Showing posts with label Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenge. Show all posts

Saturday, June 10, 2017

First Summer Post





Hello and welcome to another LLG post! Now to be honest its been awhile since my last post and that has been for a number of reasons such as finals ( for school), part time job and helping out family, but no matter how busy things get I'll always have a little time to do a sketch here and there and post it here. I've shown a lot of my digital work quite a bit so today is gonna be all about my sketches on paper so without further ado lets get started!
This first page ( sorry about weird orientation but that is just how it came out when I uploaded it ) and here I was focusing on full body anatomy, eyes and buildings in one point perspective with line shading. Fairly simple and random page ( like most of these pages will be so be prepared)   
 
This next one was more focused on positioning of features such as the face and body. I also did things like emotion, a poem ( for some reason...) and tried to make a face out of a butt....
This next one was focused on how to make things more fluent with simple task such as talking, looking and sitting. I tried drawing a rather simple un-detailed hand and a little Android robot as I like the Android brand.
This next page is one of the only pages dedicated to the study of just one technique known as The Loomis Method which is a way to divide the face in a more realistic face. on the top of this page I wanted to make a drawing of a person preparing to run ( without reference ) but ended up getting a walk... the next drawing is one I saw on Pintrest and it being a really cool reference I wanted to try and draw it.


This is the last page I've done and for this one each drawing is for it's on thing. The first very strange one at the top was meant to be my second attempt at drawing someone going for a dash but ended up nothing like I had hoped... The next in the middle was me using the Loomis Method I spoke of earlier to make a quick sketch as someone challenged me to see how far I've come since I first started sketching seriously ( or at least as serious I could be...) and it in my eyes is really good considering it used no reference and the base of it and basic planning was done in mere minutes which may not sound special to any experienced artist but with me it is a huge step as some of my best drawings before have taken days to complete. Lastly the bottom drawing was me trying to use the eyes in a simple way but still be able to try and convey a feeling, I'll leave you to decide what that feeling it but for now that is all I have for you today. Thank you for your patience as I have been struggling to get post out but I'll do my very best so that you may get to enjoy my journey to try and become a better artist :3. Till next post I'll see ya'll later!  



Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Traveler's HP of the Day

Hello and welcome to another post of LLG, and yes, I want to continue the 30 day challenge but I am taking a break on that ( as you can tell I like taking breaks a lot :3) and with the projects I am working on it is very time consuming ( when I do get around it ) so for today's HP I decided that even if the Friday sketch isn't finished it would be better than showing the same HP with slight changes so be prepared as I think it looks pretty good ( except the person it looks like a bolder to many people so keep that in mind >-<).
Just gonna say this up front but my rushed picture I took of this does not do it justice but that being said it isn't perfect so lets get into the analysis! So the first thing I was work on the hills by sketching out the basic outline with a regular graphite pencil. Next I worked on the basic shape of the person with the same tools in order to see the placement and plan ahead for the tears on the cloak ( in my mind it is one of the weaker parts of this piece ). Next I actually used a new tool I bought which were soft pastels and blending sticks and used said tools for the hills in the foreground. This was done by first using the pastels in the general area that they were needed and then using the blending stick to spread the pastels mark more evenly. This was a similar process with the person in the cloak but done with charcoal with I found out the hard way that if you are not careful even with hard blending it still gives you stripes which can be seen here. It also is worth noting that it was near this step is when I began to work on the torn cloth. One could use this as a simple complete piece but like I've said it has seemed incomplete so you can lightly see what is the outline I have started for a mountain range in the background and I am planning to add a city in the middle. That is all I have for today's HP and I hope that you enjoyed it. Till next post I'll see ya'll later! 

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

HP of the day and day two of 30 day art challenge

Hello and welcome to another post of LLG where we dream of the day where these post could be in comic form rather than words... * Sad MLG air horn music * Anyways I do not have the skill to do so so this will have to do ( yes I know I used so twice but if you read with a very slight pause between them it sounds right and I didn't know how to word it better). So let's get started with today's HP which is also part of the 30 day art challenge. Today's challenge was to draw the offspring of two improbable animals an I'll be honest, I got really lazy and just looked up what I wanted on google images and just drew which ever looked best. I looked up a bird mixed with a T-Rex and I ended up drawing this.
After yesterday's post kinda got deep I liked that this one came more light hearted. I also like how while I drew this in a rush at like 3 minutes, the head came out decent at least which I like ignoring the horrible body. It was something really fun to draw as I tried to draw this him with a smile being all happy not knowing what kind of abomination he is but he's cute to me ^-^! When thinking of what to draw I thought it'd be nice to draw something that is far off but still kinda related which brought me to birds and dinosaurs since it is a strong theory that some species of dino's evolved into lizards as you'd expect but the T-Rex is thought to have evolved into birds like other species. Anyways I drew this with my .9 mm and .7 mm pencils for all the line work and basic design. The very poor shading was me using my hard and soft charcoal pencils and it just came out horribly but that's alright. Well, that brings us to the end of today's post. I hope you enjoyed it and make sure to check in for tomorrow's challenge which is, " draw an unfit means of travel ". Till next post I'll see ya'll later!

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

HP of the day and day one of 30 day art challenge!

Hello and welcome to another post of LLG. Before we get started I would like to let you know that I did say I would start this 30 day art challenge thing in yesterday's post so if you want the image of the challenge it is there. Secondly, my family got very sick last week and I thought I myself got sick last week which was not the case as it was just simple food poisoning but yesterday after I finished my post I did start feeling sick and it turns out that I was the last of my family to get the same sickness which destroyed me today. However, despite being weak I took the advantage of the extra time of me skipping my daily routine as I was sick to work on the artwork for today. Having more time was definitely a big help however also having a huge headache was a big handicap on my focus which is by itself pretty bad so when judging today's work I'd appreciate if could forgive me doing so bad with the extra time and references. Enough pity talk because you're not here for that no sir you are here for some cringy art and that is what you are getting!

I started off with the first challenge as I am doing them in order which the challenge for today was drawing someone experiencing flight which I think was a really powerful drawing to start of with which makes me sadder that I butchered it as such. To explain a bit for the drawing I used a powerful moment in my life when I was doing parkour ( most likely spelled wrong sorry ( btw parkour is actually not flips as I can't do those and doing flips in parkour is actually called free running)) and no it is not a picture of someone committing suicide as I know it can look like that. Anyways the reason I did this rather than someone actually flying is because I've never actually flew without technology so it'd be something hard for me to portray while parkour is a very fast paced fluent sport and when you make some of the vaults and the big leaps you may not have wings but it is a very beautiful experience that at times feels like flying. Now onto the drawing the picture itself I simply used a .7 mm lead pencil to sketch out the building on the lower left side which I added a pipe as it was something I came across a lot and I attempted drawing bricks which didn't turn out very well >-<... Then, using a quick google image search I looked up people jumping which I used to get the basic body shape idea and after I sketched that I used hand references to draw the hands and have it be like the person in the drawing is reaching out kinda like many athletes especially in something as physically taxing as parkour reach out to become faster, stronger and more accurate. I know that got a bit more philosophical then I wanted this post to be but whatever. Anyways that brings us to the end of today's post. I hope that you enjoyed it and quick heads up, tomorrow's challenge is to draw the offspring of 2 improbable animals so make sure to look forward to that. Till next post I'll see ya'll later!