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December 25, 2019 at 1:58 pm #481798
Going through some old junk I realized I had a bunch of mostly unused sketchbooks, so I figured why not use them for this place. Not quite 2020 yet but I might as well get some practice in. Maybe Santa blessed me with some art magic or something.
To start off with, my father’s got the flu and got pretty much my entire family sick since they were all together for Xmas, so that gave me the idea to try and draw the guy who wrote the song ‘Santa Clause has got the aids’. First time trying, and I’m falling back on old habits to just try and copy every exact line of the reference I’m using so it’s kind of way out of proportion and stuff, and I decided to try to fix it way too late. I’ll just consider it practice for next year. :P
I’m not sure what the policies on links to other sites are but perhaps I could link my deviantart if anyone wants to see any of my previous stuff? If not that’s alright.
January 1, 2020 at 12:27 am #923436Suppose I’ll update with the last few attempts at drawing I’ve done for 2019 before I do my first for this year. I’ve got one piece that’s just scribbles, one silly one for Boxing Day, a too-normal Francis Bacon inspired piece, a few musicians, one being a fictional character from the game Lollipop Chainsaw and the other two being Anthony Kiedis and Freddie Mercury, the latter of which I just sort of gave up on for the time being. Lastly there’s a few concepts for characters for a comic or visual novel I’ve had in my head for some time now, though I’ve been split between doing more research for it and just shelving the idea until I get a bit better practicing with other ideas.
January 9, 2020 at 8:03 pm #923437Been a few days, feel like I should update with a few things. Haven’t bothered uploading every piece I’ve worked on since last time, just a few I think were the best of my attempts. Another artist(this time from Talking Heads), one friend I did as a ninja that was more of a silly doodle, another doodle of some macho guy at a gym, and an actual concept for another ninja-ish character that I’m not really sure where to go with – guess it really depends how serious or dumb or fantastical or surreal I want her story to be. I feel like I’ve got male anatomy down to an ok level, in part thanks to how absurd Jojo characters can be(in the comic page with the giant cat) but the female figure still escapes me a bit.
January 15, 2020 at 3:26 pm #923434Such a wide range of work. Thanks for sharing
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All Media Art Events, Artwork From Life, Art JournalsJanuary 15, 2020 at 4:15 pm #923438Thank you I suppose I try to keep things fresh by doing a variety of different subjects…though maybe I could work more on environments because I do do a lot of people. Have been trying to learn more animal stuff at least.
January 23, 2020 at 10:05 pm #923439Figured I could do a small update. Still trying to draw once a day, but not as much worth sharing; a lot of it is redesigns or silly doodles or just scraps.
Here, I’ve got a couple characters for one story that’s more or less two shows mashed together, though by now I think I’ve fleshed it out a bit. The other, Ethyl, is supposed to be some spy or agent or something, but I don’t think I have as many good ideas for her and it kind of shows. The others are both fanart – one of J.J. Macfield and her doll, F.K., two characters from a game made by White Owls called ‘The Missing’. The other is sort of based off of a meme, both having to do with Ed Edd n Eddy and Dragon Ball Z. Very distinct cartoons but I tried to put both together anyway to see what would happen.
February 2, 2020 at 10:58 pm #923435Trav, these are so expressive. Keep going with these.
Sandra
February 3, 2020 at 8:02 am #923440Thanks Sandra! I actually just thought of posting an update. I don’t want to spam, so I try to wait until I have a few things to share, but since getting my new tablet this past week I’ve been pretty excited to work with it every spare moment – despite having been terribly ill and even now having a bad cough that just won’t leave.
It was a lot bigger than I anticipated. :P I think I may have to get a bigger space to work in.
Probably not going to be the last of my actual sketches, especially seeing as I’m going to have to relearn stuff about this art program before I try more serious stuff. For now I’m just messing with different effects and tools and junk.
February 10, 2020 at 3:18 am #923441Over the last few days I’ve likely been going a little overboard with trying to practice a lot of the digital stuff I’ve got at my disposal, and I think some turned out better than others. Either way I look at everything as a learning experience. Just hope I don’t get too burned out – probably a good idea to at least take a day off once in a while.
My most recent was a bit of a lazy mess but there seems to be one or two people that liked it. Otherwise I tried doing some existing characters, a couple with new videos of the process, though they aren’t so detailed. One with Link and Fi from the Zelda series in a bit of a different style that I really like but unfortunately doesn’t seem to have got much attention. Lastly there’s ‘Dramek’ or, more recently settled on Dramyd, who is to be the main character of my comic. Doing more research on some general history of Bohemia and just your average mythology and folklore has made my story quite a bit more fleshed out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5-yun9WqL7Y
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5exdpxtf0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FVqnXx4vUcENot sure I may continue doing videos, as I’ve done in the past. Initially thought they’d be good for analyzing the way I work…and well, I guess it’s done just that. But I think it just reinforces some bad habits of trying to rush myself.
February 14, 2020 at 4:23 pm #923442Bit of a smaller update just for Valentines’. Drew mostly related stuff, from Eros to my friend over in China who thankfully is still doing ok as far as I know. Pretty hard time finding the right word in her language to describe to her what a muse is, but I think I got what is probably a decent one. As for “sanik”, well, the Sonic movie comes to theaters today. Sadly I won’t get to see it until Sunday, but the story with this picture is basically how awful they made him look in the initial trailers and how they had to delay the film to spend $5 million in budget to fix it.
I can never seem to get her quite right, though…maybe it’s the filter :P
February 20, 2020 at 3:49 am #923443Another week has gone by, but unfortunately I have not got much done, for having had some crazy hours as well as just general life and family stuff. Got to see my brother and my niece, whom we sort of had a belated Christmas and birthday party for both of them. Saw the Sonic movie, not great or anything but better than I expected and finally nice to have something good about the franchise after such a long time of it just being terrible.
Also saw Doctor Sleep – much more sophisticated but at the same time I feel as if it’s not as good as the Shining, as it just feels far more conventional which is kind of odd after having learned that the flashbacks were actually recreated rather than ripped from the original movie. Even so, overall I enjoyed it. Thing is, I haven’t read either of the books. I remember the first work of King’s I read was probably over a decade ago, ‘Thinner’, and then after that, the gargantuan ‘IT’. But I think it was the more grounded stories like ‘Cujo’ or ‘Misery’ that got me really frightened but also felt more touching. Suppose that might be the difference between these two movies for me; I felt like the viewers relationship with the Torrance family was far more intimate within the isolated, quiet and imposing halls of the Overlook, with the more supernatural elements being borne of the more intrinsic fears and dread of each of them, rather than being the center of the story. In any case, perhaps one day I will read both and see for myself if they are deeper, and in the meantime use them for inspiration.
There is one other thing I’ve revisited briefly and plan to get back to over the long weekend ahead. Killer7, a game that is almost one of a kind, a psychological thriller at least to describe it in some way. Not much unlike these movies but still very distinct, and far more difficult to summarize, but it’s perhaps been my second favorite game overall since I first played it likely back around 2006 or 7.
But enough of that, let’s get to posting what I did draw:
I did more but this is just what I thought was worth sharing of them. A couple simple concepts for my comic that still likely have a ton of changes to go through, especially the blindfolded man as he’s just too close to an existing character I was thinking of at the time.
Steve Harvey there is a bit of a joke, considering Jim Carrey as Eggman in the Sonic film. Eggman Nega is a character from a more obscure Sonic game, who is a sort of alternate universe counterpart, so Harvey was the first celebrity I thought of that might fit the role if it ever happened. :P
Lastly was one I made specifically for trying my hand at Redbubble, a site where you can sell art for prints on different products. Totally not Sonic at all. They do most of the work, so I guess the deal is just that you only actually make a small percentage of the earnings, but I figured some is better than nothing right now as I’m trying to build a reputation and audience. Perhaps it will push me to try and make more original artwork.
February 29, 2020 at 11:03 pm #923444Happy leap day to all I kind of didn’t realize it was until now :P
So with another month of 2020 sort of down, I can’t say I’ve had as much practice lately; mostly just playing some old favorite games on my new laptop between long inconsistent shifts at work. But maybe sometimes it’s better to take a break than to stress out. At the very least, I am still keeping track of my drawing habits(and other goals) daily on my calendar so that breaks don’t get out of hand.Good news is I’ve finally decided to start my comic I’ve been mulling over for many months now. It’s pretty rough, but I guess it’s with the idea in mind that it’s a rough draft, to really work out the kinks in what I can do well and what I might need to scrap or improve on. I’ve got a general outline of how the story will go, in order to not have it go on too long, but I have no idea how many actual pages it might come out to with the 5-6 arcs planned. I do have a few sketched pages but only did 3 digitally so far. Really need to work on my speech bubbles and figure out if I should just use a font. That and I’m having a hard time deciding on the color palette as well as the contrast.
Have decided on the arc/chapter names at least…not sure about copyright for song titles from games but I don’t plan to make this version that popular.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xxwznl1cn1c
Have also begun thinking of another idea, this one not so serious that I likely won’t actually start until this one’s almost done. Just something to give some variety to my process so I don’t get bored doing the same thing all the time.
Lastly just a couple random pieces I did this past week…one being a joke about Pablo Picasso and the other being a bit of a racket take on a holiday. :P Maybe in poor taste? Not sure but I imagine I’d be told if it’s not a good look. Even so, I plan to have some more violent bits in both these comic ideas, in which case I’m not certain if I should just omit those from this thread.
I forgot, that last one is a bit of a hasty piece because I hadn’t realized it was the 10th anniversary of one of my favorite games, Deadly Premonition. Hoping the sequel still makes it out this year as planned.
March 13, 2020 at 10:35 am #923445Almost two weeks gone by, and I started this ‘Race War’ idea, kind of developing it as I go. I can kind of see it still taking a while, along with the other, so in light of recent events with the whole corona virus stuff, I’ve also decided that trying my hand at a significantly shorter story about it might make more sense at the moment.
I figure BioCurse might at least not take up much time with it only being black and white. It’s not solely his style but I associate it with horror writer Junji Ito, from the few works I’ve read of his – ‘Gyo’, ‘Town without streets’, ‘the Enigma of Arigama Fault’, etc. Them being so minimalist but also detailed, never mind so bizarre, intrigued me just enough to dip into horror a bit. So I guess it’s what I’m aiming for.
That last one, well, I thought I might have had an original idea, but it turns out plenty of people have done stuff like it and far better. :P Even so, it’s something I kind of want to turn into my own eventually, and use for another story idea, this one way later down the line as it involves relearning a game making program I used to fiddle around with in my teens. Perhaps I could make a simple visual novel with some puzzle solving or interaction of some kind.
March 22, 2020 at 10:41 pm #923446So I haven’t been doing much lately. Work has been a real killer. Two other maintenance employees pretty much outright quit in the last month and now the only other guy is on leave until the 15th next month, so here I am as a part time worker getting swamped with more than full time hours and asked to do even more on top of that without much benefit. Already taking a big risk with some respitory issues but also now some ear infection I can’t afford to treat either.
Considering we’re supposedly “essential employees”, and yet only now seeing much of any consideration at all, puts into light just how not worth it it all is and my drive to make a living with my art. Even so, it motivates me to try to do something more for this particular class of people I’m in that’s not often even regarded as human. Who knows if I can actually change anything, but in the age of information I’ve got far more of a chance to do this now while the spotlight is on retail workers and others still working in public in general.
At the very least, my immediate family is safe for now, though everyone is also still working, especially one working directly with elderly in hospice type care which seems even more risky. I had heard from my friend in China and am glad to hear from her that things seem better there now, but foreigners are coming back in with the potential to still infect more people.
The few things art related I have done lately, most have to do with this vague game idea. I even tried making my own music with this free website called BeepBox which seems easy to play with, has the aesthetic I’m looking for – the hard part being I have no knowledge of music theory. :P
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jIY5yX16pA8
Otherwise, there have been a few doodles here and there.
One is a sort of more grown up version of the character Tetra, from one of my favorite games ‘Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker’. I guess since the actual game is cutesy and whimsical and described from the designers as “seeing through the eyes of a child” I thought it might be interesting to do something a bit older now I’m almost 30. Thing is, she still kind of just looks weird unfortunately.
Last is a sort of celebratory picture since my friend Swery’s new game ‘The Good Life’ has been announced to come to the Nintendo Switch.
Just thought I’d make this smaller update to let people know I’m alive but also to say I may not do another for some time, dealing with work and stress and my dumb ear I just don’t feel like drawing or even gaming of much else other than getting as much rest as I can. Hope you are all doing well and stay safe.
April 11, 2020 at 10:05 am #923447Been some time, but I feel like I’m finally getting some well needed rest. Still some stress due to the pandemic in general but at least being on leave I don’t have to risk my health anymore there. To be honest I took about a week to be just all around lazy, but I hope to be a bit more productive with things like my art and weight now.
Seen a lot of movies but one that stood out was The Lighthouse. Initially I thought it might be more scary, and there are elements of that, but really I feel it’s about a power dynamic that I don’t feel is healthy for anyone to have. Don’t know if I agree that these issues are “gendered” as a lot of those in Hollywood like to sniff their own farts about, but rather just any situation where one person has far more of a workload and is far less valued than another. That’s how I’ve felt with my boss who seemed to be taking advantage of me, so I don’t feel too guilty about leaving them high and dry for now.
These three that I worked on lately are sort of topical in that they all have to do with widespread and catastrophic illness. One is from Resident Evil which are pretty popular zombie games, and the joke is about a bad English translation being about a sandwich. The other two have to do with a more obscure game called Nier where people basically turn into pillars of salt if they don’t sell their souls to this evil god.
I feel like Nier’s main theme, “Ashes of dreams”, fits these times pretty well.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CdZVTVJcfaY
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