#I STRUGGLE WHEN DRAWING ON TRADITIONAL

[aguita-mineral]

Anyways here are some Terra sketches I've made recently! At least these ones look decent I think >:]

[starsinthenigth]

★unjuraka, poppe the clown★

CW: minor blood, axe. all poorly drawn.

[herrscherofmagic]

i've spent nearly 47 hours over the last ten days drawing nothing but kiana (and hov)

yeah.

anyways, since I've had about enough of drawing Kiana for the rest of my life (/hj) I'm gonna put a pause on this project; but I'll turn it from a sprint into a marathon and try and work on it occasionally instead of all at once

I want to draw other things again x-x

Close-ups of the drawings below, as well as the reference image set, and some other misc. thoughts

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Portraits drawn from imagination

Started the process by trying to draw Kiana's head from imagination; then after each drawing I'd pause, look at some references, see what mistakes I made, then put away the references and drew from imagination (and referring to previous drawings) again. I also took breaks at two points to practice drawing eyes & hair before going back to drawing Kiana

For the last 4 portraits, I'd draw a head from imagination as a warm-up to a drawing session, and then do another head much later on instead of doing it immediately. Around halfway through this "phase" I started the other phases at random points, and finished this portion of the process in the first ~10-15 hours of drawing time. The rest of the time was split across the other exercises

Also I gave her an angry expression because I felt it was the easiest for me to do from memory since I've drawn HoV more than just "Kiana" herself. I also used a boring level 3/4 view without much perspective because it forced me to really make sure I was doing everything accurately and with care.

Basically my thinking was that if I could make a boring level 3/4 portrait look good enough, then I'd have no trouble getting it to look good in other perspectives. That seemed to be true when I got to the stage where I was doing expression practice and had to deal with more head tilt and other perspectives, lol

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Studies of still images from screenshots of gameplay, character art, and stills from animated shorts

Did rough sketches first, then drew with solid color over the sketches on a separate layer. not much else to say here, lol

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Full-bodies

Started with an anatomy model loosely based on the proportions of Kiana's in-game model, and then two attempts at doing full-body drawings from imagination before realizing that it's bloody insane to try and do that much detail from imagination and I have much better things to do with my life than that x-x

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Color studies

yaaaay color! yippee!

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Action sketches/"gesture" drawings

"Gesture" is in quotes because I was way too slow with these for it to really count as proper gesture drawing, imo. But the intention was to start with gesture, and I got closer to that as I went on.

It's way too tempting to start adding detail so I had to metaphysically slap myself with a frying pan to keep myself from getting derailed by that >.>

To get references for this, I did screen recording of gameplay on the PC with OBS studios, then used DaVinci Resolve to play back the recordings.

On PC, when using the mouse controls you can hold the camera fairly still when doing an attack sequence, making it awesome for getting unique angles. For instance, when I recorded Void Drifter's attacks, I was able to get at least 4 different PoVs of her attacks: from the left, the right, behind & above, and in front & below.

Unfortunately, though, it was a bit of a hassle to get good recordings because I had to go into an actual combat stage to record it instead of being able to use an empty testing stage.

With DaVinci Resolve I could "split" clips to make cuts in the timeline that let me easily mark the spots where different attack sequences started, and I could also easily play it in .5x speed to help me figure out how the animations were going from one set of frames to another.

Plus if you close the program after saving, when you open it up again it remembers which frame you were last on and takes you straight there, making it easy to continue from one day to another.

I used White Comet, Herrscher of the Void, and Void Drifter attack animations here, but I also did recordings of Knight Moonbeam and Herrscher of Flamescion, and I might give those a try someday.

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Facial expressions practice

Started with the set of rough sketches (first image), then did some expression practice from imagination (second and third images) to try and get used to how the proportions of the face change slightly with movement of the eyebrows/eyelids/jaw, since the shape of the eyes and mouth is especially important when doing stylized faces (like the anime style that HI3rd uses)

Then this morning I started working through the original rough sketches and developing them one-by-one, getting through 8 before I decided to call it quits and wrap up the project for now

So the facial expression practice pretty much the culmination of all my practice. All the practice with proportions, the contours & forms of the hair, monochromatic shading, line quality, shape design, etc.

This was also one of the few times I've ever taken stylized references and actually adapted them to some extent instead of directly copying them!

This is especially noticeable in the hair, where I used a more standard style for the hair, in contrast with the variety of hairstyles and shapes used in the various manga references (i.e. black-and-white Escape from Nagazora Kiana's messy hair vs the neat and solid hair in the colored Gratitude Arc, AE Invasion, and Moon Shadow Kiana)

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Reference images

[samstronomy]

WAAHHHHHHHHH ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

original art under cut

[skunkes]

observation post but ive found myself doing a lot of "problem solving" for commissions in my sketchbook because it helps me in a way that drawing digitally does not... Now im trying to figure out why that happens and how to bridge that disconnect because well why would it be different. Why is it so different 😭

[owoshrike]

I didn't get to finish (or even start) for the prompt BUT I still really wanna share the sketches I did for Scratch and Grounder

I love these two sm 💚♥️

Sonic Gijinka Week - Badniks

[mold-soda]

kalinka malinka or smth like that

art for a matryoshka utau cover i’m making

[fishsfailureson]

A little watercolour drawing of Boops boops in honor of the shenanigans this website's userbase got up to a couple of days ago. Photo taken in piss poor lighting as usual

[dont-worry-honey]

I did a complete drawing (finally!!)

I used the outfit from this drawing!!

I’m actually pretty happy with how this came out!

[phant0m-l0rd]

it is now the 17th here so happy birthday to the amazing guitarist and band leader, Kaoru <3

(rollerball gel pens, alcohol markers, coloured pencils)

[a-very-tired-raven]

This took me four hours and cost me a finger blister. Enjoy.

[wormthing]

R.U.R. sketches (mostly comics and a couple silly things)-- click to see the full images!

The text from the play is from a translation by David Wyllie.

(Another drawing below, with gore, you've been warned.)

["What do you want here? What do you want?" "I'm- I'm alive! It- it's better to live!"]

[gucciguccigarbage]

I KNOW I GOT LUNGS CAUSE THEY ACHE A BIT

I KNOW I'M MEANT TO BE AN ARTIST CAUSE I FEEL LIKE SHIT

all the time

[quanblovk]

A sneak peak of my wips for the asks! Too bad this particular drawing has a rather...unfortunate change:

I was supposed to do it all in watercolor but uh.....ngl i kinda butchered it 💀💀💀

The paper did NOT absorb the watercolors well as they advertised and came out a mess. I learnt my lesson and will only use that paper for markers from now on. Like DAMN it looked awful, especially Taranza's skin color 💀💀💀💀

So i moved on to drawing it in digital. Phew......

[bmpmp3]

FINALLY started working on the homework I’ve been ignoring and I got a bunch done SO as a treat for myself I GET TO post art of MY OC’S boobs

[batri-jopa]

My vampire OC Pam and Louis the cat