mokou draws

[battlebattle]

you have some really nice gesture stuff coming along. i like your style
its very cartoonish, but not generic.. and pretty anatomically correct

the fat cat is the best. its ultra awesome.

[mokou]

thank you battlebattle : ) that's my pet cat sneakers, if you saw him in person you'd get a kick of how true-to-life the picture was (fat body and all)

[mokou]

well i am just as pleased as punch!! i have this one pen that is like a fine felt tip marker, and i did gestures on lined notebook paper- and it cleaned up perfectly in photoshop! i feel like a million bucks. you cant even tell they were done on crappy paper and the line is sooo clear. hooray!!

[mokou]

here are some thumbs i did from howls moving castle. i just made a thumb of each scene pretty much and paid attention to how the camera was working and the composition

[fantasyartist]

Superb stuff! Your gesture drawings are amazing. Very good line quality and shape design. It would be great if you could give me some crits. I'm subscribing to this thread.

[Samszym]

I love the sense of balance and volume and movement in your drawings. they look great, keep it up!

[Ivan Turcin]

Looks like you have an animation background. Very cool stuff, clear fluid lines. Will come back for more

[Kfeeras]

nice style! hope you draw a lot from life, too.

cheers

[mokou]

fantasyartist- thank you! sure, i'll poke around when i get a chance

Vertical- thanks mate!

Ivan Turcin- thank you

Kfeeras- but of course! though my life stuff isnt nearly as pretty to show off yet heh


k an update- past few days, just been studying figures as per usual. been trying to draw a plastic skull i have on my desk over and over, struggling soo much with that. diagnosis: draw more shit on my desk! i reckon it's a depth perception problem and im not being careful enough about plotting where things go. blah blah blah

heres some sketches- currently studying how to find a figures center of gravity (any tips on this would be superb)

[mokou]

here's some stupid stuff. hourly comics, and all that. you dont have to understand it, just nod and say "yes mokou! those are greeaat...!"

[Aresa]

Nice! I'm loving your fluid lines and studies! Your characters are great and have much life to them as well. Keep it up!

[AustenFM]

Nice stuff in these parts! I really dig the flow you give your characters, and you studies are coming along really well, you seem really enthusiastic and that's awesome, the energy you have comes through in your work really well, and thats even more awesome.

No real crits yet, you're doing good! Lets see some pictures of your ugly eddy cat by the way, i love ugly cats!

Keep it up, i'll be back, yeah!

[Psychotime]

Here's another sketchbook I definitely should sub to.

[mokou]

Aresa- thanks ya!

AustenFM- Thank you! I like doing my studies, it's sorta like playing a video game to me and trying to get the best gear to beat the next boss haha makes everything a lot less tedious. I should def take some pics of my cats, they're literally living charicatures lmao

Psychotime- aww yeah B)

today was interesting art-wise. found Tom Richmond's blog- he does caricatures for MAD magazine. lots of tutorials on that there. also stuff about hands.

i drew a bunch of shapes on my sketchbook page then slapped features onto them. it made me giggle a bit seeing such crazy proportioned stuff when i'm so used to being meticulous with my art

[mokou]

okay, i have a confession. i suck at still lifes. (lives?) i mean really suck. my eyes go all crossy when i'm trying to measure and yeah bad times at still life high.

so of course this means i'll be switching gears a bit and spending 3000 hours drawing apples and water bottles and clothespins and turning them into spheres and cylinders and boxes and etc etc etc

moral of the story is don't only ever draw from photographs kiddies... gotta fine tune your 3-D seeing skills.

[thog]

I'm learning a lot from your investigation here, and I love the Miyazaki studies...I'm subscribing in the hope you'll continue...thanks!

[mokou]

glad i could help thog, thanks!!

[mokou]

Must... Learn.. Sleeves....

[thog]

I like how yer stly shows through in the studies (my style is to misspel thangs)

[Cheerio]

Sweet gestures and cool, fluid style. I look forward to seeing more~~

[brenthollowell]

love this cat man. great sketchy style throughout your work!

[mokou]

hi guys. i can explain.

-i moved, literally got up and just moved out!
-now i live near risd
-ive been figure drawing (FROM MODELS!) and going to the museum, sketching people whenever then
-my computer died
-i turned 21
-my computer came back to life

so i really dont have the attention span to update with every single thing ive done in like 2 months SO, heres my figure draws and some sketches from the museum.. if youre curious about whatever else ive been drawing you can always go to my ~blog~ at http://mokoudraws.blogspot.com

ANYWAY, here we go. any comments or crits or stuff is always welcomed.