Sketches + WIPs - 01/23/24
Added 2025-01-23 23:36:49 +0000 UTCThe rest of the Peter Rabbit series!
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Thank you for this. I really appreciate it ❤️
Pyerack
2025-01-27 22:56:09 +0000 UTCI will say, it's tough having to work a job and doing art at the same time. That's what I had to do up until this past summer (If you look back at earlier work in my FA gallery, you can see the gaps of time between completed work). Thanks to this patreon though, I actually get to do this full time now, which is genuinely the only reason how I can get art out as fast as I can! When I did have a job, I just worked on art genuinely whenever I could. So days off, and the slivers of time between shifts. I also drew on my commutes and stuff, I kinda filled my time with it haha. Even still, I dont think my output was crazy high during that time, and you can see that relatively speaking, in ten years I don't have as much completed work as other artists do. So don't get down on yourself for speed - Just take your time and do things at your own pace. Even I don't rush things, I honestly wish I could be faster sometimes. I think I just have a set "formula" down that works for me, I use hotkeys and usually keep most of the rendering to one layer. Then I'm just stubborn enough to sit and work on something for hours at a time. I think the advice I'd tell myself earlier is this: Just say fuck it and throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. I remember when I was younger, I was concerned over following arbitrary rules (ie, sketch, lines, flats, shading all on separate layers IN THAT ORDER) and was generally just afraid of drawing bad lines that I think stiffened my gestures a bit. But sometime in like, 2020-2021, something clicked and I realized that art doesnt really have rules and that the sky is the limit, and thus I started to experiment with how I approached it. Basically, I started to use a wider variety of tools, started to combine layers into one, experimented with blend layers and other random tools hidden in menu options I found in clipstudio, did a lot more painterly type rendering and generally, just worked on something with no real consistent steps other than "render until it looks good." I started thinking like that with the Summer Goat series and I was really happy with the result and I ended up having way more fun that way too. That being said, at this point I've refined the approach into a bit more of a consistent formula that I know I can loosely follow. But even still, the idea of just "render until it looks good" is the main link. I sometimes dont know how im going to get there, but I figure it out along the way. That's what works for me, mind you, to get the result that I want. People will have different goals depending on what kind of art you want to pursue! I still think branching out from the comfort zone and experimenting is still a good way to approach art, even for me still. I've been trying to get better at line art recently for example. I haaate doing clean line art with a passion, but its outside the comfy zone for me and thus should be something I can improve on. tl;dr buck traditions and experiment. You might like what comes out from it!
Milo the Goat
2025-01-27 06:37:35 +0000 UTCOoo Well, I'm pretty much on the same boat. I been doing art since highschool too and been trying to get better with references, getting my own art books and such. I've gotten better with lighting, design and color theory over time but I really admire how artists such as yourself can make very good pieces so fast even with limited free time and I been trying to learn how to do the same while juggling a full time job. How do you do it? Is there also any advice you could share? Like, stuff you wished you'd known before?
Pyerack
2025-01-26 08:56:51 +0000 UTCI guess I more properly started studying art in highschool, but I always liked drawing growing up! I also took an art program after I graduated. this was all over 10 years ago now though, so since then I've just working on it as a hobby and slowly tried improving along the way. Collected resources like reference materials, misc guides and youtube tutorials, those generally helped as well!
Milo the Goat
2025-01-25 15:54:54 +0000 UTCWhere did u learn to draw btw?
Pyerack
2025-01-25 05:57:16 +0000 UTCi always like when the bottoms enjoy themselves in the end, despite the roughness uwu
Milo the Goat
2025-01-24 14:21:09 +0000 UTCOh gosh
Zake
2025-01-24 06:57:53 +0000 UTCGreat stuff so far! Can’t wait to see it all finished ❤️
Rain
2025-01-24 06:36:14 +0000 UTCWell at least he seems to be enjoying himself in the last ones. Getting captured might haven't been that bad. Lovely works Twang :)
Rubbeh
2025-01-24 06:13:00 +0000 UTC
