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[H.Protagonist]

5/365

JMizzlin from the Portrait thread:

9/365

Meant to say before, but I really like this one, Turnip. I don't know if it's the direction of the smudges or how you did your darker highlights, but it's really appealing.

Yes, trying to keep myself drawing even if I don't feel like it, even just a bit.

As promised, a crossover from the Portrait Thread:

13.

I feel ya. It's hard to get going some days. Portrait thread's usually a good fix for that, but the # of non-blurry/non-prop photos have been pretty scarce of late. Ah well. The blue shadowing you used for yours is pretty cool, btw. I tried to do purple/red like that once, but it came out looking the guy had gone 5 rounds with Tyson...

 

[TurnipFritters]

Pachinko Game Fanart (14/365)

 

[heavy liquid]

5/365

I feel ya. It's hard to get going some days. Portrait thread's usually a good fix for that, but the # of non-blurry/non-prop photos have been pretty scarce of late. Ah well. The blue shadowing you used for yours is pretty cool, btw. I tried to do purple/red like that once, but it came out looking the guy had gone 5 rounds with Tyson...

But the stripes are the most fun to draw! Great job though, even without the strips. I like how you have him declaring his distaste of stripes.

Thanks. I think the blue shadowing turned out oookaaaaay, but I didn't really get the effect that I was trying to achieve. But I was trying to to a quick thing and didn't want to spend too much time fussing with it, so ehh.

Speaking of quick sketches:
14.

 

[H.Protagonist]

7/365

Knocked out two today.

Alex

ssolitare

But the stripes are the most fun to draw! Great job though, even without the strips. I like how you have him declaring his distaste of stripes.

Thanks. I think the blue shadowing turned out oookaaaaay, but I didn't really get the effect that I was trying to achieve. But I was trying to to a quick thing and didn't want to spend too much time fussing with it, so ehh.

Speaking of quick sketches:
14.

Thanks, yo~ You're crazy, though. Stripes on clothing are the devil. I am thinking I might revisit it and do an underlay of stolen red stripes that'll bleed into the background, however. Bit of color or something for a change.

For the blue shadowing, I think the effect still works, especially if you pull back when looking at it. For a quick experiment, it turned out pretty cool, at any rate. Liking the play on the latest portrait too. Might have to try out some stuff myself.

 

[TurnipFritters]

Id rather not muck up the thread with bad art, but if you insist I'll post something soon lol

Don't think just post post post.

Meant to say before, but I really like this one, Turnip. I don't know if it's the direction of the smudges or how you did your darker highlights, but it's really appealing.

Thanks! I like it a lot too, it's pretty rare that I can create a reasonable likeness with minimal brush strokes.

15/365

 

[heavy liquid]

7/365

Knocked out two today.

Alex



ssolitare

Thanks, yo~ You're crazy, though. Stripes on clothing are the devil. I am thinking I might revisit it and do an underlay of stolen red stripes that'll bleed into the background, however. Bit of color or something for a change.

For the blue shadowing, I think the effect still works, especially if you pull back when looking at it. For a quick experiment, it turned out pretty cool, at any rate. Liking the play on the latest portrait too. Might have to try out some stuff myself.

Those are both good, you're on a roll! They're a bit looser than your usual work, but I don't think it's bad or detracts. But I'm the king of sketchy, so what do I know.

 

[Kettu]

Some kind of a female samurai thing.

 

[artsi]

Here's something I worked on today.

 

[heavy liquid]

15.

 

[LegendX48]

here's some junk I finished yesterday:

I'm feeling like there's a big skill gap in between what I can do traditionally vs what I can do digitally.

 

[TurnipFritters]

Here's something I worked on today.

I was gonna say this was very Shigenori Soejima-esque but then I saw your avatar and realized you probably knew that already.

Edit:

16/365, hitting a real wall here to be honest

 

[melonrabbit]

Inspiring thread. May give it a shot.

 

[GIANKRATOS]

Finished my first ever digital drawing (following a tutorial)

I'm really satisfied with the result

 

[heavy liquid]

Finished my first ever digital drawing (following a tutorial)

I'm really satisfied with the result

Very nice! Do you mind sharing the tutorial? I'd love to check it out.

I've been noodling with this unsuccessful portrait of someone from the Portrait Thread for the past few days. I guess it's successful in the graphic and stylized look I was trying to achieve, something a bit like Patrick Nagel, now that I look at it. But I couldn't get it to look enough like her, so ehh. I made her look too chubby or something. But I suppose it was a good experiment.

16.

 

[TurnipFritters]

i had to do yesterday's because it was so egregiously bad (17/365)

 

[GIANKRATOS]

Very nice! Do you mind sharing the tutorial? I'd love to check it out.
.

Sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg71jFsfmSI

There are like 5 videos. I love his works.

Can't wait to start my own original drawing.

 

[heavy liquid]

Sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg71jFsfmSI

There are like 5 videos. I love his works.

Can't wait to start my own original drawing.

Thanks! I'll have to check it out. I'm sure I can get something out of it, even though I don't use Corel.

I see a lot of issues that bug me with this. Could use some corrections and more work, but trying to keep up with the dailies:

17.

 

[TurnipFritters]

I skipped yesterday and slept for 12 hours instead, but w/e (18 and 19/365)

 

[heavy liquid]

I skipped yesterday and slept for 12 hours instead, but w/e (18 and 19/365)

Oh wow, were you sick? Or just tired? Also, I know your third portrait is MediEvil, but who are the first two? Is the first one Dante?

Catching up on my dailies with figure drawing from last night:

18.

19.

20.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

 

[Duane Cunningham]

 

[TurnipFritters]

Oh wow, were you sick? Or just tired? Also, I know your third portrait is MediEvil, but who are the first two? Is the first one Dante?

Running on five hours of sleep finally caught up to me. First guy is Angelo from Dragon Quest 8: Journey of the Cursed King (available now for the Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 2DS) and the other is Hector from Fire Emblem 6.

Urgh I really need to sit down and do figure drawing. Maybe that'll be next week's project.

20/365
Trying not to be scared of high-ish contrast in colors

 

[heavy liquid]

Running on five hours of sleep finally caught up to me. First guy is Angelo from Dragon Quest 8: Journey of the Cursed King (available now for the Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 2DS) and the other is Hector from Fire Emblem 6.

Urgh I really need to sit down and do figure drawing. Maybe that'll be next week's project.

Ah, I just bought DQ8 for the 3DS! Now to just find the time to play it. The silver hair and red jacket made me automatically think of DMC.

Just a quick sketch thing for today. Might be fun to flesh out later.
21.

 

[TurnipFritters]

21/365

 

[LegendX48]

Some more (traditional) practice:

 

[TurnipFritters]

22/365, gotta start building a bigger reference folder for actual poses

 

[Bright Side of Life]

Two of my favorite things turning into my third favorite thing

 

[heavy liquid]

22.

23.

 

[TurnipFritters]

Two of my favorite things turning into my third favorite thing

Cephalopods, flowers and ???

23/365

 

[heavy liquid]

Might try to clean this up tonight if I have time. Or I might waste it playing RE7 or Gravity Rush 2. Decisions, decisions.

 

[TurnipFritters]

Ooof. 24/365

 

[heavy liquid]

^Why "Ooof", Turnip? Doesn't look bad! I like the impressionistic background you have going on.

I really need to clean some of these up. I think they'd look a lot better afterwords. But this one took maybe about 45 minutes before I had to go to work, so no luck. Maybe I'll revisit them later on.

25.

 

[TurnipFritters]

what's this 25/365?

 

[TurnipFritters]

26/365

 

[Bright Side of Life]

Cephalopods, flowers and ???



23/365

Ribcages

 

[heavy liquid]

26/365

This might be my favorite painting of yours, so far. I really like the values and lighting on her legs, and the sheer semi transparency on her left arm.

Some two minute gestures and a 10m pose:

26.

27.

 

[Xun]

Sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg71jFsfmSI

There are like 5 videos. I love his works.

Can't wait to start my own original drawing.

I had a feeling it would be a tutorial by Aaron Blaise before you posted it.

Great work by the way!

 

[GIANKRATOS]

I had a feeling it would be a tutorial by Aaron Blaise before you posted it.

Great work by the way!

Haha yeah. Thanks.

 

[TurnipFritters]

Ribcages

Ah, figured it'd be something to that effect, but I wasn't sure if it was gonna be like, "bodies" or "torsos" or "bones" or something to that effect.

This might be my favorite painting of yours, so far. I really like the values and lighting on her legs, and the sheer semi transparency on her left arm.

Thanks! I think it turned out reasonably well, I guess that can happen if you spend longer than 20 minutes on something.

27/365

 

[heavy liquid]

These vehicles are a struggle for me, which is why I'm doing them. I'm not sure of the time for this one, but it was definitely over an hour. I'd like to go back and clean these up at some point.

28.

 

[TurnipFritters]

28 and 29/365

 

[heavy liquid]

Two 30m studies:

Horizontal / lying down figures are the hardest for me, because it's easy to get the proportions wrong. But I think I'm getting better, and this one turned out pretty well.
29.

I don't like this one too much because of the odd forced perspective and position. I guess it came out okay considering, and there are some parts that I think turned out alright.
30.

 

[heavy liquid]

Spent just under 1.5 hours with this one.

31.

 

[C.B.]

I don't get to post in this thread often anymore but I did do a couple sketches today.

 

[TurnipFritters]

30 and 31/365

 

[heavy liquid]

Hey Turnip, we've actually lasted a month! I don't know about you, but I'm surprised. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to do it, but it seems to be doable.

This was probably around 1.5 hours. Definitely building some new muscles with these mechanical drawings, which are out of my comfort zone.

32.

 

[TurnipFritters]

Hey Turnip, we've actually lasted a month! I don't know about you, but I'm surprised. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to do it, but it seems to be doable.

Yeah, one month seemed to be pretty doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it up the whole year, but hey point in not trying.

AND MAYBE BY POSTING IN THIS THREAD EVERYDAY OTHER PEOPLE WILL SEE IT AND JOIN THE FUN.

32/365

 

[Bright Side of Life]

Life is Short because Death is Tall

 

[heavy liquid]

Yeah, one month seemed to be pretty doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it up the whole year, but hey point in not trying.

AND MAYBE BY POSTING IN THIS THREAD EVERYDAY OTHER PEOPLE WILL SEE IT AND JOIN THE FUN.

Hopefully! So far I think Servbot and H.Protagonist were the only ones attempting to do daily drawings.

 

[TurnipFritters]

33/365

every second day of the month is hereby "attempt at a self portrait day"