practice

Pencils on Canson paper format A3

Working on inking this sketch today. I have so many sketches from finished projects, I figured they'd make good practice to refine my line work. I'm also recording another time lapse video showing this process

"There was nothing left of him"

Trying to draw floaty girls and it's not working.

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Portrait practice with colored pencil and chalk.

Practicing some with copic markers. Welcome to 2019

A movement study of legs using a male model. 20 minute initial sketch, five minutes for each following, and a final 15 minute sketch. Time: 1hr Medium: Procreate on Ipad

getting practice with more extreme values

Daily Gesture practice. I have been practicing for 30 minutes every day for two weeks. I aim to improve, but mostly to have fun. Feel free to give me pointers !

Wanted to try some other lighting environments! This painting was referenced from a piece by Samdoesarts on YouTube, you should check out his channel, pretty cool.

So this was merely a color practice with different brushes. I used marker, airbrush and paint. The hair is paint, the face, shirt, bow tie and shading was all used with marker. The airbrush was for the shiny effect on his bow tie. I have no rhyme or reason for this image, it was just something I created in my sketch book. I just needed to draw something to play around with.

I like to do self portraits, it gives me something to practice with. So this one I did just to practice shading and stuff.

Just working on my figure drawing skills. I wanted to draw a girl sitting down, but I didn't want her to be alone, soo...that's where the bird comes in! :)

tbh I was inspired by a silver surfer comic. Space backgrounds have always been cool to me and I just wanted to practice on creating one.

Practicing on eyes. (Pencil in sketchbook)

Anatomy practice. Please critique it if you had some tips!

One of my practice paintings :)

Personal digital painting just for fun and practice, done in Paintstorm Studio app

Working on my OC, while practicing layers, its hard than it seems. So I wanted to practice some more while designing Chumps hair bow.

Going through a mental health journey, and created this fella. This is not the complete image, he will have bat wings and devil horns. I just hit a small wall with some of the layers. But I will have the picture complete when I can. I finally started drawing again after weeks of depression. So excited to see where this fella goes.

One of the practice paintings from when I was teaching myself to paint bubbles.

After a year of drawing pretty much nothing due to artblock/burnout that came after a few years of battling my mind to be able to draw, this drawing marked me finally being able to return to art this November 2023 with a fresh mindset of less perfectionisim and more focus on my own enjoyment of the process. I had a limited timespan to work on this, a gift for my grandmother's 80th birthday, as I only began the process the day before I needed to email it across. Compared to the months it has typically taken me to finish anything in more recent years, this presented an extra motivation to abandon "perfect" in favour of "good enough". It's not as detailed as some of my prior works, but given the limited timespan and that I'm out of practice I am nonetheless happy with the result. As usual, I combined a graphite and ink drawing with digital colour+shading.