Cinderlite

Hello again! I've been learning how to draw, recently. I'm following along with a few books, namely You Can Draw in 30 Days, by Mark Kistler and Color, by Better Edwards. They're both great in different ways and, while armed with my drawing tablet, I can do almost anything! Allow me to show you my progress:

BEFORE I STARTED USING ART BOOKS (BAD):

( View some of my worst art thus far! )

WHAT I'VE LEARNED SO FAR:

( Take a gander at some of the cool new things I'm learning! )

I'm really pleased by all the things I've done thus far! Especially the many spheres pic and the boxes I did today! Not to mention the Color Wheel and Value Wheel I've been working it. It's extremely hard to follow along with the Color book because it expects me to be using IRL paints and not digital art. So idk how well that's going to go, but I really hope to learn more Color Theory. Today I made the two blue color wheels -- one based on blue and white, and the other black and blue. The black and blue value wheel didn't go well, but I think that's mainly because I was using black to get the values. I hadn't even considered other colors until I finished the wheels and finished the chapter. Hindsight is 40/40 and all of that!

I also wanted to take a moment to thank khaosinkinema for providing me with lots of info and places to look. I am, of course, still learning via videos and art tutorials as well, but I had already gotten the above books before I got the comment full of info. I'm going to respond to that next, fyi. : 3

Thanks so much to everybody that's taking the time to read this! I appreciate your watching my journey.

Hey! I'm back again, however briefly, to slap down some of my art. I've been working on creating again, and I've really got to work from the bare bones because I don't understand anatomy or even basic shapes. Below is some of the stuff I've created over the last few days, and they're of varying degrees of quality. I mostly know how to do a straight-on POV or a profile, but suck at three quarters. I'm working on it.

I also can't do line art to save my life and know nothing about line weight or how to digitally paint/render pieces. I want to learn, though, because it's a lot of fun. I'm just putting down all the stuff I've made lately because going forward, I'm going to focus on basic shapes and anatomy with only the occasional piece so I can draw directly from my mind instead of using references and frankenstein-ing things together.