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Halo x Journey

Bit late to respond but this needs to become a teefury t-shirt
 
Day 1 :

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Done in...20 minutes, I guess ? Ink and white acrylic. I completed 3 more drawings today... Maybe I should have kept some for the following days :p
 
Drew something inspired by the supermoon.

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I've done stuff in the past couple of days too, but nothing that I care to share.

EDIT: Okay I also wanted to draw this so I did.

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So anyway, I'm terrified of drawing humans.


Time:1 hour 20 mins
Medium: GIMP + Wacom
Notes: I started out wanting to draw my thief from GW2 but spent a lot of time struggling with the pose for the arms and ended up drawing something set in a much more modern time. I'm terrible at drawing humans so suggestions would be most helpful.
 
Day two. ~1h30m

I'm terrible at drawing humans so suggestions would be most helpful.

Study anatomy. Draw from life/photos. Practice regularly.

Loomis' book Figure Drawing For All It's Worth comes highly recommended and is a good place to start. For additional study I'd recommend finding a copy of The Artist's Guide to Human Anatomy by Gottfried Bammes, as well as George Bridgman's books on the subject.

If you don't have the opportunity to draw from life there are tons of good reference photos online. My go-to for female anatomy is SenshiStock on deviant art (keep in mind that link may contain nsfw stuff.).
 
Study anatomy. Draw from life/photos. Practice regularly.

Loomis' book Figure Drawing For All It's Worth comes highly recommended and is a good place to start. For additional study I'd recommend finding a copy of The Artist's Guide to Human Anatomy by Gottfried Bammes, as well as George Bridgman's books on the subject.

If you don't have the opportunity to draw from life there are tons of good reference photos online. My go-to for female anatomy is SenshiStock on deviant art (keep in mind that link may contain nsfw stuff.).

Thanks - I'll take a look when I'm not at work.


Time: Just over an hour.
Medium: GIMP + Wacom.
Notes: I really need to spend some time working out how to half-tone in the GIMP.
 
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Just doodled some weapon concepts for this time, took about 30 minutes. Each character has their respective signature weapon to their left save for Vita (bug dude), who's got his "toaster pistol" he uses in CQC.

I'm going on vacation this Thursday so hopefully I'll have some time to make up all the days I've missed then.
 
I'm behind on a couple of days. Just finished this one. It took me about an hour in Photoshop; it's from my imagination. Was playing around with the flesh tones trying to get it somewhat right since I'm not good at that stuff. Need to put more thought into the background as well (click to enlarge):
 
Something to go with the last one.

Sweet Jesus! I absolutely love your portraits. They look fantastic. Maybe I should try doing photo realistic digital portraits even though I imagine they're more time consuming trying to get all the color tones for it.
 
I tried combining pencil outline with brush shading... Rather like it! Now if only I could be arsed enough to draw in actual backgrounds...

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~30 min
PS + Wacom
 
Time: 45 minutes
Medium: Photoshop CS5.1, Intuos4, Space Navigator
Notes: Same exercise as yesterday. Tried adding reflections to the sand.

Really really love these and thanks for the animated version. This is a hell of an exercise and one that my brain has yet to wrap itself around yet.
 
Day 18/19...I need to get back into the groove of this...


Around 10-15 minutes on each.
Wacom/artrage 4.

Day 2 + 3:
More watercolor and ink shenanigans. A quick portrait of another GW2 character, followed by okami inspired impy things. About 30 minutes each.

Loving that Okami inspired drawing. They were green imps!
 
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