miércoles, 20 de noviembre de 2024

Getting better at drawing

 Yes, I probably should write on my blog more often. I feel like writing here is akin to screaming into a void where nobody is going to read it.

Older posts I have meandered about some inner aspects of my worldbuilding. If I am in the mood sometime, I might get back to writing more ramblings. At least if I die abruptly and my books become surprise cult hits, there is canonical material out there.

I always drew as a kid and have tons of scanned scribblings I rescued from school notebooks that I had to throw away to make space.

Some aspects of my drawing never change, such as how I always draw jawlines and eyes first. Or how I draw ridiculously slender arms. It's more of a drawing style and what feels most comfortable for me.

Even though social media ensures algorithmns murder art related posts, some reader friends always commend they enjoy it when I share art.

I don't share everything, lots of drawings I end up deleting without finishing.

Procreate is an amazing program. I really love it. I no longer use Photoshop because my old laptop motherboard was fried during an electric storm. I own Clip Art but I never understood how to use the program and there aren’t Spanish language tutorials.

Yes. I am a native English speaker and understand the language perfectly fine. But I have computer programs in Spanish to avoid OS instability issues where menus are organized differently. So, the variety of good tutorials is slim.

I draw with trial and error and some people have told me my art is evolving. I can't quite see the changes myself, except I am more careful fixing proportion errors due to my astigmatism earlier in drawing stages.

Seeing art by other artists might have also helped me. I am terrible following long video tutorials, but I like experimenting with different brushes and color shading. And I think that explains part of my improvements.

Anyhow, I recently finished this Tioja drawing. It isn't perfect, but I am much better drawing hands. Lips continue to be a struggle for me, but I am expending increased efforts at drawing backgrounds and proportionate wings.

I am slowly drawing the 12 gold saint houses in Caballeros del Zodiaco pixel style. This project might take a while because the houses are difficult to stay 100% proportionate. Cleaning up takes ages. But I will certainly like to share an animation I plan to do with an overlay of the epic music. Procreate dreams makes this possible and very user friendly.

I would also like to draw backgrounds from my own books and have characters do stuff like summon phantom beasts.


Tioja looking horrified hands appear from his shadow to taunt him into further madness. Art by me.