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.