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OTGW Fanarts because this is my favorite show ever ✨

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Room sketches while watching The Owl House

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This is technically assignment #1, part 2.

There’s 5 parts. I feel kinda bad only doing one part a day but…it’s all my mind can muster

This is why I stop drawing. Because I can see how horrible I am. I went to college for illustration (annnnd dropped out) . I know what good and bad practices are. It’s frustrating being able to see how bad you are (as apposed to newbies who haven’t been studying forever so they are just happy to create and learn that way). But I know if I don’t push thru this discomfort I won’t improve.

I think I’ll rewatch the videos tomorrow or Sunday so the concepts can really sink in. I felt like I forgot everything today and was struggling to remember what to look for. I did keep thinking “animate the form, animate the form!” But I couldn’t really remember how to do that. So.

It’s a long journey, that’s for sure

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First batch is the gesture drawings I started doing as a warm up (a few days ago)

They felt so wrong and I knew I wasn’t getting “the point” so I went into New Masters Academy and started Sheldon Borenstein’s “The Fundamentals of Gesture Drawing���

The next 2 photos are the gestures I did along with Sheldon’s class.

I feel like I grasp the concept a bit more. It’s more about the outline or shape! It’s about animating the figure.

I’m off to do the assignment. A bit nervous I’ll fail without a teachers guidance but that’s how you improve!

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Super stressed

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June 2021, observational study

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People think you just put pen to paper and get amazing, carefree, totally inspired, art. Sorry to say, unless your Kim Jung Gi, that isn’t the case. Here’s a typical process for me. And when I say typical, I mean rare, because I usually stop at step 1, maybe step 2 if I’m feeling inspired 😂 Step 1: Doodles. I never know what I’m going to draw before I get going. I may have a vague idea, but it always morphs into something I didn’t expect. I have 19x24 Bristol paper I let my mind throw up on. It’s usually pages and pages of unfinished scribbles. Sometimes something stands out though and we go from there. Step 2: Transfer. Sometimes I blow the doodle up and use a light box to transfer it to a clean piece of paper. I realized recently though that that doesn’t really capture the “essence” like I want it too. I’ve been trying to just redraw the sketch on fresh paper without a light box, and I like it a whole lot more. Sure, it takes longer and maybe is more frustrating, but the new sketch has its own personality now and isn’t just a bad copy. Step 3: All the layers. After every layer I draw (foreground, middle ground, background, props) I wonder if I should stop. “Is this good enough? Will I ruin this?” If you also think this way, do a million scans along the way. Don’t have a skinner? Take pictures. That way, you can “undo” and go back to an area you messed up and start over. Sometimes I’ll print a picture of a point I didn’t feel I messed up at and go from there, other times I’ll just take it to photoshop and continue drawing it in there (Ya know, Cus then you can actually undo your mistakes) Step 4: Color: same process as layers. It’s daunting. It’s hard. It’s what I need to work on in 2018. You start in one area (fore, middle, or back ground) and Work your way up. You take a lot of pictures and scans just in case. On this particular piece I used copics, but only having a handful of copics it was challenging (Which is cool. Challenges are cool). But then midway, I started running low on ink and that’s when things got weird... which is cool, weird is cool. But it wasn’t something I felt like photoshop could fix, so I ran with it Step 5: Edit it and pretend like everything’s ok. After scanning your piece, things get weird. And not that cool weird I just spoke of. It’s the weird weird that makes you feel weird and want to disappear. Your colors are going to be super off, you question if you need glasses, it’s all overwhelming. Fear not, photoshop isn’t cheating. You have to Pop that baby into photoshop or any photo editing software and edit it to make it look like what it naturally is. Maybe a little better then what it naturally is. All depends on what you like. And that’s it. Super simple steps. Super agonizing process. This piece is simple, nothing special, the face needs work. It doesn’t look like it took s long time to do, and maybe other artist move faster then I do, but this took me awhile. I’m always tempted to be like “quick sketch 😉” when I post my art because artist that do that come off as super cool and skilled and totally rad. But the reality is I have a long, slow, and steady process. And that’s cool 😎

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