Week 4 - 6 Sketch Dump

Apologies for the lack of sketch dumping.  Been focusing on coursework after hours a lot recently which has left a lot less time for personal drawing.  

Sketch of a cool building I saw on my way home.  I want to start trying to do more on scene environment drawings like this because I feel it really helps me to build my visual library and work on my perspective drawing too.  

 Some drawings from a recent day trip to Broughty Ferry.

Stylised portrait.  Trying to render the planes of the face with dynamic lines.  Starting to get a bit more likeness of the subject when doing these kind of portraits but still got a long way to go.  The features are a bit wonky in this and I need to take more care measuring the distances between them for a more proportional likeness.

Starting to think more about the design of the protagonist of my game.  I always like to start off my character designs by doing random doodles of ideas before moving on to the silhouetting stage.

Raven Mocker for Sketch Dailies but I messed up the hands.

Doodle, mainly practicing rendering hair in pen.

Continuous line drawing.  Never tried one before but they're really fun to do and something I'd quite like to improve at.

Doodle of some sort of forest scene.

Life drawing.  This was my first attempt in a while (and it shows).  I really struggle with 1 and 2 min drawings because I focus too much on copying the pose exactly which is impossible to render in such a small time period.  

In this attempt I allowed myself to be a lot more scribbly and take liberties with the poses.  It felt a lot more natural and a lot less stressful.  Still lots of mistakes in all these drawings and I'm definitely going to have to be stricter with my life drawing if I want to see any improvement this year.  I think I'm going to start incorporating it in to my daily routine as a half hour warm up in the mornings before I start working on coursework. 

Lots of foreshortening issues (and what is going on with that neck??) in this one but I think I'm starting to feel more confident using pen for my life drawing work.

Next week I'll be down in London for the Strawberry Thief launch party and plan on doing lots of live drawing practice.  Really trying to improve on using pen and ink so expect lots of messy work using my new brush pen!