#hylan learns art

[hylandude]

Learning art update

So I kinda forgot to update my progress in here for a while... Ooops.

Second attempt at art had me struggling with proportions (again) as I drew an overweight piplup and a slightly odd fomantis. I am moderately happy with those tho and can definitely see some improvement from the first time. Trying to draw basic shapes and build up from them seems to be working but fucks me up when its complex shapes I can't break down (Im looking at you fomantis' bushy forehead)

Here's my child fomantis

And the rare candy enthusiast piplup

As you can see very clearly, eye size and placement is my passion.

I also did a third stream with more attempts. A dear friend keeps saying that "my mind is fascinating" while watching me, she's referring to the fact that I seem very methodical in my approach but I'm a software dev I literally learn by following a method seeing if it works and fixing shit after seeing the results. "Just winging it" is not how my brain works and is VERY hard to do. I did attempt tho! The third batch of drawings had me draw another ralts and a rowlet. I am extremely happy with how the ralts turned out! I can see some progress in my drawing skills, there's still a lot to do but I can confidently say that's my frist "good" drawing (I don't wanna look at it tho cause I keep seeing stuff that is wrong). Finally rowlet was an attempt at "going by the vibes" and not think too much about it. The result is not bad but honestly switching that part off in my brain is hard, I might need a different approach to that... There was also a spinarak drawing but it was so bad i scrapped it

Here's the baby ralts

Rowlet being a lil guy

So far I've been trying to copy the reference art, I'll try something original next time and see where does that lead me. Also someone in chat suggested I use colors but all the art supplies I have are literaly old school stuff I still had lying around so no colors for now (bf said he might get me some tho)

Anyway as usual thanks for reading my ramblings and if you wanna see me learn come join my stream its a lot of fun to chat n draw or play something. Shoutout to that one chatter who said I was an artist despite this being my first attempts, thank you that is actually very motivating!

#hylan learns art #trans artist #fomantis #piplup #ralts #rowlet

[hylandude]

Drawing first steps

So im gonna actually use this as a blog. I'm trying to learn how to draw and decided to document my progress in blog form.

Today i did some warmups and drew three pokemon. The warmups did reveal that I absolutely DONT have an artist's brain/way of thinking, I've always been an analytical (sorta) person and have done very few creative things so this is entierly new to me. I've literally hadn't picked up a pencil in over 3 years, and it was only for writing college stuff.

Im streaming my art attempts to have friends give advice and yell at me for not following it |D also helps me get back to streaming so two birds with one stone! Its also really fun to have someone to talk with and while I was relentlessly bullied (in good faith) by my artist friends it was extremly fun. So if you feel like watching a complete begginer drop by!

Being completly objective these drawing are not great but I'm kinda proud that I'm picking up something new and giving it a shot we'll see how far I can get. I really just wanna get good enough so I can get a fursona that's been stuck on my head for a while.

Feel free to drop any critisism/advice/whatever I'll keep trying my best to improve!

Ralts

Skitty

Snivy

#hylan learns art #ralts #skitty #snivy

[hylandude]

Learning art... In progress

Had my second go at drawing. It went far better than expected but proportions are really hard to get a grip of.

I have started to get the concept of basic shapes and how to create something out of them. Still need to understand how they are placed and sized but at least I can imagine them.

This stream I took longer to draw so only two pokemon. Fomantis, my child, and piplup who had too many rare candies.

Feel free to comment any tips/criticism and if you wanna join in and scream at me catch me live on Wednesdays!

#hylan learns art #fomantis #piplup