Here's my old rainstick from 2016!
Quote from: Spagelo on May 19, 2020, 09:42:56 PMHere's my old rainstick from 2016!Yours as you made it yourself?
Is it obvious yet that I keep hesitating to start practicing bodies?
Quote from: Aether on May 21, 2020, 07:11:48 AMIs it obvious yet that I keep hesitating to start practicing bodies?Just do it. Start with rough sketchy shapes, and don't worry about refining the image. It's fine if it looks like complete shit.Just remember, loose and sketchy. Using basic shapes can help a lot too.
tbh depression is really screwing with my motivation to do anything productive, but that's how it goes I guess.
Quote from: ಠ_ಠ on May 21, 2020, 02:42:56 PMQuote from: Aether on May 21, 2020, 07:11:48 AMIs it obvious yet that I keep hesitating to start practicing bodies?Just do it. Start with rough sketchy shapes, and don't worry about refining the image. It's fine if it looks like complete shit.Just remember, loose and sketchy. Using basic shapes can help a lot too.It's not actually that I'm too worried about the sketches being shitty. I can draw bodies decently well as long as I have a reference (obviously still nowhere near perfect). It's just that the task of practicing new things in general seems really tedious and tbh depression is really screwing with my motivation to do anything productive, but that's how it goes I guess.I'm actually going to try to suck it up and commit to drawing at least one full body pose a day. Hopefully other circumstances won't wreck my determination as they have been for a while now.
I may have a workaround for the hitch up. Don't think of it as practice. I'll tell you why.I've posted a few bits of my work here, and if you've seen them, you may be surprised to know that I personally can't draw for shit, moderate at best. My work is the result of over a decade of experimentation and combining all of my favorite digital mediums together into one piece. I use 3d rendering programs and models, stitched real world photography, and a few custom scripts and brushes I made to distort and recombine all of my images together into one thing. It's all actually a very big process when I get going. Imagine what it was like for me when I didn't know anything and I was teaching myself how to do all of this for the first time.I learned how to do all of this through practice, of course, but I didn't view it as practice. To me, I wanted to nail the imagery I imagined. Every time I made a new image, it was my chance to push my abilities and knowledge further and get one step closer to achieving my desired result. I think if you start to view it as simply practice, you add rigormoral to the process, which sucks the fun out of what you do. Of course, art is a balance between rigor and fun. When you work, don't think too much of the technical details. Just focus on doing. Making something come alive and captivating. You'll learn as you work anyway.
Quote from: E on May 22, 2020, 11:41:33 AMI may have a workaround for the hitch up. Don't think of it as practice. I'll tell you why.I've posted a few bits of my work here, and if you've seen them, you may be surprised to know that I personally can't draw for shit, moderate at best. My work is the result of over a decade of experimentation and combining all of my favorite digital mediums together into one piece. I use 3d rendering programs and models, stitched real world photography, and a few custom scripts and brushes I made to distort and recombine all of my images together into one thing. It's all actually a very big process when I get going. Imagine what it was like for me when I didn't know anything and I was teaching myself how to do all of this for the first time.I learned how to do all of this through practice, of course, but I didn't view it as practice. To me, I wanted to nail the imagery I imagined. Every time I made a new image, it was my chance to push my abilities and knowledge further and get one step closer to achieving my desired result. I think if you start to view it as simply practice, you add rigormoral to the process, which sucks the fun out of what you do. Of course, art is a balance between rigor and fun. When you work, don't think too much of the technical details. Just focus on doing. Making something come alive and captivating. You'll learn as you work anyway.Unfortunately my current goal is to learn to draw human anatomy which is basically entirely practice. I don't really plan on doing any fully composed character art until I've progressed more. I've got a ton of ideas to put to paper (or digital canvas) but they're all on hold right now until I have achieved the skill required to execute them how I envision. A little bit of practice everyday isn't as enjoyable as drawing things I am comfortable with but I can handle that much so long as I can just maintain the motivation to draw period. That's my biggest issue, honestly. For a while now I've felt like doing virtually nothing. Not just art. I haven't practiced just about all of my hobbies for months. The only thing I've really been doing lately is sleeping, lurking on forums, and watching crap on YouTube.
I can always count on sketching graffiti or abstract art when I'm in an art block.
Quote from: Aether on July 07, 2020, 08:40:46 PMI can always count on sketching graffiti or abstract art when I'm in an art block.You ever do any street art?
Quote from: E on July 27, 2020, 02:10:55 AMQuote from: Aether on July 07, 2020, 08:40:46 PMI can always count on sketching graffiti or abstract art when I'm in an art block.You ever do any street art?I've done a few things in the past, but not for many years now. The last time was in 2012.
Was it on trains or buildings?
Quote from: E on July 30, 2020, 08:36:45 PMWas it on trains or buildings?No train yards anywhere near where I lived. It was on brick walls and tarmac.Here's a shitty flip phone picture of my first ever piece.Full color sketch:
Do you know much about street art? Because I sure don't. What is it about the particular style that appeals to you more than other forms? Looking at the way your work is done, I think it's relaxing when you do it. It reminds me of the "paint by numbers relaxes you" deal. I can imagine that in the methodology of making your work you tend to disappear into it as you work.