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#103

i am not uploading enough stuff aaaaaa.

#100

okay what should i add to this? i need suggestions. i want to do one more thing happening to the head and also add some more things floating around it. I'm probably gonna put it somewhere on my new website, so i want it to be all busy and satisfying to look at. maybe certain things happen when you click on certain things.

also happy 100th post! I guess if someone suggests something they want me to animate that'll be like a 101st post present thing i dunno

#96

#95

#73

i dont know if it's interesting or anything to see the process here but it's nice for me and it allows me to make three separate posts in one day.

#37

some kind of riff off kate beaton's Mystery Solving Teens, I think.

#36

im rationing myself pretty well in terms of self portraiture i think. I see a lot of artists who do it more than I do. i think it's important to be able to do it now and again but even if you make them all goofy it's still narcissistic. I feel like I could have made this look more like me but it certainly looks how i feel. in a not pathetic sort of way, i'm just kinda drained.

#13

Yorick Godthorn, Anke's father. He's the head of a large family and has amassed a fortune through the sale of Megabaum bark (rock-hard bark from the giant trees that cover the majority of his land) and amber (which, when dried and cast, is harder than glass, and often bought up by the military).

#11

Again with hands I have trouble with gestures that don't have a lot of recognisable shapes and arcs. 2 and 4 were probably the hardest ones here, I was kinda giving myself an easy time with the other ones. I find splayed fingers really hard for some reason - I think it's because it's easy to abstract the hand into "blocks" of fingers, thumb, palm, and when the fingers spread out it's just a way more compicated shape. Also angles like number 4 still blow my mind, hands can look really strange and can bend in all sorts of weird ways. I think I'll go back to women tomorrow, maybe try some faces.

#10

04 and 05 I can live with (04 had amazing musculature and 05 had a pose with lots of recognisable shapes and curves). 06 exemplifies this problem I have with boring straight-up poses (just like number 01 yesterday). I guess part of the problem lies with the pose rather than my rendering of it but it feels like I should be able to make even uninteresting poses look nice. Also, she had some amazing muscles across her torso which proved really hard to get without trying to shade them (trying to describe all the shapes with just lines). Also she has her left hand on her hip in this manner that I ALWAYS struggle with. I might do some sketches just of that fucking hand.

Also, haha faces. Once I'm settled a bit more with the bodies I'll get to that.

#8

I actually like the way the gesture drawing turned out, although it feels very much like a luck thing, I need to do a bunch more like that. The inking took so long! I am so slow! and, although I think I got a pretty good read on her body (besides meaking her arms a little too thick-set), her face doesn't look anything like that. I was a bit stuck on whether to caricature it and ended up just doing something placeholder. She actually has super asiatic eyes, which are partially obscured by the hair but I think I was on the way to getting that right.

Other than that she looks a little butch, but definitely not like a guy! A mild success. Tomorrow - less talk, more gesture drawings.

I'm not posting the reference photo for this one, because I'm embarrassed about how different her face looks.

#2

Espen and his grandfather Ulf. Espen's this character I've been doodling for a while to see if it's even possible for me to design a good protagonist, he started off as a weird pointy-hatted-hero-ish character and I've just been meandering about with him aimlessly with this sort of norwegian flavour in mind. What I had before was a little too much like Luke Pearson's Hilda Folk (which I could probably put down to unconscious emulation) so I kind of feel like making the character a bit of a dick now and less of a cute little optimistic guy.

I was considering putting a rant about a specific kind of cutesyness in contemporary illustration here but I think me talking shit about things is in most instances ill-advised, given my lack of experience. It's funny how much of a shrivelled little raisin of contempt I am, I'm hoping that somehow I can play it off as some kind of charming misanthropy and people will like the idea of this comic author/artist that hates everything (you may well have worked this out already).

edit: I really need to get out of the habit of this but I kinda prefer the B&W version still:

#1