Tools: iPad Pro 4th gen 12.9”
Project: drawing for comic books
It’s been a while since the last time I drew. I split my time between science and design nowadays. Human figure was never my strength. I am a fine arts graduate but in school I was fascinated only by portraits and I dedicated all my 5 years of academic training obsessively almost, just to..portraits. So, many, many years later, I started to feel comfortable exploring other things and styles and here I am learning again, from the perspective of an adult, the art of figure drawing for comics. This is an ongoing project and I am going to post my work in progress best pieces from my self training. If I see noticeable results I may put my adventure into a course. For now, I will happily embrace my forever student status.
- Day 1
The sketch from above took me almost my entire ‘day’. Feeling very tired and wanting to give up...then something happened and I wanted to push myself to do more.
Encouraged by a few likes on my instagram account (InTheLowLight.art) I decided to try to follow a daily drawing routine for 100 days and document the progress religiously.
- Day 2
A bit confused by the perspective but, good enough for a day 2 post.
- Day 3
Simple but hard.
- Day 4
Figure drawing for comics is like another language. Each pose is actually an entire phrase, a complete and direct visual way of communicating between the artist and the audience. There are no subtle interpretations like in fine art. Just a raw stream of data. Just as any language it can be perfected endlessly. There are no good or bad drawings. They are just different. If sometimes they don’t match one to one what others learned religiously in school this doesn’t mean much on the public scale...art supplies should be distributed freely...and art critique should stop serve small groups agendas. Art is for everyone. Just as the sky is for everyone. What do you think?
- Day 5
This is for the first time when I noticed a significant improvement on the speed. The below took me a few minutes comparing with the first one that took me the entire day. Not sure about the quality yet but the speed to sketch up something very quickly gives me more time to refine it. I am going to use that once the new speed gets a routine.
- Day 6
Super tired today. The dog didn’t let me sleep last night. I still pushed to get this done. It took 6 min per frame. Meaning I should allocate for the entire activity including posting, maybe 1 hour a day. I found today incredibly difficult the static postures and incredibly easy the dynamic poses. I really don’t know why. But I will have to come back to this issue after the 100 days if things don’t get better.
- Day 7
Discovered a new toy in Procreate today...and I left this daily sketch to the end of the day. Very tired and bored of my stick-man. However, I am very far away from my desired drawing fluidity. So, I’ll not give up. It will be just so boring...gosh. Some days are hard.
- Day 8
First scene sketch ever. Terrible but less boring at least.
