[2017] Art Journal.

[Kitsuki 17]

Starting a new one, because 2017 and goals and all that. Heck. 
 
A lot of the stuff start in late fall of 2016, though -- so it's not really a "2017" art journal. I'm a liar. ;D
 
One. (Somewhere in late fall, 2016)

 
Two. (Even later fall of 2016)

 
Three. (December 2016)

 
Four. (December 2016)

 
Five. (December 2016)

 
Six. (December 2016)

 
Seven. (December 2016)
 

 
Eight. (December 2016)

 
Nine. (December 2016, BIG IMAGE - comic)

 
Ten. (December 2016)

 
Eleven. (Set of two images, minor tweaks to the second.)

 
Twelve. Video that belongs to the previous set and single image. (voices in bg, forgot to turn off mic.)

 
Thirteen. (January 2017, really messy sketch so it's gross)

 
Fourteen. (January 2017, work in progress.)

 
Fifteen. (January 2017. Sketch dumps.)

 
It seems that in December of 2016, there was a really huge curve in improvement in my art. It seems to kind of have vanished since school and exams started flooding my life?? But at least I still have style, even if my brush strokes and anatomy got messier and I kind of lost my abilities a bit. Recently, I've been working on drawing women, so hopefully they will at least improve even if my facial structures and shapes kinda collapsed!

 

Sixteen. 2 February 2017.

 

 

 

Will be updating this with time!

Edited February 25, 2017 by Kitsuki

[Ryan Ferris 3]

This looks great! Would love to see more of your stuff!

[Kitsuki 17]

This looks great! Would love to see more of your stuff!

 

Thanks, mate! Here's a new drawing I did recently!

 

 

 

 

I think I'm getting better! (Also, added to the main post)

[rgangsta 43]

Whoa! Great stuff! I'm sorry I don't have any constructive feedback because this looks amazing.

 

Like Ryan, I wanna see more, too.

[Kitsuki 17]

Thanks, Roody! I have a few more things to post, just gonna throw them here. Lately my art has been fluctuating from "yeah, okay, not too bad" to "wow you lost a lot of progress gained over the months in just one night."

 

Here is one such example from early February. lol. I was practicing using real people as models, which was new.

 

 

 

 

I dunno, I thought she was pretty when I first saw her. But that was directly before finding out that she's only thirteen. Can't say I'm too proud of this sketch that I spent waaaay too much time on, but... cash me ousside, how bow dah.

 

 

 

 

 

This 20 min thing that I also tried to incorporate more realistic proportions in (and failed), I'm more proud of. Elizabeth Schuyler is one of my favourite women in... musicals, I guess? I was going to say media, but I don't know if it counts as media. Hamilton is fire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I couldn't be stopped with the Hamilton stuff, so I sketched more Hamilton. I took down the time as 7 min so I'm pretty proud.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This came before the other stuff, but someone commissioned me for some anime characters with their imagined love children or something, and since they commissioned me I was like "lol okay have this." It was fun practice, though. I got better at drawing women and simultaneously worse at drawing men.

 

 

So, the actually most recent drawing I did! A couple weeks ago, I found a musical called Heathers, and of course my favourite character turns out to be the psycho who wants to blow up the school.

 

 

 

 

I'll put dates on them when I put them in the main post, RIP. 

Edited March 18, 2017 by Kitsuki

[Kitsuki 17]

Aw, shoot. I forgot about these videos I had lying around, so I'm gonna just double post so the last one doesn't get too crowded. So I tried to make an animatic. These parts are pretty short, but I haven't had time to work on them, early. I think this was... mid Feb? Late? 

 

Video 1.

 

Video 2.

 

I did the first video after I drew the bits for the second part, so the first one is better imo.

 

Song is "Helpless" from Hamilton.

Edited March 18, 2017 by Kitsuki

[Kitsuki 17]

Been a while since I updated this thread. Might as well do so now... no numbers and dates bc I can't remember that stuff lol. I keep saying I'll add to main post but later : D

 

Some older drawings from about a month ago, when I wanted to practise animatics/posing.

 

 

 

 

Not too detailed, but pretty decent rough sketch imo.

 

 

Here's another from the same batch, even rougher but I wanted to get the sense of the posture down: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And last one of the batch, which is more detailed than the other two were.

 

 

 

 

Around then I decided to stick with the brush that I was using for sketches and to translate them to the final lineart + final product. I like the rough pastel feel of it. It looks more like a paper drawing this way, which is nice.

 

 

I then proceeded not to draw anything for like a whole month, since I can't be half-assed to focus on much except sleep and food. Only, recently, I started reading a manwha called Noblesse and decided that the art style is super nice, and I want some of that. Same thing happens every time I start reading a new webcomic -- so it's had a bit of an influence on my art style. I went back to drawing for about 20 min and was able to sketch this up.

 

 

 

 

Not too shabby, imo. Not too shabby.

[Kitsuki 17]

Another day, another sketch. I wanted to pump out a rough thing for some characters I might use in a webcomic someday if my art gets good enough.

 

 

 

[Kitsuki 17]

Drew another thing today, keeping in with my daily drawing. I think I can see a very clear improvement from a few months ago, though this one took me way longer than I would've liked.

 

 

 

 

I made something of an attempt at an entertaining background, but eh, I just said "screw it" and made it some weird... gradient-not-gradient thing instead.

[Kitsuki 17]

Back at it again with some more drawings, I doodled a lot in the past couple of months so here they are, generally chronological... from late May to like nowadays.

 

 

 

Image is big looool but this was around the first of June? or late May. There's a bg and text but I don't care about it so this is what u get.

 

 

 

 

 

Unfinished drawing, roughly same time as the other one.

 

There was more stuff but I can't find it so have a bunch of doodles from this month in chronological order, I'm too lazy to get the days for them out rn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's all I can track down for now O: There's more but I'll post it later. I'm taking my first art class this fall semester, so maybe I'll see actual improvement in my art soon o/