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Johnny-on-the-Spot
Apr 17, 2015

That feeling when he opens
the door for you

Gnossiennes posted:

didn't get a chance to do oranges yesterday, so i did em today



Oh man, I love the blue shadow!

lofi posted:

to use realistic colours would have been boring.

LoL

Keetron posted:

I am sorry if this in any deterred you from going all moebius as I am really looking forward to it (which is why I mentioned it)

You guys have inspired me to go ahead with my Ben Stern portrait even if no one else gets the reference.

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Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats


I like this one, really works as a believable pokemon.

Keetron
Sep 26, 2008

Check out my enormous testicles in my TFLC log!


Here, a blueberry (muffin)...

Something I did while sitting in the city, I loved the contrast between the bricks and the white arches so I failed capturing that. Second image is just the arch in brick color.


Really nice (Daniel Smith Genuine Sodalite).

Ps: seems posting pics on mobile is a drama, will update tomorrow with better pics.

Keetron fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jan 10, 2020

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats



Blueberry.

Also an awful tangent that I somehow totally missed when drawing and inking :(

Sharpest Crayon
Jul 16, 2009

Always Wag. Always Friend. Very Safety.
Clapping Larry
Bluebeon

Gnossiennes
Jan 7, 2013


Loving chairs more every day!

Johnny-on-the-Spot posted:

Oh man, I love the blue shadow!

thanks :>

blueberries! didn't notice the lil spots at the bottom when i saved it off

Keetron
Sep 26, 2008

Check out my enormous testicles in my TFLC log!

Keetron posted:

(lovely pics)

Now with better pics:



Angrymog posted:



Blueberry.

Also an awful tangent that I somehow totally missed when drawing and inking :(

I love this, nice feel to it. Can you tell more about the materials used?
All the talk about the comics made me order them from my local library to read them all once more now I am no longer 9 and can understand what all the fuss is about.

Keetron fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Jan 11, 2020

lofi
Apr 2, 2018




Angrymog posted:



Blueberry.

Also an awful tangent that I somehow totally missed when drawing and inking :(

:swoon: moebius :swoon:

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

Keetron posted:

Now with better pics:

Would eat.


Keetron posted:

I love this, nice feel to it. Can you tell more about the materials used?
All the talk about the comics made me order them from my local library to read them all once more now I am no longer 9 and can understand what all the fuss is about.
Nothing special. Pitt pens for the lines, windsor and Newton Cotman watercolours for sky and background, inktense for the foreground and blueberry, mainly because there's a pre-mixed purple.

Did the background as one wash then dabbed the clouds out with tissue.

It's done in the same Aldi pad as everything else I'm doing for drawnuary, which is pretty smooth compared to the other papers I own, so if I was going to do a proper copy I'd get some nice Hot rather than Not paper.

ETA: managed to fix it. Bit of acrylic to blank out the line, then redrew and patched up the colour

Angrymog fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jan 11, 2020

Keetron
Sep 26, 2008

Check out my enormous testicles in my TFLC log!

Angrymog posted:

ETA: managed to fix it. Bit of acrylic to blank out the line, then redrew and patched up the colour
I seriously have no idea what you are talking about.

Burmy Sandy made me want to draw Bernie Sanders, maybe a day when I have more time.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

Keetron posted:

I seriously have no idea what you are talking about.
see the intersection of the ring on the blueberry and the edge of the rock it's sitting on, and how they form a cross or X? it creates an unintended visual connection and emphasis point. there's all sorts of little visual language* details and rules like this that, while a lot of people will never consciously notice them, can subtly improve or ruin art.

* I myself am not fluent, so most of these things tend to be "once you see it, you can't unsee it" situations.

Fish Noise fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Jan 11, 2020

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

Fish Noise posted:

see the intersection of the ring on the blueberry and the edge of the rock it's sitting on, and how they form a cross or X? it creates an unintended visual connection and emphasis point. there's all sorts of little visual language* details and rules like this that, while a lot of people will never consciously notice them, can subtly improve or ruin art.

* I myself am not fluent, so most of these things tend to be "once you see it, you can't unsee it" situations.

Exactly.


Fixed version

Gnossiennes
Jan 7, 2013


Loving chairs more every day!

red currants today

The Halogens
Sep 2, 2011

Working through a backlog! I'm starting to experiment a bit more, noticing some of my crutches as well as some things I like. I got distracted and confused halfway through the skull. Next week is vacation so I should probably sit down with a sketchbook and do anatomy practice. Loving the diversity of styles and subjects in this thread!




syntaxrigger
Jul 7, 2011

Actually you owe me 6! But who's countin?

The Halogens posted:

Working through a backlog! I'm starting to experiment a bit more, noticing some of my crutches as well as some things I like. I got distracted and confused halfway through the skull. Next week is vacation so I should probably sit down with a sketchbook and do anatomy practice. Loving the diversity of styles and subjects in this thread!






A plant designed for farce

A liars tomato

A shameful grape


:discourse:

Johnny-on-the-Spot
Apr 17, 2015

That feeling when he opens
the door for you
Woot Woot doin catch up!

10. blueberry



11. Burmy Sandy



12. huckleberry (I couldn't find a huckleberry so I drew blackberries.)

Sharpest Crayon
Jul 16, 2009

Always Wag. Always Friend. Very Safety.
Clapping Larry
Today I learned that there are blueberries that are not, in fact, a bright all-staining violet-red inside. Who would've guessed!

Burmeevee

Shinmera
Mar 25, 2013

I make games!

Drawing random crap on stream tonight. Should be live for the next three hours or so.

https://stream.shinmera.com / https://twitch.tv/shinmera

Shinmera fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jan 13, 2020

Keetron
Sep 26, 2008

Check out my enormous testicles in my TFLC log!

Fish Noise posted:

see the intersection of the ring on the blueberry and the edge of the rock it's sitting on, and how they form a cross or X? it creates an unintended visual connection and emphasis point. there's all sorts of little visual language* details and rules like this that, while a lot of people will never consciously notice them, can subtly improve or ruin art.

* I myself am not fluent, so most of these things tend to be "once you see it, you can't unsee it" situations.

Ah, I know those things, this is a tangent? English is my second language so today I learned :-)

A week or two ago you come into this thread saying you did not draw for a decade and then you make these stunning things. May I ask *why* you did not draw for all those years?


turns out huckleberries and blueberries are sort of alike. I blame the random fruit generator.

my buddy Superfly
Feb 28, 2011

I made drawings along with the AGDQ stream over the past week so here's all that I've been up to lately drawing wise.

Shinmera
Mar 25, 2013

I make games!

stream result



My back hurts

Sharpest Crayon
Jul 16, 2009

Always Wag. Always Friend. Very Safety.
Clapping Larry
I learned a lot about huckleberries today. Refuse to believe they're more flavoursome than blueberries, tho.

Don't just take my word for it, have a lick at Huckleon to make sure:

The Halogens
Sep 2, 2011

Keetron posted:


A week or two ago you come into this thread saying you did not draw for a decade and then you make these stunning things. May I ask *why* you did not draw for all those years?


Aw, shucks.

Got myself in a weird headspace with art after I made the decision not to go to art school. "No sense in doing anything now/I can't fail if I don't try/I'd rather drink and play video games," plus depression and anxiety, a drinking problem (sober now), and in general relishing being an unproductive person. In the last year I lost a little over a hundred pounds, won NaNoWriMo, and put some serious work into my marriage. I figured 2020 would be the year that I finally start drawing so I can make a comic by year's end... We'll see about that comic. I'm still getting comfortable making stuff at all, though I'm on the second draft of the script.


This belongs in a burger restaurant.


Now I only have one day to make up. Gotta try using bolder colors, do anatomy practice.


Gnossiennes
Jan 7, 2013


Loving chairs more every day!

forgot that two round things side by side look vaguely boob like

dupersaurus
Aug 1, 2012

Futurism was an art movement where dudes were all 'CARS ARE COOL AND THE PAST IS FOR CHUMPS. LET'S DRAW SOME CARS.'
Shades of gray, what is this madness?!



Holy hell I hosed that eye position up

lofi
Apr 2, 2018




:discourse:

The Halogens
Sep 2, 2011

All caught up.


lofi
Apr 2, 2018




Lurantis eyes are so juicy, they pop in your mouth like ripe berries.

The Halogens
Sep 2, 2011

I would never want to live in the Pokemon world, if only because things like Lurantis are three feet tall and there are sentient sludge piles.

lofi
Apr 2, 2018




Why do you think everyone has trained murder dogs accompanying them at all times?

Keetron
Sep 26, 2008

Check out my enormous testicles in my TFLC log!

Gissing this pokemon was disturbing.

Johnny-on-the-Spot
Apr 17, 2015

That feeling when he opens
the door for you

Keetron posted:

Gissing this pokemon was disturbing.

Yeah, I think the worse I saw was a big tiddie insect wearing a bikini. But you know the guy who drew that drew one without the bikini too.

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011
I just can't seem to sit down and make something. I feel like every free hour should be spent playing a game or watching a movie so I can just zone out and de-stress. Any good tips on breaking this funk?

my buddy Superfly
Feb 28, 2011

Redrew something I made last year because I saw the original image I was basing it off of pop up again and I wanted to see if I could improve on it.

https://twitter.com/rainbowfission/status/1216840655651164165

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

Flavius Aetass posted:

I just can't seem to sit down and make something. I feel like every free hour should be spent playing a game or watching a movie so I can just zone out and de-stress. Any good tips on breaking this funk?

Do something silly and no pressure to get started.

Sharpest Crayon
Jul 16, 2009

Always Wag. Always Friend. Very Safety.
Clapping Larry
I love orchids and I love praying mantises and I double-love those orchid-looking praying mantises so I was happy I get to draw Eevee + Lurantis and I don't know how to feel about the fact that other people seem to love them so much they wanna put tits on them. My love for killer insects is pure and innocent. Why are people like this.

Luranteon is here anyway:





Flavius Aetass posted:

I just can't seem to sit down and make something. I feel like every free hour should be spent playing a game or watching a movie so I can just zone out and de-stress. Any good tips on breaking this funk?

Set a time. Set a timer. Force yourself to draw when the Time Of Drawing dawns. Tell yourself you're gonna do it now, you're gonna Draw A Thing and you're not allowed vidya games until you put some poo poo down artwise. Brute force through the tiredness and the anxiety and the pain of everyday life until you're holding a drawing untensil and scribbling down lest you stress about not creating art, too.

lofi
Apr 2, 2018




Flavius Aetass posted:

I just can't seem to sit down and make something. I feel like every free hour should be spent playing a game or watching a movie so I can just zone out and de-stress. Any good tips on breaking this funk?

Do some research into psychological effects of games, realise games are bad (for you), stop playing games. if you want to relax, just turn everything off for an hour and relax. Then draw something.

People seem to be under the illusion that computer games are a way to relax. They are not, they stimulate your mind more, without exercising your body to vent all that stimulation.

(My goonfriend does the same thing and I have opinions about it)

Johnny-on-the-Spot
Apr 17, 2015

That feeling when he opens
the door for you
Here's my Lurantis sans tits

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph
For real I have issues wanting to lay down on couch and die as soon as I get home but if I go play a few rounds of CSGO it'll help wake me up enough to draw for a little while. Hard to do that if you have like any other obligations in your life though

Other solution: put on bad clickbait YouTube videos in the background so you can half pay attention and draw the most self indulgent thing you can think of, even if it's something that doesn't feel productive to draw or you're horrifically ashamed to be drawing. Anything that can get the slightest extra drop of serotonin out of drawing will at the very least get you to draw more

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The Halogens
Sep 2, 2011

What works for me is repeating this until I get off my rear end:

1. You can always play games once art gets done. The games already exist regardless of your art, but not vice versa.

2. If you go to bed having done one unit of art and one unit of game, everything is fine. If you go to bed doing two units of game you'll nag yourself and be disappointed.

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