Sketchy Sunday 6
Decided to do something a little different this week...
Instead of a different doodle/sketch for each day, I did two big ones. Monday to Wednesday, I worked on the warrior woman, then Thursday to Saturday, I worked on the archery man. I tried to do the whole sketch-a-series-of-shapes-and-then-draw-on-top-of-them thing that art instruction books are always telling you to do. I've never liked doing it; there's so much erasing to be done afterwards which always dirties the page. :/ But I understand the concept, that it allows you to see where the best line is so you don't make an even bigger mess. And with these larger pictures I wanted to get it right.
Remind me never EVER to draw forward-facing feet again! -_-' Normally when I want a reference, I take a quick look at myself - like, with the archer's fist on the bow, I made a fist myself and turned it round to face me, so I could see how the knuckles, fingers and thumb worked. But you can't look at your own feet face-on, not without a full-length mirror, which we don't have. After trying to work it out in my head, I gave up and did a Google image search. Even then, finding a reference was difficult; most pictures of feet are either from the top or the side. I'm still not sure if the warrior looks like she has her feet flat to the ground or like she's standing on tiptoe.
The archer suffered the most from eraser-smear; the bow, the arrow, the body armour and the hands were all clustered together and when I made an error on one, I inevitably ended rubbing out parts of the others.
As for the colouring, I have some really crappy colouring pencils that barely give any colour at all and foolishly decided to use them because I didn't want to obsure the pencil lines with too-bright colour. :S
Here are some close-ups of particular details:
Instead of a different doodle/sketch for each day, I did two big ones. Monday to Wednesday, I worked on the warrior woman, then Thursday to Saturday, I worked on the archery man. I tried to do the whole sketch-a-series-of-shapes-and-then-draw-on-top-of-them thing that art instruction books are always telling you to do. I've never liked doing it; there's so much erasing to be done afterwards which always dirties the page. :/ But I understand the concept, that it allows you to see where the best line is so you don't make an even bigger mess. And with these larger pictures I wanted to get it right.
Remind me never EVER to draw forward-facing feet again! -_-' Normally when I want a reference, I take a quick look at myself - like, with the archer's fist on the bow, I made a fist myself and turned it round to face me, so I could see how the knuckles, fingers and thumb worked. But you can't look at your own feet face-on, not without a full-length mirror, which we don't have. After trying to work it out in my head, I gave up and did a Google image search. Even then, finding a reference was difficult; most pictures of feet are either from the top or the side. I'm still not sure if the warrior looks like she has her feet flat to the ground or like she's standing on tiptoe.
The archer suffered the most from eraser-smear; the bow, the arrow, the body armour and the hands were all clustered together and when I made an error on one, I inevitably ended rubbing out parts of the others.
As for the colouring, I have some really crappy colouring pencils that barely give any colour at all and foolishly decided to use them because I didn't want to obsure the pencil lines with too-bright colour. :S
Here are some close-ups of particular details:
