A quick Batman using some of my new markers and brushes.
My wife and I conducted our annual viewing of Krampus this past weekend. I love the creatures in the movie and I always feel the urge to draw them when we watch it, but I never do. Well, that is finally changing this year!
Very nice. I've never seen the movie but I have to see it now!
Heh, no you don't... 
Very nice. I've never seen the movie but I have to see it now!
It's a super fun movie. Feels like a throwback to those 80s low-budget horror movies, but with better production values. 
Another Krampus creature. This is the last one, though! (But there's more on my Instagram, if you want to check them out.) Next, cute, non-creepy portraits of my dogs
With the weekly drawing prompt topic on hiatus, I've been keeping quiet on the boards, but I'm still drawing.
In particular, I've been practicing more complex hair styles:
There's also a person attached to the hair, I guess.
Very cool, Ravanon!
Portraits of our dogs and cats:
Duncan
Freya
Grover
Dorothy
Hazel
Annie
a goal for me in 2022 - pick up (and fill) a damned sketchbook for once!)
(note the...optimistic...use of "1" here to signify my intention to actually FINISH this one and not give up on it a third of the way through. :P)
A boy can dream:
Also, if you liked Arcane, advances in AI are going to make 3D anime + cartoons a lot easier/cheaper/faster to make:
I remain convinced that, as the technology improves, if you thought the "Did the computer draw that?" Traditional/Digital divide was bad, it's only going to grow worse in the future.
Like, speaking totally personally, I'd wager by 2032 there's going to be a program/app that'll do most of the heavy lifting with "fundamentals" of illustration for you, and there is going to be discourse about it.
Sometimes i recreate great works of art just for fun. Very few people can tell the difference When it comes to art I am what they call a very legendary stable genius.
So I stopped into a Best Buy earlier today to check out the new Tab S8 and it is pretty fantastic!
I tried the Tab S7 FE too and that was nice as well.
At the beginning of the pandemic I tried out the Tab S6 lite and the apple iPad and found that I liked both but as far as drawing experience, I slightly preferred the iPad. Well, times have changed. I really like the S8 and the S7 FE over the iPad, mini and pro.
One thing I really liked was Samsung's note app. It had great hand writing recognition and it had the best implementation of smart shapes I've experienced. You could roughly sketch lines, squares, rectangles and circles and it would convert them automatically straighten and clean them up. I really hope there is a sketching program out there that either has or is stealing these features wholesale. It recognized open and closed shapes with a mix of curves and lines whether tangential and orthogonal or not. I also really liked having the hand writing tool active and drawing whole sentences and then clicking convert to convert them. It worked so well!
Sadly I feel this would have been a better $600 spent than my laptop but I have little complaints about that as I am typing on it now
If there was better sale on the S7 FE I think it would be too good to pass up. Sadly, every time it goes on sale, it is only $50 cheaper than a stock S7 that I can't justify it. And then there is the S8 calling to me for may $150 more which would be a negligible cost long term.
And as if by divine message, Walmart.com has a new Tab S7 FE for $385.
It is a third party seller so wish me luck on how "new" it is but it was too good to pass up.
It should arrive on Thursday. I'll keep you guys posted.
Nice! Good luck, fang!
Have you tried Samsung notes on your S6 lite?
I really love that app. I get the feeling that Clip Studio will be a more featured version of that if you create a vector layer. So I may have to double dip on it for my tablet.
It was just so cool that it took every thing I could throw at it. It turned my scribble into a hexagon and the hand writing detecting full sentences at once was addicting.
I actually tried Samsung Notes for the first time last Thursday! I didn't do anything crazy other than opening a few files and taking some notes, but it worked wonderfully.
I love it!
No surprise there.
It is huge btw...
But the drawing feel is outstanding.
I like infinite painter in addition to sketchbook.
Clip Studio is absolutely nuts and pulls no punches as far as features. I need to watch some tutorials stat.
Awesome news!
Is r/place considered digital art?
It's baaaack
Totally forgot to post here! Here's three I did in the last few months...
However, genuinely question for the rest of you. I'm back to full-time in the office stuff and I wonder, does anyone else do/attempt to learn art while having a full-time job? How do you handle it? Can you handle it?
From the bits and pieces I've read online, the broad answer to the "Can you learn art while having a full-time job" question appears to be "Yes, you just need to be diligent and manage your time."
Those look good!
An I think you answered your own question: "Yes, you just need to be diligent and manage your time." Easier said than done, I know, but definitely worth trying!
Being diligent and managing you time isn't how art works, sadly. You will find your art diligent and managed 
I'd recommend keeping a small journal with you because inspiration strikes at any time. Once you have gathered enough inspiration that way, you can carve out time to refine things that you have. I think this iterative process works better for busier schedules. Thumbnails and notes in a journal -> fewer, bigger and more details -> 1 to 3 pieces with a level of "finish"
It is like the process that Mario has demonstrated but you don't have to think in full pages. You also don't have to go in order if you decide to tell a story. And you don't have to involve more that one character or object of study.
Me? I've spent a lot of my time writing. Thank god for google docs because I have it no more than 5-10 minutes away if I need it. In fact, you might want to incorporate writing to some degree since it is much more accessible and offers similar artistic block/frustration release.
Also, never throw anything away in the refining process. One rough can turn into vastly different works with just a few refinement stages. You can save a lot of time avoiding reinventing the wheel artistically.
It's true that there are no guarantees, so I will rephrase: you need to be diligent in finding/making time to devote to art every day (or as close to that as you can), even if it's not a lot of time. And like fang said, it doesn't have to be anything complicated or detailed or finished. Just do something and have fun!
And to piggie back on what Mario said, don't judge. Be okay with not liking something. Be okay with doing something unfinished. Those will hold you back more than lack of time or access.
So I came across this short video that sums up really well a handful of concepts/fundamentals to improve your art. I also love how it shows how quick your first giant leap in ability comes with just a few weeks of regular practice.
That's a really great, heartening video, but I cracked up when I was watching it and he mentioned Glenn Vilpuu, because I'm currently taking classes at New Masters Academy and Vilpuu's one of the teachers there, so it was kinda like "Checked that one off ahead of time!"
I remain convinced that, as the technology improves, if you thought the "Did the computer draw that?" Traditional/Digital divide was bad, it's only going to grow worse in the future.
Like, speaking totally personally, I'd wager by 2032 there's going to be a program/app that'll do most of the heavy lifting with "fundamentals" of illustration for you, and there is going to be discourse about it.
Wow, did I say 2032? I meant to say within six months.
Looks like that tweet got deleted.
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