sketchbook

I need to find something smaller and more interesting and quicker to paint because fffff big projects bore me really easily. Maybe because I have no idea what I’m doing and feel like it’ll look horrid in the end, I dunno.

Reference: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/alan-moore.jpg

I went flat colours -> lines -> render for this one, it worked out alright. Kept the proportions pretty well I think.

Random observation: if I do lines first, the bigger things [torso/arms/legs] tend to be out of proportion, but if I go flat colours and no lines the smaller things tend to be out of proportion. Not sure why. This seems to be a good compromise though.

March 27th

15:46

# alan moore

# portrait

# painting

# digital

# sketchdaily

Drawing + reference. Major problem areas I can see right now: mouth (wtf it’s just wrong wow how did that happen), shoulders (left shoulder is too low), general proportions (forehead, nose to eyes, mouth to chin). It feels like the head isn’t connected to the face, something like that. Weird. I bet actually studying human anatomy and doing life drawing will help with that.

All in all better than I thought it would be, but still pretty damn bad. Also opted not to draw her hair because that’s not the point of this; this is just a baseline to see where I’m at right now, and something to compare future drawings to after I’ve finished “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain,” which I’m starting right now. So yep!

Edit: it should be said that I feel like I’ve massively improved in digital drawing, i.e. being comfortable with a tablet. When I started drawing digitally again earlier this year, I was massively uncomfortable and couldn’t really do anything half-okay. So that’s great news. Now I just need to learn how to draw.

January 24th

20:06

# drawing

# digital

# portrait