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Snuggle's Art Blog
A work in progress
Took a picture of what the grad students at my school are doing. Now that is what I call cosplay lol.
Just focusing on getting the body right for practice, arm looks fucked. Oh well. Not sure if I want to color it, still thinking about the background.
Fleshed one out a little for practice, and a bit of arms to see how muscles move. One of many many sketches x.x or should I just call them notes haha
Took a different approach to drawing bodies, working out well.
So yeah. I was pissed as shit yesterday. But it helped me get motivated. I started churning out A LOT of sketches that night and today. I tackled all the problem areas I was having, and put more effort into my stuff.
Just sitting down and experimenting more helps out a lot. I always hated using those guide line things, but sometimes, for some people, like me- we have no choice but to use them if we want to have better looking figures. Once I settle down and find something I like I’ll try to do a big painting, WITH EFFORT for fucks sake… Because I really need to find out whether or not I got it in me to compete with other students, because people who go to school for art, are reaaaally good.
Put on some ink and water color into it. Doesn’t look too bad, maybe if I can do more with it I’ll redo it on a bigger presentable size. Sometimes taking pics of my stuff makes the color a little faded out by the glare, but I really don’t want to sit around and scan stuff…
Another dot exercise thingy, I wanted to use what I learned together with anime stuff. But I can’t figure out how to finish this one. I added a bird to the left side of her. She’s sitting on a big dot, like one of this fitness ball things. And she’s holding an egg. I was planning to add more Miro-ish looking dots connected with lines and odd shapes. Seems too weird though.
Dots and Snow
Rain, sleet, and snow. Lots of snow. Too much snow. Seriously it’s been like what? Three weeks straight where we’ve been hit with like a snow storm, and a week or two before that where we’ve been hit by a storm.
Buuuut of course Suffolk still opens its doors despite the fact that we have raging blizzard going on out the window of my ISOM class. TBH it’s a bit of a mixed feeling now. I actually like the fact that the school is still open, because well, I enjoy going to school lol. Not going to school for just a semester completely changed my views about what I want to do. And that just happened to be going to school and learning the stuff I want to learn.
As a result I can now put up a proper art blog =). I had one going before on a blogspot page but, c’mon now, I’ve got to be honest with myself. There was really no progress in what I was doing. There was some, but very very little. Quite discouraging if you ask me lol. But now that I can finally take some actual classes it’s quite nice.
Here’s what I’ve been in class recently. At first we were doing just tons of Dots. Like literally dots across a 19 x 24 piece of bristol paper. It was too boring for me to take a picture of so I decided to not upload it. Using tumblr with pictures and whatnot turned out to be pretty troublesome anyway… But anyways here’s two resolved thumbnails I did. I drew out a ton of smaller ones to get my ideas worked out and did 2 of them to scale here.
It’s pretty basic. Rules are 3 - 4 shapes per region. If they overlap change its color from either white or black accordingly. I felt pretty happy about the one of the right. When the professor reviewed it he was like “oh shit, this is great” he didn’t really have anything bad to say at all about it. It had a lot of small areas where the color would change so I guess he just liked how there was so much attention to that particular detail. TBH I just threw shapes around randomly without having to really worry about placement lol.
In the end we would end having to paint it out using acrylic on bristol paper. The actual painting itself was only 6 x 11 which is stupid imo since I just wasted a massive sheet of bristol for almost nothing. Surprisingly enough, the small painting took me about 2 hours to finish since I really had to be careful not to make the lines too “organic” looking. Making things look straight and civilized is not one of my strong points so it sucked….
But aside from dots I couldn’t resist from drawing my usual anime stuff. I’ve gotten a lot better from what I did before. The biggest flaw was my way of learning. You can’t just draw everything out of your ass, sometimes observational drawing is the only way to go in order to improve. These 3 here were done a while ago. It was a lot of fun fleshing them out.
But yeah since I was able to learn how to draw out figures properly I finally saw some real concrete progress in my stuff. The three earlier were done observationally, but it was quite good just going over all the body parts and drilling them into my head so that I know what goes where. This pic here was pulled out of my ass, I screwed up a few times at first but eventually it came out pretty well.
Last pic here is one that I’ve done recently. I was originally just testing out my sumi ink and brush while practicing different dots, but then I ended drawing out the face, the coat, her scarf, and went on from there lol. For some reason I really like those dark cityscape pictures. In the future I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes one of the main themes of my stuff. Especially once I take those computer art classes so I can use illustrator and photoshop.
Well that’s all for tonight. I’ll stick around tumblr to see how it is. Not too happy so far though =_=, too many little annoying bugs.
