I was hard at work on my latest illustration. Unfortunately, the app I use on my tablet crashed and lost 95% of the work I made. I still have the rough outline, but I had just started on the shading when the app crashed.
It's a very devastating blow. There's nothing worse than losing all of your progress in any medium. It will take me a while to recover and get back on track. I haven't decided if I'm going to redo my lost work, or simply start a new illustration outright.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Super Vegeta VS Semi-Perfect Cell
This one was a lot of fun to do, between the Super Saiyan aura, drawing Cell, and drawing buffed-up Vegeta. I tried to be very dramatic with the highlights and shadowing on Vegeta considering the aura, but I think I could have gone more dramatic.
Admittedly, I drew the picture with a reference image which was a still shot from the show. Most of my drawings are purely from my imagination. However, I've noticed a slump in my abilities. Back in my youth, I drew about 50% of my pictures with references, and my drawing skills in general always consistently grew. In my adulthood, I've noticed my skills only gradually improving. I think it's because I rarely use references, foolishly thinking that all professional artists never use them. So for the time being, I'll try to do more reference-based work. I'm hoping that by this time next year, my non-referenced-based work will have improved accordingly.
Admittedly, I drew the picture with a reference image which was a still shot from the show. Most of my drawings are purely from my imagination. However, I've noticed a slump in my abilities. Back in my youth, I drew about 50% of my pictures with references, and my drawing skills in general always consistently grew. In my adulthood, I've noticed my skills only gradually improving. I think it's because I rarely use references, foolishly thinking that all professional artists never use them. So for the time being, I'll try to do more reference-based work. I'm hoping that by this time next year, my non-referenced-based work will have improved accordingly.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Super Vegeta
Here's the first new illustration to kickstart 2020. It's already off to a roller coaster start for me, personally, but I won't delve into that. Here's Super Vegeta standing all proud-like. His proportions ended up being more normalized (longer) than Akira Toriyama's style. I want to say it was on purpose....but it wasn't. Either way, I actually like how it turned out.
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