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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:38 am
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Sketches, WIPs, and other things I think I could do with helpful comments and advice on. biggrin My mentor is Yrindale. heart
Unless I mention otherwise, whichever picture is in my most recent post is the one I most want comments on. 3nodding If you have anything to say or to suggest, please do.
I feel like I ought to explain a bit about the sort of position I'm in right now... mid to late last year I was trying to get my portfolio together for purposes of showing to people to get work, but the thought of doing that was scary enough that I just about stopped working on my art altogether (with the thought being that if I didn't have a portfolio I wouldn't have to do the scary bit) and in the time it took me to notice and figure out what my problem was, I got a bit out of shape artistically. I'm still trying to get back up to speed, really; I've been doing familiar/easy things and thinking "I'm back!" and then trying to challenge myself and coming to a complete stop again. I feel like I should be capable of a lot more than I'm achieving right now, but at the same time I'd much rather produce a lot of rubbish than not produce anything at all, even if I have to force myself a bit to keep going.
I think confidence is one of my biggest problems ._______.;;;; I'm sure I used to have more guts than this, I don't know what's wrong with me.
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:38 am
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Basic idea: semi-redesign of the legs and feet of a character I haven't drawn in a little while.
![User Image](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/ksilisab/domyrevisedb.jpg)
Scribbly as anything, obviously; I put the most effort into the shape and structure of the legs and feet (with far more reference to the dinosaur book I was using than was strictly necessary xd ) and just got the rest in to have a body to attach to them. As basic as the pose is, it appeals to me, with that sort of curved diagonal sweep going from the tip of the tail to the head (which was originally facing the same way as the rest of the body, but it just felt better this way). So, like... suggestions for making the pose more interesting, dynamic, natural, whatever; drawovers ( heart ); suggestions for the arms, all that.
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:12 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:44 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:47 am
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:06 am
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:31 am
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I have all the lines transferred over ready to paint now. whee I also discovered that masking fluid makes an ugly mark on this clayboard, so that changes my plans a bit. I'm just glad I tried it first on an unobtrusive corner that's not going to be painted. wink
Can't do much watercolour painting under artificial light, I find, or at least I'm not quite familiar enough with all the pigments I have to want to risk it, so I've been pissing around working on a couple of other things.
![User Image](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/ksilisab/dragonorb.jpg) In one of the buildings at my university there's an enclosure with a number of tuatara; I go there and study them when I have some time to waste before a lecture or whatever biggrin . I thought I'd have a go at a dragon sort of influenced by them. This took about, I don't know, a quarter of an hour or so. I like the concept, it'd be nice to do something bigger with this or something like this I think.
![User Image](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/ksilisab/daisynocostume.jpg) and another little thing, this was meant to be a sort of costume design sketch but I made the mistake of blocking in colours for her skin... after that I couldn't get myself to pay attention to anything else, I love painting green skin too much rofl . Never really intended to be much more than a sketch but I did something a little bit new with how I handled the brushes I used and with going from with lines to painting over the lines.
so yeah I dunno. I think I'm getting back a bit more spontaneity in sketching and painting stuff, I've been feeling quite stiff and awkward with it for a while. surprised
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:02 am
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