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I need help, I cant make up my mind which version do you prefer? :sweat_smile:
want to make sticker sheets!

These are amazing! I like the ones on the left the best as they're a little easier to read at a glance. The darker ones are nice but the details are difficult to see.

Here's a concept drawing for my upcoming series Thirley Peak. It's one of the villain factions the cult of Candlelight.

Vacation ends in a couple of days, I got sick and didn't even started Legs part of Proko :sweat_02:
Anyhow it was pretty productive, although I will most definitely have to continue anatomy studies upon after my return and dig deeper into some research (maybe add Ryzhkin's lectures again, they were really good), because so far I was just skimming over the info.

Honestly, can't wait to redraw some old stuff with a better understanding of whatever the hell I am doing, I have just a beefcake for that :information_desk_person:

Always a fan of your work. The sketches were it transforms from anatomy to shapes just gave me chills of how good it was.

@Katzalcoatl Thank you!
Our bodies are absolutely fascinating and this all is terribly interesting to learn about :relieved:

I was today years old when I learnt how useful the warp tool is. :laughing:

Maybe it’s just easier to use in Procreate. :sweat_smile:

Concepting a scene. Don’t get too excited, this is mostly me tracing over some 3d models I cobbled together :joy:

Got myself a new sketchbook cause I want to learn anatomy proper this time. Broke it in by drawing a few circles before I decided to draw another character from my story. Here's Troy with his hair down (yes he).

He's canonically prettier than most girls.

Head, hair and face tips are welcome.

Edit: Troy wasn't happy about this

dont think i ever shared this, something ill never finish unfortunatly :sweat_02:
i really do hate procreate for animation, but works for small quick ideas.

Some sketches from the latest update. I haven't got time for anything else at the mo :')

So, after a lot of tries, I am kind of happy with how I am drawing in traditional!
And I wonder, how many trial and error did get to me here, like, I had bought a lot of pencils, paints, paper, etc, some I discovered I don't like, others I found very easy to work with, and all just to find this perfect combination of instruments, that along a lot of practice from the digital programs, let me do something like this. And this is nothing too exciting either! I could do better because this was a practice drawing, but, anyway. How much practice, and money have you invested to get you so far, people? How much do you think that you will need to get where you want to be?

Here's a mega double-paged update. One of my favorite updates.. went all out on these 2 pages

Daaaaang! Seeing this really makes me want to invest and put all my neglected sketchbooks to good use. What's in your traditional art supply arsenal?

Here's one of my characters Noah Chompsky. He's a vampire dinosaur with the ability to change size and fly.

@simonitropunk All that hard work has certainly paid off. :grinning::+1:

@Aleksei I’m still paying off my student loans. :sweat_02: I possibly spend less these days, as I work digitally, but I have purchased a couple of drawing tablets that didn’t suit me, as well as software I’ve tinkered with… only to run back to Photoshop. :joy:

@DanielRKM Well, as for now, as I am trying to develop a sense of values, and shadows, I am working with an 8H Derwent Graphic pencil for the sketchs, and 0.3 sakura mechanical pencil for final sketch, a G-pen for the outlines (I bought the 'deleter trial pen set' with other nibs, but that one I liked the best), and Kuretake black ink; for the inside lines I use a 005 Pigma Micron tracer pen, a Kuretake Brush Pen for the whole black areas (I don't want to use the ink for that, is too much black xd), annd maybe some other tracer for the details, a 10 white Sakura Gelly Roll, to fix mistakes and add shine... and that would be all for now.
I just bought some a grey set of TouchNew markers, but I still need them to get delivered home, and then I will add some more depth to my drawings, if I end up understanding well how to use them xd.
Now I need an scanner, because I don't think that my cellphone is doing justice to the hard work that takes doing a traditional drawing! I would gladly hear names of scanners from the community, as I have no idea wich is good to scan drawings n_nU

@Legendofgenii Oh, yeah! I have also spent some money on tablets! The only program I allow myself to be lost in nowdays, though, is Clip Studio Paint. It took me a while to change photoshop for it, but after I found a brush I really liked, I was sold on CSP (a pack of 10 brushes from JimmyReyesArt in Gumroad, if anyone wants to go and buy it, only for 10 dollars). Who knows, maybe if I find another brush for photoshop I might go back there =P

working on reference sheets. kinda makes you think a bit more of how to draw in general. LOL :sweat_02:

Trying to work on males and stuff. Doing free headshots for some folks and don't complete hate it? Lol.

Update:

I bought two new 샤프 (mechanical pencils) for about CAD$20 each which means my art should be $40 good from now on. I gave them a bit of a run this evening.

The all metal build was comfy and gave me a good grip. Being metal suggests that maybe they'll last me more than the cheaper pencils I tend to buy, but all I can say to that is CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, STAEDTLER JAPAN!

@Calculus_Homework the one in the upper middle with dark hair made me think of Taxedo Mask 🤭:blusht:

More hugging chibis because first time I failed to hear what Dark wanted (but I will still use yesterday's ones somewhere). Made these into WT rating banner since someone ruined it xD mothafookers