Just upload you newb!

It's not that I'm not drawing, it's just I'm lazy and it's too damn easy to skip updating the blog and just go for a quick facebook post. Habbits and all that jazz!

Wanted to paint a sensation of having the "scatterbrains"!

Some gesture drawings and quick sketches.

A... thing, not sure what it is, but I can't finish it for shit, prolly due to me not knowing wtf it is, but it just sorta popped out of some color mixing.

Pratice, pratice and pratice. Trying to figure out the basics once again ><

Trying not to forget to draw with pencils from time to time, though I'm getting bad at keeping up with the good old 2B. I blame "ctrl+Z".
Also the constant "You have to draw from life!" rant is getting a bit annoying for me. I'm to shy to just go out and sit my ass down and draw ppl in public, so it just turns into stuff like the first two pics... a box and a pillow - how inspiring!

I started on an Purple Tentacle drawing on my wall here - which I immediately regretted! ><

I wanted to try and understand, and work on a more comicbook style of drawing, that whole field is like... very confusing to me. But here's my take on a perfect Danish day of summer :P

Got shittons of more to upload, but don't wanna turn this into a huge wall of doom, so that can wait a day or two I think ><

*NSFW* Smurf smut party with friends 1.0 - this is what happens if you feed them after dark or maybe it's just me.

Back from a little weekend to the ”countryside” plus a great 2 days headache, apparently I jetlag easy (Denmark is HUGE fyi!).
Anywho, last week I was working a bit on a smurf party, not sure why, I don’t even like smurfs all that much.
It started out as just a plain mushroom home.

After that I played around a bit trying to develop a more painting sensation. What I got was a bit darker and gloomy feel, which got me thinking about tripping trolls… obviously!

Then disaster struck! A friend dropped by for a couple of days and… boys will be boys. I take no responsibility here on after - my friend is a pervert and I got a fragile little mind which is influenced easy.

And this is how far I’ve gotten at the moment – It's very much still work in progress, there’s no background and the composition is temporary.

 

-          Shoptalk:

The time it takes to draw out these little fucks is absurd, I cannot for the life of me draw a decent line with a tablet and this is 99% line work. I tried to draw out some of the smurfs on paper too save time, but drawing up the line afterwards was insanely slow. If the entire drawing process on paper took 20minutes with changing designs and trying out different things etc. then the drawing up the already done lines in PS took + 1 hour. That’s not fun!!! (Including some paper sketches in the bottom).
I really enjoyed drawing some of these little fuckers and I admit some of them were done with a little smile :P I wanted to draw in some of my friends, but so far I haven’t gotten around to more than a handful – which is not important ;)
… And no I haven’t included myself yet either, but I assure you if I was I would be the smurf doing the “clam” (A friends coined phrase for a fetal position with a pillow over the head trying to block out all sounds).
Not sure why I jumped over these smurfs, but I suspect it has to do with something that’s relative familiar and very cartoony, without being super complicated – “crawl before you can walk” and blabla :)

Finished with the two first schedules in Kimon Nikolaides - The Natural Way to Draw

Two first schedules done!!!!1 (DEAR SUPERMAN IF YOUR READING THIS - PLEASE NO MORE CONTOUR /pray)

Not really sure what to think so far, I seem to swing from ”A-ha” to ”uhm… this can’t be right”, so it’s very confusing at times to say the least.

It’s very weird not to be “drawing” in the normal sense, but instead scribble things down furiously and then slow tortured with the blind contour.
I do have some fun moments though, like when I’m trying to mimic/feel the gesture and impulse, for example someone doing a stretching out pose and suddenly I find myself drawing in a heavy *sigh* preparing for incoming muscle pains, or when the pose switches into something more battle orientated and out of the fucking blue there's a small growl and clenched fist… goddamn you feel stupid as fuck, but at the same time that sense of immersion is prolly part of the shizzle – I can’t really say it changes much in the sense of the outcome, it gets a lot more engaging sure, but also 99% of the pose gets lost in the process. That’s the thing I can’t seem to find the right balance between chaos and figure, either it’s a drawing of a “spaghetti bowl” or it’s at least in the ballpark of looking human.
 

What I wouldn’t give for some actual face-to-face  tutoring - it’s the sense of being caught in the rush-hour traffic , well knowing that somewhere there’s a road where you can fucking floor it.

Anywho thought I would at least upload some of those 60 second gesture “scribbles”. These ones doesn’t show the whole spectrum obviously, I’ve gone through my 500 arks of A4 paper and a 4B pencil now (using both sides of the paper ofc.) and the style varies… a whole fucking lot - to put it mildly.

*edit - I can't be 100 % sure, but I think the above pose is the same as the one I posted some days ago, back when I started this -> old sketch

It’s been a week and some days now and I haven’t drawn anything other than 60 second gestures and marathon contours in this time, so when I was watching an episode of Californication and got the urge to try and capture the gesture or feel, I kinda had to run with it.
I can’t say for sure how much time I spend on each, I put “Katie Melua – If you were a sailboat/It’s all in my head” on repeat and I would guestimate each scribble was about a song or maybe two in length – fairly short and done with the style as my gesture drawings with a little more focus on shapes, but not getting overboard, just trying to zone in and let the pencil do the drawing (Hank Moody’s story in essence is just fucking sublime in my humble opinion!).
The outcome is kinda weird for me, without the connection to the gesture it’s just not the same (for me that connection is out of the window the second I move on), but it’s liberating nonetheless to actually draw something in a short and furious action. Go back just two weeks and I wouldn’t have been able to let go like this, it would have been all analytical, measuring proportions, checking perspective and then “maybe” do a very trembling careful line or two here and there, the thought of starting a line without being fully aware of where it might end, would have been utter alien tbh… so that’s new at least :P

Slow and steady wins the race!

I’m a bit slow with the updates atm and I apologize for that, but I found a book called “The Natural Way To Draw – by Kimon Nicolaides”, it really suits me and it’s pretty much what I have been looking for.
It’s very organized with schedules and exercises, there’s no swaying feel good “just do what you want, it’s all just for fun and game tihi – bullshit”, it’s very point A to point B, which I’ve been missing in authors like Vilppu and Loomis, imho they take your hand and follow you on the road and don’t really bother with start or finish. Kimon tells you where you’re expected to start and where finish is and then gives you some basic tools, which you need to learn while on the road… and I love that, gimme a fucking compass and I’ll get there! I don’t want some fucking hiking buddy holding my hand… telling me every fucking swing and bump there’s on the road – PISS OFF!
Long story short, there’s not really much point in uploading those drawings, since it will make absolute no sense - heck most of them don’t even make sense to me the day after. I will share a quick one just as an example to what it is I’m working on :P

 On a side note – Contour drawing can seriously go fuck a duck!!!

I did two “normal” drawings as well ofc.
First is a gun from a friend’s book of different firearms, don’t ask…
Nothing big, but still fun to work with that many straight lines, though it’s a fucking hell to piece together, specially without a ruler, you’re pretty much forced to sketch out the whole thing and then start adding “basic” things and make them all fit together as a unit… ugh I miss circles and curves lol :P

Next is another tablet drawing. I wanted to start something from scratch and not from an old pencil sketch, just curious if I could do it really.
Pretty fun experience, though I’m a fucking bull in a china shop when it comes to understanding Photoshop… *sigh*

Painting with 0's and 1's! using a Bamboo Pen and Touch to draw in Photoshop

Playing around with the tablet I’ve borrowed!

It’s extremely difficult for me to get used to that thing, but I’ve given up trying to do “pencil” drawings with it, that’s just too alien, but I can at least try to “paint”.

  

I loaded up some of my old quick sketches and tried out this painting business.  

After a lot of bitching and whining I got advised to check out Ctrlpaint.com for some basic tutorials and yeah… that worked, it’s fun how you can go from a feeling of absolute despair and frustrating to “this is kinda fun”, but yeah at least now I could have some fun and not worry about bloody line sketching with it.

I’ll prolly try and do some lines with it again (no nooo - not those sorta lines... grow up!), maybe it’s just some matter of building up a familiarity with the new tool, dunno.

Anyway, my first project was some bananas. I didn’t really know how to approach it, but even if it felt stupid I had the feeling of learning on some basic level at least.

One thing I discovered though – colors are great and painting is super fun! :P

Next I just wanted to keep going in the same track, so picked up a sketch of some citruses or oranges, not sure which term is correct lol, it's supposed to be citruses but my color “palette” decided it was oranges for me! :P

STOP! Hammer time! some drapery drawings and a quick revolver sketch

Some quick updates - I’ve borrowed a tablet (bamboo pen and touch) soooo… I’ve been preoccupied with that devils tool. I feel old when I’m trying to figure that shit out, without going HULK!

It's not easy, AT ALL! It’s like drawing in blind, but not only that but also drawing in a “wrong” scale… it’s great if you’re looking for a mindfuck.

Anywho, some drawings… A few quick sketches and some drapery studies, holy mofo that drapery is something else, as you can see the first one I did with the “business as usual” mentally, but meh… lines… couldn’t get it to work at least, so tried some value approach which worked better, but it feels weird.

Then there’s a quick sketch of a hammer and a pistol. The hammer I did because it allowed me to use some perspective in practice, which is always nice. The pistol was just to do something else for once, again I thought it would be pretty simple, but noooo… I didn’t want it to turn into anything major time consuming, so went for a more basic thing, but for nothing else I discovered how complicated “mechanical” objects can be and how you pretty much needs to be correct the first time, because trying to correct things in the middle can offset the whole fucking thing, like there’s some lines which just need to be somewhat correct or it’s gg. Anyway it was fun at least and next time I prolly need to invest a bit more time and be more  careful with getting the lines straight… -.- let’s just say; I won’t fire that gun…

More quick sketches and a squirrel… (the logic boat sailed a long time ago)

The squirrel started out as just a quick sketch. I was staring at it for ages trying to find a starting point, but as something new I started out with a square to fit the little dude in, which prolly isn’t the worst idea, just to avoid that annoying moment where you discover you drawn the entire thing way too big to fit the paper… yes that happens… more often than it should -.- Anyway after that I finally saw the starting shape which is the circle the tail and head/hands makes, after that it was just business as usual.

 When I was “finished” I kinda wanted to spend some more time on it though, not sure why, but it was interesting on some level. I just continued to loosely sketch some extra details down, nothing major, but at some point I got the bright idea that the background should be ALL black and using a pencil for that would be too much…  so why not a little charcoal, what’s the worst thing that could happen…?

… Yeah… some quick lines and… OMFG!! Why did I do this?! CTRL+Z CTRL+ZZZZ - OH FFS!
Sigh - it looked fucking stupid, the coal didn’t match the pencil sketch at all and the whole thing was just… no… no no no.

It took me ages trying to balance and correct what I could. I don’t really like how the fur looks, but I don’t know a way to make it work or “simplify” it though.

The rest are the standard weird quick sketches of random things from my stock folder ^^

The shark was kinda fun though, I started out with the body and it looked stupid, it made no sense at all, so added the back fin and… side fins? Which only made it look like a freakish Mola fish, but after I draw the tail fin in it was *puff* a shark – it’s so fucking funky how our brain works, one simple little detail and “oh yeah, now I see what the retard is trying to make…” - oh yes, that’s an actual inner dialogue… or it could be at least :P

I prolly should do a lips/mouth study soon... "tomorrow..."