjoyed the shapes and see some kind of patterns in it :)

then tried from manga book some swords :)

- art dump trying find my way some system to draw the face and get the proportion for later use if i want my own pose .. also few poses and archers

- portraits studies from (peter xiao) i really like his work so i tried to study some and at the end tried some other color palette was just testing it for skin

- hmm rendering again face still so much to learn unsure about how to get color on my own and the so call edges hard to soft i focused only on the light shadow shapes till my eye start to see the right edges

+ please any advice about what is the key points where the soft to hard edges i see a lot of speed art and coloring tutorial but when come to rendering it just like the artists go autopilot :)

I think about cell shading when searching for shapes of light shadow but when blending I just dont know what to do .. thanks .. going to keep practiceing :)

have great day evening week :)

Face Studies

my daily drawing practice

last two days portraits studies still need more practice :)

have great day evening week ;) 

sketches

my daily drawing studies

last 4 days practicing

faces hair and some drapery cloth

- faces need to practice real portraits ...

- drapery I really enjoied that last one using full range of value from 20:80% look cool still need to practice

- shading face is not working but hair start to be fun 

the process start by block in then go lighter and few wild hair here and there to give little texture 

have great day evening week ;)

sketch dump

Hi all

Sorry for not posting was having depression episode for the past week lost my daily strike got really frustrated and de motivated lost my concentration in my study basically my mind run wild all over the place

- prop from manga book but was testing the draw through I really enjoyed those but when try on character things turn so good :(

- tried to do some full silhouette character but still my mood was not right did not even give much time to sketch the poses

- then new way block in idea I simply copied those five in interesting way to use silhouette but at the same time show custom / armor on figure in different value

- then some faces the triangle of the facial features and expression and somewhat start building faces around but I did not really like to go to in out I think I start to lose the proportion of the face building it around the features

- tried coloring an eye that somehow turn ok but still not what I want so tried different brush something like chalk or pencil usually that get me motivated see something new but nah

So back to my escape animals drawing but after two studies I just did not even want to draw anything

 It was very frustrating week still try to make my brain work again and get back my concentration and motivation

hands studies

my daily drawing

last 4 days practicing

hand studies construction using box still the fingers need more practice

have great day evening week ;)

sketches

my daily drawing

last 4 days practicing

had done failed attempt at shading face again :( still need more work on shading 

hmmm i really like drawing witches and did some witchcraft props and creatures :)

had tryed to do some costumes it so fun i had some reference images on the side but my mind just flow 

i really need to study drapery costumes so cool to play 

also did those poses not timed just picking images i liked and play with new technique of sketching the A or arrow i think that how i see it anyway :)

have great day evening week ;)