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Lyrical
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I've been experiencing another springtime of drawing in my life, and that seasonal rhythm dictates that I eventually return here in search of critique and inspiration.
Brief background: I have a (useless) liberal arts degree in sculpture. I did about half of an M.Arch before dropping out. I grow produce for a living. My artistic ambitions are focused on creator-owned projects (I lack the emotional fortitude for creative freelancing.) Some artists I admire are Zak Smith, Eddie Campbell, Heather Gwinn, Cedric Plante. I like looking at things that feel extemporaneous or even naive, or that juxtapose beauty and other non-beauty concepts.
I draw mostly with pens--either felt-tipped multiliners or rapidographs--and have a preference against doing erasable underdrawings. I work very iteratively, and recycle lots of barely-begun drawings. I often warm up by following timed recorded life drawing sessions from youtube, or by drawing my family around the house. Other than that, I rarely draw directly from reference. I re-read my Loomis books a lot. I have to look through the backside of the paper pretty often or my drawings develop a strong skew toward the upper right. I suffer from a lack of patience when drawing.
Here are some warm-up sketches I've done recently, 2-5 minute poses:
Some other figures from imagination:
Then here's some things closer to what I'm trying for as a finished product (part of a map card project for Dungeon World):
Thanks!
Dirk
Brief background: I have a (useless) liberal arts degree in sculpture. I did about half of an M.Arch before dropping out. I grow produce for a living. My artistic ambitions are focused on creator-owned projects (I lack the emotional fortitude for creative freelancing.) Some artists I admire are Zak Smith, Eddie Campbell, Heather Gwinn, Cedric Plante. I like looking at things that feel extemporaneous or even naive, or that juxtapose beauty and other non-beauty concepts.
I draw mostly with pens--either felt-tipped multiliners or rapidographs--and have a preference against doing erasable underdrawings. I work very iteratively, and recycle lots of barely-begun drawings. I often warm up by following timed recorded life drawing sessions from youtube, or by drawing my family around the house. Other than that, I rarely draw directly from reference. I re-read my Loomis books a lot. I have to look through the backside of the paper pretty often or my drawings develop a strong skew toward the upper right. I suffer from a lack of patience when drawing.
Here are some warm-up sketches I've done recently, 2-5 minute poses:
Some other figures from imagination:
Then here's some things closer to what I'm trying for as a finished product (part of a map card project for Dungeon World):
Thanks!
Dirk
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Battle chicken I'm working on. Trying to figure out how to introduce more areas of black, having a hard time with it.
Your eyes seem to be a bit flat on the face in some of your drawings, I would spend a little while looking more carefully at their form and maybe reigning in your strokes around the area to better describe whats going on.
Here's a stack of vignettes and characters I've been working on for a game I'm running: