A little different from my usual routine, today I did colour theory studies 
I completed an art study on the shin-hanga print Kamo Village on Sado Island, Tabi miyage dai nishū, Sado Kamomura
I also managed to do a line study of a sketch made by Chris Sanders:
@ScribbleJay I really like the matte metal armour! I cant wait to see your other ideas
@nathanKmcwilliams amazing kata and the fact that you noticed something off from your reference is constant reminder that your analysis is improving 
@DualDragons Welcome to the thread! And dont worry about starting later ( I started 30 days after this thread was made!) The most important part is that you started. The dynamic poses you've done so far are good. I can tell what each pose is and what is happening!
@Hodge your colour studies are are rather comprehensive! You've really managed to make them come out clean 
what do you use to draw digitally? I use a Samsung tab S6 with Autodesk sketchbook app
@SoulShark yeah, true that. I ended up using the katas in an actual picture afterwards too. Put all that learning into use amiright?
Ooh I love those paintings! I just bought a watercolour set myself and waiting for it to arrive. 
This is a thread I'd really like to contribute more to though I am a bit busy, hope to get more studies going soon. I did want to drop something though, not necessarily a study but the direct result of it. When I was attending life drawing classes before Covid I thought it would be important to revisit something for fun to test if the classes were paying off and it was pretty mind blowing for me.
I was able to draw this out fairly quickly, no construction approach, just working from memory of drawing real life people!
WOW THIS IS SO GOOD!! Also how was life drawing classes for you? I really want to try doing it sometime but I get busy alot lol. Ok but I lovee how all the details look, especially the plant and the way you blocked out the hair. Especially since its drawn from memory, it really shows how much practice youve done!
You really make me want to start life drawing more again lol
@Hodge I bought the Art School for digital artists online course by Marc Brunet and it's a method that I learned from there I'm too busy with competition comic work to properly start the course, but I'm finding it really beneficial to do gestures like these every day to warm up
@SoulShark Thanks <3
Anywaysss, here are my gestures for today! My gestures didn't go so well yesterday because everything kept interrupting me, so I got annoyed and quit 2/3rds of the way through the 30 second gestures :') So today, my gestures are a bit rusty, I think. Also, I tried a different brush for the 1 minute gestures, but I don't like the effect that it gave, so I won't use that again lmao
Only traditional today cause idk if I can share the other studies I'm doing. I'm basically trying to analyze and deconstruct popular webtoons to learn from them. Idk is that something y'all would be interested in seeing?
@nathanKmcwilliams Liking the gestures and shapes! kimonos/traditional japanese clothes are so fun to draw~
@SoulShark i mean . .. that's a really nice circle (oval???ellipse??) lol. Your color studies look really cool too, and traditionally too! As a digital artist, people who willing give up Ctrl+Z amaze me haha And i draw on the Samsung Notebook 9 Pro laptop with the staedtler noris digital as the stylus.
@spudfuzz i remember this drawing! i really like how drew the hand here, very elegant. Those life drawing classes do wonders for draftsmanship huh~ ahh can't wait to go back to them. Croquis cafe videos will do for now sigh
@Iridescent_Bismuth these look pretty good though! Consistency > perfection with studies~
these look all really nice!! i love how expressive your gesture lines are especially! and YEAH i would to see your analysis and deconstruction of popular webtoons, I think that'd be really interesting and helpful to see
I wouldn't mind seeing them! By the way, what is the consensus on tracing as a practice tool for this thread?
Hmm I think as long as it shows that you're thinking through it as you're tracing then it should be fine I think. Like trying to show construction lines or studying specific stylistic choices the artist made.
That way it's functioning more as a master study. Ah but that's just my opinion, feel free to just trace if you want~
Studies for today~
Studying comps from Solo Leveling (possible spoilers) I'm trying to hide it, works in the preview, but not when i post it for some reason.
@CodeMonkeyArts I love the expression on the cat lol, so grumpy. Also, nice to know I'm not the only one that writes "Haha" or "lol" in my studies even though there really isn't a point. I also do a lot of "oops" and curse words . . .
@nathanKmcwilliams ohh environment studies are hard, especially historical ones cause references can be difficult to find. Also really liking how you keep the gesture studies to simple shapes, something I really struggle with.
@Hodge super impressive how much you get done in one sitting (it is one sitting right?)
As for the simple shapes, I try to keep it as close to my own style as possible, that way when I translate poses into my work it feels natural. But....the sheet I'm going off of is incredibly bare bones on detail xD
analysis of Solo Leveling Ch.33 . . . no idea what I'm doing here lol, but the understanding of flow, gesture, and depth in this comic is really so good
@nathanKmcwilliams ahhh ok seeing your reference it makes sense lol. Studying from photo/video has its benefit but simplifying all that information and processing it can be difficult. It's really easy to get overwhelmed and just switch to auto-pilot.
And yup. all in one sitting for most part. But it really goes by quickly since each exercise is pretty short.