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Female portraits
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Someone might ask why I seemingly only draw females, portraits and poses. The reason is simple: I am only trying to develop my drawing skills.
I am still learning about face and body proportions, and am slowly trying to venture into posing and gesture. My way of thinking is; you can't start drawing interesting poses or characters with cool gesture before you can nail the proportions blindfolded.
And so this thinking applies to the type of characters I draw. I would like to draw men and animals and all kinds of characters, but I started with women. As I find women more visually appealing, that's what I started with when I began drawing.
I my head I have constructed the following path for development:
Learn to draw: 1. Female face proportions -> 2. Female body proportions -> 3. Female poses and gesture -> 4. Shading -> 5. Color and Light
At stage 3 I might start to dabble more with male faces and bodies, in parallel. Later on, animals and creatures.
In the end my goal is to create character concept art, with the focus of have female characters depicted in some sort of situation and with a background story to them. I like strong female characters who can take care of themselves even if they sometimes get themselves into a vulnerable situations.
Some of the best character art I've seen have many kinds of characters in them and a girl can be even sexier or more beautiful if she's in a context where other characters are present.
With all this said, I do have a feeling that this focus on drawing girls will fade when I improve. Because then I will be more comfortable with drawing characters in general which will make drawing men, animals and creatures more appealing. And that will be fun, I'm sure! But I don't suspect I will ever grow tired of drawing those girls
Peace
I am still learning about face and body proportions, and am slowly trying to venture into posing and gesture. My way of thinking is; you can't start drawing interesting poses or characters with cool gesture before you can nail the proportions blindfolded.
And so this thinking applies to the type of characters I draw. I would like to draw men and animals and all kinds of characters, but I started with women. As I find women more visually appealing, that's what I started with when I began drawing.
I my head I have constructed the following path for development:
Learn to draw: 1. Female face proportions -> 2. Female body proportions -> 3. Female poses and gesture -> 4. Shading -> 5. Color and Light
At stage 3 I might start to dabble more with male faces and bodies, in parallel. Later on, animals and creatures.
In the end my goal is to create character concept art, with the focus of have female characters depicted in some sort of situation and with a background story to them. I like strong female characters who can take care of themselves even if they sometimes get themselves into a vulnerable situations.
Some of the best character art I've seen have many kinds of characters in them and a girl can be even sexier or more beautiful if she's in a context where other characters are present.
With all this said, I do have a feeling that this focus on drawing girls will fade when I improve. Because then I will be more comfortable with drawing characters in general which will make drawing men, animals and creatures more appealing. And that will be fun, I'm sure! But I don't suspect I will ever grow tired of drawing those girls
Peace
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World of Warcraft
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I saw a piece of fan-art for WoW today and reflected a little upon this.
It's astonishing really... Since I had the opportunity to join the first beta in 2004, I have never truly left the game. I still play today... Not really full-time, but I can't go too long periods without it, I need to get my WoW-fix regularily
It's no wonder that there is no shortage of WoW fan-art, milli0ns have played the game, and it has evolved for 11 years now! It's just an infinite bucket of inspiration to draw from!
... if you like WoW that is...
It's astonishing really... Since I had the opportunity to join the first beta in 2004, I have never truly left the game. I still play today... Not really full-time, but I can't go too long periods without it, I need to get my WoW-fix regularily
It's no wonder that there is no shortage of WoW fan-art, milli0ns have played the game, and it has evolved for 11 years now! It's just an infinite bucket of inspiration to draw from!
... if you like WoW that is...
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TODO: Fan art ^^
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Favourite characters I'd like to try my hand on (!) in the future... the very distant future, where I'm an awesome artist! 
Or was it an alternate universe..? Anyway, in no particular order:
Or was it an alternate universe..? Anyway, in no particular order:- Jaina Proudmoore (WoW)
- Sylvanas (WoW)
- Katarina (LoL)
- Jinx (LoL)
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Hi everyone!
I have had a period where I have been felling a little down and not been feeling artsy or creative at all. But to get un-stuck and get out of the rut, I decided yesterday to just work on it. Mindless, tedious work
But happily I have just the tool for that, as I am enrolled in a couple of courses on Udemy. Most of the ones I am taking are produced by Neil Fontaine, and I really think that he has the skills to teach someone as bone-headed as me the basics and fundamentals, that I need to be able to begin drawing the things I would like to draw. It's frustrating when you have a creative idea but no means to get it on paper och computer screen
But, for anyone wanting to further their skills, I can recommend Neil's courses. I mean, everybody might not like Neil's methods (or even Neil himself? ) but if you really are a complete novice like me there's really nothing to lose either.
I'm not an affiliate to Udemy but besides SkillShare I think that they have the best working online solution that I have seen yet
Despite the title, the course covers (among other things) the basics in understanding anatomy which was the most important thing to me: Discover How to Draw and paint Comics
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Apart from that, my little daugther had her 5th birthday yesterday so that has been really fun!
Soon it's my boy's turn, he's going to be 2 years old in the beginning of June 
Hope everyone is having a great day
I have had a period where I have been felling a little down and not been feeling artsy or creative at all. But to get un-stuck and get out of the rut, I decided yesterday to just work on it. Mindless, tedious work
But happily I have just the tool for that, as I am enrolled in a couple of courses on Udemy. Most of the ones I am taking are produced by Neil Fontaine, and I really think that he has the skills to teach someone as bone-headed as me the basics and fundamentals, that I need to be able to begin drawing the things I would like to draw. It's frustrating when you have a creative idea but no means to get it on paper och computer screen
But, for anyone wanting to further their skills, I can recommend Neil's courses. I mean, everybody might not like Neil's methods (or even Neil himself?
) but if you really are a complete novice like me there's really nothing to lose either.I'm not an affiliate to Udemy but besides SkillShare I think that they have the best working online solution that I have seen yet
Despite the title, the course covers (among other things) the basics in understanding anatomy which was the most important thing to me: Discover How to Draw and paint Comics
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Apart from that, my little daugther had her 5th birthday yesterday so that has been really fun!
Soon it's my boy's turn, he's going to be 2 years old in the beginning of June Hope everyone is having a great day
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Practice
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Hi!
I'm so glad that I actually have found some time to do some sketching. I really believe all and every artist that the recipie to success is really simple, no matter what you're trying to improve: practice makes perfect
I'm a little apprehensive about moving on to other things than just simple pencil drawing portraits, but will try and follow the course I'm taking.
A note to the artists I give points
to: Don't think anything of it, I just really want to support art that inspires me! The sad truth is that I simply have more money than time, and I'm guessing that there are artists out there who's situation is quite the reversed.
OMG I just realised how arrogant that sounded!
Well... I stand by it, and in this context (trying to be an artist) it's really my loss!
That's my current thoughts... Tonight I'll try and convert one of my drawings into vector art I think
I'm so glad that I actually have found some time to do some sketching. I really believe all and every artist that the recipie to success is really simple, no matter what you're trying to improve: practice makes perfect
I'm a little apprehensive about moving on to other things than just simple pencil drawing portraits, but will try and follow the course I'm taking.
A note to the artists I give points
to: Don't think anything of it, I just really want to support art that inspires me! The sad truth is that I simply have more money than time, and I'm guessing that there are artists out there who's situation is quite the reversed. OMG I just realised how arrogant that sounded!
Well... I stand by it, and in this context (trying to be an artist) it's really my loss!That's my current thoughts... Tonight I'll try and convert one of my drawings into vector art I think
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