Acorns and Ulrik went to sewers, among other things. Although my doodle a day book is not specifically Elden Ring themed some days I don’t have much else going on
life drawing! 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 minute poses
Anonymous asked:
Just so you know, tumblr is currently using art for AI training and the only way to stop them is to go into your settings and turn it off 'third party sharing' manually (on each of your blogs)
Hey thank you for messaging me. I noticed this yesterday and opted out. I am very skeptical it will have much practical effect, but it is better to opt out in any case and spread the word.
I had a few thoughts, this button thing has been a move by some other sites as well. Deviantart did it but from the look of it definitely just seemed like PR move to protect the company (DA is now pretty much haven of gAI spam and they have their own model as well). The button option conveniently washes their hands from any data misuse, as in ‘hey if your data was used in training we don’t know how that happened, because you opted out so not our fault’. But it’s what we have so definitely opt out.
the smallest and scratchiest Messmer doodle
and my cat
Anonymous asked:
Hi, Eva! Love your works so much! How did you develop your shape language? Do you also simplify shapes as what we see in your illustrative works when you do studies from life/movies/any resources?
Hey thank you for your message! Glad to hear you like my works
When I study I will definitely simplify the subject just to be able to draw/paint it, but I try to be aware of not stylizing too much from the get go. I do have my own biases though and there’s habits and sometimes strong inclination to draw certain way. Like the way I use some tools I’m familiar with. I usually make decisions on the fly, like sometimes I want to draw very stylistically from reference and other times I think there is something interesting but I set out to figure it out while I draw it.
I think when I really try to be focused and observe earnestly what I see it helps me to imagine better and come up with new shapes and ideas. I’ve noticed it’s important to me to not expect too much from a sketch or exercise, or it turns into something performative where the focus shifts from my desire to do things and figure it out, to expecting someone to see it and being evaluated.
Anime and feeling of movement whether it’s animation or dancing and acting have definitely influenced a lot in my shape language. I’m aiming for certain level of clarity and design without losing freedom. I always feel like it’s kind of battle between emotion and discipline in myself, or having sort of contradicting approaches too. I think I have distinctly western influences from storybooks, golden age illustrators and animation but I don’t particularly follow western animation design principles like line of action or squash and stretch. I always feel like I don’t want to say “too much” or that some expressions and designs feel too descriptive to me. Not to say I don’t like or admire it in other people’s work because I do, it’s just that I have strong sense of what feels just right amount of ambiguous to me that is hard to explain.
I think anime character shapes are more defined by symbolism and graphic composition of the drawing in frame than western characters and that appeals to me. It is more kin to comic panels whereas western animation would be more closely kin to film composition. Obviously there is variety and overlap but that is what initially influenced me.
brushpen on paper sketching
Some artists I’ve had in my mind lately, just sharing the inspiration
Ayami Kojima
Harry Clarke
Hitoshi Yoneda
Stepan Kolesnikoff
John Howe
Nobuteru Yuki
sometimes I gotta learn stuff I don’t want to tho
I did these doodles when I thought about learning Blender
Last week sketching. I tried doing an hour before work and some evenings, which is a real improvement for me. For some years now after work, I was very done with drawing/painting for the day and I rather played games or watched something, but currently I really enjoy drawing.
I want my drawings to have better structure overall, it’s something that I especially hated studying so I never did it. Overall I’m not hugely into studying, because if I don’t have clear idea for illustration or project I want to do it for, I don’t really see point in doing grind for grind’s sake. Right now I think it’s more pleasant because I’m interested in doing better character illustration, and I know what will help me get there.
Body rotation, hands and different angles especially fascinate me, because I want to be able to do interesting shapes and expression with those.
First image is all from imagination but rest are referenced from photos.
These ended up being full circle -beginning of the year and ending of year drawings in 2023
I think this is 2019. Digital painting based on photo I took
Hyvää joulua - Happy holidays !
Friend asked me if I’m depressed, but I don’t think I am at the moment. To be honest this year my overall mental health has improved, more stability and motivation in life overall. Being a little isolated and far away from my friends still sucks, but I’m making more art for myself and I have a nice job for now, which I’m thankful for.