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DVG Art Thread [NSFW]
DVG
No. 1 Honor StudentNether Institute, Evil AcademyRegistered User regular
No. 1 Honor StudentNether Institute, Evil AcademyRegistered User regular
I've been thinking about making a thread for awhile and haven't gotten around to it, but it seems like today is the day.
Anyhow I'm DVG and I'm a software developer. I started drawing 15ish years ago after college with the intention of one day self publishing long-form comic books. Mostly I refused to listen to good advice about drawing from life and assured myself that if I just kept inconsistently trying to draw stylized art on a tablet eventually everything would click and I'd be able to make the stuff I wanted to make.
This was all my best work around summer last year:
Arya v. Brienne
Ginny Weasly
Terry Branford
Self Portrait
Group of adventuring kids for a christmas D&D game
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So my company does this thing every year where you can pitch a personal project or passion and a panel of judges (the previous years winners) will award a set of grants (last year, they were $4,000) for you to go do that thing. Winners have including building a yurt, going on a family vacation, building a mobile office in an old RV and funding a roommate's transgender surgery. I pitched my oldest comic idea, along with this piece of concept art:
Pretty generic, right?
Anyway, I was soundly defeated, but it DID spark something in me. I've been fucking around with this as a hobby for 15 years now. I haven't seen substantial improvement in my work in 5-10 years. I need to shit or get off the pot.
So I started practicing like I should have all along. Using references. Consistently. I even signed up for the city's figure drawing class.
Portrait from Male Model, First Night of Figure Drawing
Portrait of Female Model, Second Night of Figure Drawing
One of the things that has helped me the most is studying anatomy outside of the time I'm with a model. I've been using Classic Human Anatomy for that. I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and here is a bunch of drawings I copied out of the book and made notes of, all of which was focused on the head
At this point, I stopped doing the anatomy study to see if it had come to anything and I started spending my free time drawing portraits. I usually get at most 30-60 minutes a given weekday to draw (during lunch at the office when I can find a conference room that's open) and usually can't find the time on the weekends due to kids keeping me busy.
Not wanting to get into a comfortable plateau I started scouring pinterest for references showing more extreme expressions. The results were creepy at first:
But in the last couple weeks a few ones that I feel good about emerged
Sorry for the huge post. Comments and critique are always welcome and I look forward to continuing down this path.
Anyhow I'm DVG and I'm a software developer. I started drawing 15ish years ago after college with the intention of one day self publishing long-form comic books. Mostly I refused to listen to good advice about drawing from life and assured myself that if I just kept inconsistently trying to draw stylized art on a tablet eventually everything would click and I'd be able to make the stuff I wanted to make.
This was all my best work around summer last year:
Arya v. Brienne
Ginny Weasly
Terry Branford
Self Portrait
Group of adventuring kids for a christmas D&D game
----
So my company does this thing every year where you can pitch a personal project or passion and a panel of judges (the previous years winners) will award a set of grants (last year, they were $4,000) for you to go do that thing. Winners have including building a yurt, going on a family vacation, building a mobile office in an old RV and funding a roommate's transgender surgery. I pitched my oldest comic idea, along with this piece of concept art:
Pretty generic, right?
Anyway, I was soundly defeated, but it DID spark something in me. I've been fucking around with this as a hobby for 15 years now. I haven't seen substantial improvement in my work in 5-10 years. I need to shit or get off the pot.
So I started practicing like I should have all along. Using references. Consistently. I even signed up for the city's figure drawing class.
Portrait from Male Model, First Night of Figure Drawing
Portrait of Female Model, Second Night of Figure Drawing
One of the things that has helped me the most is studying anatomy outside of the time I'm with a model. I've been using Classic Human Anatomy for that. I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and here is a bunch of drawings I copied out of the book and made notes of, all of which was focused on the head
At this point, I stopped doing the anatomy study to see if it had come to anything and I started spending my free time drawing portraits. I usually get at most 30-60 minutes a given weekday to draw (during lunch at the office when I can find a conference room that's open) and usually can't find the time on the weekends due to kids keeping me busy.
Not wanting to get into a comfortable plateau I started scouring pinterest for references showing more extreme expressions. The results were creepy at first:
But in the last couple weeks a few ones that I feel good about emerged
Sorry for the huge post. Comments and critique are always welcome and I look forward to continuing down this path.
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Your faces have DRASTICALLY improved as a result of your head studies, so keep it up and you'll keep seeing progress (but don't get too stuck learning just heads! keep branching out!).
Tonight’s figure drawing class
I drew her again today. 10 months difference
Granted my head deflated a bit today when I couldn’t get my art to cooperate at all, but yesterday? Yesteraay I felt good.
WIP
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the smudge tool
It's the paintbrush with the water drop next to it.
Reason: kevinatlas
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple.
cottonsnail
Something happened st figure drawing tonight that hasn’t happened before: the model asked to photograph my sketch because she liked it best. It felt so nice
The whispy bit is fun, and I can see you've indicates some lighting there. I think ti could be a bit more pronounced.
Hope that helps!
Sabrina Spellman
Head came out weirdly proportioned but I’m pretty happy with the rest
Was coloring with my niece