Valentine's Day and Progress

February Girls: 4, 5, 6, and 8

Just the last few days. First is some fanart of Lina Inverse from The Slayers.

February 2nd & 3rd

Start of February

I ended January's guys with a trio of Robins. Here's one more to start the February girls.

Remainder of January and Thoughts

It's the last day (night) of January, and I made it! I got through the first 31 days, and I have 31 drawings to show for it. Admittedly, I didn't get all of my days, but more on that later. First the drawings, then the thoughts over the month and for the future of the challenge.

January, days 12, 13, and 14

Drawings for days 12-14. I am most pleased with my Don Quixote.

New Year, New Goals (sorta)

It's a new year, and symbolically at least a chance to start over. I want 2012 to be the year I get out of the artistic plateau I find myself in. I want to make my anatomy stronger, my figures more dynamic, and to increase the variety of my subjects. I've given myself the challenge of drawing at least one picture a day, based on the theme for the month. My goal is to use this to draw everyday. The theme drawings are meant to be a minimum; I wish to also get more studies done and improve my technique. But I've learned that just learning for the sake of learning isn't really all that fun. But learning to be able to apply what I've learned to a picture I want to do, that is fun and will hopefully lead to more progress.

To finish up the wordy part of this post, I have done all right so far on my challenge. I've been meeting the daily theme drawings (men this month) so far, at least. These helped to drive home to me how much I need to spend more time learning and prepping; I want to spend the last half of the month with drawings that have a little more thought put into them for things like composition. So let's use the last two weeks' worth of images as a benchmark for 2012. And here's to me being more active here again.

At the start

It's been a long time. A bit of bad artist's block, well, fear, really. And sometimes, you have to go back to basics. The very basics.

Air Kiss Walkthrouh

For May's contest over at Club-Tutu, the theme was underwater, and was open to a variety of depictions, so long as the characters were actually in the water. After trying a number of ideas, including a pairing with Mytho and Rue, Ahiru and Rue together, I eventually settled on doing either Fakir and Ahiru fluff or a cute Ahiru solo. Below are the pen sketches I did one evening, and put up to get feedback. The Fakiru piece was the one chosen.

Fuschia, April Drawing day 30

Just sharing the steps for a marker piece I finished today, but started on the 30th.

Initial colored pencil sketch.

Used a lightbox to trace clean lines with a mechanical pencil.

Inked with G-pen and Deleter Black 5.

Copic markers.