Sketchbook: Djwaglmuffin
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Hey, ya'll! Djwaglmuffin here.
I was encouraged to put my work on a site with a relatively supportive community of digital artists. I was looking through some of these other sketchbooks and I feel woefully under dressed (haa!) but, I like to think my storytelling chops puts me on some even footing.
Anyway, I'm trying to pull my artistic skills up so I can finally bring my stories to life. Comics are the way I'm probably going to express these stories as I can do them by myself so I really need to round myself out as an "every sort of artist". Any ideas are appreciated and critiques are welcome.
Things I am working on:
Creating more dynamic poses/overall illustrations
Colors and better values
Backgrounds (somewhat...my computer limits me on what i can do with larger images)
Composition
Creature design
Job goals:
If you're looking at this and see potential in my work for employment, please know I belong in any job function that requires ideas or creative solutions to a story or character. Having the ability to draw only reinforces that as I can sit there and sketch what I might be thinking to SHOW instead of tell and hope someone is able to figure out what I'm thinking. Video games is a perfect fit for me and I hope I can do that someday as well as produce my own original content.
I was encouraged to put my work on a site with a relatively supportive community of digital artists. I was looking through some of these other sketchbooks and I feel woefully under dressed (haa!) but, I like to think my storytelling chops puts me on some even footing.
Anyway, I'm trying to pull my artistic skills up so I can finally bring my stories to life. Comics are the way I'm probably going to express these stories as I can do them by myself so I really need to round myself out as an "every sort of artist". Any ideas are appreciated and critiques are welcome.
Things I am working on:
Creating more dynamic poses/overall illustrations
Colors and better values
Backgrounds (somewhat...my computer limits me on what i can do with larger images)
Composition
Creature design
Job goals:
If you're looking at this and see potential in my work for employment, please know I belong in any job function that requires ideas or creative solutions to a story or character. Having the ability to draw only reinforces that as I can sit there and sketch what I might be thinking to SHOW instead of tell and hope someone is able to figure out what I'm thinking. Video games is a perfect fit for me and I hope I can do that someday as well as produce my own original content.
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^---The line art for an "at night" piece I am working on. So far it's too dark...there's a light source from the sword and from a window just above her head (and a night scene) . I'll upload that one when It's not embarrassingly bad.
And then this one...was watching some videos on youtube but this guy uses clipping masks so I'm learning how that works. I think I can do this fine in grayscale but as soon as I add colors...that's when things start to fall apart for me.
I'm probably overthinking all of this.
Because, of course.
Another value study thing...using clipping masks and stuff; still working my way through this process.
Some movement and expression studies featuring Genji...because he's awesome.
Latest coloring endeavor. Still got a long way to go but it's sort of coming along.
Yeah, I'm back...
Had a lot of problems hit me at once but...still art-ing.
well, trying to.
trying to teach myself how to become a stronger illustrator all around.
Attempts to learn how to paint. I think I'm going to give up on this and stick to drawing.
I don;t know what else to do.