What's your sketching routine?
If you regularly keep a sketchbook, how do you normally sit down for a sketching session?
Do you use reference images? Just sketch whatever is in your head? Both?
Do you have an agenda, such as, "I'm going to focus on hands today." Or do you hop from one idea to the next?
Do you use reference images? Just sketch whatever is in your head? Both?
Do you have an agenda, such as, "I'm going to focus on hands today." Or do you hop from one idea to the next?
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stare at it for a while
doodle spirals
throw away page
close sketchbook
realize I cant sketch.
I found a list of random objects in a d&d book.
I am working my way through that list.
I find reference and go for it.
If I'm not sure where I'm going with a character, I'll use a pencil to throw down some lines and then pick out what i want with a pen, or I'll do dozens of thumbnails and scan them into photoshop.
By using the cutout filter they usually turn into something exciting to work with.
I feel you sometimes, haha
flip pages while feeling inspired and insecure at the same time
close Sketchbook
accept fact that I'll never draw like Kim Jung Gi
decide to be myself
open drawing app
execute drawing inspired by Kim Jung Gi art
post drawing in Polycount
I vasicillate between ballpoint, inky pens, and a variety of pencils. I usually carry a boxcutter in my back pocket. Pen and pencils kept in a Japanese snack tin I originally got from Tapzen, and then my mum.
To me, it helps keep me awake during sermons, share with other strangers part of what I do, and acts as written journal and notebook as I draw.
I tend to focus on just character faces, though more recently, cracking away at silhouettes and designs for a Red Star skin idea for Tracer from "Overwatch."
I know right!? Im actually kinda sad about it
does anyone have any tips?
what is your though process when you sketch?
why do you sketch?
This is me too. I open the sketchbook and then crap usually spills out. I'm wondering if just something you need to deal with. Wade through all the crap until you grow comfortable with sketching.
actually enjoying myself. I can't really draw but if I am having fun with it,
that is all that really matters.
I sketch to problem solve and to low-committally spit out various ideas and design problems I want to tackle.
What might be cool, and I do this sometimes, just blindly doodle lightly for a bit (not looking at it directly), then look at directly, and see what you can tease out of the mess into a final sketch.
To me, if you accept that the sketchbook is NOT final work, it's just a visual journal and intial tackling of early ideas, it's fine if it looks crappy.
On a daily basis
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Also, Krita (Krita.org) with the sketch brushes (type in 'sketch' in the filter bar) makes sketching a lot more enjoyable. There's a happy accident aspect that comes with its brush engine.