Art break - Part one

Even though a few might laugh when I say this, my favourite part of the course is doing all the little drawing exercises. One of my favourites (shown above) is the continuous line exercises. They allow me to study how the shapes come together to form the objects. It's definitely helping me learn how to draw hands.

Next comes my scrap book of digital sketches and what I draw when I'm watching different shows.

For our sketchbooks we were asked to draw ourselves in different genres of games, and to try different styles. So what I came up with, instead of drawing myself in the games was to draw my characters. As a role player, I put parts of myself in the characters, as well as my personality quirks, sometimes a few facial features such as freckles or red hair. So I've started going back to old paintings, as well as creating new sketches to draw ideas from. Most of the time I use Paint Tool Sai for sketching, but then Photoshop for more detailed paintings.

I've also been getting myself into the habit of doing speed paintings, where I give myself an hour or less to compose and then fill in a painting with block brushes, using as little detail as possible. The picture above was one of these paintings. I wanted to capture the emotion of sorrow, as well as the grim mood of rain.