Art journal

Inktober Day 2: Forest Witch. I don’t often finish drawings. This one still feels incomplete (and very rushed) to me. But I did it! WHOO.  Following the Characters of the Forest prompt. 

First day of Inktober, first time participating! I rarely use brush pens, I hope to get better with it through the month! And rarely drawing steady lines. Shaky lines yo. Shaaaakkyyyy

5/30 Daily art challenge, 30 mins.

But now on to the next challenge: Images that I yearn to draw keep popping up in my mind, for years and years. And the challenge for 21 March - 20 April will be that: draw art every day/work on artwork daily, minimum of 30 minutes. 

Custom pencil brushes in psp are a lot of fun to work with. Makes drawing on tablet for me a lot more nicer. Still managing with the 1 min timer too! (tomorrow last entry for pose challenge. habits can be easily given up by me, I’m glad I managed to push until the end)

Mix of traditional and digital! My entry for yesterday. Sorted out my image folder and Im gathering some ideas for the daily art challenge :D Two entries left for this challenge. 

Getting to start went bad, but drawing itself went smooth today. Barely spent 30 min on sketching+upload. The importance of continuing practise with traditional medium seem to ring clearly to me during this session. I managed to find a nice pencil mimicing brush, but my techniques are way less developed digitally. Casual sketching traditionally goes so much more smooth, but I’m pushing for improvement with the tablet. For now, adding linework digitally over a sketch done traditionally, will likely give me the best results, if I aim for getting a piece done. #selfreflection :D

Now that I had to switch back to traditional, I was thinking that my sketches on the tablet don’t look as good, because I really enjoy drawing with soft pencils. That pencil feeling is something that a photoshop brush doesn’t have. So I wanted to download brushes that mimic a pencil! Unfortunately it didn’t work out and I don’t have too much time today to properly look into it. So I just decided to make the practise with good ol’ paper and pencil. Also, an ‘urban sketch’! Barely done these before. That was enjoyable! And yeah, some trains have this fancy couch corner. :D

Around a month ago this took me 2 minutes per drawing. Now it only takes me one :D I’m more content with the sketches on paper than on photo somehow.

I’m away from home again. When drawing traditionally I’m way quicker so I challenged myself to.. 1 minute timer! And I’d say it went well. Unsure if I’d be able to get a pose done that quick on tablet, but I’m gonna try. :v

My motivation for this drawing challenge is somewhere in the gutter today, but at least I’ve done it :v

Let the colour experimentations continue.. :’) Today was an off-day when it comes to drawing: I couldn’t really get into it. Those days happen. Even though I’m not very satisfied with today’s practise, it was somehow very easy for me to start drawing. I usually tend to be dilly dallying when it comes to it. Lose some, win some!