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For the 'No Erase' challenge, and for the last week of the 30 Below festival (30th anniversary of due South).

Title: Ray and Fraser on the Bounty (full size on AO3)
Artist:

mific
Rating: G
Characters: Ray Kowalski & Benton Fraser
Notes: A quick screencap sketch from Mountie on the Bounty, drawn in Procreate.

mekare

Title: Evade
Artist: mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Mysterious Lotus Casebook
Characters/Pairings: Li Lianhua
Content Notes: fountain pen, black ink, a really quick sketch from reference

Lianhua sideways, avoiding a blow

mific

Title: Scott from My Private Idaho (on AO3)
Artist:

mific
Fandom: My Own Private Idaho
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Scott Favor
Summary: Keanu Reeves as Scott, looking moody.
Notes: Drawn in pencil without erasing. I roughed out the portrait first with a light pencil, then used a softer, darker one for more contrast.

yhlee

Title: That was a stretch
Artist:

yhlee
Rating: Teen (firearm pose, shirtless gentleman but no naughty bits)
Fandom: original work
Characters/Pairings: a guy with a gun
Content Notes: Fountain pen sketch from reference, wherein I learned that the Pelikan M1000 fountain pen is lovely to write with but terrible to sketch with (which is fine). I finished with a TWSBI Eco that was much better behaved for sketching. Doing this without any kind of undersketch was a little tricky but I suppose 5+ years of life sketch with a fountain pen has helped? I did draw a bounding polygon as a general guide for proportion landmark, plus a bit of gesture. I've got to review the surface muscles of the legs and forearm while I'm at it.

Preview:

Sketch behind cut. ( Read more... )

goss

Drawesome Challenge 64: No Erase Challenge

Challenge 64: No Erase Challenge

Draw without erasing.

Create a drawing without erasing or using the 'Undo' button. Use decisive lines, without removing any marks made during the drawing process. Perhaps try using ink or other medium that cannot be erased.

A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done at the end of the month on Tuesday 30th April, 2024.

Happy Drawing, everyone! :)

goss

Congrats to those who took part in this challenge!

Entries submitted for Drawing Challenge #63 - Let's Move:

MLC Movement studies by mekare - Mysterious Lotus Casebook, G

Dief Chasing a Doughnut by mific - due South, G

Jogging Family by minoanmiss - Original art, G

Dance by mekare - Mysterious Lotus Casebook, G

Gesture Drawing #1: Dancer by goss - Original art, G

Gesture Drawing #2: Naatu by goss - Original art, G

Horse kicking up dust by mific - Original art, G

En Garde! by yhlee - Original art, G

As usual, this challenge as well as all of our previous challenges will remain open, so you can continue to submit entries to the community any time after the Round Up date. Be sure to tag your art posts with the challenge name, so that it can be added to the list.

Thanks to all who participated in this challenge! :)

yhlee

Title: En Garde!
Artist:

yhlee
Rating: general
Fandom: original art
Characters/Pairings: two foilists
Content Notes: sketch in Procreate (digital) based on this Pexels reference photo by Tima Miroshnichenko.

Preview:

Image and fencing neepery/notes behind cut. :) ( Read more... )

goss

Drawesome Monthly Check-In Post

Today's the last day of March, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in March, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming art challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on. :)

Our Round-up of entries for Drawing Challenge #63: Let's Move will be posted tonight, and a new monthly art challenge will be issued this week. :)

mific

Title: Horse kicking up dust
Artist:

mific
Rating: G
Fandom: original work
Content Notes: Drawn in Procreate. I tried using the dust as well as the horse's position, to show movement. Click on the thumbnail for the full sized pic at my journal.

$goss: \o/ (\o/)$

goss

Title: Gesture Drawing #2: Naatu
Artist:

goss
Rating: G
Content Notes: This is my second entry for Challenge #63: Let's Move. Digital drawing of another performer from that night, this time one of the guys dancing. This was a sharper, stompier, less flowy dance. So my approach for this piece was to start with sketchy gesture lines, but then to focus more on lighting and the pull of the fabric to bring the feel of movement. :)

Preview:
Naatu

( Click here for entire artwork )

minoanmiss

This is a much belated entry for the Disability Diversity challenge.

Artist:

minoanmiss
Rating: G, PG at most for implied injury
Content Notes: see after drawing.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: hopeful

goss

Title: Gesture Drawing of a dancer
Artist:

goss
Rating: G
Content Notes: Created for Challenge #63: Let's Move. Digital drawing using Adobe Fresco. Gesture drawing of a dancer in mid-spin, using a still shot as reference. Taken from the awesomely energetic Indian dance performance I was at a couple weeks ago. :)

Preview:
Dancer

( Click here for entire artwork )

And here's a timelapse video showing the process:
( Timelapse Video for Gesture Drawing of a dancer )

mekare

I've decided to download Nigthshade - the tool that will make any images I post into "poison" for AI datasets, out of spite basically. I'm not deluding myself that my art is interesting enough to be copied (that's where professional artists would use Glaze, another tool), but ever since Tumblr introduced the button to opt out of AI scraping (which was communicated in a deliberately vague post, my decision formed. I don't want to stop posting to Tumbr and I have no illusions that me pressing that opt-out button will protect me from being scraped. So I'm going to fight back with the tool that is available. The download is free from the University of Chicago's website (though it took some time) and I will have to resist posting from my mobile devices, but it's worth it.

So far it's looking like a simple 3-step process, upload the image, set the bar for the intensity of changes (I don't think there is a preview option yet, so I'll experiment), and then save the new version after it's been rendered.

I'll let you know how it goes.

mekare

Title: Dance
Artist: mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Mysterious Lotus Casebook
Character: Li Lianhua
Content Notes: watercolour, watercolour pencils, pencil sketch underneath. Unsurprisingly, the background went really quickly and was led by instinct while all the shading on the robes took forever...

Clicky preview:

minoanmiss

Fandom: none/Real Life
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Mom, Dad, little Kid
Notes: so this has a story, below the cut.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: amused

mific

Dief Chasing a Doughnut (on AO3)
by

mific
Fandom: due South
Rating: Gen
Warnings: none
Characters: Diefenbaker
Notes: Drawn in Procreate for the current Drawesome challenge to draw something in motion - and also for the current 30th anniversary celebration of due South. I couldn't see Dief chasing a frisbee, but a doughnut? Definitely. :)

Line drawing of Dief in mid-air, leaping after a doughnut. Below is a fish-eye lens view of Chicago.

mekare

Title: MLC Movement studies
Artist: Mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: Mysterious Lotus Casebook
Characters/Pairings: Li Lianhua, Fang Duobing, an extra (probably a stuntman)
Content Notes: done with a Pentel brush pen (first set), and a Kuretake brush pen (second set)

Preview: Fang Duobing in a fighting pose

here at my journal

mific

Challenge #63: Let's MOVE!

There's been recent discussion in the comm about gesture drawing, figure drawing, and line of action. So I thought this month's challenge could be about drawing or painting movement. To make it as inclusive as possible, the theme is any type of movement - a person, animal, bird, or fish moving, an object, like a thrown ball or spear, or something abstract that conveys movement just by lines on the page - anything moving.

Here's a link to yhlee's post about gesture drawing

And to some resources about capturing movement:

How to draw movement: 16 top tips
How to Create Illusion of Movement in Art
How To Draw Movement and Speed Lines (loud musical intro but the vid itself isn't loud)

A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done at the end of March.

I know that capturing motion and movement is something I find quite a challenge, so let's have a go at it together!

Have fun, and happy drawing, everyone! :)

yhlee

Howdy! I'd posted this back at my DW and

goss suggested I could share it here. I hope folks find it useful (or at least amusing).

I'm posting this not because I'm an expert (HA HA HA HA HA no) but because how to do a gesture drawing mystified me for years and I thought people might find a janky beginner guide of interest??

We're using this photo of a dancer from Pexels.

line of action = capturing the spirit/essence/motion of the pose ( cut for pics and length )

Hope this was useful, happy to answer questions if you're willing to wait as I'm often afk for health reasons.

goss

Congrats to those who took part in this challenge!

Entries submitted for Drawing Challenge #62 - Zentangle:

Wave pattern by mekare - Original art, G

Joy-tangle by goss - Original art, G

Fill My Heart by seleneheart - Original art, G

Where the Heart Is by mific - SGA, Teen

Connected by goss - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, G

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