#digital sketcbook

[luxtax]

Digital Sketchbook 01: That Shy Horse

[michellerakar]

November has been busy, but here's my digital sketchbook! I was reading a lot of Eventures this month so I did some quick sketches of some Eventure moments. Also we rewrote a lot of the Timer Eventure, so I did some concepts during some of the intermissions. And then November 3rd 2022 is Rocko's actual birth date, so he was officially born this month!

[real-ants]

👁

[sir-squibbly]

Crimson and Ennui moment

[catylovewinters]

El doritos

Bill Cipher

[wweeird]

left right

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[moodicorn]

Have some Hilda fan art. Hilda is an animated series on Netflix, based on comic books by Luke Pearson. It's a great series and I really recommend you check it out.

I did this drawing of Alfur all the way back in 2022, when my Hilda obsession was at its peak. I think Alfur really needs some coffee after all his adventures with Hilda.

Here are some doodles from this month. They were supposed to feature more characters, but it mostly turned into me trying to figure out how on earth to draw Twig lol.

I also wrote some silly incorrect quotes, if you wanna check that out:

[browneyelumi]

Haven’t drawing anything in a long while sooo….

Itachi Uchiha

[darkcodedarti]

Archive Day 6

When I say drawing papa is therapeutic to me, it is. An old digital piece when I first got my hands on my Huion, of course this was before the uproar of people finding out they used ai art for their marketing, I wasn’t too pleased but I already brought without even knowing.

[ghosts-arting]

Me & my gf 💛

[spideyutty]

[vanweezer]

im bored as fugg. art/sketchbook page reqs?

[suspiciously-human-sized-horse]

[janpesart]

Scenery and color practice. 🤔 I feel like I need to practice more!

I drew the first sketch on my sketcbook and then colored it digitally.

[catylovewinters]

Dipper and Mabel Pines

[eternalshadeart]

I've been doing digital art for almost 2 years now, with little to no practice on actual paper for these 2 years, and that got me thinking did I Lose my touch with traditional art, Haven't picked up an actual paint brush in so long. Its easy to get lost in the vast possibilities that digital painting softwares offer, ranging from hundreds of brush textures, to tools to make your shaky lines smooth, making the perfect circles, filing a solid colour in an instant.

Where you absolutely dont have to wait for your oils or watercolor to dry up before going for the next layer, and most importantly no need to spend dollars on art supplies and if you make any mistake the undo option is always there for you.

It did make painting easier in a way, but it also comes with its own cons, when I started digital painting I felt like I had to learn from scratch how to use the particular software, and had to learn to paint all over again. Tho it catches up quick but still figuering out how to use each tool, how all the functions, brushes, layers, blend modes work. It does take some time.

Nevertheless I ventured from my point, so since I've been painting dgitally for 2 years I figured its time to indulge in some traditional work, touch base and see If im still worthy.

I tried painting a couple of small canvas and got stuck figuring out what to draw, to have the exact outcome planned out because if I decide halfway through coloring my background that I dont like how it looks, I dont have a ctrl Z to help me this time, I'll have to paint over the whole thing and start from scratch. Painting on the canvas directly is a commitment and theres a looming pressure that the outcome should look beautiful and completed, and I already have enough anxiety, not really excited about been anxious about the thing i love.

One warm afternoon I picked up a tiny notebook I had, bought it on a whim last year and it has been sitting on my shelf since then, its a 4"x4" pocket notebook with decent paper quality, perfect to try out the random black gel pen I found lying around. And I got to it, found a cozy warm place and made a small pen sketch of a tree. The texture looked nice, i did mess up a couple timeson the leaves but since its just a disposable paper I didnt worry much on it, just covered it up with more scriblings. It felt pretty good, ad I realised with digital art the one thing I'm missing is customisign how I organise and decorate my work collection.

With digital software all your art is stored as mere .png or .jpg or whichever format you prefer, but thats it, its just a photo album, unlike a sketchbook where you can decorate the cover, add a couple of sticker or notes to it, stick a dried flower you found, or just about anything creative.

The overall feel of a sketchbook is entirely different and I dont have to worry about each page looking like a finished work.

I love painting digitally but painting on a sketchbook is almost nostalgic, so I finally started one.

Got myself a small A6 sketcbook with a pretty floral cover,cut out the pen sketch i did and glued it on the first page, and thus started to fill each page with totally random unrelated paintings.

So anyway this was a lengthy way to tell you how painting on a sketchbook somehow made me improve my art, and felt incredibly amazing, tho I've completed just couple pages, each page looks beatifull in its own way, and i got to try out a couple of pens, and paints that I havnt used in so long.

got to try doing simple portraits, tried to double tap multiple times on the page (stupid muscle memory).

so anyway here are a few pages that I have completed, and if you did read till the end, thanks for bearing with the (rant)?