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Random cat sketch
Jun. 23rd, 2010 12:01 amI was just doodling, and something came out good enough to post:
I had been hitting the 'net for reference photos and trying to get drawing cats---especially the faces. The paws still need work, but I think it's going well, especially since this was just diving in with brush pens and no underdrawing or anything.
I had been hitting the 'net for reference photos and trying to get drawing cats---especially the faces. The paws still need work, but I think it's going well, especially since this was just diving in with brush pens and no underdrawing or anything.
The local Art Guild has started having sessions with a nude model, which was something I had been wanting and was happy to get to do again, so I did that Tuesday evening, and I finally got myself that DeviantArt account so I could share the good ones (link is NSFW for obvious reasons).
I do think in the future I should try smaller paper that I can actually scan. Part of my trouble in college was that I just didn't understand what I wanted out of Art and didn't have the assertiveness to seize what I wanted from the jaws of what was expected of me. At college they always told me to draw with charcoal; only my last year did I realize no one was going to tell me to use what I wanted, so I started playing with ink and brush on my own and just loved it (and it's not that my professors were like "no, no ink, no!", they were just never going to tell me to do that). They also told me to work big, but if I want to draw for comics and the web, that wasn't necessarily what would serve me best either. (Not that I don't have my eye on a large-format scanner, mind...)
I do think in the future I should try smaller paper that I can actually scan. Part of my trouble in college was that I just didn't understand what I wanted out of Art and didn't have the assertiveness to seize what I wanted from the jaws of what was expected of me. At college they always told me to draw with charcoal; only my last year did I realize no one was going to tell me to use what I wanted, so I started playing with ink and brush on my own and just loved it (and it's not that my professors were like "no, no ink, no!", they were just never going to tell me to do that). They also told me to work big, but if I want to draw for comics and the web, that wasn't necessarily what would serve me best either. (Not that I don't have my eye on a large-format scanner, mind...)
