Figured I’d throw up something since it’s been a while.
This was a warm up I did this morning of a half orc character in a dnd campaign. It’s significant because as I sat here and paged through my sketchbook, I’ve realized that I made significant progress since March of this year - in more ways than just my ability to draw.
When I first started drawing people, I was admittedly afraid. I didn’t want to draw something embarrassingly far off from what I wanted. Once I finally did decide to take the plunge and try, I took literal hours on just trying to throw the basic shapes down on a sheet of paper. I even sat there with a ruler trying to make everything symmetrical and perfect.
Over time time, I learned that it’s okay to mess things up (big deal for a perfectionist/someone with ocd). I started to look at the world around me in a completely different way - really trying to analyze the basic form and movement of things to better understand it. I learned that things often aren’t perfect in nature and rare is it that anyone is perfectly symmetrical... but they’re still beautiful. The realization completely shifted the way I look at the world and myself.
So yeah. Maybe someday I’ll post a side by side of my first attempts and more current stuff, but today is not the day :p
Next step: work on bodies so I stop drawing floating heads!