The sketch thread!

[BizarreMonkey]

im not an artist, but id suggest planning out the bone structure first before drawing, for the wings as well
it helps a lot

I did. :0

Alright, so I actually found this while rummaging through my wing templates yesterday and forgot all about it, it was just a quick doodle of a scene in Intelligence, but I figure it'd be a nice break from these hi-definition renders.

Also, I began on a new opening for Perseverance, Nola's gonna be the main character now, this was done for a multitude of reasons that I'll go into at some point, for now though, rough as it is, you can see I've thought a lot about what a character is doing before drawing it, which helps a lot, the action before the 'reaction' I suppose. You might have noticed that in the earlier renditions of the Serazen Fyori seems to be completely unaware of what she's doing, which is one of the reasons I reposed her entirely.
http://imgur.com/a/5SitS

OH, YEAH I ALSO DREW THIS HIDEOUS THING WITH OUTRAGEOUSLY BAD ARMS AND ANATOMY IN GENERAL.

It was a speed draw, 3 hours and 14 minutes, I took a bit of extra time for after effects, but here, this video shows it all. In total it was 3 hours and 30 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_tA8ix8PY

 

[coyotecraft]

Lol that looks super weird.

The lips and nose do? I had just left the cheeks a mess - not part of the demonstration.


Speaking of painting, I bought big squeeze tubes of Black & White Acrylic paint. I got canvas board years ago and haven't done anything with them. And in that time, my sister use my paint set. Should have bought more blue too.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

The lips look really weird to me, I dunno they look like they're made out of greasy marshmallows or something.

Or maybe it's because it's just too cutesy for the eyes, which do look fairly devious and even sinister. The bubbly hanna-babbera esque fluffiness contrasts with the sharpness of the rest of it, so it looks quite odd. I think on the right sorta setting they'd look fine, though.

Some good news, I started to play WoW but it seems I still yearn to do productive stuff, as I couldn't stand to play for very long.

Probably gonna start doodling in my sketchpad, my tablet has a few errors and because of such it's become rather annoying to work with.

Some notes about this recent piece.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/370 ... 0Wrath.png
The PSD file for it is a MONSTER, weighing in at almost 400 megabytes, and taking an iota of time for even fairly basic operations.
Saving the file can take up to three minutes, and rarely shorter than one.
The 'BROWSERFUCKER' nature of the png file is due to it's size, 5000 by 5100 pixels, over 25 megapixels. Weigning in at precisely 14 megabytes, it's even larger than the animated gif showing the first 8 seconds of the Intelligence ending.
Three knows incidents of crashing someone's browser with this image alone are known of, and some it has taken over 10 minutes to fully load.
In other words, I have created a beautiful MONSTER.

I might edit my doodles into this post later (after I've made them), right now though it wouldn't kill me to keep my post small after that last whopper.

 

[Perihelion]

Coyote is a good artist, and he went out of his way to help you. Going "lol that looks super weird" is really rude.

Coyote, nice edit. The nose in particular looks great.

 

[coyotecraft]

Nah, it's fine. I think he just meant different - not fitting of the character.

Lets see...I drew this back in March. I had uploaded it to the Art Gallery, but took it down within a few minutes. I've drawn leomon a handful of times. and he always comes out different.
Explaining the joke - Power Rangers meets Digimon.

What else haven't I shown here...oh I drew a male Renamon in 2015. I wasn't attempting to make an OC. See, in the series everyone thinks of Renamon as female (even though it's explained they're only data and have no sex) and in another season there's a background Renamon with a male voice. Renamon's legs are more digitigrade compared to, say, weregarurumon, but the big thighs and a narrow waist ultimately read feminine. I wanted to see if I could make it more masculine. Keeping the dog legs, just add thicker core, lats, and broader shoulders. Also left out the tuff of chest fur that people reinterpret as breasts. I wasn't consciously aware of the manspreading - I didn't even know the term until femnazis started using it. The clothing and color I just played around with, realizing Flamedramon had the same frame.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

Coyote is a good artist, and he went out of his way to help you. Going "lol that looks super weird" is really rude.

I clarify only the line after that it would look really good on some characters, but that it's too bubbly and doesn't suit the sharper details. Coyote is a far better artist than I am, and I think I've made it pretty clear I acknowledge his skill and superiority. Apologies if I ruffled feathers with that entirely benign statement. I understand it can be sometimes difficult to tell apart a casual observation and an insult, especially when I'm pretty infamous for being more of the latter than the former, but I'll clarify now that when I say it looks weird, it only does because it contradicts the character and the general style.

Nah, it's fine. I think he just meant different - not fitting of the character.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Sorry if it came off as rude.

arty stuff

Man I love you're aggressively messy linework, I'm always to trihard and 'neat' and it feels like I should just be more rogue about it. Actually that's half the reason I tend to do speed draws... fuck it I'm gonna have some fun being messy, thanks for the inspiration!

While I work on that, here's some of the stuff I doodled before falling to sleep with my glasses and computer still on, and my sketchbook in my hand, boy I must have been tired!

Lilac Grave being an apathetic vampire, basically she's telling one of her victims to shut the fuck up, noise irritates her, she's probably going to inject him with some sleeping thing.

Man that guy is sweating about what she's up to.

Mira being suggestive and creepy, but the creep is NOTHING NEW on Mira's side.

I really like how her pony tail came out, the pose is pretty good too.

Edit: Alright, really cool style I just started on. I call it 'Harshcore'.

Time to try some others.

Edit Edit: I did so!

But I decided I like Harshcore too much, and so my dark work would begin.

spoop

 

[Jason]

While I was at work today, it was dead empty, so I was just doodling on receipt paper, drawing generic heads and such, and I always struggle to transfer a side view to a front view and vice versa... thought I'd give it a quick try when I got home, so yeah... not sure how well I did, and I'm pretty sure everything doesn't line up properly (The ears are odd for starters, lol), but if you saw one picture, then the other, would you be able to tell it's the same person from a different angle? That's my main goal here;

 

[coyotecraft]

Looks good. Yeah, looks like the same person to me.

 

[Jason]

Well that's a good start then lol, gonna' be trying it with more complex features and stuff eventually, rather than a plain ol' evil bald guy... think I'm also gonna' try my hand at other styles too, since by default I always end up doing exaggerated features and stuff, I guess it's good for cartoon drawings etc., but when I want to make something more serious and in a different tone, don't think it quite cuts...

 

[BizarreMonkey]

I have done nothing but draw heads for the last three days!

Or as I've come to call them, expression manifests. Here's one for Nola

And one for Kara Marx

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

Here's some of my latest sketches~

 

[BizarreMonkey]

Here's some of my latest sketches~

Funnily enough, the impetus for posting my recent stuff was I saw you post these on tumblr and I'm like 'hey i wonder if strawberri posted them on hbgames yet?'

You actually hadn't when I first looked, but you did not long after.

As for me, I've been drawing a bunch of expression manifests, here's two new ones, starting with Pep

and now Svoli.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

<333 Thanks for the support. :P

 

[Jason]

Well I did as I said I would, I tried my hand at different styles... also messed around with my brush settings and found something I really like for doing sketches and stuff... this took me about twenty minutes including minor tweaking;

This is what I started with

This is what I finished with after around twenty minutes (Five songs played while I was doing it)

Hope my proportions are alright, I'm so used to using exaggerated proportions and stuff... and I REALLY need to work on my noses!

 

[Jason]

Just done a timed attempt, gave myself five minutes and stopped doing anything as soon as the timer went down, just wanted to see how quick I can do these things, this is what I got (All on one layer, so everything is there);

(Look at that, two posts on the same page from me, both showing something... not bad, eh?)

 

[Jason]

Last one for tonight, then I think I'm good for the next six months or so in terms of posting here... this took me a little longer, just over half an hour (It's 5am though, I'm pretty tired lol), I'm happy with the shape of the nose (Or atleast happier than my first attempt), although something still looks really off, not sure what though;

This is what I started with

This is what I finished with (About 35 minutes I think)

 

[Jason]

Changed my mind, I really don't like the last one I did yesterday, there's just something way too off about it that bugs me, yet I can't pinpoint it... probably the hairline, or the face in general, fuck knows...

Spent a little time tonight doing more faces and stuff, practice makes perfect, right? Decided to try my hand at colouring too... very basic design, and the headpiece isn't finished;

I'm actually enjoying doing this kinda' stuff now, even if it looks wank lol

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

I like the design you're going with, Jay-Jay.

 

[Jason]

Thanks, although I'm not really sure what I was going for anyway, I kinda' worked from the bottom up defining the facial features on a seperate layer, and once I got to above the eyes I had no idea what I wanted to do, so stuck a gem or something on his forehead and just kinda' went with it (Got a few ideas on what I want to do with it)... I guess it came out alright though, so yay me?

 

[BizarreMonkey]

I DREW A LOT OF GIRLS BECAUSE I LIKE DRAWING GIRLS!!! DID I MENTION I LIKE DRAWING GIRLS? OKAY YES. I THOUGHT SO.
so without further ado, here's the girl draw.
Fyori being cute and devious.

Fyori being cold and tsundere.

Fyori being cute again. (Boobs)

Finally Fyori being cute and seductive.

Esperia being suggestive as always.

I also did some other stuff but I'll leave those for another post.