Saturday, May 5, 2012

Going Merry Sketch

So have been following One Piece for a little while now! still heaps behind but i've just gotten past the death of Going Merry! Even though the new ship is freakin awesome i feel like a tribute was in order! so i have drawn the crew so far on the Going Merry! Who knows if i'll finish this! i don't tend to finish pieces muh lately!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Zoro Sanji Final

Decided to put them side by side! am happy with the result of the pic! i screwed up the layers and made a big mess of everything so it's fairly simple!

Friday, April 6, 2012

Zoro Sanji Sketch

Been watching One Piece now for a while! i couldn't say who my fav character is! they are all awesome! anyways i've been doing a lot of traditional art lately so i don't have much to show for my efforts and am not going to take photos! Here is a sketch of Sanji and Zoro! On the one hand they are rivals on the other nakama! these guys always crack me up!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Skulls

Proud to say i drew all these skulls without references without taking forever to do them! been doing a lot of traditional drawing studies of the human skull and proportion etc! unfortunatel drawing skulls and faces is 2 very different things! XD

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Self Portrait in MS Paint

Oooooooooh so this was random time killer but had lots of fun doing it! my goodness i never thought i'd ever draw again in mircrosoft paint!!!! hahaha but you know it's not as bad as i remember it! you can now actually pick your own colours! :O
Here is the original photo!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Kity Cat City

Enjoyed drawing this! colouring was really lazy but turned out well! used a mouse for this entire piece because i can't draw straight lines with a tablet XD Apparently this is 2 point perspective but i only drew 1 point! A lot better than my last attempt at perspective! Also the first time i've drawn a city!

Friday, February 17, 2012

Randoms

Well i was looking at all the different brushes in SAI it seems a shame that i only ever use a simple circle! next time i do some painting i'll have to make a point of using some different brushes!
then i feel like i've been in a bit of a slump lately so i just decided to draw a plain front on picture! i have to work on full body anatomy! bust shots don't help me improve! Look! someone other than Sokka! XD

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Profile Head Sketch

Sooooooo studying the head in profile! always been something i've struggled with big time but learned a lot doing this! that the head isn't shapped quite as i thought it was in my mind! funny how seeing everything in 3d everyday we have these preconceptions that are quite different to what they are in reality. Breaking things down helps this!
Oh look at that! it's Sokka XD was going to be some1 else but his hair style allows to show the shape a bit better!

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Valentine Lines

Here are the lines! changed some stuff around! opened Toph's eye for starters! would rather see her eye than having it closed! hahaha and frik it was hard to find the design of her earth bracelet XD I am determined to finish this before Valentine's day! gah! let's see if i can get it together!

Friday, February 10, 2012

Valentine's Sketch

Sketching lol Toph and Sokka! I hate hands XD might finish this one up for Valentine's Day

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Head Painting

Hmm not sure what i think about this! painting practice but i've always had problems drawing faces in profile!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The Painted Lady

Final version! i like working in greyscale! did away with the lines in the end!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Sketches

I read recently that female anatomy is hardest to get looking good and that if you can get female anatomy down, then male anatomy will follow along easy. I couldn't agree more with this! at least for me females are a bazillion times harder than males, so i am going to try focus more on females. Sketches done without references.
Why yes that is Toph and Sokka! Surprised? lol And Luffy! he's flippin awesome! omgosh i wonder if this is innapropriate material? :O i don't think so! it's just people in underwear right?

Gesture Drawings

Wasn't going to upload these cause they are def not my best work! But then again this is my work in progress blog! came across the idea of gesture drawing. Gave myself 30secs for each sketch with the idea that shape and movement is more important than anatomy/proportions! unfortunately i cling to detailing everything and in 30 secs it did not work! first try is very hard!

Friday, February 3, 2012

Progress

Well i've added the base shades! thought i'd aproach this picture in black and white to give her a more menacing look!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Kiwi

a quick painting of a kiwi! boy aren't these fellas cute! :D did you know they also come in white? XD

Monday, January 30, 2012

Sokka Sketches

Studying male anatomy! Fact: Sokka is my favourite male character to draw!

Friday, January 27, 2012

Nina Simone

A speed paint of one of my all time favourite jazz, blues, pop, soul singers of all time! Nina Simone! such a beautiful and emotional singer!

I am fairly happy with the depth of this picture! even though i feel like the lips feel rather disconnected from the face! that and she could probly use some eyelashes! XD

Enjoy some beautiful Nina Simone here!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Nico Robin

Well i am honestly fairly pleased with this picture! put a lot of time, thought and effort into it! hands bug me and so do t-shirts with many folds! i will have to make a point of studying them a bit more! The main thing that bugs me here is the face though! it's slightly out of proportion and seems strange to me! learned lot's about colouring with this piece! especially the skin!
Oh would you look at that! a black border! XD

Friday, January 20, 2012

Avatar Christmas

Ok so it's been a little while since Christmas but i thought i'd share the process steps of my Avatar Christmas picture.
The steps are as follows:
1. sketched out a rough idea of the composition of the piece. (as you can see very very rough XD)
2. re-sketched the design with correct proportions etc.
3. lineart.
4. added a simple gradient for background and then blocking in background colours/northern lights.
5. basically filled in all the base colours on a seperate layers.
6. determined where the lightsource is coming from and added basic shading.
7. added words and an overlay layer to brighten the picture up.

Soft Drink

Just for fun

Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Contortionist

Time for a bit of colour and painting practice! happy with how this came out! yes strange pose! XD

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Painted Lady Lineart

Here's the lineart for the painted lady! please! let's not even go into how bad the hands are! i can hadle them! XD

Korra Sketches

Just some anatomy sketches and Korra doodles! looking forward to the show! doesn't Katara age beautifuly? lol XD

Saturday, January 14, 2012

The Painted Lady Sketch

Well i'm pretty sure the outfit is completely wrong! lol but here's the sketch for the painted lady!

Na'vi 2

Changed some bits around, added hair details, hands, teeth and clothes fixed! done with the sketch now! on to the lineart!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Gravity


Just for a laugh!

Jake Sully Sketch

Daily Sketch! This is suppose to be Jake Sully from Avatar! Although it could really be anyone! thinking i might finish this piece!

All Right

Pun comic! Just for a laugh

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

7 Heads or 8 Heads rule?

So looking at an average human figure you'll see that the body is 7x the length of the head! that is to say take the length of the head, multiply it by 7 and that's how high an average person should be!

However the 8 head rule says the body should be divided into 8 heads! does that mean that the body suddenly becomes a lot taller? well i thought so at first but no! The 8 head rule suggests that the head becomes smaller and that the body should become elongated or emphazised accordingly to produce a more 'ideal' figure!

Look very closely at the picture below! both men are the same hight but the man on the left fits into 7 heads and the man on the right into 8! Also see that the man on the right has a slightly smaller head and a more slim/graceful appearance

The 8 head aproach i have found allows for easier body division. The divisions are:
1 - The Head
2 - From Head to Chest
3 - From Chest to Hips (this is also where the elbows should come to)
4 - From Hips to Crutch (where the hands should come to)
5 - From Crutch to Mid-Thigh
6 - Mid Thigh to bottom of the knee
7 - Bottom of the Knee to Mid-Calf
8 - Mid Calf to bottom of the Foot
The Same principal works for female bodies aswell! Again the 8 head principal works better due to it's even number! that the body should be divided equaly between top and bottom.

Anatomy Sketches - Proportioning

I have spent months working on anatomy with literally no improvement! and here's why! The whole time i have been drawing from still picture simply trying to copy the picture but it would get all distorted and mis-proportioned!

For a beginner learning complete body anatomy i have found that i have much better success breaking the body down into workable parts/shapes

Falling Through the Clouds

Nothing too fancy anatomy wise but had fun with this picture!

Shower Painting

Greyscale painting done in SAI, playing with the oil tool.

The Head Length

A simple rule of head anatomy that is crucial to remember is this: the distance between the base of the chin and the bottom of the eyes is exactly the same as between the bottom of the eyes and the tip of the head! so idealy the head can be divided exactly in half at the base of the eyes!

So the first thing i did was looked up a bunch of faces to see whether this was right! and sure enough it's true! even faces that look like they wouldn't adhere to this rule! then i looked at some digital art styles i really admire and they all seemed to follow this rule too, so maybe this is something worth remembering?

Finally i thought, this cann't be the case always! and checked some anime pics! well sure enough i was right! not every head divided into 2 but they were pretty darn close, even in an anime style!


Something so basic but remembering this rule will improve the anatomy of your heads!