100 days of art

[Leyelle]

well thanks, I've just gotta keep working. But I'm really grateful for your advice and suggestions too. It's always great to get tips from people who are further along in their art progression than I am rn

[Lensing]

Day 18, the daily hands, I´m happy that I pulled it through 18 days long,
then I worked on the planes of the mouth area, it´s way easier to remember
than the planes of the cheekbone area.

I worked on some of the male characters for the story I´m working on.
This is a guy the female main character meets on a vacation

[Leyelle]

the hand position looks so delicate and elegant today!

[Lensing]

Thank you, I had a female hand in mind

[Leyelle]

Didn't finish a single piece I liked yesterday, but I have meh WIP of Mora in a steam punk fit, and a rough sketch (first time trying to draw) my OC Rudy. I think I might redraw Mora's face before I get to coloring

Gotta slim Rudy's face up a bit more and soften the angles on her face so she can have a square jaw while not being confused for a guy.

Also this drawing of Christopher in a Dominican school uniform sitting like a hieroglyph lol.

[Leyelle]

Finally finished an okay ish school uni pic

And a pic where i did a weird glowy thing since Mora already kind of glows in water being a bioluminescent creature

[Lensing]

I can´t believe it´s already day 19, I normally never feel like that but I feel like I have been improving.
I will continue doing some kind of online diary. I have a big list of things I want to get good at.

I wanted to practice and learn more about lips today but I only managed to do one which
I tried out on a female character. The usual hands and a very quick sketch of a male character

And I started with the anatomy studies again, it helps a lot when drawing muscular guys,
I studied a lot of anatomy but it´s still hard to draw anything from memory and I just guys
where everything sits, would be cool to know where everything sits

[Leyelle]

It's day 53 of 100 days of art for me. Can't believe I'm more than half way done already. I wish I'd made more progress. I redid the colors twice on the picture of Mora to more canon ones to see how they look. Still like the purple haired one a lot, but it's technically not canon as her vitiligo never spreads enough to make her hair 100% pure purple.

I'm probably gonna draw Mora twice more today since I'm a day before on the outfit challenge.

Btw @Lensing I checked out Angel Ganev, his skills are incredible

[Lensing]

Don´t worry, most (sometimes all) of the progress will develop after a while, it´s like many seeds that you plant
and they grow slowly. It´s just important that you constantly have to do problem solving.
I had months which felt like zero progress and then only one or two moments in one year where I thought
I got better at something. It´s probably something we never really see ourselves or is hard to see

[Leyelle]

aye, I just gotta keep practicing and hopefully i'll improve even if the progress is slow lol. At least I'm pretty far from the very first drawing I made digitally

[Leyelle]

Spent a very long time drawing the highlights here from different reference images.

Still gotta ways to go. It looks trippy weird RN lol

[Lensing]

Have you ever tried to place the characters on a dark background and then make the outlines white?
I just tried that and I think it looks good and makes the characters more readable / not even necessary
to use highlights

[Lensing]

Day 20,
I really diliked drawing those fists holding a pipe/baseball bat.
Then I tried coloring them quickly and now I think they would work in
a comic. They would probably even work better when they are tiny and
in context.

I decided to draw some panels today to reward me and to motivate me to
keep on studying. I tried out a portrait for my female OC. It´s from a dream
sequence and how she sees herself. I wanted to make her look more serious
and strict but I´m happy how it turned out and I feel like I developed

[Leyelle]

Yeah, I have, but I don't like the effect it causes for Mora, I've done it to draw my other very dark complected FL before tho

[Leyelle]

Still behind on the outfit challenge lol, I redid Mora's shading a bit and the color of her dress yesterday, so this will have to be updated with today's art later.

My brain is dead. I like how shiny she looks tho most of it still needs a ton of work. I think this version is better, but it might just be me.

[Leyelle]

Alright, drew this today

My little brother suggested I make her glow lol

[Lensing]

Good idea with the glow.
Are you familiar with Stephen Silver?
That´s the artist who drew Kim Possible and he is also a teacher.
I think it would be interesting for you to look into his instagram page
because your art is very silhouette based / the silhouette of your
characters is very important. And he talks a lot about that and how
to improve it. It´s really interesting.

It´s something that I don´t do at all, but I should

[Lensing]

Day 21, hands and lips.

I´m at a point where I can live with the hands that I´m drawing, they will work with my style

I´m also trying to make one of the 25 essential expressions every day with my OCs

[Leyelle]

no, i'd never heard of him but i'll look it up.

what are the 25 essential expressions?

[Lensing]

The 25 essential expressions are a fun thing to do when you make character sheets for
your comic. I do that to get to know my characters better and for brainstorming.

There is also one with 30 essential expressions online but 25 is already overkill enough