Sleep Now, Art Later

Just personal art here, whenever that manages to happen.

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I was resolved to use color for the 2-hour pose today!

Felt good about:

Sketched out the form quickly and efficiently today :) Even successfully revised the figure to exaggerate the gesture a bit further.

Got the proper amount of contrast I wanted on the upper back/shoulders 😍

Still struggling with:

Had a real hard time finding a not-terrible color palette. In the end I got something that worked well enough for lighting & contrast, but could be much better when it comes to hue variation and an appealing skin tone.

Need to pay more attention to time management. This piece would look more "actually finished" if I'd had more time to treat the background surrounding the figure.

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Made it to another 2-hour pose Wednesday session!

Felt good about:

Making use of 3D forms to get a more accurate and gestural drawing 😎

Still struggling with:

Still didn't do the best at using shading to emphasize the right parts of the picture, instead of just messily copying lights/shadows I see

I think I should try using color next time, skin tone is still something I need to work on 😌

Halfway progress shot under the cut:

Some things were more successful at this stage than the end result... well, live and learn :)

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These were from Monday, March 10.

Felt good about:

Really tried to pay attention to breaking down the body structure into forms & perspective this time, instead of blindly copying contours as is my usual habit!

Still struggling with:

Procreate kept crashing lol. I can't be too mad, my iPad is quite a few years old now 🙏

Still having a hard time with fitting the figure to the "page", even though I have the privilege of digital resizing now

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Aah I didn't go to life drawing for a while in February because of con crunch, and then getting sick. And then I got lazy about posting the results 😅 These are from March 2, when I decided to try bringing my iPad and using Procreate. It feels like a bit of cheating (esp being able to resize/move the art around) but it works so much better for me! Oh well, use the tools that lets you execute best results, right?

Felt good about:

The privilege of working in digital and being able to resize/erase all I want 🙇

As a result, better proportions than ever

Got some good foreshortening poses in my spot this time, lucky

Still struggling with:

Leg proportions - still fighting the urge to make them loooong forever. Wait... carrying a legacy curse in my art DNA from learning to draw from Sailor Moon...!

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On Wednesdays the life drawing sessions do 2-hour poses yay! I can't make it every single week but it's great that it's available when I'm able.

Felt good about:

The front leg! I feel like I gave it the amount of contrast & focus I intended

Had time to properly draw the face this time

Still struggling with:

I still need to get better at intentionally reducing the details/contrast on the areas that shouldn't be focused. Like, the back leg I feel was successful for that treatment, but I should've put a lighter touch on the upper torso so that the front arm could pop more.

Should've exaggerated the pose to be more expressive, but at least it was accurate enough (and I properly fit the whole figure on the paper... barely)

Bonus photo below the cut of the halfway progress:

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Tried to incorporate some brush marker this week. They're useful but I don't think I've made the best of them yet... we'll see.

Felt good about:

Got in some good feet practice, another one of my weaknesses

Tried to rein in leg lengths/proportions a bit better

Still struggling with:

Didn't spend any time on heads/faces. Wonder if I should dedicate a session to that sometime. Maybe if we get a model who doesn't have a big ol beard obscuring things

Lines were really uncertain and inaccurate this time. Maybe I needed more sleep

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Same model as last week. My seat happened to get a lot of back views this round, so I tried to do more studying of the back muscles which is a weakness of mine. Still don't understand the large shapes well enough 😓

Felt good about:

Had an easier time capturing the poses

Tried to exaggerate for more expressive gestures

Paid a bit more attention to perspective

Still struggling with:

Leaving enough room for legs & feet/resisting the urge to draw legs a bazillion miles long

Shading - need to define large areas of shadow more cohesively, instead of patchy blocks. I should get some charcoal sticks, maybe some non-white paper.

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(15 min) Ugh this one was a disaster. I made the rookie mistake of getting caught up on details before laying out the full figure to make sure it was sufficiently proportional/cohesive. At least I redeemed myself with the next pose (the last pic up top, above the cut)

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On Monday I finally got my junk together and made it to the weekly life drawing sessions at the local gallery :) Not much in the way of surprises - it was very much like the sessions I took in college, a nice environment. I'll try to make it a regular habit from here on.

(The above are all 15-minute poses so they're more presentable drawings. I'll throw the rest under a cut cuz they're not impressive 😅 Just posting them for posterity so I can compare progression.)

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A gift for my husband who loves Captain Toad.

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Happy Father’s Day 🌼

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The other day a big batch of colored foam sheets arrived in the mail, inspiring me to make something for the kids because our whole family is Undertale trash:

Of course, preschoolers being what they are, the 4-year-old immediately gets in a fight with his brother, has a huge fit, and proceeds to do a violence:

Ugh. After cleaning up all the bitty pieces, I’m left with the realization:

Oh god, this is what Sans has to do in every other fanfic/fanart. It’s... it’s rough 💔

Epilogue: I thought about charging the kid his soul allowance money to bring Papyrus back, but we settled for a promise to not make Sans sad ever again. Pacifist ending... for now.

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“If you give her the Holy Grail, I’ll never forgive you!”⁣

I don’t really get the point of this #sailormoonredraw thing, but she IS responsible for my entire art ”career”, so, whatever, let’s throwback.⁣