Come with me on my journey as I see if this thing can teach me how to improve arts.
You can choose from 1-3 as what you start on. I think I actually did the Pika first, but I'm not sure. I later found out you can go back and do the others if you want.
4-7 is the first thing they have you do, which is just a front view face. All of these are traced.
8-11 is the second, where they 3/4 view it and play with line thickness, which was the first thing I didn't know about. I think I understand it now, but some of how they do it here, I don't agree with it. Still traced.
12-15 is now you do full bodies, same principles as before, and still traced.
16-19 is no longer traced, and now you use an array of shapes to guide you. They also have you sketch a layer underneath what you ink to make the lineart cleaner. I did not understand this at first and skipped doing the sketch, since I thought it was just doing the same lineart twice. I would later come to understand what I could really use this for later on. So this set is more or less me doing the drawing myself.
20 is the test of what you've learned so far. At this point, I had been watching too much Game Grumps and said screw the rules and decided to draw what I want. It was promo art Pika anyway, and I hate promo art Pika. (yes, I know it was one of the starter pics, too, shut up) This sort of didn't turn out the way I planned.
21 and 22 is a lesson on shading. (oh my god, Jukie does shading!) The way they do it is very clunky, though, at least here. I guess I was boring on Voltorb since I was more focused on what they had to say, which isn't anything that useful anyway. Chimchar has a fun story, though. This is a redo of a pose I did after I watched Avatar the Last Airbender and made a Monferno based on Ty Lee. (among other characters casted as pokemon)
23 is a lesson on hatching. I don't really like hatching that much, so I didn't do the others. Fletching is being sexy. (I totally didn't notice I didn't color in the highlights.)
24 is something called painterly style, which I guess is a lineless style done entirely with a paint tool. I have long wanted to do something like this, but it'd need the reinforcement of things that are covered better later on. (and also to flipping draw better, but I digress)
25 is the test after doing the previous three, although it's done solely in the painterly style. Instead of what they were doing, I made a femmy Pika hugging her tail.
26 is done entirely in pastels, but is sort of a more advanced version of the painterly style that involves the use of a smudge tool. This was the only pic I felt deserved the background they intended for it. I did a sleepy normal 'pix styled as an Alolan Vulpix. (would've been too tricky or not possible to figure out how to color it correctly as Alolan Vulpix)
27, they called comic book style. This involved something that someone suggested to me and I already sort of knew about, and that is line weight and tapering. Supposedly, there is a tool to do this more easily in Sai, but I have tapered vector lines before. Since this was comic book style, I decided on some action! Lapras Used Body Slam!
28...I took one look at what they wanted here and said "Hell no." So doing this one, I just made the derpiest zard that ever derped and pretended to understand what they were doing, which I can only describe as a less stark form of chiaroscuro. It involves a bazillion layers of blending, and I hope to never have to deal with it again. I don't even believe I got things right here, but who cares, it's a flipping derpy zard, derp at it!
29 is the grand finale, we use all the shading techniques to do something that I was trying to do back in 20, only bigger and more flashy. Instead of doing that again, I did this instead and also instead of doing the bazillion layers of shading, I did the one I wanted to do: the comic book style shading. So fittingly, this is me doing the art that I wanted to learn how to make. (and really didn't learn that much on how to do)
All in all, it really made me want to go back to Sai and put some of this into play, but I don't feel like doing that often. I just like doing my little sketches as messy as they tend to be. Will I ever do a digital again? Only time will tell. Until then, enjoy what happens when I do feel like spending that much time on something.
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