mokou draws

[mokou]

so! i'm pretty nervous about this as i've always lurked CA and have such an amazing respect for all the artists here, but i've finally decided i want to make a sketchbook thread.

my side-goals keep changing, but my main is always the same... get better at art and express my thoughts through it

im hoping by finally making a sb thread i can get some serious crit on my work, get a more realistic view of my goals, and connect with other people with the same goals as me or who have been in my place before. so yeah that's me! without further adieu...

[mokou]

i've fallen embarrassingly out of practice with drawing my brother movin' about, but after a few more days i should get back on track

[olivepalm]

Nice start! keep it coming!

[guzman231]

Nice work, I really dig your style

keep em coming, i'll be watching

[Benjy]

Good start!Those figures are really nice and the faces in that first batch have a great quality to them.

[mokou]

olivepalm, guzman231, Benjy- thanks! i'll definitely keep at it : )

[mokou]

put on a minute timer and drew from some stock photos... ah the life of those without a model...

[mokou]

i think i'll share some recent illustrations of mine just to make my sb look prettier...

[Blondebeard]

Glad to see your SB up and going! =D

[mokou]

been havin a field day with handful of prismacolor french grey markers i got today

[mokou]

umm, proportions aside (my biggest weak point) i've gotten a pretty good simple value system down pat with these markers. fine in the core shadow with %50, base/reflective/whatever shadow 30% , punch in the darkest darks with 70%

[Martell.Joshua]

Keep it up. Awesome stuff you got here.

[Tom Fenton]

this stuff is coming along great, i think u could beome an inspiration to others urself, don't forget to post ur images often and express urslf as u do in ur studies. ur style is very nice and who knows u may create someting of same popularity as pokemon one day.

[Ikage]

YES. Amazing work!

[mdbauman]

Nice, expressive lines here. You look really timid with that 50% gray; I think those sketches would improve if you loosened up a bit with that.

Would love to see some stuff that's more rendered stuff as well.

[mokou]

Martell.Joshua - thank you!

Tom Fenton - thanks :') this was really nice to hear, it keeps my head high about my art. i'd love to be able to work on some sorta franchise thing someday haha

Ikage- THANKS!! i am such a fan of your art

mdbauman- Thank you!! Can you explain what you mean by timid? I can definitely do more rendered stuff. like digital paints i know how to do, but traditionally that's my weakness and something i'd like to look into

[mdbauman]

Can you explain what you mean by timid?

Sorry I wasn't clearer.

What I mean is: Your core shadows in those marker sketches appear as though they were drawn either very slowly or with a lot of tiny strokes — the kind that give pen or pencil drawings that nasty look of being hairy — in contrast to the lines elsewhere in your work, which have the look of being confident and spontaneous because of the apparent speed and fluidity of motion with which they were drawn.

Because of the contrast in line quality, at first glance I find myself focusing more on the core shadow than on the features of the face where I should be looking.

[mokou]

ah i getcha! i should be more rhythmatic and gesturey with my marker strokes, just as i am with my linework. very helpful crit, thank you : )

[mokou]

ahhh... i didnt know what to do here, i guess i gestured a storyboard from the scene in kiki's delivery service where her mom gives her a new broom. as you can see i sorta lost focus and made the panels bigger and bigger?? it was an interesting practice, i'd like to do more

[mokou]

pic i did the other night.. i struggle a lot with tangents girl on the left's back is one big tangent plus some other mistakes!! if you see them i dont mind if you point them out, maybe it'll give me a better view of things

[mokou]

drew my bro again this morning... startin to get the hang of sketchbook drawing again.

read pretty much every post on http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/ ...mark kennedy's posts are golden. he is a really swell guy and you should make some time to read what he has to say about design in drawings

[LAL]

Good stuff!I like you works,great studies.

[mokou]

michael hamptons figure drawing book is really excellent. it totally takes out the ambiguity of vilpuu gesture lessons and explains what exactly he means by "feel the movement". suddenly i realized that theres different masses balancing against each other. (the 8 parts) the flowy, repetitious asymmetrical lines are describing that balance. i'll be spending this week trying to get a better feel of that balance-flow in figures


side note: permanent markers are fun to draw with. theyre so bold!! and a bit smelly

[mokou]

drew my bro some more this morning... i heard theres a llama farm up the road id love to draw them

[adonato]

Nice stuff!...and nice linework. You are way farther along than when I applied for animation (albeit I went to Ringling for 3d.) I love the style of the characters as well.

[mokou]

SO! still studying michael hamptons book and drawing my bro whenever i can. i thought i'd share a "neat" little thing i do that helps me figure out the gesture of a figure. it's a kinesthetic thing.

the body is a balancing act, and that's one of the things i try to represent in my gestures. depending on the lines i use, it represents a certain "tilt" of the mass... when i'm drawing a figure, i actually use my hands to figure out what this tilt is. i pretend im holding the line that represents the mass of the figure, and tilting it to figure out its direction.

just a little something that helps me anyway

[Hellbeard]

Good job dude! Keep on trucking!

[mokou]

oh posemaniacs. how i loathe the so. decent for warmups, but not much different from flashing any series of pictures at someone in succession and making them redraw them (imo)

[Quasi-almost]

You need to go see that llama farm, I'm curious as to how you would draw them. Additionally, I'm curious as to why (when doing posemaniacs and others) you do the opaque color behind the frame? Good stuff you have here though, keep using your brother as a model while he still works for cheap!

[mokou]

thanks Quasi-almost! i've been stuck inside so no llamas as of yet : (

the color is just a thing i do because hm.. i dont know really! i like the look of toning, i guess. i do them after all my gestures are done, just to give them a bit more punch. in the simple gestures its a way to add some volume, in the more extended figure draws it's usually me finding the core shadow then splitting the light into just white/black

if that's what youre asking, i mightve read the question wrong :X