[Edyrem] Value & Color

I actually thought this was good anatomy. I was a proud ~15 year old.

You'll see my first attempts at digital painting here.

mask design
speedpainting 1/2
speedpainting 2/2
I do things like this in my spare time
I do things like too this in my spare time
'low poly' looking cake with a little advice on it
recent wolverine doodles
recent egoraptor portrait
step1: sketch
step2: under-painting
step3: over-painting
what the top layer looks like
gesture
gesture
5-10 minute painting
5 minute sketch
I learned the the important parts of back anatomy on some random iscribble night. This stuff is probably over a year old.



My drawings in black
Bottom right is not my drawing
iscribble
Don't ask, I really don't know.
iscribble

An old (probably the good part of a year), subtle digital painting feat. Felt like a real painter when I did this. It was on tvpaint.
Back when we were gonna have a big-ass tournament. This was Creativename's character that I decided to do concept art for. Definitely got quite a ways ahead of this.





Realized my portrait drawing skills still need a lot of work.
This somewhat symbolizes the beginning of my digital painting level-up. Grayscale.




https://i.imgur.com/mWxQS.png NSFW click at your own risk

When i fixed my sexy tablet
Felt like the world's shittiest painter.
Still elt like the world's shittiest painter.
A little fun Psuda theme.
Seeing how well I could draw on toonboom if I was gonna animate. Still wasn't feeling animation, but I made myself do it.
Another moment of shitty painting demonstration. Trying to understand how to make a feeling of motion.
I first discovered my personal painting style in the legs of this one. But it was a total fluke.
Drawing from life. That was his face while watching me draw his face on the screen. Awkward 15 minutes.
Old thing from when I still didn't understand how to begin a painting. Almost a year old.
Lol what is painting? idk im just a gorilla, I can't paint for shit. (Made at about the asme time as the previous link, probably)

Commission 1/4
Commission 2/4
Commission 3/4
Commission 4/4
That Spartan is fabulously gay. More recent than I'd like to admit. No more than a couple months old.
Painted my tablet stylus holder from life, following simple steps. Took probably a good 3-4 hours. Bout the same age as the previous link. Photorealism is like, the most amazing thing to non-artists, and it is amazing for real, but it's not quite as complicated as some might think (at least in order to impress people with).
Oh god don't look at these masks.
www.fileize.com/view/2adb00ef-20e/ Miccool was pestering me to animate for his new collab, Entanglement 3. I reluctantly accepted finally, but not taking it very seriously. Decided to fuck around and just draw what I feel like. 1-2 days ago. This is the one unexpected thing that got me interested in using animation again. This silly little slideshow marks what will probably be a significant return of my passion for animation. And yes, I was almost completely detached from being an animator for a long time now.
First animation today. Still boss as ever.
I remmeber people saying their favorite thing I animated was my fire dragon. If I were to animate a fire dragon again, I would hope it can look like this, but moving and not choppy.
Establishing for myself that I really didn't fluke the painting style. I've got it now.
Zoom-out of the previous painting.
Tutorial... kind of. Forgive me, I was cranky.
Design of a horror character. His body's meant to be humanoid, male, and breaks its own joints and bends impossibly, sticking to walls and ceilings too, mostly crawling in a sprawling manner.

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<Mapletta> someone from /ic/ (4chan art critique forum)
<Mapletta> told me
<Mapletta> [yesterday, for another gesture i did]
<Mapletta> "your gesture doesn't quite express the movement accurately"
<Mapletta> "Don't be afraid to exaggerate the movement you feel in the pose in order to express it"
<Mapletta> this really helps me
<Mapletta> Exaggeration must be due to the feeling I get from it, and I'm supposed to analyze, not copy... so surely, if I stay true to my analysis I'm going to exaggerate to get the accurate emphasis in the gesture.
<Mapletta> Until over time my analysis gets more and more accurate to the point that my need for exaggerations becomes negligible
<Reap4u> Yeah
<Reap4u> uhh
<Mapletta> this should assist you to some degree
<Reap4u> Lost you.
<Mapletta> tell me where you want me to rephrase
<Mapletta> inb4 all
<Mapletta> try to be specific
<Reap4u> Your saying to exageratate poses so that they mimic what you FEEL and get from the model?
<Reap4u> And over time your exagerations will become more and more accurate with the models actual pose?
<Reap4u> ?
<Mapletta> while you were typing that
<Mapletta> poop was sliding out of my anus
<Mapletta> C:
<Reap4u> Delicious.
<Reap4u> C:
<Mapletta> yes that's exactly what I'm saying
<Mapletta> you do that because
<Reap4u> Fo'Sho!
<Mapletta> you're supposed to draw your analysis of the pose
<Mapletta> not copy the pose
<Mapletta> because if you copy it you'll lose the energy
<Mapletta> because the truth is
<Mapletta> your funky analysis is the best translator you have
<Mapletta> so stay loyal to it and make it sharper and sharper
<Mapletta> [with practice]

<Mapletta> I had a very helpful conversation just now with this artist who gave me that exaggeration tip
<Reap4u> would you like to relay this information>
<Reap4u> :> ?
<Mapletta> yes

[Relaying the information...]

<kriscrash> oh, well then
<kriscrash> Actually that sounds about right (at Mapletta's - I, I mean Edyrem's - new found understanding)
<kriscrash> The reason I advice you to exaggerate is that I see a lot of people KILL the movement
<kriscrash> they start doing it neutrally copied, then when rendering they kill it
<kriscrash> so in theory if they had started out exaggerated they had something to give in the rendering
<kriscrash> plus I think when you think "exaggerate!" you start looking for the actual character of the pose - maybe, think about what makes the pose the pose it is
<kriscrash> but also sometimes
<kriscrash> don't think so much, just draw ;3
<kriscrash> maybe set up challenges for yourself
<Mapletta> yeah kriscrash I really gained an important insight from that tip
<Mapletta> I will practice more, but I will not stop overthinking it, because that's the only way I can get better
<Mapletta> rote repetition only wears me out and destroys my motivation
<kriscrash> nodnod
<Mapletta> If I have a concept to wrap my head around, practice is enriched (I sound like Hitorio here lol)
<kriscrash> as long as you think, I think you will force yourself to try new things and experiment
<kriscrash> ah
<Mapletta> can I show you a gesture I just drew? Compared to yesterday do you think there's noticeable progress? (Sorry Psuda, I don't have the 'before' pic anymore but it was like the drawings I showed you above except a little better)
<Mapletta> https://i.imgur.com/SBwbJ.png (This is the model, for your reference: Click - mostly nude)
<kriscrash> wow, yeah
<kriscrash> that seems really organized and much more finished
<kriscrash> and has a midline which is a good idea
<Mapletta> jesus christ that is motivating to hear
<kriscrash> :3
<kriscrash> maybe remember to add the neck
<kriscrash> and figure a way to draw the head simply and meaningfully
<Mapletta> well here's how I understand gestures so far,
<Mapletta> yeah I feel you
<Mapletta> basically, it seems like the object of it
<Mapletta> if I am to do as pure a gesture as possible
<Mapletta> is to use my lines for anything but physical characteristics. Any overlap of lines and physical shape (i.e. outline of shoulder or spinal curve) should be because there happened to be an important gesture characteristic to reveal in that line
<kriscrash> what helped for me was to use a swooshy brush, because a single line with a thin brush in a simple drawing can look really faint and dumb on paper
<kriscrash> well
<kriscrash> the spine or the chest midline are nearly always important, because they show the direction of the torso
<Mapletta> yeah lol but I had been pretty confused for a while because of that consistent overlap
<Mapletta> I almost thought it was because of the physical quality, but then I made the distinction that it's the direction that matters more

And a couple more examples of my gesture drawings after my revelations (dat dere pun):



The lines decidedly describe the gesture, and sometimes will overlap with physical characteristics, and that's okay. It's still a gesture drawing as long as the main purpose of the lines are to accomplish a description of the pose, not the figure.

To practice gesture drawing, keep these two concepts in mind so you can get started:
1. Use exaggerations to make yourself think about the character of the model you're drawing, or the feeling you're drawing.

2. Be as minimalist as possible about the figure or proportions of the drawing. Only allow yourself to reveal physical features (like anatomy) as a side effect of describing the gesture. Gestures, at the core, are like souls, in no way related to the physical features, so seek to disregard the physical features as much as possible while fully describing the gesture. Sounds impossible for some, but practice is surely the main cure for this.

For your information, gestures are usually mixed with the shape and proportions in practical application. The reason to practice in this minimalist, separative style [all gesture, minor form] is to make the distinction so you can get a clear understanding of gestures. It really does help to learn how versatile lines can be.

The more you understand how to use these 'invisible' lines, the more real your 'solid' lines will be.

The sketches are pretty boring, I know.

with them big paper sizes. These things always only have like 20 sheets though.
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