Sketch Blog

Finally made a new youtube video. Me drawing with sketchbook pro 6. Finally got off my but and bought it. Used a trial a few times like hmmmm should I or shouldn't I buy it and then I did like screw it. Coz I know I'll use the heck out of it.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays and a happy new years everyone! I hope you're all doing well with no mishaps unlike myself. I will eventually be back to this blog with practise art but for the meantime it's going to have to wait for the new year. I recently discovered FC2 blog and that's where I've been hanging out. However when I come back here I plan to be sharing some gaming sprites for Visual Novelty.

So no post today like I'd hoped but I do plan to do a bulk upload. I'm going to re-study abdominal muscles. At some point I got carried away with stylization and forgot the important parts of muscle definition. I plan to do some realism and then simplify it down to a comic standard but to suit my current style. My main goal is simply to improve and draw nicer male figures from slender to buff.

Painting in paint tool SAI again. Used photoshop lens flare for the sun effect and the text but the rest was all done in SAI. Had a lot of fun making the hair and dress. Not fussed on Jaide's jacket. Bit annoyed with the clouds too. Didn't quite go the way I wanted to but I do like how they look though so that's a plus. Need more practise drawing clouds. It's been a long time since I last drew or painted them.

So for a while now I've been tossing an idea around in my head and I've decided to just dive in head first and go for it. But first I really should write it. Anyway here's a doodle of one such idea I have for the story. I might post more later. If I got through with the comic I'll post links. Drawn in sai. Also I discovered a nifty line smoothing feature in sai. It's called Stablizer. I turned it on and off throughout drawing this pic. Original characters, Jaide and Arabella. Characters and art belong to me so please respect my work and do not use without my permission. An alternative hair colour picture of Jaide. At first I had navy hair but then I wanted to see him with something blonde like. Then I tried brown and black and they all looked so nice with his skin tone and green eyes I decided that he can just dye his hair in the comic lol. I'm not quite set on Arabella's eyes in front view just yet, she's still in the early stages of desig...

These were all made using J-Wildfire. Most were randomly generated, others made and some generated then tweaked. They make pretty funky wallpapers and very interesting textures for clothing and anything artistic you can think of. If you make something, I'd love to see it. But since it's randomly generated I've no problem with them being pinched to do whatever. Just credit me please.

Pros: No waiting for things to dry No cleaning up. No mess. Exact colours and any colour always available. My pet peeve in traditional art was running out of black or white. No worry about too big or too small. Easy to resize canvas. Print out Take as long as needed without worrying about damaging what you're working. I mean this in the way that over painting paper can damage the paper. Quicker Relaxing to do on a laptop in a comfy chair or in bed Tablet is portable Me personally I can draw emotions better, my art is more alive but other artists are the opposite. Relaxing to draw in paint tool sai and enjoy many hours of drawing with full freedom. There's less restrictions than in traditional. No need to buy more supplies, it's a one time cost for the drawing program and tablet if you take good care of your tablet. Gets addictive because once you no longer feel restricted the ideas come pouring out. Cons: Can't do it without some form of computer C...

I'm setting up my new art home here. See, every now and then I need to get away and just be me with my art. Sometimes you get caught up making things for friends and family and you stop doing it for the passion and just doing. Posts to come might include videos of speedpaintings but mostly experiments, things I've learned and learning. In the meantime while I set up, I do apologise if there is loss of functionality at all. I plan to change the css layout of this blog to something personal.