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If you do more tutorials maybe poses?
How to do better poses:
a few things to think about when doing poses, just from the top of my head so it’s not very thorough. Hope it helps!
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30 minute warmup. i like how that one 1 minute doodle came out, and partly the final 10 minute thing (i paused it and took my time)
30 minutes line of action. i think i improved a lot shapes-wise, even 1 minute ones often look coherent to me.
idk what i did to achieve it, it just became like this few days ago. well, i hope it isn't just as easily reversible, haha
very enjoyable session and i am glad with the results
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.
wow shading in digital is just like painting (i am bad af at it and don't understand how it's done). i think i have learnt something towards the end of my attempt to shade it, but not nearly enough ofc. big shaded areas are especially hard for me (look at his thigh lol). didn't do a full hour of practice but did some quick doodles and then ~10 minutes or so of 3 layer image (line of action and other messy lines, the outline and my attempt at shading). at least it got fun enough in the end for me to see next digital practice as a fun activity and not just something necessary.
anyway, never give up, i will get there some day and so will you
i only like the longest one, except for his private bits but i'm not interested in that much so don't really care. thought the 10 minute one will be decent too, but its shading doesn't convey where the darkest/lightest parts are. the smiling lady one is atrocious even though i had 5 minutes for it; drawing rotated people is cool bc as soon as a head is at 90° angle compared to the "normal" i fail to recognise the parts and proportions properly.
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2nd digital line of action. hopefully tomorrow will bother roommate to show me how to shade. drawing lines is still hard and slower than pencil or pen, but i like to think it's a bit better than the previous one. tried shading the long one with lines but failed and ctrl+z'd it. overall rather satisfied
my first digital line of action. messy but it's a start!
i stopped at 10 minutes bc i wasn't having much fun, having no idea how to shade and the lines being very messy and crooked. i think i should do a bunch of quick ones to learn to draw smooth intentional lines
the last pic is the first i drew. i tried drawing in digital a year ago or so, but idk where those files are, might've deleted them, don't even remember what it was
another attempt
line of action warmup below
burger joint lunch break bad light line of action (30 minutes to fit it into lunch break)
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today's line of action. was slow, the fella has 1 leg lol. but i like the longest one
bonus pic: small face practice from earlier. i didn't intend to make them so eerie, i hope some day i will overcome this stage and will be able to draw normal faces, but i have fun even now. i need to figure out eyes size and placement though.
thank you everyone for posting your beautiful arts. tumblr has become not only the source of beautiful mgs fanart but also one of the reasons i practiced drawing more or less consistently. my skill improved (now i can draw without eraser and even can do faces sometimes, kinda) but also it unironically raised my quality of life in general. i hope you're spending holidays the way you like and hope to see more from you all in the future.
a bit of line of action on the train. i picked 30 minutes but don't have time to finish it before arrival anyway, so the longest one is 6 minutes. l like drawing this smiling lady ever since i started doing this exercise, it brings me joy to be able to convey more and more of the beauty of her curvy body and sparkling smile as my skill develops.
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did one hour today instead of the usual 1.5. i like the 5 minute pieces.
after the practice was finished, my mate did some corrections to the final one and gave some advice. i doubt i will be able to apply what he told me about faces for now, but at least legs should improve if i remember his tips.
i am not surprised with bad faces bc i am only learning, but i am surprised that i deprived the big back woman of her back and didn't notice it at all until it was pointed out.
a while ago i had fun drawing a blogger but making her muscles even bigger using a muscles anatomy picture reference. might have to do some anatomy practice now (not only muscles but bones too) bc i have little understanding how a human is built and it becomes a prominent enough issue to try to fix it.
also i enjoyed using a pen again.
previous time i thought "nice, finally nailing it". think again)0
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used pen instead of pencil today, i liked it. did 1 hour practice and then some 10 minute pics. some pics are bad (mostly the penultimate one) but mostly i am satisfied and had fun.
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my friend persuaded me to use a liner instead of pencil this time. it sucked lol, i did everything wrong: starting from bad lines and ending by worrying too much about the lines and no possibility to use eraser i forgot about the line of action and messed up the proportions big time. for the last one he proposed using pen so it would be a bit easier than liner. it was a bit easier and actually enjoyable. i messed up the buttock shading and tried again, but messed up face this time (as well as the shape in general) so after the timer reached the limit i drew shades on her and sent her to a tropical resort just to have a bit fun. i also tried a new way of shading in the liner sketches, doesn't look good yet but i will try more.
i started this little sketch/practice diary with intention to post no matter how bad the pic is, so this is the reason im posting it.
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i like the 1st pic but the rest was bad. whatever
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tried to draw more women, as previously planned. i specifically focused on not drawing tiny feet again and did it anyway :')
still learning to draw faces with acceptable accuracy. not much progress today, some just look bad and others don't resemble the model, but i kind of like how i did the 35 minute lady face.
shorter ones:
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today's results are bad ngl but i'm glad i did it anyway. got a lot of men pics for the last sketch lately, so today i skipped pics until there was a woman. didn't draw her nice but whatever. both of my common issues - small feet and too long torsos - are present. this is supposed to be a bad art diary to make other people less shy, so here it goes. also i liked the shorter sketches (pics 1 and 2).
the most cringe are the 3-5 minute ones below:
mb i should practice drawing women specifically. although might take a break from drawing - or not, will see how it goes.
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i should do a challenge "draw every time you hear an explosion or anti air defense sounds" while i'm here, lol. wanted to stay at a friend's place overnight but returned home before curfew to do line of action (bc i would have just chatted with him the whole time otherwise), an hour later there was an explosion not far from him. could've witness the action from the front row if i stayed, but parents would know where i am and would worry and it's nothing i haven't seen before anyway, so no regrets. i write stuff like "lol" or "action" but just to be clear - it is not fun and people get hurt and die and lose their possessions such as home, don't be a war victim if you can and definitely don't go and be an occupant in foreign country, you are not welcome and no possible repercussions for draft evasion or defecting are a valid reason to do that.
anyway, noticed that i gave the guy few extra ribs only on shading stage when there were 4 minutes left, decided to not fix it. both proportions and shadings are a bit off today, i should pay more attention next time, but it seems the faces are improving. i try to make sure i draw the face during figure drawing if there's enough time. the last pic is faces only study i did yesterday after figure drawing - most of them are very bad but i liked 3 of them.
i will try to ask my friend to pose for me. tried that with another friend a while ago and the results are nothing to share; i hope now my skill is good enough.
