Tomatomustache - I Like Pencil Sketches

don't look up "kill sex" on tumblr there's no memes with cool skeletons and mgs characters :(

thought this exercise is just going to be atrocious but i kinda like the top one (10 minutes)

sometimes it do be like that (worse than before) but we keep going. i kinda disliked drawing that guy bc his photographer uses settings that distort proportions (like fisheye or the opposite) so his limbs look bizarrely huge and disproportionate. but today i enjoyed the cartoonish look.

i should do line of action in digital, but would kinda prefer to do pencil or pen instead since i suck at digital.. but that's exactly why i should practice in digital more... sigh

i should also practice just drawing lines from point a to point b since i have trouble guessing the right direction when using the tablet, i will keep struggling at basic stuff until i learn to do that but that's an even less satisfying exercise

previous time i thought "nice, finally nailing it". think again)0

seen a post about the mgsv mod for shirtless ocelot. good, now i need a mod that makes him zip/button/lace up his cleavage, for balance

metal gir

senator armstrong and his special attack "foreign infrastructure damage" are insufferable. the best fight of his life? the feeling is unreciprocated.

i had no heals at the start of the samuel fight and thought to get some from crates but then thought "he doesn't heal mid fight, why should i?" it took effort and some time to defeat him but i did it and it was enjoyable even when i needed to learn to parry for good right during the battle (in fact that made it more fun). i didn't search for heal packs before the next boss fight bc i thought the way my fight with samuel went is the good way to play. it is but armstrong's fighting style doesn't follow that way, lol. yeah sure dude heal gajillion times and cover all the ground in fire cracks and then stand behind it or push me into one and i will get up right in the middle of another crack and repeat the process until im dead with no chance to dodge once the first damage was taken (really happened). throw stuff at me why wouldn't you. i hope he stabs his toe or smth. i used to see him on videos and look forward to fighting him if i ever play mgrr; now no amount of lore is capable of making me to stop disliking him. i have genuinely gamer raged while fighting him lol. i would give up and leave the game if i wouldn't want to play dlcs tbh lol.

that being said, the game is nice and fun and all the butthurt is my fault for having a skill issue. but i am upset anyway lol.

trying to learn to draw miller from mgsv and pw concept arts. i figured that the game model looks kinda goofy no matter how much i turn the quality up, and most fan arts i like are an interpretation of miller rather than a close copy, hence the 2nd pic. it was fun to draw but i will need to learn a lot for it to look decent, lol. anyway i decided to post my drawings here no matter how much or little i like them, so here it is

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morning line of action. focused on shadows today: looked at the whole photo and thoughts which parts are the darkest, the lightest, a bit dark etc, picked a part (all the darkest areas, for example), drew a light line to mark the edges of that area and filled it in with respective value. i should think of a better way that allows more than 3 values and smoother transitions between shadow and light, but for now i like how it came out compared to yesterday. focused on faces too; it only goes for longer sketches but i resisted the temptation to leave the face blank or draw a -_- like thingy; i disliked what i was seeing while drawing them but now i think it's not horrible. i should do faces practice later to improve.

noticed that for some reason it takes me longer to draw feminine looking models than masculine looking ones. 5 minutes was enough to draw and shade the curvy guy, draw his face in a simplified way and his genitals (something i do rarely), and for the next 5 minute sketch of a lady i didn't even get to her head before time ran out. 10 minute lady's boobies are unshaded bc i ran out of time too. i wonder why is that; the answer might be bc i get lots of pictures of that particular guy for some reason and mb i learnt to draw him faster, but who knows. i wanted to shade the orb on the 25 minute one, but ran out of time exactly as soon as i was finished with the man. look at that orb tho, guess who is failing hard at drawabox ellipse tasks lol

it's the second time i do line of action in the morning instead of evening and both times i am satisfied more than on average; mb will make it a part of my morning routine (which is currently washing face, brushing teeth, mb shower and breakfast lol)

seeing other people in tumblr do same exercises daily makes me want to practice every day too