Thread: Jade's Mega Art Restart

No sketch practice yesterday, and only doodley pic from today. (I've kept at running for over a month, how hard should drawing be?) Well I'm actually working on a height chart of DCs and OCs so that might take me a few days...

Originally Posted by JadeGreen

I totally get that! Great Job!

Originally Posted by JadeGreen

No sketch practice yesterday, and only doodley pic from today. (I've kept at running for over a month, how hard should drawing be?) Well I'm actually working on a height chart of DCs and OCs so that might take me a few days...

When you say for over a month, do you mean you've been practicing on the tablet for over a month? : o

I've been spamming Dream-Self face studies and watching Steven Universe today. I've been practicing on the tablet for less than a week and already my linework has gotten a LOT cleaner.

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I was actually doing a height chart of various Dream Characters and other Original Characters at first, but I was having problems with the faces. They weren't outright horrible, but it looked like I had drawn everyone's faces in a slightly different style, and it drove me mad. I raged and trashed the chart four characters in. Not that my tablet drawing have ascended to any spectacular level of quality.

(I also tried drawing a few REAL people from reference. The sketches looked fine yesterday, but when I came back this morning, I realized they looked like something Picasso had done. I must ask, how does that work? Is it psychology or something?)

Eventually I might start doing a lucid dreaming themed comic (or just a regular old comic) and posting here. Maybe I wait until after I take that life drawing class this fall, where I probably end up re-learning all of the stuff I've taught myself doing these drawings. Granted I'm going for this weird cartoon/anime hybrid style rather than full-on realism. Though practicing realism couldn't hurt.

I've got an almost overwhelming amount of things I want to practice. I want to continue with things in this vein, take another shot at the height chart, do more with colors. I want to do some studies of real people, and maybe draw from a few more cartoons and anime too. Looking at other character designs that I like might help to influence my own. And obviously, I want to mix up the subject matter a little. Some other things I liked drawing as a kid that I should look into: Monsters (notably either dragon-like things, or things with lots of pointy teeth.) Mecha, rockets, robots, spaceships, science fiction in general. I also like to draw castles/fortresses and all manner of interesting structures. And of course practicing all these kinds of crazy fantasy things is prefect if you want to do a comic about LD. (Since Ideally the comic about LD wouldn't spend 50 chapters lucidly wandering around in an empty version of my subdivision.)

Specifically on these pictures, the one thing that bothers me is the hair. I never feel like I'm getting it to fall quite right on the head and I maybe want to change Dream-Self's hairstyle up if I want to do a comic.

These are awesome What I like about your drawings, is how expressive your characters are, it's defintely something I look up to. It's instantly clear what they're feeling.
I have a few curious questions, what do you mean with dream self face studies? I'd love to hear some tips and tricks of how you remember and draw your dream characters. I'm definetely not ready for that yet. Dream scenes and Dc's can be incredibely complex. Don't worry about the hair, they're all good espacially the first two Yesses. A small remark, in the last but one head, the hair follows a rupsy, catterpiller, michelin form on the right side of the face. Hair only behaves this way with consistent placing of elastic strings.

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Crossing Dream Characters and Original characters even more...

I have a few curious questions, what do you mean with dream self face studies? I'd love to hear some tips and tricks of how you remember and draw your dream characters. I'm definetely not ready for that yet. Dream scenes and Dc's can be incredibely complex. Don't worry about the hair, they're all good espacially the first two Yesses. A small remark, in the last but one head, the hair follows a rupsy, catterpiller, michelin form on the right side of the face. Hair only behaves this way with consistent placing of elastic strings.

The wording of your first question doesn't really make sense. If your asking what I mean by doing a 'study', it's basically a term when an artist draws something to practice it. If you're asking what I mean by a dream self, it's sort of the avatar body that I'm given in dreams. (I don't look like that in waking life, but I consistently do in dreams.) In real life, I don't even have hetrochromia, but my dream self does. I'm honestly a little paranoid about being tracked on the internet and stuff, so I only ever use drawing of my dream-self as profile pictures, etc, and never show what I really look like.

As for remembering your dream characters and drawing them, The key is consistency in the dreamworld. You have to find a character that you've seen multiple times. I usually draw my dream characters not as they were in any one dream, but as sort of a combination of their appearances across multiple dreams. (Same goes for my dream self, he varies a little from dream to dream, and sometimes is my waking life self.) With my Dream-Self, I can just go look in a mirror for awhile and examine my dream body. (I've done it a few times in the past.) Other recurring DCs, such as my dream guide, appear often enough that I can examine them and figure out how to draw them.

If you need anything else explained, let me know. This isn't very clear, but I'm writing this post while being rushed out the door by my parents...

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1. I tried to do like a perspective thing where it looked like Saitama's fist was more towards you, but it just ended up looking like he has a giant hand.

2. I don't think I'm going to finish this DC/OC crossover, It was cool, but I think it'll forever be a lineart. (Dream me has long hair and a braid... I kinda like that...)

3. This was meant to be a joke inserted into a dream journal entry that I was going to post, but I decided against posting it at the last second because then I would have 666 dream journal entries and that would summon a bad creepypasta author or something. Just kidding, the real reason is that I just thought the dream wasn't that interesting in the end.

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She (Manei, My dream guide) said something about me wearing a Hello Kitty shirt but I wasn't lucid and didn't look down. She must have realized that I wasn't lucid pretty quickly because she directed my attention to the sky where she asked "Why are their stripes in the sky?" I looked in the sky and saw planetary rings, like Saturn arching across the sky. (Seeing multiple moons, multiple suns, gas planets, and other such space/other planets stuff is a dream sign.) Even though I know now when I'm awake she was trying to bring my attention to the dream sign in order to get me lucid, I also have the strangest feeling she didn't actually know what the rings were.

I said something like "Oh yeah... we must be on a planet with rings..." but completely missed the obvious dream sign.

I think it's time for a change of subject matter. I don't want to get too stagnant just drawing characters...

Cool drawings! : ) It feels like your changing things up a bit which is good to see. Hehe Saitama does have a pretty powerful punch. Maybe you should look at some references to see how the hand would look in the perspective you wanted. Lol xD Ididn't notice you were at 665. Maybe when you type your next journal entry you can imagine its 999 but upside down.

I don't care that this isn't drawing well. I find it funny...

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I lost my shit. xD

The punchline was great !

Brilliant! I love it!

The comic was really funny, the expressions are fantastic, and you can see yourself in itXD

Lol XD How did I not see this earlier? That was funny and the ending was clever.

Soul eater!!!<3

ART DUMP TIME!

Raiah and Alduir have the most beautiful of friendships.



Marcus Doodle.



This has been on DYD for a few days now but now it's here.



I asked my friend what to draw. He said 'A bowl of Pasta'. Ten minutes later I send him this.

Keep up the great work!

I just realized the pocket on marcus' shirt

"If I ever make it through this night, I'm sticking strictly to DILD and MILD"!! Brilliant!

I don't think college is giving me enough homework... Giving me too much time to browse the interwebs, and draw silly stuff like this.





My photoshop skills have improved but they're still very far from where I'd like them to be. I don't feel ambitious enough to attempt stuff thats more complex.

Need... MOAR PRACTICE!

Drawing a Crapton of Chibis is the fastest way to becoming a photoshop master. (Not really) Want to be doing more art but life keeps getting in the way.





Even did my friends OCs. I can't draw Anthro Animals worth crap.

I'm probably not going to finish this because there's annoying little perspective errors everywhere that I don't feel like fixing. Figured I should post it now or it'll never see the light of day.

Or... I will end up finishing it. Okay. That was unexpected of myself.

It's great that you were able to finish it. Looks amazing. : D