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Drafted on 3/16, doodle to test paper overlay

#queued #kris #ralsei #could be kralsei if you want it to be #not sure what this means if it means anything at all #truthfully i just was aiming to draw a cool kris #but apparently dawntheduck's brain associates ''cool'' with ''twilight princess box art'' #because after stepping back i think this really just looks like link from tp #how many times have i mentioned twilight princess in a deltarune post #it has to have been at least twice now right #perma wolf link brainrot holy crap #anyway i needed to test a paper texture for a poster i was working on and i settled on this one because i liked how the pencil looked on it #future dawn; i dont like how kris' mouth looks anymore but oh well lol

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Not May, but the semester is finally over (not officially, but with my finals schedule, I've practically got nothing left)

I'm back :D I feel god-damn awful though, so for the next few days I'll be sharing the handful of sketches and scribbles I made over the last month or so. It's not a lot, but hopefully I'll be on my feet when they're all posted and able to work on my own art again. Thank you guys for your patience and support while I was gone, it meant the world to me as I was trudging through the rest of the semester <3

#been fighting to stay awake all day #the second i got a minute to breathe i guess it just kinda hit me #every ounce of poorly repressed stress from the last five months just smacked me in the face all at once #i'll be slowly coming back on here since i don't have all of my energy back #and by that i mean i've drafted all of these posts as i made the drawings and just didn't share them #so i'm not actually gonna be making any new posts for a little bit most likely #but soon :) #alrighty time to do the aforementioned ''resting'' #or at least attempt haha #ralsei #deltarune #sad and tired as always #me rn fr

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Drawing from class two weeks ago, prof was introducing us to photoshop because not everyone had used it before, so those of us that were already familiar with it were goofing off lol

Small update; I have recently been given courage to come out and say that this blog will be temporarily put on hold. I'm not falling behind in my studies per se, but they've become such a massive source of stress that I can't focus/don't have time to draw for myself lately. I can confidently say my mental health is the worst it's been since last year; guilt for not talking to people and for not being more active on here is eating me alive, so I think it's best if I take at least one of those pressures off of myself.

When I'm back I'll likely have some classwork to show off, and maybe if the stars align, some personal drawings too haha. Until then, I'll still be somewhat active on my alt (@dawntheduckrb) and might even post some doodles there, so feel free take a peeksies if you want :D (posts are all over the place there though, so don't follow if you don't want dash clutter lol)

Sorry for any worry I caused; see y'all in May :)

#sorry for up and half going away like that #am not doing well at all #and its been a while since ive actually posted #(ive actually made two posts since the cat one but privated both bc silly brain) #so i wanted to formally say i am stepping away so people dont think im like #dead #so uh #im alive #my brain is just eating itself alive right now #and i gotta prioritize the could-leave-me-in-debt-for-the-rest-of-my-life event over the beloved hellsite (regrettably) #not that i wasnt already prioritizing it (my upload rate has plummeted since january) #but i want to let yall know what is going on #I've noticed more people on my alt lately that dont follow me; so if that was yall checking in on me #then thank you so much #it didnt go unnoticed

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Free time has (sort of) arrived

(cat is katsrkole on instagram)

#still trying to figure out snouts #shockingly enough I never really drew anthro characters before i found ralsei #see i've actually done quite a lot of larger drawings in my figure drawing class #around 10-12 #but they're all drawings of real people and half of them are unclothed #and i have no interest in posting either of those things here #but just like last semester #the things i'm learning in that class are popping up in my personal drawings #so in a way i'm still kinda sharing a bit of what i've learned this semester? sort of?? #i'm gonna be so damn sad when i don't have this professor anymore #he takes the stress out of model drawing so that we can focus on actually improving instead of just fighting for our grades #and it's working so well for pretty much everyone in the class #i will still likely not be doing any actual drawings any time soon #but if i went any longer without drawing for myself? #i think i was gonna combust #this was actually cathartic i am in a much better mood now #cats #kris #susie #ralsei #deltarune #doodles #okay tag wall finished now i will scroll because i have missed quite a lot lately

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That one valentine still has me rolling

#being sick has given me the expendable time to do this #i am bedridden but that does not stop deltarune drawings #i am very proud of the hands here #i am most proud of thinking up that stool detail #i will probably touch this up on the computer when i get the time #deltarune #mini deltarune comic #kris #ralsei #kralsei? kind of #one party thinks its kralsei and the other doesnt know what to make of a strange unsigned card

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For this Valentine's Day, I've chosen to show appreciation to the local viruses for the week

#in other words #dawn the duck has covid #yippie #my cousin has a wedding on saturday and now I'll miss it :( #ducks #doodles #the pen smeared like crazy i am livid #update four hours later: new record temperature of 102.2 :O #this is by far worse than anything i caught last year #i cannot walk in a straight line and am now relying on the wall rail to go downstairs bc I'll fall otherwise #am so dizzy if i turn my head too fast #ive got a quiz to do before midnight with a four minute timer i have no idea how I'm gonna do it #will update with results

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Gesture & Figure Studies

I mentioned in a previous post that a professor of mine gave me some resources that I find super helpful, and that once he fixed the links to those resources, I would share them here.

So, as promised, I'm making a post to compile the various online goodies I've been given/stumbled across on my own. All of these are super good resources to practice gesture drawing for free, and in a more comfortable environment than staring at a real person three feet away from you. Some of these are also good references to have for longer drawings, so feel free to use them in whatever way helps you! Links put below:

Before anything, I think it's important to explain what exactly gesture is. At its core, gesture is simply looking at some form of reference, and drawing what you see as quickly as possible. Gesture drawing isn't actually exclusive to drawing people; it's helpful with pretty much all subject matter, such as still-lifes or landscapes. This post focuses on figure studies, but the techniques found here can be used elsewhere too.

These exercises are typically done in increments of 30 seconds-5 minutes. That's not a lot of time, so it's very important to not get hung up on details while working. Instead, focus on whatever you're drawing in its entirety; the point is to capture the energy of whatever you're looking at, not each individual shape. These drawings tend to look a little goofy and that's perfectly fine! The important part is proportion and energy, not form.

Below are a couple of videos that I think best help introduce gesture drawing. Seeing it is action explains it better than words can, in my opinion:

A demo of figure gesture drawing (this is closest to how I was taught)

Short video that explains good things to watch out for while you work

And for the poses:

Playlist of timed poses (non-nude)

Playlist of timed poses (nude)

Pose image library (nude/non-nude/hands/more+)

Timed image library (nude/non-nude/hands/more+)

Another timed image library (nude/non-nude)

Pinterest board of hand/feet references (helpful even outside of gesture drawing)

HUGE pose reference library (very helpful even outside of gesture drawing)

DeviantArt page for the above (more poses I believe, but harder to navigate)

I'll update this post if I add anything else to this list, but this is all I have for now. Hopefully a couple of people can find this useful :D

#even if nobody uses these I would like to have them here so I don't loose them #but sharing is caring and I love these resources so maybe someone else might want them too #i will say: #if you're an artist/wanting to learn to draw people #and you ever get an opportunity to join a live model drawing session #definitely don't pass it up; they're not all nakey people #i've only seen one of these events held outside of my classes and I very much regret not being able to go #regardless learning it virtually is still a massive help and has been how i've learned for most of the past year #it's helped me a ton with my anatomy over the past year #but it's still a good way to warm up even if you don't need help with anatomy #gesture drawing #figure studies #art resources #drawing resources #non-art post

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First project is done :D

Actually, even though I'm in two studios this semester, I'm likely only going to post class projects for my digital one, since the other is a figure drawing class, and I can't exactly post drawings of other real people (we will do a self portrait, so I *might* share that one if it doesn't turn out as inaccurate as the last one did).

Project notes under the cut as always (and bonus, I got some cut out! Picture below)

I can't lie, this isn't exactly how I wanted it to turn out. I actually started to hand draw in more complex shading, but when I opened the file this morning, everything I had done over the weekend was completely gone (weird computer issue, not because I forgot to save it). I ended up having to add in some reallly simple shadows at the last minute (just because some of these really needed some modicum of depth in order to work), and barely got this done in time. But, it's done, and it's turned in :)

This project was meant to familiarize us with using Adobe Illustrator; we were told to make a sheet of 6-10 stickers that represented a place we can't actually go to. I actually did a very similar project last spring; that time, we were told to depict a place that we wanted to go to, so a real place. This one was was a bit more abstract, and I'm in my baby-ex-christian era, so I really wanted to do heaven and hell for this. It felt like tasteful blasphemy, and it felt nice doing this for a prompt that implied that these places weren't real. Made me happy :D my professor loved the idea, so I took it and ran with it haha.

The class loved it; mine was the first one they wanted to discuss during critique after the only volunteer went, and it felt really nice. I put a ton of time into this so I'm happy to see it pay off even if it's not exactly how I wanted it to turn out.

I'll probably play around with it more? I won't be doing the complex shading I initially had planned because that was not a fun experience to have to redo. Some color and shape adjustments are needed for me to be fully happy with it though, so that'll probably be a "my personal free time" thing.

I went to war with the Cricut in the art building, but managed to get one set to cut well :D my classmates took some of the ones I cute out, which made me really happy. I'll be making some more to give to friends so I'll probably post more about my paper cutter woes on my alt within the next week haha

If anyone is interested in having some, lmk and I'll see if I can figure out how to mail them? I can't say for sure if I'll be doing that just yet, but if some people are interested I'll look into it!

Anyway, I'm still proud of these, and I think that even with the hiccups included, this still turned out light-years better than the last time I did this project (or, a veeery similar one). Will definitely be decreasing the detail scale on the next project though :')

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Sunday doodles (very late)

#remembered to post this #i would like to do an actual drawing for myself instead of just a bunch of random doodles #but i do not have time anymore for such things #once i have time to draw the things I'm mentally conjuring up it's over for y'all #there will be a ralsei blast upon the return of my expendable time in may yall beware #but in the meantime #sorry about the doodle spam #i really do like to post and i still like sharing the itty bitty stuff i draw so i hope you guys dont mind #kris #ralsei #kralsei #deltarune

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Doodle dump from various classes this week

Ralsei is muscle memory now, I might have a problem

#i have never been a mushrooms person idk where those came from #i want to draw ralsei with more expressions but also i cant really focus on that when im also taking notes #so these note margin ralseis always end up looking the same #I've posted the same exact ralsei drawings every other week for over a year now #why would i stop today? #ok but while its literally the same exact poses every time i *do* get better at drawing shoulders up stuff #this has translated to my classwork and has been a massive help #copy paste ralsei ftw woop woop #ralsei #deltarune #ducks #random ass hat #doodles

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Sunday ducks + others

#a friend bought tickets for us to go to the symphony #I'll make a post about it on my alt eventually because i got some cool pictures #but it was so much fun #i also got sir'd by some of the staff #i guess they saw me before they heard my squeaky voice #it felt really nice :D i didnt wanna take off that outfit when i got home #enjoy the smiley face my sister snuck on here via crayon she found wedged between two seats #ducks #sunday ducks #sunday doodles

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With the word ゆうめい finally entering my vocabulary list, I have successfully squeezed my utdr obsession into my Japanese homework

(edit; oh yeah translations, ゆうめい=famous

私は… ゆうめいね -> I'm... famous?? (In lieu of "popular")

アンダーテール -> undertale)

#i will have to explain this to my professor tomorrow morning #i am okay with that #I think i have explained this before but for anyone who hasnt seent my jp work yet... #i am in the college of liberal arts at my school #and as a student in that department i am required to have a minor AS WELL AS to take two years of a foreign language #and i figured if i have to take the classes anyway i might as well make it my minor and kill two birds with one stone #(metaphorically) #(i love birds) #but anyway #i was debating between spanish (more useful in the US) and japanese (very cool) #i decided in japanese because i think spanish would be pretty easy to learn on my own #there are a bajillion resources near me to learn it and it is a pretty common language in my area #so i will do japanese now and spanish when i graduate #今、これは大学に人と日本語を話します #テネシーに日本語を話すにちょっと難しいwww #basically theres real people to speak spanish to where i live #but the only opportunity for me to hear japanese in person is gonna be in school so i took that opportunity #undertale #papyrus #classwork #doodles

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Last post for now; various class doodles, I can't decide what is on the collar of kris' sweater

#slight cw #cw gore #i guess? #I'm in a kris mood this week apparently #doodles #kris #ralsei #deltarune #i gave ralsei lopsided ears oh no

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So uh, I already have my first project done? It's actually just supposed to be a small exercise to get us familiar with Illustrator (because we all already forgot how to use it), and we were only allowed to use the shape drawing tools (so like, no free-handing anything, no editing line points, no gradients, nada; just the square/circle/polygon/star tool)

So naturally I made a duck

It would've been a certain fluffy prince had it not been for the "no free-hand drawing" requirement. Bummer.

Not my favorite in the world but there's only so much you can do with four tools lol, I'm kiinda happy with it and I'm eepy so I think it'll work :D

#man if i could just edit that line going down the middle of the body #it's supposed to be a track for the head to be able to roll around as it moves #but it doesn't line up correctly bc perspective doesn't like perfect circles or ellipses #i got highlights to show it's a shiny duck though so that's something #i'm going to bed now i've gotta get up at 6:30 :/ #ducks #classwork #excited to show off my homework for my other studio class later on

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Small doodle from yesterday that turned into me learning new things about a brush I already adored

#i am not good with clothing design but I just wanted to draw ralsei #today i learned that it i don't actually need a blending tool to blend two different colors together with this thing #i only used a blender to add a little extra texture on the ralsei #when i tell you i use this brush for almost everything omg #the only thing that i dont like about it is that it's transparent #if i want to change the background color then i also change every other color in the picture #but that's kind of like the no-takesies backsies appeal that i get from traditional art so it works for me #sorry i had to gush a little bit i'm just happy i found it while it was free #ralsei #deltarune #ducks

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Sunday doodles (and song that I think is neat)

#i think i will continue to work on this one #duck lore; i played mary in a play my church put together one year for easter #it was at our old church that was muuuch smaller than the one i attend now (~50 people?) #i didnt know it at the time #but in the evangelical church mary is commonly thought to have been very young #around 13 or so when she gave birth to jesus #just a little older than i was when i played as her #those memories feel very gross now #sunday doodles #doodles #i have many sunday ducks to make up for

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Post with content that scares the duck has breached containment

#so my gut is telling me to turn off further interactions on that post #but there's some genuinely helpful discussion going on there so I'll leave it for now #let me tell yall though #i saw my activity flood with comments and reblogs with text #and my stomach dropped #i am quite literally shaking in nerves lol #thankfully everyone is being kind but i am not intellectually equipped to talk about evolution #as i said in the post i quite literally never learned about it #up until recently i genuinely thought it was fake #and even now i am having trouble wrapping my head around that fact that most people think its real #like #people actually believe in evolution as much as they do idk pangea or some shit like that #look I know its real but ive got 20 years of brainwashing to undo #the post was meant to stay among mutuals but I completely forgot reblogs existed so thats on me #I'll reply to people there eventually but i am in no headspace to do that right now haha #this is technically vent art so #vent art #(btw this is by no means me being upset at the replies! i just got flashbanged with more attention than i had anticipated) #(it was truthfully only intended for mutuals to see because i can handle talking to people with usernames I'm already familiar with) #(not several that i have never seen) #its 12:45 now not 12:01 why did it take me so long to type all of this