Miscellaneous Arts and Sketchbook

[Suuper-san]

Yeah I have non grid pages for general purpose sketching, much like my old sketch pages. It helps not having a grid because you can doodle unproductively and suddenly draw the idea that pops into your head without worrying if you're in the right gridspace or not. And not having boundaries means your sketches can expand as well. You just gotta find what works for you.

[legomaestro]

Indeed. I'm enjoying grid-mode for this regimen quite a bit more than non-grid mode these days haha. I think with my dabbling in animation I'm actually more confident about the necessity to master making stick figures, heck even the more simplistic ones. I just need to see one of those badass stick figure animations to convince me about that.


So. Legendary miscount on the last two posts. I'm actually a lot further along than I thought. Darnit that was close, and no wonder I was feeling frustrated.

5932/10,000

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[Suuper-san]

Ahh miscounting happens. When I started with WIPs I did it quite a bit. Nowadays it's all automated haha.
Good job on getting over halfway. What a mega project this has been.

It's good to see skills jump to new areas like with your animation.

[legomaestro]

6033/10,000

Progress made

[Suuper-san]

Good job!
I've recently realised how useful it is to draw generic standing poses for manga scenes, mostly background characters, that sort of thing. So practice like what you're doing will give you a fab base for drawings I think.

[legomaestro]

6133/10,000

Yeah. Minituare figures and crowds are a vital part of manga. When you actually try to count how many extra figures are around to give the context of a scene you really respect mangaka that much more. Making places look populated is an art topic of its own haha.

[Suuper-san]

Yeah I've got a crowds/small figures regime lined up somewhere haha. adding flavour to a scene really requires a lot of little things that are individually insignificant :P

[legomaestro]

Indeedy.

6,233/10,000

[Suuper-san]

man you're swiftly cracking these out gotta get my shoes on :P

[legomaestro]

Haha. I'm making a 7 day rush to get to 7K. I'm really zoning out in a way I can put into words going at 100 at once. Almost feels good

6,333/10,000

[Suuper-san]

Nice. I think having little rushes every now and then can lead to a decent amount of good quality productivity overall.
I've been on a production rush since January and I think I'm starting to wear a little thin. I don't really want to have a break though haha

[legomaestro]

6433/10,000

[Suuper-san]

U da man! Keep it up!
Working hard despite not feeling your best is an inspiration to us all.
Loving the swooshy weapons and the dynamic moving ones.

[legomaestro]

Cheers suuper. Appreciated

6533/10,000

[legomaestro]

6633/10,000



I decided I might as well iteratively add outfits to the regimen. I'm really straddling the line between what makes a stick figure or not but hey props are the end all be all for all figures under the sun. It's always a bit disengenous to create figures who aren't interacting with something. If not with an object then with another figure at least.

Also I'm glad to report certain scenes like the sitting stick figures are super intuitive. Got the perspective wrong, but my minds eye could feel out how to place the characters in the frame without overloading myself. I think there's a lot more leeway to thinking up major scenes than one thinks, at least if one is working purely 2d. With 3d tools and copy paste it'd be even easier.