ampersandrew

Learning digital art and documenting my journey here! 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🎨 ✦ 🚫 NO AI

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The hand may be wonky, but at least it’s not AI slop.

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Day two of Kesh Art’s Daily Draw!

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Finally finished this digital painting of my cat, Kitteh.

She passed away last year after being with me for nearly 17 years. I miss her every day.

Time-lapse:

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Also: Doing Kesh Art’s Daily Draw this month. Here’s day one.

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Trying to get a grasp on drawing a figure from reference. Starting with head, rib cage, & crotch box before connecting them all together.

I can see some improvement as I repeated the exercise — angles, proportions, & scale got more accurate when overlaid on the model.

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Looking at reference, I attempted to break the model down into forms, then disabled that layer and attempted to do a quick gesture.

Here's what I learned:

- I'm better at breaking down the model into forms – I feel like I have a better sense of 3D space, as the angles and scale more closely aligned with the model.

- When doing gestures without form for reference, I struggle with scale – limbs are too long, angles are wrong, etc.

I still have a lot to learn.

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Smug stance.

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“That’s Trash!” — Mr. Johnson from Abbott Elementary

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Bō Staff Fighter

Started practicing human form from reference and I ended up getting really into it and continued to sketching the figure, doing line art, colouring, and shading.

The process:

And here’s the time-lapse:

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I did more line-work and organic form exercises.

For the lines, I tried two things to train accuracy:

1. Place a dot somewhere and draw many straight lines that cut through it in one shot.

2. Place two dots and draw a straight line between them in one motion.

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Back to practicing forms, exercising observation, line work, and applying perspective.

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Plop. Just chilling!

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Some human forms

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I tried my hand at gestures using 30 second, 1 minute, and 5 minute timers.

Then tried it again with no timers.

Looking at these, I can definitely tell that I’m not ready for this step yet. 😞

Back to lines, shapes, and forms for now.

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Drawing, drawing, drawing.

Time-lapse 👇

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Random organic forms

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More head exercises. This time focusing on form in 3D space. Tried to draw heads from varying angles/perspectives.

The process: