Maria Ochoa

Sketch pages of various characters

Added 2023-02-28 23:14:07 +0000 UTC

I was gonna write a long commentary with this because I've been in a weird head space lately. Mostly worrying about the aesthetic look of my art, be it sketch or digital form. I had to take a break from social media apps because the whole grind and "create finished work" daily was getting to me. I didn't wanna go back into the headsapce that I'm not good because my art isn't noticed.

I watched a video by Jess Karp about habits to learn and one that stuck out to me was "be your BEST critic" and it was such a cute idea. Overturn the "you are your own worst critic" to something positive. I'm still learning to be my best critic because as I was writing this commentary I started going on tangents about how my art isnt X, Y, or Z.

As I look at these pictures, I find that I'm happy where I'm at, and also excited on what my style will evolve into as time passes. There's already a huge change between this year's work and the work I did over ten years ago. I love drawing with pen now. I'll have to get back to drawing with pencil too so I don't get rusty. But since you can't erase pen it's helped me commit to my lineart and gain confidence in my strokes. You can see the work in Andromeda's hair!

I want to get better and doing more full body shots, and dynamic poses. Things that tell a story when you look at them. I do enjoy expressions so it's one reason why I draw so many faces even if they stare slightly off to the left or right XD