Blog updated

I has been a long time since I updated this blog, so I thought it was about time.
I have added a few more Gimp tutorials to the Gimp page and added a page for Krita tutorials.

 Also I have continued to focus on leaning how to draw the human figure.
I have made a lot of progress since my last post on this blog. I had to take a step back from what I was doing and just try to get down the basics.
 what are the basics ?
In my opinion they are gesture and proportion.
So i have been doing a lot of gesture drawing and I mean a bunch. After I draw gestures a while I like to go and spend a while studying proportions then I go and study anatomy. I continue to repeat this process as often as possible.
Now while drawing gesture I try to get the proportions right, but not so much that it takes away from the gesture.
 Some times this process seems like a grind, so from time to time I like to try draw a figure and add some shading and anatomy. Doing it that way helps me to evaluate where my weakness is.
 Here are few images from the studies I have done in the last few months.
Some of the images are gesture and some are just scribbles.

Perspective drawing

Perspective drawing

While I was practicing drawing hands I realized that the hands would often need to be drawn with foreshorting as well as perspective. So I set out to study perspective while drawing hands.

 I just starting to understand how to use 1 and 2 point perspective and how that can apply to figure drawing.

  Here is a quick perspective study image. I decided add a little shading while I was at it.

This image was done in Manga studio 5.

A few rough hand sketches

Sketching hands

I hand a little time to practice today. In my last post I had said that I need to start focusing in on drawing hands, so that is what I have tried to do. If you are learning to draw people do not avoid the difficult stuff, like I do sometimes. I have to remind myself often just keep going even when I don't feel like it. Just draw, draw and draw some more.
 I know these sketches do not look that good, but these are practice sketches. I start by sketching out the basic shapes trying to keep proportion and then draw the details on top.

Drawing hands

Practice session 2 today.
I really really need to work on drawing hands. Today was as good as any to start focusing in on drawing hands.
 Here is an image from my hands practice today.

How to draw hands

Super Hero Girl

Today I grabbed an image for inspiration and reference. My goal was to take a few things I liked about it and create a concept image. This image was drawn and painted in Manga Studio 5.

todays practice session- Old viking warrior

Here is a sketch from todays practice session.

Old viking warrior.

warrior sketch

Second sketch session today was 30 min.

Morning practice session

I was given some advice to keep drawing even when the results look like garbage. The reason is each week or each month you can look back and see your progress and know what to work on.
  So here a sketch from todays practice session. I hope get in more study and sketching today.

Quick paint study today

I have not had the time to paint or draw in several days.
Finally today had about an hour to do as much as I could.
So here is today's paint study.
This was done in Manga studio 5.

Here is an other Hulk like proportion sketch

I got out of bed early this morning and started sketching. First thing I wanted to do was sketch figure with hulk proportions again. I feel like this rough sketch was better than the one I did yesterday.
 I am pretty much only using Manga Studio 5 anymore, as matter of fact i uninstalled FireAlpaca today. I only have 4 illustration apps on my computer now. Krita, Gimp, Manga Studio 5 and Manga Studio 4 ex. I bought MS4 ex near the end of 2013 and loved it. I liked MS4 so much I thought I would try out 5. Now I am hooked MS5 is great. I am thinking by the end of the week I will only have Gimp and Manga Studio 5 install, I just do not see myself spending much more time using krita or MS4.
 Ok so I have rambled enough here is this mornings rough sketch.