Weekly Drawing Prompt Thread

Hahaha! For real .

Marginally on-topic, but for my father's birthday on Saturday, I took him to Best Buy and bought him an Apple Pencil for his iPad. Everyone in my family, bar me, are fantastic artists and he picked it up and went to town with it in minutes. So far, he's just kinda played around with how it functions with the AutoDesk Sketch app I found for him, but I look forward to seeing it enable his creativity and maybe being able to share one of his projects with the group.

vypre wrote:

Marginally on-topic, but for my father's birthday on Saturday, I took him to Best Buy and bought him an Apple Pencil for his iPad. Everyone in my family, bar me, are fantastic artists and he picked it up and went to town with it in minutes. So far, he's just kinda played around with how it functions with the AutoDesk Sketch app I found for him, but I look forward to seeing it enable his creativity and maybe being able to share one of his projects with the group. :)

Well, Procreate is the app I use on my iPad to do my drawings, so I can recommend that. I haven't tried anything else mind you, but the fact I haven't been looking should at least be indicative of something (that I'm quite lazy).

procreate is great, but i've not had a drawing-capable tablet for years now as they are all WAAY outside my current price range (which is...pretty much nil ).

That sounds great, vypre! I use Sketchbook Pro when I draw on my Cintiq and I really like it. I have no experience with Procreate, but everyone seems to love it, so it must be very good .

By the way, this week's prompt is "spider." I started mine yesterday, and I'm hoping to finish it either today or tomorrow, we'll see. To make the wait more bearable (I know how excited to see my stuff everyone is), here's the cover for a comic book I drew a few years ago that starred, coincidentally, giant spiders:

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/WnvS14E.jpg)

You do a lot of comic-book work, Mario?

Here's my spider:

IMAGE(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cs3oKI1TYf8/XlJS9KrE8LI/AAAAAAAABbk/_fOGSum1SU4CESPG6IQ9qcybHD6Y_uGiwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/08%2BSpider.png)

That spider is amazing, Ravanon!

As for comic books, I don't usually draw them because I'm neither good nor disciplined enough. The one I mentioned above took me several years and it's only twenty-some black and white pages. I grew up wanting to be a comic book artist, but at some point I realized it wasn't going to happen. However, I still love comics, read them regularly, and have plenty of ideas for stories that, more often than not, I end up just writing in prose or sketching characters for here and there.

In any case, here's my spider!

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/TCRGN4k.jpg)

I am deeply envious of your clean line and colour work ravanon!

I'm also trying to put my first short comic together now, based on words written by a certain Clockworkhouse

Early days yet, i've roughed out the pages but now it need to actually sit down and draw the danged thing properly!

pyxistyx wrote:

I'm also trying to put my first short comic together now, based on words written by a certain Clockworkhouse

Early days yet, i've roughed out the pages but now it need to actually sit down and draw the danged thing properly!

That sounds very interesting... and like there's lots of hard work ahead! Anything else you can share about the project?

Ultimately what i want to do is work on an on-going idea i've had for ages (kind of a mix of Dante's inferno and other classics, but...in space, with a 60's/70's sci-fi aesthetic) but it's a daunting thing to start, so i wanted to start with something a bit smaller. Plus i'm not great when it comes to actually writing stuff, but Clocky IS, so.... this is something of a test case for future idea's and collabs, basically.

Right now i need to gather up some references for the characters, etc.

Here's a couple of the rough pages (subject to change!)

IMAGE(https://smackfolio.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/page2-rough2.jpg)

IMAGE(https://smackfolio.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/page1-rough4.jpg)

but yeah, this is one of the reasons why i've not had time to do these weekly drawings

That looks really cool! I like how you are setting up the lights and shadows before the final linework --I think that's a very good idea. I always find it hard to do light/shadow and values because I pretty much suck at coloring, but that is looking pretty sweet already!

As for your retro sci-fi Dante's Inferno idea, I want to see it now! I bet it's going to be amazing!

This week's prompt is "wave," and I'm done early!

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/VzFusgj.jpg)

need to get off my butt and start on these again. I'll maybe have to discard my original idea of sticking with my D&D character and just do some random stuff instead.

pyxistyx wrote:

need to get off my butt and start on these again. I'll maybe have to discard my original idea of sticking with my D&D character and just do some random stuff instead.

Random stuff is good practice I find. I’m currently trying to figure out how I might go about drawing water for this prompt.

Here's my 'wave':

IMAGE(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XUz0-k__RtU/Xl7CXTOaIHI/AAAAAAAABcA/-0F-OnrQhWQ1JBOuiRLruY-3UG1fLd0-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/09%2BWave.png)

(It's only after finishing this that I started to wonder if what is essentially water-bending constitutes a 'wave'. Well, I've drawn it now, so no takebacks).

Very dynamic, Ravanon! And yes, waterbending totally counts .

Yep, i just checked and turns out i'm STILL super jealous of your line and colour work Ravanon. I fear you have made an enemy for life

(also, NOW you give me a prompt like "Elf" , inktober 52...just when i was about to switch to just random images. TYPICAL!) .

I have to fix some technical issues first though, something is REALLY f*cked up with photoshop and my tablet right now. It's WEIRD.

Here's mine!
I'm really making the most out of my office hours on Friday, when no students come to see me. Good times!

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/uIaGIt2.jpg)

I wasn't particularly happy with the elf in this week's picture, so I felt like drawing some more. I didn't have a lot of time, though, so I just sketched a few, but I think I like them better than the original. It's weird (and a little disconcerting) how sometimes I like a doodle that took me three minutes much better than one that took thirty, but that's life, I guess.

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/O7yRMNd.jpg)

Anyway, looking forward to seeing yours, Ravanon and pyxistyx!

oh jeez. I'm still just on "Balloon" you know

Hahaha! No pressure!

Working on a character design for a TTRPG game Maqsan is going to be running soon. Figured i could tie it in to "Balloons".

I need to actually finish it but it'll do as-is for now!

IMAGE(https://smackfolio.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/balloons.jpg)

The bullet-hole-ridden wedding cake is a great detail!

The current background idea for the character is that she's a dilettante "black sheep of the family" (of a powerful megacorp CEO) who rebelled against "Mother" and basically went on a one-woman rampage of petty crime and debauchery. When threatened with having her trust funds and savings all blocked, she agreed to return to the family to settle down, via an arranged marriage to a politically convenient rival to cement a merger with another megacorp

On the happy day...she ends up shooting up the venue, stealing all the wedding gifts and running off with two of the bridesmaids.

Now that she is - permanently - cut off from all of her trust funds... and on the run from a very angry board of directives and at least two different star systems. She's basically using her expensive private school xenoarchaeology education to fuel a career in "vault hunting", stealing alien relics to fuel her expensive lifestyle choices.

Kind of a cross between Liara and Jack from Mass Effect

Sounds great! And, you know, it would also make for a cool comic book. Since you don't have any artistic projects going right now, I thought I'd mention it .

pyxistyx wrote:

Yep, i just checked and turns out i'm STILL super jealous of your line and colour work Ravanon. I fear you have made an enemy for life

Oh well, I suppose a few extra enemies never hurt anyone.... though based on what I've seen you post here and in other threads, I don't think you really have any cause to be jealous!

With regards to this week's prompt, I got a bit sidetracked this week, then ended up trying something a little more detailed than usual, which I had to rein back my ambition on to finish in time. So here's my elf:

IMAGE(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o2TgsEN9944/XmoerCIvjuI/AAAAAAAABco/qeHWEE515D8LOEHIWZqXa5j2dXXKwmGQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/10%2BElf.png)

I really like all those reflections, Ravanon!

Just....... shaking my fist at my monitor in mock rage

(it's great!)