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Expect more of these in the coming days. Sorry, if you followed my old personal journal, there is literally nothing new here, I'm just consolidating things in one place.
This was the beginning of the "draw Jared Padalecki every few years" tradition. Those first two were based on the same photo reference and I was so impressed with my progress and I imagined myself improving that much at a constant rate. In reality, the second one just involved a lot more work, better art supplies, and a significant amount of cheating. (Best art cheat: take photos of your work in progress at every stage and keep comparing it to the photo reference. For some reason the errors jump out at you so much more dramatically when you do that.) I don't remember how much erasing was involved in the first drawing, but I think I pretty much drew it and went "Meh, good enough" whereas the second one involves so much erasing and re-drawing and blending out.
This is not sketchbook #1, but I'm including it because it was 2017 so it fits in this time frame. I scribbled out a drawing on graph paper just because it was the only thing I had handy and then on a whim I ran it through a filter and I absolutely adore how the filter sort of picked up the graph paper but subtly.
Have my eyes gotten any better since this? I should attempt a realistic eye again just to see if I can still do it. (In a way, my skills have regressed because I'm finding non-realistic stuff more fun, but I really should keep practicing realism on occasion just to keep my skills up.)
These were drawn a year apart. While I'm definitely more fond of the 2018 than the 2017 one, is this improvement or was I just having a better day? Maybe it's just a better photo reference. (I think the smirk improves it a lot.)
The struggle to draw Jensen Ackles. The one on the left involved tracing paper and transfer paper to get the proportions right. Once I'd done that as my practice, I felt ready to do a freehand version. Somehow I completely lost the likeness in the freehand drawing. I had disparaging things to say about that last one at the time, but I'd really like to re-draw this again in bolder color. The only thing I don't particularly like looking back is how muted it is.
I think that Hulk drawing might be one of the best things I've ever done (at least in that style). You can see my interested in realism waning with the last drawing. It was nice to draw someone who wasn't supposed to look like anyone specific.
masterlist of all of my sketchbooks
This was the beginning of the "draw Jared Padalecki every few years" tradition. Those first two were based on the same photo reference and I was so impressed with my progress and I imagined myself improving that much at a constant rate. In reality, the second one just involved a lot more work, better art supplies, and a significant amount of cheating. (Best art cheat: take photos of your work in progress at every stage and keep comparing it to the photo reference. For some reason the errors jump out at you so much more dramatically when you do that.) I don't remember how much erasing was involved in the first drawing, but I think I pretty much drew it and went "Meh, good enough" whereas the second one involves so much erasing and re-drawing and blending out.
This is not sketchbook #1, but I'm including it because it was 2017 so it fits in this time frame. I scribbled out a drawing on graph paper just because it was the only thing I had handy and then on a whim I ran it through a filter and I absolutely adore how the filter sort of picked up the graph paper but subtly.
Have my eyes gotten any better since this? I should attempt a realistic eye again just to see if I can still do it. (In a way, my skills have regressed because I'm finding non-realistic stuff more fun, but I really should keep practicing realism on occasion just to keep my skills up.)
These were drawn a year apart. While I'm definitely more fond of the 2018 than the 2017 one, is this improvement or was I just having a better day? Maybe it's just a better photo reference. (I think the smirk improves it a lot.)
The struggle to draw Jensen Ackles. The one on the left involved tracing paper and transfer paper to get the proportions right. Once I'd done that as my practice, I felt ready to do a freehand version. Somehow I completely lost the likeness in the freehand drawing. I had disparaging things to say about that last one at the time, but I'd really like to re-draw this again in bolder color. The only thing I don't particularly like looking back is how muted it is.
I think that Hulk drawing might be one of the best things I've ever done (at least in that style). You can see my interested in realism waning with the last drawing. It was nice to draw someone who wasn't supposed to look like anyone specific.
masterlist of all of my sketchbooks
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Date: 2023-07-02 08:18 am (UTC)From:I mean, why trying to draw Jensen, I'll use anything I can to pin that stupidly perfect face down. 😂
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Date: 2023-07-03 12:16 am (UTC)From:Jensen is the WORST. Jared has some striking features where you can get a lot wrong but still have a recognizable image. It might be just a caricature, but it's recognizable if you hit a few key defining features. Jensen's defining feature is that his face is indeed stupidly perfect. If you get anything wrong, you've just drawn a random dude.