I Remembered that I'm a Slow Writer

I always underestimate how slow I am as a writer. Oh well, that "short" brush essay
 won't be coming any time soon, assuming you count a six-pager and counting on TNR font 12 as short. As I won't come out with that any time soon, I'll just go back to posting some sketches for now and talking about my stupid reading in the arts.

In the past month or two, I've felt as though I've stagnated and the fluidity and weight and motion that I've come to develop has ended. My figures felt stiffer and it was depressing. I blame myself for having seen that one Danny Galieote video on the asymmetry of the body and how it balances itself out in the contrasting curve as you will see below. Strangely enough, seeing the asymmetric curves again in the work of Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing: Design and Invention made it clock in my head and add something to my work that Danny Galieote took away. I like having more life and energy in my drawings again. He also broke my mental prison of trying to stay in proportion while making thirty-second sketches. As long as you capture the emotion and comprehensibility of the pose, it's good.

Some sketches I'm really proud of post-Hamptonian revitalization.

Drawn on my small whiteboard.

Another angle.

Hampton just pushed my head back into another direction, a good one. I really appreciate it. I'm more confident and happy with my work now.

The next few drawings will be assorted in subject and who was with me when I made them, the first being a riff with my friend. I'll post more of those drawings with him in the coming weeks. He came over and we had fun with all my paper and markers. I introduced him to the asymmetric curves and he's just so happy with his art now. Good for him. He's learning!

Inktober Day... Fifteen?

Doing something a bit different today, three little sketches. Two are 20-25 minute studies with a pencil and the other is a little brush-and-ink sketch.

I've used a bit more hatching and took my time with these drawings, getting in that serious mood of drawing again, remove the cobwebs I've seemed to develop.

Close up of the left-most one.

The source photographs. Iunno where i got them, I just know I have these from some folder in my laptop called "Hyperangle".

Inktober Day Twelve

Inktober Day Ten

A bit more effort than the usual Inktober.

Inktober Day Nine

Welp. I lost a day. I was just too lazy. Sorry.

Jeez, I've gotten lazy.

Ghastly feet. Sheesh.

Inktober Day Seven

Neigh

 

Inktober Day Six

 Hello, hello. Day six has rolled by and I haven't missed a day yet. Excellent.

I don't think I'll continue mixing heavy brushwork with fine lines. Too much of a clash. Still iffy on fine lines with chunky marker-like lines, we'll see in the black-and-white scans of my current project. Maybe it just looks like trash on paper. Certainly not the first time that's happened.

Inktober Day 5

Felt like I jobbed this one. The foreshortening and perspective are off, I could have fixed it but I didn't really feel like it. My fault, really. Apparently, my gestures have been quite stiff and well... crap as of late. I should work on that. Comments such as that are expected, I haven't been able to really work on my art lately. It's sad. Oh well... I'll work on it. Will I be able to do it during school time, on my last year with all of its horrors? We'll see.

The first pic was a bit of an homage to Wrightson, Gilbert Hernandez and Alex Toth. I was thinking of them when I drew those. The second was just a fun little character sketch in honor of Kirby with some Mignolan effects (psst, look at the feet).

 

Said inspirational pics that informed how I drew these at the very back of my head.

Sorry for the crappy quality on this one, there just aren't any good scans of this thing on google and I'm too lazy to fish out an e-book version and extract that for this. Hopefully Toth's inks on Infantino here are noticeable enough to feel where I'm coming from though.

Inktober Day Four

WHOOPS! Forgot to upload these yesterday. My bad! Prompts coming from the usual sources. Will post Day 5 later.

Inktober Day Three

Day Three of Inktober, I now use both Jay Parker's prompts as well as this new one I've found. I found it in a Discord group I'm a part of. It's not bad.

With the Jay Parker prompts as well as this one in consideration, I drew something relating to poison as well as one about a banshee. Here you go.

Decided to be more symbolic, kinda superficially, with this one. Search for "Amorsolo Ginebra" on whatever search engine you want and you might understand. It's really not that hard.

Inktober Day Two

Here I decided to go with a more DC theme drawing. Since the theme, as Jay Parker suggested in his prompts, was divided, one of the first things that came to my mind when it said "divided" what's Two-Face of Batman rogues gallery fame. One may attribute the utilization of DC properties to our YouTube video I just watched a while ago that dealt with DC comics thus the usage of Two-Face. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xRDiUD1a8c, the video in question)

Inktober Day One (posted a biiiiit late, sorry)

This is the set of prompts I'm using for this years Inktober. You can kinda see the source on the bottom, it's from Jake Parker's website. Go look at it and crap. The first word was "swift". As such, I've drawn a man swiftly get away from the little rat.