The Sketch a Day Thread!

[Lensing]

I never heard the expression but thanks a lot

[Legendofgenii]

@KSlinger This is soooo cute!

[flourish]

[DanielRKM]

@migxmeg May your house stay together on your art day!!!!! Your figure drawing has been so great to see, I can't wait to see you lick butt on your panels again. Regardless, I hope your day is exactly what you need (or at least a promising start).

[KSlinger]

Thank you! It's been a while since one of us posted a doggy.

[Callaxes]

Another step-by-step process

Sketch + background color

Main colors (skin + hair + clothes). Add highlights and play around with colors.

Merge all layers, including the sketch layer we started with (farewell sketch layer, you’ve been a faithful friend on this journey), but always bellow 100% opacity. You want to keep a bit of your linework transparent towards the end, even as you clean and smooth over the final details.

Whenever i draw details over, like hair strands or freckles, i lower the opacity to like 60% and then merge it.

Finally we zoom out to do the rest of the body. I don’t have much to add to this, since it went by pretty quick. Once I got her expression right, I didn’t feel like spending too much time on the other details.

@DanielRKM thank you i love your character designs!

[Lensing]

thanks for sharing the step by step drawings, I love to see those

[Kelheor]

@KSlinger such a good girl

@DanielRKM oh no, no apple picking unfortunately, we're living in the capital I never was on apple picking, this sounds like fun!

@migxmeg wooohoooo! treats and drawing, what a day off

@Callaxes I like how you're using this... squareish brush, it gives interesting angles to the coloring.

I uh... am getting a bit tired with the stuff happening around
Also have a small fixation on hair it seems xD

Also just realized my TiaT 2023 sketches file has 400 layers...ehhh I need to clean it...

[Aleksei]

So, I finished a while my webcomic, but its still on the run, so in the meantime, as I have nothing to do I will try a full NSFW comic, (like @Lensing, but I have no name of mine to be discredited for drawing NSFW xd). But as I have no talent for those kind of scripts, I searched one on the internet and adapted it to comic format.
Now, I know that that is kind of disrepectful to the writer, specially because he wrote something very good, with conflict, a bit of comedy, and a steamy sexy scene, so I won't upload the comic anywhere until I got approval from the writer. But I am getting ahead of myself, I am still in the concept of the characters... and here is one!!! Josh. No surname, only Josh.

I also tried one panel to see if colors works, so this may be the final mix for him.

@Callaxes dear god, your process its so alien to me! I wouldn't be able to do something like that even knowing the process that you went through! Congrats!

[Lensing]

I love the drawing and conflict/comedy/steamy sex scene sounds like something I want
to read. Where did you find the story?

[PoquitoBird]

Did some sketches and finishing up a background today

[Callaxes]

[Kelheor]

Not overly inspired, but still feel like I need to do something

[Lensing]

I would read a comic in that sketchy style.
I just tried out how that sketch would look like with a panel border
around it and I really dig it

[Callaxes]

I turned out great. You have beautiful linework and a great sense of movement. Don’t feel pressured to post, if you don’t feel like it. You’re doing us a favor by sharing your work, not the other way arround.

[Kelheor]

@Lensing I am so spoiled by beautiful finished art xD even the sketches of other people I see are usually 300 times cleaner, so I can't make a peace with myself posting mine. And you know when you come to Twitter or something and people are posting their Mona Lisas signing it "eh, today's sketch". I just can't with it
Although considering how slow I am, drawing a sketchy comic may prove to be a better decision

@Callaxes you guys here are the sweetest bunch thank you. Honestly this place is basically the only one where I don't feel pressure posting, unlike all the social media most of which I abandoned

[Aleksei]

@Lensing I found it on Nifty.org. Its a site were they only upload nsfw stories. It took a while to read something worthy, though. Most of the time its fetiches, imposible situtations, and 'the plot is sex', which is fine if thats your jam, but I wanted a good script, so it took me a while to find what I wanted.
Now, if you want to rate this script, its here, or you could wait until the comic is released:

Summary

https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/highschool/graduation-goodbyes

The guy has started a Patreon with his stories if you want more n_n.

I would also suggest Archive Of Our Own (or ao3, for short, I am sure you have heard of the site), but they only have derivative works, not original works, so if you find a good script, you must change more than you would on Nifty.

[Lensing]

Thanks a lot, I will check that page out.
I´m on lushstories, they have pretty good stories with a real story

[Aleksei]

Thanks! I'm sure gonna check the page!
Oh, before I forgot, Nifty is focused on LGBT stories. That's why I found it first.

[Callaxes]

Not a sketch, but I need to finish this commission before i go to sleep and it’s taking forever

How it started, how it turned out: