Dailies- Week 3

 

Week 3- In which creative output drops down another level, as study re-asserts itself on the priority foodchain. Breaking my own rules, for sure, but so long as I’m putting something out and learning from it, its all dandy. Perhaps less interesting for y’all, but I think I’ve already proven myself lacking on that front when I try to force it without a good run-up. I’m better than this, and I can produce better stuff if I give myself some space to look at the world via art-brain again, instead of work-brain or doodle-brain.

So what did I learn this week?

- Its harder to make a ‘cute’ spider than I thought it would be

- Spending all day doing graphicy UI stuff is actually more useful for drawing/painting than I realised ( Its helping me do more accurate studies from ref, placing elements in space with more of an anal attention to detail than my usual leaning towards gesture )

- If you stare at a deer skull for long enough it turns into a bunch of abstract monsters squabbling for your attention to detail.

- People on deviantart REALLY like goatfaced pirates.

 

Dailies- Week 2

Output slipped a little this week, as my evenings have been stuffed full of social events for the past few days.  The general vibe of this bunch is rather spooky, and I did break my rule about no studies from ref ( That’ll be the skeleton dude, who was taken from a screeny from Corpse Bride ) but I felt so render-rusty this week that I kinda had to give some time to that, even if it really didnt feel like *enough* time.

I’m kinda hoping that my time problems will be slashed when I get my Cintiq12WX , knowing how much the disconnect between an intous and the screen can really slow me down, especially when I’m trying to explore. My rendering problems, on the other hand, will only be solved with further attempts to improve on em.

My favourite from this bunch is the goblin with the naughty spider, which was last Sundays daily ( Which is actually a cleaner version of last Saturdays Daily!), and had more time spent on it than usual, (Though I still want to pour more into it at some point.) WIP compilation for that one after the jump.

Pushing Dailies

Happy New Year! Like many this month, my 2012 starts with a push to get back into good art habits .  Just before I got my job at CA I was doing a daily lunchtime painting with an old acquaintance over at deviantArt, which kinda fizzled out as life got in the way. Terrible!

So I’m bringing that back for myself, with some new rules to boot.

But what are they? I hear you say. Here we go-

1: One image per day

2: An hour or so to do it

3:  It has to be relevant to my day or have some thought behind it.

The purpose of this exercise is to get as many ideas up as possible without dwelling on them or getting too precious – this is an exercise in creativity as much as an art grind, though I hope as I get into the swing of things they get more awesome.

I’ll be uploading the dailies  daily over at http://typocity.deviantart.com/gallery/with a weekly compendium here on FrenchBird. Time allowing, I’d like to take some of the more successful images and give them a couple of extra hours attention, ( be it in producing further iterations on the theme, or adding extra details) but we’ll see how that one goes.

2011 Sketchdump: Faces