Daily Drawing Thread - Try to post at least once a day and see how long you can go.

[SummonerofLain]

Ive been absent from the thread due to lack of inspiration and feeling like I may doxx myself with some original work.

Will stick to more basic sketches from now on.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Day Nein: Sketching one of my comic characters as the base for a painting, he's based on one of my friends whose birthday is on the way so I want to get it done by then.

 

[Toxinophile]

Day 9: Big booba action figure (once-ler not included)
Tried to do some anatomy exercises and it came out pretty stiff, so I had the idea to lean into it.

 

[きたない]

Day 10

Work makes it hard to stay caught up with this alongside normal practice, still fun though.

 

[decaydent]

Was working on thumbnails for inktober and throwing together this quick thing for day #9. Landscapes are fun, but I‘ve never done them before so I‘m having severe white page syndrome without a reference to follow.

 

[Definitely not Dobson]

Day Nein: Sketching one of my comic characters as the base for a painting, he's based on one of my friends whose birthday is on the way so I want to get it done by then.

Looks great so far!. Day two: more weird things.

 

[Robotech Engineer]

Looks great so far!. Day two: more weird things.

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This nigga worships cthulu IRL don't they?

 

[Toxinophile]

Day 10: some fortnite stuff

bonus drawing: a request for /vg/ anon

 

[Some Badger]

Day 11

We got a full moon tonight and I’m breaking out the werewolf-adjacent subject matter a month early, plus the edgy insomniac rock doggo speaks to me on a personal level.

ignore the owo what’s this bulge on top, that was for a fren

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Day 10, I've been busy with some flyer designing and other work so I didn't do a lot of other sketching, but I was recently watching artists on YouTube do pretty cool color work on coloring books. I downloaded some lineart and started practicing my digital coloring. Disregard the field of green, I'm trying to work out a cityscape layout that won't be *complete* ass.

 

[きたない]

Day 11

Came up with a shitty japanese shrine.

 

[decaydent]

Testing some poses on Day #10.

 

[Definitely not Dobson]

Trying my best to keep up.
Day three:

 

[Lucario]

Spoiler: Re-learning to draw after many years

I have never actually tried to draw except in elementry and middle school (when I was forced to during art class). After looking at this thread, I now feel like drawing is a useful skill to have to express your creativity, and I decided to try drawing even though I never did it outside of art class. Additionally, I decided to start watching this series on the basics of drawing. So, here are my day 1 sketches I did:

I used my graphics tablet that I used to use for playing osu!, and Krita. I cropped out all of the blank space after deciding to stop sketching for the day.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Day 11- I actually did an ink drawing of Vegeta from DBZ earlier but I didn't like it very much, that style has always been difficult for me. Here's some more work from today, I inked in that drawing from day 9.

 

[Some Badger]

Day 12

Phoning it in again with my tomboy gf character Laine

 

[Mal0]

Day 12

Phoning it in again with my tomboy gf character Laine

> Tomboy GF
> Long hair

My levels of respect for you has gone up

 

[Some Badger]

> Tomboy GF
> Long hair

My levels of respect for you has gone up

I will color her just for that. Maybe not tomorrow, but I definitely will.

 

[Toxinophile]

Day 11: I was a bit busy today but I still drew something today edition.

I really want to make a webcomic but I'm fucking lazy. hopefully this exercise will alleviate some of that.

 

[N hollandicus]

Spoiler: Re-learning to draw after many years

I have never actually tried to draw except in elementry and middle school (when I was forced to during art class). After looking at this thread, I now feel like drawing is a useful skill to have to express your creativity, and I decided to try drawing even though I never did it outside of art class. Additionally, I decided to start watching this series on the basics of drawing. So, here are my day 1 sketches I did:
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I used my graphics tablet that I used to use for playing osu!, and Krita. I cropped out all of the blank space after deciding to stop sketching for the day.

I am in a similar position as you where I did lots of art many years ago and due to school and work being not-art-related i am having to re-learn a lot of basics, especially since at the moment covid/work situations is making me consider taking commissions online again.
The bare essential basics are really important, and there are a lot of free or paid resources out there that offer guidance. E.g. how to blend, the difference between occlusion and cast shadows, reflected light, light sources, how to apply color appropriately etc.

I don't know what the best website is, but I watch a variety of youtube videos, purchased guides (a few from Aaron Blaise), and ive used this website

https://cgcookie.com/course/digital-painting-basics

Despite that, drawing easy shitty cartoony things is more fun than highly rendered realism a lot of the time.