100 days of art

[abigaillmartin]

Day 29:

@Lensing was giving me some lessons on drawing

What do you guys think?
Isn’t he a cutie? 🥺️

Bonus:

Had this song stuck in my head for a long time. I love Enchanted.

Harry: The (Censored by Mickey) you mean it isn’t normal that animals talk?!

[Leyelle]

Cool, the improvement is huge!

[abigaillmartin]

Yeah I want my illustrations for my fanfiction to be in a Disneyesque style so I’m practicing

Look what I found:

[abigaillmartin]

Bonus: I tried

This was so FUN!

[Lensing]

Comments like this make this topic the best place on the forum <3

[Lensing]

2 x day 25
I got bored and zoned out because I´m not focused today,
but I made good progress with my big, personal comic project that
I´m working on. I´m at the point where I´m finally happy with the
quality of the sketches and the overall look of the page.

[Leyelle]

Day 27.

Still not good at drawing straight lines by hand, but I am trying my best

[abigaillmartin]

Day 30:

Attempt no 2 with @beebutterbee ‘s help

Gorgeous!!

[beebutterbee]

I’ve been so busy ahh!! currently trying to catch up on all my unread messages still Love seeing everyone creating though.

@abigaillmartin OMG!! You got it to work I hope you like that technique, coloring sketches digitally is much fun. Here’s the one I did; butterbee is a colorist? Maybe lol

@Leyelle I also am not good at straight lines, but I’ve found my style is so wonky it looks better with weird lines? Instead of working against it I figured out ways the waviness could look aesthetically pleasing. I actually make my comic panels crooked on purpose now, I think it makes them blend in more with my art! Idk though I might give bad advice My perspective is also really wacky but I love the way it looks still.

One of my favorite drawn interiors is by Charlotte Salomon (she’s actually one of the earlier influences for how we have graphic novels today)

Wacky wonky is good honestly as long as it has lots of texture and detail imo!

[abigaillmartin]

A claw machine?

(I have 20 characters)

[beebutterbee]

I have so many unfinished pages for Persephone Dial, like next to 50 pages now of just sketches like these, AND no new updates because I can’t seem to do anything finished right now no focus, but enjoy this weird design!! I think these girl faced birds pop a lot in my art.

[Lensing]

Straight lines are not so important for me. When I have to draw straight lines
on paper or the computer and want them to be super straight then I´ll just
a ruler. Just like @beebutterbee wrote, I also prefer wavey lines, I use
a panel template for my comics but then draw over them without a ruler
and then intenionally break the lines to make it look more organic.

Confident lines are more important imo, dynamic lines are super important,
CSI lines, trying to make all outlines dynamic short lines is a fun practice
and to play with straight against curves. Pushing poses with dynamic lines etc.

Here is day 26. The step from day 25 simple 2 point perspective to drawing
hands is a bit wild imo

[Leyelle]

I feel you with not being able to finish anything. Burnout has been hitting me so hard I don't think I've completed a single short story or comic panel in the last month, just a lit of drafts and WIPs

[Lensing]

You are not alone.

What helps me a lot is talking to other people about my projects. Here comes the problem:

Nobody wants to hear that
"Normal" people don´t understand it or are simply not interested just like me listening to
someone talking about gardening or about math formulas they find really interesting.
Other art people are focused on their art and are also not interested in listening to you
talking about something they have no connection too, just like me listening to someone
talking about their detailed magic system.

It sometimes helps to have someone to look at a panel or sketch at least a second.
If someone says they like my style or this is funny or some other reaction then this
gives me enough energy to continue and not burn out. Thanks to @abigaillmartin
by the way. Without her I wouldn´t have finished the page that I´m finishing today

[abigaillmartin]

@Lensing I thank you for tolerating my fangirling over Harry Houdini

Listening to people certainly does make a difference.

And yes, I LOVE your style. I think it’s really cool! Better than mine I’d say so.

Meeee! ️🥺 (a real life vocal stim I actually do; it calms me)

[abigaillmartin]

takes a bow

[beebutterbee]

@Leyelle Yeah burn out sucksss at least I got a lot done before it hit, I finished last seasons dream journal at 60k words (why the heck can’t I put that energy into a novel??) But also I guess I’ve been focusing more on writing, I did actually finish the draft for short story… doom?? I also finished up the outline for a … new novel …

OK!! Okay, I know, THIS is why I never finish anything it’s also the severe mental set backs too, schizophrenia makes things impossible sometimes. I think I just need to focus on rest, I think you should too! 3 days of resting creates more weeks of creating, instead of 3 weeks of painfully trying to make yourself work on anything with nothing becoming anything rest rest rest 🩷

@Lensing Ooh, yes talking about projects does help, sort of? Sometimes it just helps brainstorm most of the time. I really think my mental health just gets the better of me sometimes when I forget to eat, sleep, and do anything else but draw and write. I guess I can’t run on 4 hours of sleep a night for two weeks help, I’m addicted to drawing?!

Also, find people who are interested!! There are actually people who are, in my experience. Me and brother actually just talk about my stories non stop and when I hang out with friends, we talk about our stories and characters for the entire day. I’m not joking we hang out from noon to eight lol, sharing the manuscripts, editing, world building, collecting photos and art, drawing, just joking around! It’s very fun. All my friends are writers, though, so it is in our interest.

@abigaillmartin Harry Houdini lore is welcome here Also the way you portray it makes it’s funny and interesting so it’s fun to read along the comics you make. I still can’t get the image of the Blonde Houdini and Black Star out of my head lmao peak comedy only we would get it tho.

[beebutterbee]

@Lensing I totally agree! Confident line work really helps sell the work, although sometimes my lines are TOO confident, I feel like I score the paper I’m trying to not have such a heavy hand but I always end up drawing very dark lines.

@abigaillmartin Also confident lines, are when you have a continuous line, instead of many tiny lines making up the contour of a shape/figure/whatever the subject is. So for example the side of the face only needs one brush stroke/pencil mark instead of many. If you want to practice, I’d recommend contour drawing :)!

[abigaillmartin]

Nooooo! Not A Night At The Magic Castle!!

Me and @Lensing were just talking about it!!

Max! Get outta there!! AAAAAH!!

[beebutterbee]

Lmao djkdksks MAX!!!! That kid needs therapy after everything