I wanted to draw a butterfly monster that looked graceful and ‘stringy’; this is the result. %100 percent out of my imagination.
Tag: daily doodle
Toothy Dragon (D11)
I was too comfortable with my line sketches so I started to do color painterly sketches again. I like how this one came out.
Alex Alligator (D10)
A quick sketch of my OC Alex.
Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough (D9)
These two odd looking characters are mid game bosses in Dark Souls 1 and are IMO the most difficult boss battle in the game (unless you’re playing as a sorcerer then it becomes the easiest boss battle in the game). This is my third playthrough and it took me an hour of practice to beat them (obviously not playing as a sorcerer). The lion dude is the pain due to his ninja like agility but fatty is easy because you can spam him with arrows.
Fallen Captain Hates Trees (D3)
For today’s daily I did a toon version of this enemy in the game Destiny because I’m too brain dead tonight to come up with something out of my head.
Ref image: http://orig12.deviantart.net/2674/f/2013/155/4/2/destiny___the_captain_by_hannahrooth-d67t2kf.png
Dragon Doodle No.3 (LibreOffice Draw)
Today I drew in an app made for graphs and diagrams, not art; and it was a very annoying experience. Every time I would draw a curve it would make it a bounding box, if I tried to draw another curve too close to the bounding box, it would move the existing curve instead of making a new one. I cant deselect the curve because it has no deselect short cut. It’s quite a pain
If you have an app you enjoy drawing with, feel free to recommend it. So far the main apps I use are Manga Studio 5 and Photoshop.
Dragon Doodle in Blender 3d
Tonight I doodled this dragon out of my head in one of the most unlikely applications ever, Blender 3d; a program made for 3d modeling and animation, not 2d sketching.
Blender has this feature called ‘Grease Pencil’ that allows you to draw sketchy like ‘curves’ anywhere you like with your tablet, it will even stick to 3d objects. Note: This has nothing to do textures and UV (Although some use it for retopo)
To test the grease pencil,I set a block in front of the camera (set the camera to ‘ortho front’) and started drawing. This works way too good. I wouldn’t want to paint with this due to each color having to be on a separate layer but for sketching it is super.. er.. surprisingly effective.
Since grease pencil curves are in 3d, I could see many awesome uses for this tool, you can even ANIMATE with grease pencil curves and have at your disposal useful animation tools such as onion skinning.
For a free open source 3d app, blender continues to blow my mind.
I know I have 7 monsters remaining of my 30 monster project and its been a month since my last drawing. Homework and commissions take priority in my life. but after 30 monsters is finished, I will be doing a drawing project concerning dragons as I miss drawing them.
Also here is a screenshot of the sketch in blender:
Chimera Dude (Monster 13)
This poor creature was once a man but he was turned into this monstrosity because he: fell into toxic ooze / was curse by an evil sorcerer / was a victim of a failed science experiment / all of the above… or its just some creature that likes to wear shirts.
For the remaining monsters I will be drawing creatures from fables and legends. For example: minotaurs, basilisks, and the cockatrice.
Robot Girl Failure + 100 Character Challenge
Daily Doodle for Wednesday. I tried my hand at a robot assassin but It didn’t turn out that well. I have decided that the daily doodle is not working for me. First I doodle on paper every day. Sometimes for hours. Frankly I’m just too lazy to scan and upload it here. so its redundant. As an artist I need to change focus if something is not working. So I am changing it into the 100 Character Challenge. I feel my humanoid character designs could use a shot in the arm. I discovered on DeviantArt there is literally thousands of stock images of people in costumes and in various poses that artist can use for reference. I will be using these as practice. Sometimes I will make a character similar to the stock image, other times I will use it to jump start my imagination. So I will give myself 1 to 2 hours a day to work on this. 2 days total for each character. In .. color or B&W. I’m optimistic this will help me with designing costumes and posing characters. I project this will take 6 months to complete. if this doesn’t work after a month, I will just find another daily practice routine like I did with the 21 Day Challenge.
Dragon Profile (Daily Doodle)
Daily Doodle for Mon and Tues. I I haven’t drawn a dragon recently so I thought I would do one from my imagination. I usually do a new doodle every day but I couldn’t keep awake last night and wanted to practice mark making, so I continued to mess around with it. 45 minutes to a hour
