Lucero’s 100 Day Challenge: Draw, and Don’t Waste Time

[PaulDidier]

These are all looking fine. You’re doing the process which you need to do to learn this. As Joshua said, it’s mileage. Have you seen the book “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way”? It’s a really great book that has excellent how-tos for building the figure.

[Lucero]

Hi Paul, I haven’t looked at that book, I’ll check it out, thank you!

[Lucero]

Day 4.

I did some more head studies today from Steve Huston’s figure drawing course, as well as some torso studies. Even though I want to draw simple comics, I want to be a good draftsman. It’s a long way to the top.

[Joshua Jacobo]

You need to bring your mouths closer to the nose.

From highest point of the head to the bottom of the chin. Split that in half and you have the eye line. Then put the brow in a bit above that. Half way from brow line to bottom of chin is where the base of the nose lies. Half way from base of nose to bottom of chin is not the opening of the mouth but the bottom of the lower lip. Opening of the mouth is a bit above that.

[Ramona Hornung]

Looks lovely, I love the playful spirit of these ! Keep up !

[Josseline Jeria]

Good drawings and this is a great drawing practice to incorporate. Good draftsmanship is essential for comics. It’ll allow you to draw anything and make all your comic drawings look more convincing by having a real solid training in 3d construction. Comic artists are real good at using even the most subtle tiny lines to suggest form. All the great ones have very good understanding of anatomy.

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

looking good 🙂 keep it up man love seeing everones work everyday before i get stuck into my own

[Lucero]

Day 5.

Playing with felt tip pen.

[Josseline Jeria]

Making comics by Scott McCloud is meant to be another good book for learning how to draw comics, as well as Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu Mestre.

seeing all these smaller drawings is so satisfying. love.

[Lucero]

Day 6.

Playing around with developing some visual heuristics to help me pose figures.

[Josseline Jeria]

I like how your indicating the joints. Helps give a better sense of connection along and across the skeletal structure.

[Lucero]

Josseline, thanks. I just want to get something close enough to allow me to play with the figures, without looking at reference. There are a lot of different ways of doing these mannequins, each has their own positives and negatives. I want to wrap my head around one that works for me.

[Lucero]

Day 7.

Art is hard…

So I did a copy of a 1906 Katzenjammer Kids panel. I spent time doing the pencil, still trying to hurry to get this done for tonight, then got to the inking, and I used a nib that was too large =|. And since I started with the faces fo the characters, there wasn’t much I could do, but push forward. I tried to Command + Z, but no luck.

I did have a lot of fun. I hope by doing the entire process, pencil to paint, over and over again will help me identify all my weak points. Right now, it’s kind of all over. Here’s a picture of the progression:

[Josseline Jeria]

Not paying attention to reference must be such a challenge. I admire all you lot that can draw brilliantly from imagination, haha.

Art IS hard.

Aww this is so sweet. I personally think the thicker nib works well for this style. Admittedly I’ve not seen the original work, but from just seeing your work I would have assumed the original was done in this kind of thickness. Finding it hard to provide any useful feedback because overall it looks great. just need minor general improvements in each area

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

it sure is and alot of people out there have no idea how much work goes into creating art. im liking the bold lines aswell tbh man

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