Sketchbook Dump

 A tonal sketch of a photo of Maria Callas that I found online. I'm reaally weak in tonal drawings, I feel, so I decided to do more photo studies. This was the best one I did, and I feel like I learned a lot with this one. Even still, I ended up BSing the hands because for some reason I was having a very hard time with them. Sadly the BS is really easy to tell... I tried to save one of the hands by darkening it much more than the photo - reason for that is it still looks believable to me as long as you never saw the photo. Hopefully I'm right? But I think I at least made it less distracting.

 I dunno fi I even showed this one before? P: whatever.

 Spoooon studies!  I kept it pretty short when I realized spoons are very, very straightforward...Forks are STILL hard, though. Ugh.

 Hat studies.

 Studies of a classmate's hair. I use his hair as a ref for a character. And as they say, no better ref than real life, right? XD

 Sketches of a group of children I saw on the fields at my school. And I'll be darned but children move endlessly... like neeever stop. One kid was standing around looking pensive for two or three minutes - tops before he ran off to play tag or... something.

 Drapery. I over-complicated the shadows, sadly and it doesn't look aaanything like drapery. I think it looked more like a lump of mountains. Rrrgh.

 Touched up version of the earlier portrait. I have a BAD problem with thinking in line too much so I tried to simplify it a bit. I think it's looking better, now. :)

A couple in a changing room. The story behind it is they dressed each other up and they're looking in the mirror and snuggling. The woman is a MTF transwoman, as a note. The character is my friend's, character.

Tonal self-portrait on grey paper.

It DOES look like me and I feel the improvement but DAMMIT it is too realistic - I looked SO fat in the mirror... and it still shows in the portrait. ;___; Time to work out, Laura...

 Self-portrait. I think I spent a LONG time on construction, then at some point during the line quality I got REALLY sick of looking at my face in the mirror and gave up on myself. I flipped the mirror over to the background without my face... hence why my face and the background are in two different sorts of perspective OOPS.

 Drawing for my friend. It's of her characters, one is invisible so the other looks like he's making out with the air. I drew in a doodlette thing in the back.

Figure drawing tonal thing. It was supposed to be drawn tonally... I think I almost got it, but I think it's too dark so I kinda hate it. =___=; Squint, Laura, squint!














Two "sexy" guys. They're supposed to be identical twins, but they both have a bit of a different figure just out of personal life choices (NOT MADE OBVIOUS IN THE DRAWING HAHAHA).

There's a real reason for this... really. >__> BLAME YEVIE!

J/k... the real reason was to draw men in horribly awkward positions that women are usually forced in for glamour-type photos.

Apparently I'm having a very artistically productive day... O_o; Five hours of painting and tonal studies today all together... WHY DON'T I DO THIS MORE OFTEN? QAQ

Anyways... this might be the last thing for today. xD Another gouache thing. This time it's a self-portrait. This is the most legit thing I've painted with gouache. I think after this I can re-affirm to myself that my main problem in painting is that I have no idea how to make solid shapes. I'm very used to doing self-portraits and drawing my face so the shapes were not anything I was too confused about. However... my jacket and shirt has my usual "WTH is that shape supposed to be?" syndrome. =__=; Hopefully the face distracts away from it? Haha...

I'm a bit mad that my camera captures colors strangely... I tried to edit it on photoshop, but fixes are limited... The real one is actually a little more reddish on the face and more purple in the shadows. There was also slightly less contrast in the real painting.

Productive day is good! :D Probably to make up for my "do nothing all day! :D" day yesterday. ^__^; Now... onto a color wheel and complementary color grid. D:

 STILL LIFE!!!!

 This is the photo of what I was drawing. Below is the gouache painting rendition of it. For some reason blogspot won't let me upload it in its original state... Go fig. :/ Sorry guys - gotta crane your necks for this one.... or not - it's kinda Bleeegghhh and messy. xD I think I wouldn't be able to tell what I was doing without the photo!

Hour's worth of work with gouache and a limited pallete of: ultramarine, primary yellow, raw sienna, and white

 Tonal study of a really cool table in my school's 3rd floor library.

 Tonal studies from a photo. The best one (and actually legit looking...) one is the man with the beard - but that one was actually the EASIEST! XD Beard = scratch all that black in. Haha~ I feel like I'm CLOSE to figure out tonal drawings... but not yet. Hopefully soon enough to be able to apply that knowledge to an upcoming tonal project. *_________*

NC WYETH CHALEEENGEEEE!!!!! O: In one of my classes we had to do a master copy with a limited colored palette with gouache. This was about an hour and half worth of work, I believe.

My goodness gouache is SO irritating to use. D: And the limited palette made it a bit hard to achieve some of the colors - but I think I mainly got it. P: The thing that bugs me is that I think I messed up a lot of placement of objects like the other figures in the background. However, I suppose it IS paint so it's easy to just layer over it.


According to one of my friends/classmate, the main figure looks fine, but everything else fell apart a did .I have to agree with that, especially because all I did for a good chunk of the class WAS the big shovel man. xD

Maybe one day I'll be able to make a really good copy of this painting? We'll see~

DUMP!!!! Most of the things here are figure studies because I feel like I have a MAJOR lack of making things look voluminous and solid in line drawings. I wanted to try remedying that by endlessly drawing figures as blocks. P:

This drawing was 20 minutes

 10 minutes

 5 minutes on top, 10 on bottom.

5 minutes on right. 2 minutes on left.

 Assortments of one and two minute studies.

 Random drawings from everyday life of blocking figures out.

Zoo drawings.

... I have NO idea what that is... O_o;