Sector 8

Me: I'm not gonna draw much texture this time... Also me: F that, I actually like drawing wood texture.

Me: I'm not gonna draw an elaborate background for this one... Also me: F that, I actually enjoy drawing backgrounds now.

Did a color/light study for an old artwork I'm trying to recreate. I realized too late that I was drawing on the wrong side of the paper, though, haha. The markers blend more like watercolors on this side of the paper, which may be the effect you might be going for, but this wasn't intentional here and it kinda looks like crap. I still finished it as well as possible as it gave me some valuable pointers as to what else I will have to consider. Going to do another study, on the right side of the paper then and argh, I need to do the actual lineart as well.... but now that the holidays are over, I'm not sure how much time I'll have

Hand studies! First copied the studies from Christopher Hart's book, then did some of my own. Not perfect still, but getting better.

In case you're wondering why there's purple in the coat... it's because I'm stupid and don't do this shit in daylight. I thought it was brown ;_;

I'm just looking for cute cats playing in the snow and at least 50 % of the early google image search results is AI-generated. Like, visibly AI-generated, and not even well-made. Like this "wonderful" example of two orange cats, the left, a three-legged and snow-pawed bend-tailed beauty, and on the right, a tiny-faced two-legged, snow-tailed kitten.

I'd rather work with shaky, blurry, imperfect photos of actual cats playing in the actual snow as reference images than... whatever this is.

We love the fact that there are so many art tutorials freely available nowadays, so here are my attempts at a few texture tutorials for concrete surfaces that I found, plus my own input. The huge splatter on the first was not intentional, just the natural consequence of handling traditional media while having zero motoric skills.

Day 30: "It over! How do you feel?" The image shows my soul leaving my body. I'm really exhausted at this point, but also quite happy for pushing through. This prompt list was really nice and creative and in particular, it allowed me to identify areas I'm lacking in. I feel like I have to relearn anatomy from scratch. It's been 20 years or so since I learned that stuff. I remember proportions, but not stuff like what specific body parts look like from certain angles. I'm also terrible at drawing facial expressions (particularly mouths) and hair and I kinda forgot how to draw folds in clothes. I also want to do more with colors.

At the point of posting it's actually been a week since I completed the 30 days because I didn't start posting about it immediately and I actually didn't take a break, but drew every day. I just need to get more intentional in my practice. I haven't had one specific thing to post about every day. Next goal is 100 days! But I guess I'll post only if I think it's worth it.