Camomilla doodles, draws and sometimes swears
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I've had a bad shoulder for a couple of days, so the day before yesterday I didn't draw at all. It's a bit better now, so I relentlessly continue with my 100-day challenge and decided it was time to work on more action-packed poses. Being a childish adult that loves superheroes and dinosaurs, I decided a dino would be appropriate, now that I've just done a superhero-piece. I saw one of Jake Parkers Sky Heart-illustrations, with an armoured dinosaur chasing his main character, and I just loved the movement and action in it. I tried to see if I could do something similar from imagination, but I see a lot of room for improvement on this
It should have it's mouth more open, and perhaps a more tilted body (to the left)?Since I have to take it a bit easy with my shoulder I didn't do more than this rough construction last night, but I'll definitely try and get a couple of hours of sketching in today. With lots of breaks.
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He has excellent movement! Sorry about your shoulder, hope it heals up quickly!
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@Lynn-Larson Thank you, the shoulder/arm-thing have been bugging me for years. A physical therapist told me it was going to be a problem as long as I work 8 hours a day in front of a computer. Being a graphic designer who produces every day, this is unfortunately inevitable, I think. But I still need to do some things for myself, even though I probably should give arms/shoulders a rest during my spare time. I like to knit as well, but this is almost impossible. However, the glass surface on my drawing pad is actually less strenuous - I've been able to do a LOT more sketching than if I had just used pencil and paper
Hopefully I can work on my drawing techniques to relieve some of the strains So far today I've been making this. Well, actually a lot more that looked completely silly, so I'll only be posting this. Still VERY rough, but I think this is the direction I want to go in
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Started colouring. Very difficult - I've gone up on image-size to be able to work more detailed. But this means sacrificing almost all the layers. Only three layers to work with, and really nerve-wrecking to try to colour this. I'd like a water-coloury look, but I migth change my mind. Perhaps he looks better with more saturated colours
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So, I needed a break from the Dino, and decided to do a much needed exercise in composition and perspective. It will also be an exercise in lighting/shadows when I'm done with the line-art, as the lamp on the right will be my main light-source. This is my take on "How you know your cat is plotting to kill you"
Basic composition
A bit more fleshed out
I think perhaps the cylinder that makes up the plant is a bit off, but I'm not really trained enough to see it. I think maybe you can't see quite so much of the side? Ugh, this is really hard!
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After getting some much needed advice on perspective I've started with the basic lighting and colour scheme
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And I've started painting. I don't really know much about colours, so I'm winging it
I know I'd like warm lights and cooler shadows - lamp-light has a tendency to be very yellow. And I'd like the red flowerpot to stand out. I think I need more grey on the shelf - it demands to much attention, and I think it's because of the warm colour. Hm.
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And this is how it came out in the end
Can't believe I'm at #Dailydoodle2016 no. 63 already! Wow!
Things I'm happy with in this piece:
ā¢ I like the concept - cats are unpredictable, and this could be a dangerous situation. I doesn't HAVE to be, but it could. I like the uncertainty.
ā¢ I like the shading in the shadow part of her face. I also like her expression.
ā¢ I like the cast shadow from the flowerpot
ā¢ I like that I managed to get som fur texture on the cat
ā¢ I think I succeeded in making the shelf and the things on it more saturated than the rest, making it feel closer to the viewerI'm not so happy with:
ā¢ The cast shadow on the floor. I think the whole shading-area needs more definition somehow, but it just looked weird when I tried.
ā¢ Her hair. It's too thick and chunky. It might as well belong to a lion
ā¢ The leg coming forward. In retrospect I should have discarded it.Mixed feelings about:
ā¢ The lighting. I tried to give a warm light from the lamp and some cooler light from behind. Somewhat successful I think, but not quite there.
ā¢ The plant. I would have liked it to pop more, but the leaves already look to healthy.I think it's good for me to evaluate my work, even when I consider it finished. Sometimes I go back and change it after a while, when I've learned more and feel more confident at how to fix my mistakes
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Noticed some white on the flowerpot. It HAD to be fixed
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I'm doing a commission
OMG, this is so scary! I'm actually getting PAID to draw this, which is quite intimidating. She has the following requirements:I can choose theme, but the image must include three women (herself and her two nearly grown daughters).
And that's it! After wrecking my brain trying to figure out something I thought SHE might like, I decided to make something I like myself. After all, she wanted me to make her this because she likes the other stuff I make. And I mostly like my own stuff. So her tastes are probably not that different from mine. If she, in the end, decides it's not for her, I would still have a piece I like myself
I've recently watched the recorded Creative Composition Class, and based on a lot of really, really bad thumbnails, this is what I decided to work with. No values as of yet, but it's coming
Very, very rough linework too, but hopefully one can tell where this is going 
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I'm having trouble linking from my dropbox
Here it is uploaded to the forum-server:
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Tonights update. I decided the woman on the right had too much of an attitude and redrew her. I think this works better
I've also started on a more finished sketch of the woman on the left 
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Some more sketching. Not happy with this - this does not have enough attitude
And I decided to split my image in three separate documents to keep file size lower. To get a break from the lousy character desigh, I decided to start working on the background.
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So, not happy with the girls on the last sketch, I made some changes tonight. Much happier with toning down the detailed clothing, but I'm hesitant to start on the facial expressions. I'm not sure how I want them to read just yet
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I skipped a few updates on this - I've digitally inked it somewhat, and started blocking in light and the hard shadows. I'm really feeling this as I go along, so it's really time-consuming!
