Draw This Again 2011-2019

[cittasette]

Redrawing old artwork is a good way to boost one's self-confidence. I made this today and despite all the trouble the last sketch gave me (legs?? perspective?? how??) it's heartening to know that I'm improving, inasmuch learning to spend more time on a single drawing and actually look up references is improvement.

Now, if only I practiced more than once in a blue moon...

Comments

[musyc]

Shadows! Dynamic posing! Looks like you even got a touch of foreshortening in the legs there. Excellent improvements!

[cittasette]

Thanks! I spent way too long trying to get that foreshortening right, and what I concluded was that I should do more leg studies :P

[sylvaine]

Woah! That's a massive improvement! Look at that dynamic pose! *____*

[cittasette]

Thanks :) Dynamic poses are so much more fun to draw, ha.

[howsmyenglish]

improvement is evident! though I must say I like the first little guy, too. he has quite a different air than the two others.

[cittasette]

He does, doesn't he? I might try picking a pose closer to the first drawing sometime. For now... let's just say he's grown into his moody teenager phase :P

[trobadora]

Woah! That's impressive!

[cittasette]

Thanks :D

[corvidology]

The 2019 figure really looks like it is about to move.

[cittasette]

:O thanks!

shh, it's secretly a gif, don't tell anyone *shifty eyes*

[corvidology]

Never!

[yuuago]

:O Wow, the new version looks great!

[cittasette]

Thanks :)

[yhlee]

Ooh, great improvement! The values and shadows are very nicely handled in the latest one, and in all of them there's that definite sense of personality.

[cittasette]

Thank you! I actually had a hard time coming up with what I wanted to do for the latest sketch, because I had no story/purpose behind the initial doodle at all besides "he has goggles and a cool gear design on his shirt" and I wanted to try for a more expressive drawing. I guess I ended up with "moody contemplative teenager" (which coincidentally doesn't give me much expression practice, whoops!)

Next time I might go for steampunk, if I can figure out airships.

[rheasilvia]

Wow, that's really great - and an amazing improvement! Although I like the first drawing's style a lot, too. :-)