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quick sketch at my desk

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More work on the narrative drawing I started this week, tonight I worked a bit on the lighting and some composition ideas.

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Blocking out the color tonight, started with really saturated colors but ended up toning them down.

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Worked on the line work some more tonight. Refined the face of one of the characters, added damage to his back, tweaked some perspectives and added a few more details on the armors.

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Continued linework on the drawing tonight. Made a few perspective corrections. Still need to figure out what the background character is wearing on his head. I also want to show evidence of the sword strike to his back, maybe the jacket is torn up with bits of it trailing from the sword.

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Spent this evening working on the linework for last week’s narrative character sketch. 

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Continued work on the narrative drawing tonight. The last round still didn’t feel right, the attacking character already struck a blow so I lowered his weapon. Made a few tweaks to the other character’s pose as well.

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Refining one of the poses from yesterday’s gestures, thinking about the outfits now and figuring out how to use some of the fabric to reinforce motion.

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Working on some ideas for a narrative drawing based on Triumph / Defeat.

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Worked on more rendering tonight. I repositioned the quiver, worked on the fabric folds, some shading on the boots and hair.

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Got some really helpful feedback from @taylor-payton on the gold trim, worked on those details and continued to render. While I was rendering our the right arm bicep it seemed like the proportions were still off so I ended up raising the arms a bit more. I also created masks for the different materials. I think I need to reposition the quiver now it’s off center.

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Struggled a bit tonight with the yellow accents and where to go from here with the rendering.

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Tonight I continued to render one of the character designs I started last week. I found so many issues to fix I spent most of the night working on perspective and proportions.

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Starting to render one of the character drawings from last night.

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Tonight I worked on another character design, having fun with asymmetry. If you look closely on the second dude his hair is actually two hands making the peace symbol.

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Trying to get faster at these character designs, worked on two more tonight.

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Worked on gestures and some anatomy studies for about an hour then worked on more character designs.