awesome! looks amazing!!
how is it?
took a couple days to adjust to the wacom and to “remember my style” from like 20 years ago.
the problem I had initially was I was watching too many tutorials and drawing how THEY drew and it didn’t feel right… too many shapes and “a body is this many heads tall divide it this way and this way” and I thought "but what if I don’t want to?
Then I found some youtube shorts from a Japanese artist that helped me “get my groove” back so to speak and I found my style again.
I’m using Krita and I love it. the brushes are great, I’m absolutely addicted to inking. I decided to keep some of the blue pencil lines because I really think it looks cool with the ink on top.
I’m glad you’re embracing your style, this is great.
Edit: Who was the Japanese artist?
he goes by Chommang on youtube. He helped with making heads and bodies easier to draw. really made it simple.
I’m in a similar situation, I bought the tablet years ago, supplies, sketchbooks, nice pens, etc. I watch art related content and provide critique and such to my friends, but as soon as it comes down to putting pen to paper it’s like all the motivation and inspiration leaves me. Honestly at a loss, it’s been about 15 years for me, I’d still like to call myself an artist, but I do anything but draw.
what helped with me was using pinterest and just looking at poses. like seeing some unique pose and saying “I want to draw that” and using it as reference.
Make yourself bored. Boredom is a great art motivation.
In my experience, that’s because you’re critiquing others and yourself too much. It’s not fun if all you see is the shitty stuff or what you need to “improve.” Who cares if you make good or bad art? There are plenty of perfect drawings out there that no one has ever seen. It really doesn’t matter. In a related note, if you went to art school, it might be the art school hangover from juries. I have a vendor that still worries about what his college teachers/peers might say, and I think he’s in his 50s or 60s.
I decided to keep some of the blue pencil lines because I really think it looks cool with the ink on top.
Yeah that’s dope. Really cool effect and it doesn’t jump out at you. It just looks cool.
Heey that chubby nose is so hard to get right 😁👌!
hah yeah I’m still working on “mastering” noses. I just need to spend a day drawing noses.
Girl needs a good night sleep and some moisturizer. Super job!
Where do you find inspiration? I bought one too after too many years away, but I forgot to order a muse.
Pinterest. Never used the site before as I figured it was just some shopping type site but It’s a fantastic place to find unique poses and references. I’ll go on there and search for like “action poses” or “dynamic poses” and look at images and think “this pose would be great for this character” or “I’d really like to try drawing something from this perspective”
Like if I find an image with some big guy I’d think “This dude would look awesome as a space marine” or an image of someone striking a really intense action pose and I’d say “Spider-Man would totally do this”
So right now references are really inspiring me.
It’s tough sometimes. Art can be a massive time sink. Life gets in the way most of the time, as you found out.
Looks great, keep it going!
Why you stop the drawings for 20 years? Did you time travel from 2005?
If so, I recommend heading backwards instead; things really didn’t get better after the War of Terror
I really like your style. I’m glad you kept the pencil lines in. They add a subtle, yet contrast and striking focus to someone who seems beat down by time; a feeling I think we can all relate to!
Holy shirt. Very cool!
This caught my eye. I love your characterisation and feeling.
Congratulations on making art again.
- If you need any Krita tutorials, David Revoy has heaps of them on Krita techniques and tools.
Neat! I am on about year 15. What brought you to challenge yourself to pick it back up? Like, anything in particular or was it a slow burn?
I wanted to be creative again and I missed it. I mean I’m going to be 42 next week and I realized I hadn’t drawn or painted anything in like 20 years. Life just got busy and took that away from me. I used to love drawing, I used to love making webcomics or little zines for friends and what have you. I just wanted a hobby again that didn’t involve gaming or anything like that.
So I just started trying again and didn’t like what I was making. I thought “I swore I was better than this” so I decided to pick up a cheap Wacom One (the small basic one) and challenge myself to draw every day for 30 days and see if I could get that passion back.
the first week was rough and I wasn’t happy with it. It wasn’t until like day 6 or 7 that something turned back on in my brain. Kinda like that skill/passion for creating was always there, had long been turned off, and took a week to reboot. It just clicked and it was a sort of “oh yeah I remember how to do this!” moment.
Now it’s like I draw something, get to the point I’m happy with it, then like 15min later I want to draw something else. Sort of like an addiction.
I’ve also noticed that ideas are coming easier to me now and not just for art. but say like Ideas for apps or websites or what have you (I’m a developer in my day job) I just feel creative again overall. and frankly it also makes me feel young again.
Please please keep up!
Looks great! Please do keep sharing
That is beautiful work.
