So, That Evil-Looking Guy.

I felt he needed to be put to use.



Finished this in maybe...two or three hours total.

It's pretty good for the first comic page I've drawn in a few months, which kind of disgusts me in a way, since...I can do better than this. :|

At any rate, I'm pleased by everything except the knight in the second panel. A number of things are wrong with him in the second panel. His left hand looks hideous, and his neck seems too long.

20 drawings total.
Covered up through January 20th.
345 to go.

Does it count as late?

Haha, a day overdue, aren't I?

Well, regardless, I've three new drawings. Rather pleased with most of them.



More brush experimentation with the jumping kid. I felt like trying to draw a single scene, one single frozen moment in an actual setting...as sparse as that setting may be. Overall, I liked how this one turned out, even if that cat doesn't look much like a cat, and the girl's left (her left) arm is out of proportion with the hand of that arm.

This next image was a "play day" for me, for the most part.



I learned how difficult it is to make Sonic seem full of life, and then started playing with my color pencils... later in the day, I got down to experimenting with the brush again.

The next day, I felt like trying to draw "a villain."




...and came up with this "Evil King" guy. I started with his face, then went on to draw up his body, which...eh, is a good bit shorter than he ought to be, actually. But regardless, I feel that he meets good "villain" standards. Everything else on the page came about because of him.


Well, 19 drawings total, now.
Covered through January 19th.
346 to go.

Trio Three

Haha, cutting it rather close with this one, aren't I?

Well, let's see...started drawing this one on Sunday, and finished it up sometime on Monday...

Rather pleased with the jumping guy, even if his eyepatch is...being worn the wrong way. The face beneath the guy also looks...kind of wonky. Oh well.

...So then I got started on a wild west theme. I felt like trying to do more with arms and hands, using poses that I stubbornly avoid out of laziness or embarassment, and forced myself to work with them.


The end result was rather nice. I got a woman who looks like a woman, and a man who actually looks like he's shooting me. Sadly, the woman's hand holding the derringer (and the derringer itself) are misshapen, and the cowboy's left pinky finger is apparently broken. Sad day.

...Aaaaand then we come to today: Yesterday, the guy I sit next to in one of my classes kept talking about crusaders. I figured like playing with that idea.


And I got DOUBLE-CRUSADER.

When I got home, I played with the new brush I got from Art Media, and the result of that is down at the bottom of the page. Isn't too bad, I think.

SO. This brings us to...
16 drawings total.
Covered through January 16th.
349 to go.

Triple Serving

Haha, well, I'm a bit late, here...
Friday, the 7th, I had a lot of free time before my first class, so I started drawing in my sketchbook. The result is what you see below.

...as you can see, my work with drawing hands hasn't quite paid off, when drawing things out of my head. Then again, that could easily be the result of me not thinking things through and also not having a solid grasp of anatomy, still.

Anyway, later that day, I drew in my sketchbook again, after my class finished.

A comment that struck me, from a classmate who was passing me by and peeked into my sketchbook, was along the lines of, "You draw too much of the same stuff."

Well, that's true. I still have a lot of work to do in order to get past that. The drawing that I actually do lately seems to be habitual stuff, following the same formulas over and over and getting the same drawings.

So then Saturday whirled around.
Yeah. Saturday was pretty awesome.

Well, these three drawings* bring us up to 13 total.
Covered up through January 13th.
350 days to go.

*...it's really a quantity-over-quality thing with me, isn't it? :\

Blue Hand

I was waiting for the lounge in the art building to clear out, so I sat down and started drawing this...started with the hand you see outlined in black behind the hand rendered in blue. Second came the hand on the right, then the hand rendered in colors.


...There's still something I'm sorely missing, here. I'm either not approaching this the right way, or I haven't wrapped my head around this yet.

Maybe I should be working on drawings out of my head in conjunction with these studies.

Regardless, we're up to 10 drawings, now.
I'm covered up through January 10th.
355 more to go.

Lateness

No post last night? I feel like I'm falling behind.

I scribbled something up and finished it at 11:00 PM last night, but it's pretty disappointing. Look at that horrible hand and those terrible legs...


Truth is, I did draw yesterday during the day, only...it turned out to be crap. I was going to try draw my eraser sitting on top of the stub of another eraser, and render it in oranges and yellows, but like I said, it turned out to be crap. I used the same page for my drawing today.



That guy lying on his side, on the bottom of this page? Yeah, I was drawing him...then this girl comes and sits across the table from me, completely blocking that guy from view. As a result...I couldn't draw the rest of him.

Eh, the legs and torso look out of proportion anyway...

Well, anyway...
9 drawings total.
Covered through January 9th.
356 to go.

The Eraser Has Color

Well, school's started.

Had a little over an hour to spare before my first class, so I started drawing my hand.

First one didn't turn out too well, second one seemed okay, and the third was horrible.

Then I decided to try draw my eraser, over in the bottom left.


...Just what am I even accomplishing by working through these? Something tells me I'm going about this the wrong way, or I'm not doing something quite right...

Anyway. That's 7 drawings total, now.
Covered up through January 7th, then.
358 to go.

Colors?

Today could've been productive, but alas, it was not.

So I opted to try using a brush for my linework, and got this.



(EDIT: OH GOD, WHY DID I DATE THIS THING THE 1ST OF JANUARY? IT'S THE THIRD. THE THIRD, GOD. )

...Doesn't feel too bad, but then you start noticing that horribly-bent pen.

No, I didn't use a straightedge, and I probably should have.

Oh well. Hey, look. Color.




6 drawings total, now.
Covered up through January 6th.
359 more to go.

(Oh damn it, school starts up again tomorrow...)

Drool Warning

Originally, I started today drawing Persona 3 fanart, but got sidetracked when I realized I hadn't eating anything. When I got around back to drawing, I decided to draw myself instead.

So we've got two drawings today: Hands and faces.




(EDIT: Guess who still keeps writing '2009' out of habit when he dates things?)

TODAAAAAAAAY'S LESSON: Drawing myself with my mouth wide open leaves me at risk of drooling on my own pants.

THAT IS ALL.

So, that brings us to...

5 drawings total.
360 more to go.
I'm covered up through January 5th.

2010 Has Begun!

O' glorious day!

I type this while functioning on 4 hours of sleep, wrought by trying to stay up to witness the first dawn of the new year. Instead, I awoke at around 10:00 to beautiful sunlight. I enjoyed that much, at least.

So, 'round 7:30 or 8, I got to drawing in my sketchbook.



And here's the result.

The two comic panel-looking bits in the upper-left were penciled some number of days ago, but I never got around to inking them. I started off drawing the three girls over on the right, and just took off from there.

(Man, I suck at rendering girls' hair...amongst a bunch of other things.)

I threw Dr. Tenma into the bottom left because I felt the urge to add a glasses-wearing man somewhere, and it filled the empty white void.

(EDIT: Specifically, it's the rendition of Dr. Tenma from the manga, "Pluto." That's why he looks...kind of like Gendo Ikari?)

Also, as a side note, I realized a few weeks ago that I never draw on both sides of the pages in my sketchbook. This is (or was, now) because I was always afraid of drawings smearing and ruining each other due to pages rubbing against each other.

I figured a way to circumvent this would be to just ink everything that I drew on the pages' backsides. I think when I fill this sketchbook up entirely, (and hey, I essentially double my drawing space) I'll have that many more drawings to be entertained by.

ANYWAY. It's January 2nd, now.

3 drawings total, covered for January 3rd.
362 more to go.