Looking Up

Portrait work based on my improving face construction.

I recently started watching Mob Psycho 100. I like it a lot because it's more relaxed than a lot of other good Shonen titles. I'm a big fan of One Punch Man, so I'm happy to see more of the author's work. It also reminds me that art skills don't have to be technically groundbreaking to create something beautiful. I really appreciate that. I sketched out this image based on one in the show because I want to learn how to draw the head from underneath or even a little bit angled up.

Practice with the technique learned from the image above this one.

Breakdown. Part of the trick is to deform the pupils the way they appear when the eyes rotate, since they're a sphere. See how these are more oval than circular?

Another drawing based on an image from Mob Psycho. I like how simple this one is.

I recently saw Akira for the first time. Absolutely beautiful. I love the destruction. I also really like how the human characters are drawn in Akira. So I used some references and drew based on them.

Another drawing based on Akira.

Another character from Akira. I like the hands here.

I'm particularly fond of Kaori's design from Akira. It's so proportional and grounded compared to the characters I'm used to seeing.

Another attempt at making the character look as if their head is angled up. Expect more of this.

More practice I did of a character looking up while a had a few minutes at work.

You'll notice these are both done in pen. It was on some scrap paper.
 

God be with me. Thanks for your help with everything. I love you. God save me. 

The Power of Haannnnds!

 Hand drawings I did with my own hands as reference. Improvement is incremental. I've learned it helps when I draw the hands as a deformed box initially and then go from there. It's an important step I often catch myself forgetting. We go on. 

God's will be done. I love you.

With Everything

 This is a series of images I did in class that was inspired by the short animation Connect on YouTube. I just felt like making it. I think my work on proportions and faces has improved, so I'm actually quite happy with these. I also think the arms and hands on these are adequate. Onwards and upwards. 

I love you God. God be with me now and always.

Jetty Paint 1

 

This is an image I did in Photoshop tracing over my previous drawing of Jetty the magical girl. This time, I had a little better idea of what I was doing, I took a little more time to clean it up, and I added a solid color layer on low opacity to give it a more unified color theme.

I think this is about as good as I can make the image look within my current skill level. I feel like I'm missing something that's making the image look flat, but I can't figure out what. And nothing's going to fix my bad line work except practice. I might just go back to Illustrator– like I used for the Unmasking pictures– and see how that turns out.

God's will be done for me. I love you. Amen.

Poses and Proportions

 

Today's post is less colorful than yesterdays. My biggest problem with yesterday's post was the terrible proportions, so I worked on these in class. I have a hardest time with the limbs, head, and hands. As long as I take my time and go back and redo what I've done, I can get proportions to be much better. I just get impatient. 

Anyway, God's will be done. Lord save us all. Amen.

Fuzzy Paint Test

 

 Originally I wasn't going to post this picture because I kind of hated how it turned out. But I looked up some tutorials online and played around with some Photoshop filters to get it to look better. It feels a little bit like cheating, and I'm still not totally happy with the final product. But it's better. At the very least it will serve as a touchstone for things in the future– assuming I get better overtime. 

For this picture, I drew it in pencil and then used that as a reference in Photoshop. It's a more accurately proportioned drawing of the character Fuzzy from some of my earlier posts. I'm still not sure about the color choices here, but I'm going to let it slide for now. 

God be with me. Lord save me. I love you. Amen.

The Exceptionals

 

I started this picture in class and finished it just a few minutes ago. It's a drawing of the characters from an idea I wrote out. Basically, it came from the idea of "what if superheroes had powers that could actually solve the world's problems" and "what if you gave those powers to some of the most messed up people in modern society?" What would they do with those powers? How would they change the world? Most of the stories I write are because I want to create happy stories, but the Exceptionals is more for catharsis. I can only really write it well when I'm mad. Thankfully, I haven't felt like working on it in a while.

I also like the amount of practice this picture gave me with full bodies and group shots. Not much action going on, but I was able to draw lots of different people. You may recognize Fuzzy (in the center) from a few blog posts ago. 

From left to right: 

Luc "Neohyperman" Amagi, Nicole "Crazy Magnet" Foster, Sean "Grouch" Galinski, Asher "Ash" Gomez, Sherry "Bunny Girl" Pashaei, Lara Eden "Ellie/Fuzzy" Bellman, Kia "Hypnos" McLaren-Wix, and Meryl "Blondie" Vogan.

I hope everyone out there is doing well. God bless everybody. God save me. Amen.