After struggling for so long last night, today I made two decisions before starting:
I chose to use the ink bleed brush, which gives the lines a fuzzy look. And I finished in around 15 minutes, making only minor modifications to the sketch. I present TEETH on this…whatever it is:
I went through three sketches before finally ending up with the one below. The iPad was going bonkers with the palm rejection and Procreate keep doing things like switching to the erase or a different color randomly. By the end I was just glad to be done.
I started late, so this is a fairly quick sketch, using a mix of studio and brush pens in Procreate. It is a RODENT, specifically a rat. Sorry, no Gum Gum People this time.
A razor blade, to be exact. I am now three four four on Gum Gum People (hee hee).
I used reference for the radio, which took a long time to get looking “right” because I didn’t want to cheat with real straight lines. I now understand why the Draw a Box tutorials have you start by drawing pages of lines. Drawing lines is hard!
I also had trouble with the gum gum person’s legs, of all things. He’s sitting on a beanbag chair, for which I used no reference. The shading makes it look like it might be a lump of coal instead. I can live with that.
And yes, Prompt #3 is currently missing. I hope to get it done tomorrow(ish).
I tried a few things here, the first being a campfire with a wisp of smoke floating up from it. It wasn’t very good. I tried a cigarette on the ground, with smoke wisping up from it. This was even worse. I started to think I might have to come back to the prompt late. This isn’t what I wanted for the second day, so I began thinking about how I could somehow incorporate a gum gum person and that’s how I ended up with a gum gum person conjuring fire. Kind of weird, but sometimes you just roll with these things.
It’s time for Inktober again, woo.
The first prompt is FISH and I cleverly drew a fish:
This year I am using:
Today’s prompt was done using the brush pen and eraser. A lot of eraser. The brush pen allows for great control of stroke thickness and opacity, which are two things I am good at bumbling around with, hence the eraser. The drawing is a combination of careful construction and winging it. A flying fish, if you will.
I am officially ready for Inktober 2020. Well, I still need to get the screen protector on my iPad Pro, but I’ll do that tomorrow–two whole days before!
One of the most important things you learn in art class is using reference. To put it simply, copy stuff. In doing so, you learn how things connect and when your oranges come out as squares, maybe you need to look into that.
Here’s an example of copying from source material I did when I was probably about 10 or 11–the drawing is untitled, so I can’t say for sure, but I’m reasonably confident I was around that age, as it jibes with when I was reading Disney comics.
It’s actually a pretty good representation of Pluto, the odd dog pet of Goofy–odd, because Goofy was also a dog, of course. I’m intrigued by the fact that I did this using felt pens, as I have very few examples of felt pen art and the majority of my stuff was done in pencil or, to a lesser degree, pencil crayon.
PLUTO:
And for the sake of comparison, here’s the same with the wrinkly, yellowed sketchpad background removed:
The final exercise of the Lines part of drawabox.com’s Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes is Planes. The exercise requires two pages of work and I have only done one, so I have one more to go.
A few observations:
As mentioned before, when I finally complete Lesson 1 (in ten months), I am going to switch over to ctrlpaint.com’s traditional drawing lessons and try the first few there to see how they compare, then decide which one to go whole hog on. Because I never half-hog.
Tonight, I finally started doing actual exercises and actual drawing. Woo!
Specifically, I began Drawabox’s Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes and then started the homework. Much like in my school days, I did not finish my homework in one sitting.
The first section is on Lines and I did not quite make it through because I started late and don’t want to rush. I did finish the first two of three exercises on lines.
Superimposed lines
Two pages of lines where you start with a base line and then draw over it eight times, trying to achieve even, confident strokes that overlap as much as possible. My results are not exactly exact. I also noticed the copy paper I was using tended to almost create grooves, so if I got the pen tip into a certain groove, it was hard to get out of it. I switched to different printer paper after the first page.
Page 1:
Page 2:
The second exercise is Ghosted Lines, in which you trace out how you are going to draw a line connecting two points before committing to drawing the actual line. This is supposed to improve muscle memory, among other things.
Some of the lines are decent but I have a tendency to arc a little and overshoot the end point. The lesson addresses both of these things, so I am a bit of a noob here.
A few things I noticed:
Next up is the final Lines lesson, Ghosted Planes. I did a few as a finale for the night and my planes were not exactly air-worthy.
I need to better arrange my desk for drawing, too. Things are a little tight. I shall do so before completing the current lesson.