Today in church I redrew Janet from Abbess Janet (my short story) in pen. This time I got the proportions wrong, but I like what I experimented with. I was practicing line confidence with the pen, since I couldn't draw the outline underneath first. And I practiced with folds and varying line widths. Overall, I'm very happy with how it turned out.
God bless you all. I love you, God.
I've been so focused on improving lately I haven't really done anything super loose and fun. Thinking about the art style of OFF reminded me to do that. I like how the cross-hatching makes the character and the bat look dirty. I was imagining this character using the bat to fight internal demons and things. But I don't know what kind of story that would be. I'll keep it in my head.
God bless everyone and keep you safe. I love you, God. Amen.
This drawing is a redrawing of the one above with different perspective. I wasn't satisfied with the perspective of the first, and I'd forgotten to use my forms.
You can see I redrew Bizarro's head because I didn't like the pose of the first one on the right. It looked too much like I just spun the head instead of it turning.
This series of pictures is inspired by Scott Lobdell's version of Bizarro, the imperfect Superman clone. I imagined what it would be like for Superman and this new Bizarro to meet. So I drew some character interpretations and drew out a rough storyboard. I could polish this storyboard up, but since it's mostly a reference for me, I figured I'd leave it. The smaller images would be in silhouette.
In explanation of the storyboards here, this would be Superman and Bizarro meeting for the first time. Superman notices that Bizarro is different from the other Bizarro's he's met (the evil ones), but Bizarro mistakenly thinks Superman means "you're different from me." Because this Bizarro wants more than anything to be like Superman.
Lobdell's Red Hood and the Outlaws is one of the few modern mainstream comics I respect. I know that sounds pretty harsh, and I guess it is. I owe them some respect because at least they've published something and I haven't. That takes guts and hard work. Anyway, if you're interested in reading a bit about the series, this website makes a good case.
I really like this version of Bizarro. Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well.
God's will be done. God bless us all. I love you. Amen.
God's will be done, now and forever. Amen.
So today I was practicing gesture drawings, and I decided to look up what tapered lines are because I've heard that they're important. So I learned what tapered lines are, and I drew Jin from Avatar: Last Airbender with them. It's not a terrible drawing. I need to practice this more.
Happy Sunday, God. I love you. Have a great day.
All the images I did on this post were during my most recent vacation. The two images above were inspired by thinking about medieval tomb raiding and the dangers of toxic gas inhalation. So I drew the characters with medieval clothing. I've also recently watched a video about how to fake detail, so I tried to practice that on the background of this picture. I didn't get the perspective of the coffin exactly right.
The above image was inspired by Akira. I was having a hard time with eyes that day, evidently.
Thank you God for everything. I need you all the time. I love you. God's will be done for my art. Please help me to get better. Amen.
I did this drawing a few days ago with my eyes closed. I opened them a few times to check my progress, but almost all of the actual lines were done blind. Charmingly, it looks like how my drawings used to look when I had my eyes open. There's something nice about that. It's nostalgic.
Something else funny is that it looks like I have more line confidence with my eyes closed than I do with them open. I might need to practice this more in the future.
God be with me. Lord's will be done.
