OK, how's your progress going?. I'm trying to create appealing videogame character designs that aren't boring. It's the hardest part cause I also want to change the main characters vibes.
I'm ashamed of how little I've drawn this year, I notice that I have gaps of many months without drawings between may of last year and today a pattern I'm starting to notice is that I draw a lot in october and november, both 2024 and 2025 had a shitload of paintings, but then I stop drawing for the first months of the new year
>>7954283 thanks, but yeah then I dropped the ball and barely drew from dec-march this year I've been mostly drawing for fun, but I want to get back to studies at some point
>>7953589 Most of my improvements came from last autumn-winter cause i had free time to draw, this year i think i did improve but not nearly as much during that time period.
>>7954198 Nice stuff. You've definitely improved >>7954264 Those studies in November are crazy, how long did you spend on those?! I'd not worry too much about it. If you managed it once you can do it again. Taking it slower for a while isn't a bad thing >>7954315 Really digging the style! Also crazy improvement for just a year
There isn't really a b4 because I started doing digital stuff only a couple months ago
I did a lot of NSFW sketches back in April, I don't know if I can say that I have improved at that, right now I can't come up with better camera angles and subjects/poses than I did back then, kinda like a musician's first album
My sketching is much faster now but I haven't done a real linear in ages, mostly because I don't feel like the subjects are worth more effort than being spit on paper, i am trying to draw kind of cool stuff like a big shark fiighting a dragon cuz maybe thats what i need 1but idk Ididn't finish it its just whatever lol
I also didn't really "improve" at painting, I just learned about llight but my colors suck and looking at palettes limits my creativity to settings I have seen them used in before, it's jus t not fun at all, I would like to be an illustrator an d it's probably the only way I could ever make a modest living with art but I am not on the right trajectory at all
>>7954330 I really like the hat girl drawing the composition is pretty and the colors are vibrant, the only problem is that the face looks a little too devianart i would say, like american anime, still pretty good.
>>7955779 I got halfway through the book and the exercises are not really that complex, which is okay for begs. But my main problem with the book is that It's the confusing sophistry used in a book for begs. It's one of those books where the description of the action tends to be more confusing than the actual action. You're better off with perspective drawing handbook rather than that. TL;DR: Perspective made easy is overrated as hell, and too confusing for begs.
I don't know about improvement, but I've been doing a very thorough study through Jack Hamm's Head & Figure book. Basically doing a couple of drawings from it every day (as close to the originals as I could perform) for well over a year now, just as a routine thing. I just recently finished it, which feels like a major milestone in my art journey, but also feels a bit bitter sweet, since it had become something of a nice habit I'd practice each day, as a warm up or just something to do.
I'm proud that I stuck to it, and finished what I set out to do, because regardless of results or gains, I think determination and consistency is something equally (or more) important. According to my quick search, there's over three thousand drawings in the book, so that's how many drawings I've done, I guess? I'm not bothering to count, haha.
>>7956794 Thanks man, actually, there's a couple of my drawings on the bottom of the first image, just to cap off the studies. I don't really wanna post anything I haven't posted here before, so here's a bunch of dtiys posts I've made while from before, and whilst, I was doing the Hamm studies.
>>7953589 This inspired me to redraw a piece I made a year ago. These are about a year apart, as a long time digitalcel, my excuse here (kms) is that I picked up traditional sketching a month ago. I'm still struggling to shade traditionally, it's much less forgiving.
>>7959346 LOL WHAT ARE THE FUCKING ODDS HAHAHA. I randomly stumbled upon that lainchan website and found this drawing on there. people were talking shit about you though for some reason, so you must be obnoxious to some degree, or maybe they're talking about the guy you drew, idk, it was all beyond me.
>>7959369 oh one of the replies is me. and the lainchan lingo is their own, despite it being maybe a handful of users. i only started to lurk since four chins got hacked last year
>>7959375 yeah i had started looking for other chan sites a week ago, or really just any anonymous forum with the same lack of PC culture cause i was getting fed up with how porn rotted 4chan is.