Walt Kelly tree

I decided that since I'm behind (I really want to be up to speed with assignments from John) that I'd just focus on doing the tree here. I actually really love drawing trees, so this felt good.


The rough is very hard to see... I overlayed, looked for issues before I moved on.



Reached satisfaction with basic forms, started on some details.


Nearly done... didn't do the tiny details in this because it wouldn't have really been worth it.


I am really happy with my finishes lately. Wow, pencils. Who'da thunk.

Also, I forgot, uh, the rest of the ground on the right, haha.

I want to draw some of my own trees soon, but right now I want to do some MAN DRAWINGS.

Post tree post before bed

I keep falling asleep during my usual Monday-Wednesday drawing slot... I guess I need to sleep more at night, I can't stand wasting my time like that.

Rough of last Mickey (for now)

And so, the week and a half of a thousand Mickeys comes to a close (for now).

I think this is some of my best! I love drawing!

This weekend: trees!

Yucky-Headed Mickey

I think it's some sort of law of the universe that one hand always has to present a problem... haha. Anyway, I wanted to try for something a little looser, with more emphasis on asymmetry.
So I made a different sort of error: the head's lopsided. REALLY lopsided. I wanted it to be asymmetrical, not melting. If I were to do this over again, I'd pull in the viewer's right side of the face, wrapping it much more tightly into perspective (the ear would go with it). I'd also try to make it clearer that the hand on the right is supposed to be coming forward in space (you'd be able to see in the sleeve more, etc).

Also, I think I'd round out the right foot on the bottom, more. It needs to be more volumous.

These are coming out a lot more easily and I'm really happy with that. As you might have noticed, I'm sort of trying to use different elements from both the Little Whirlwind Mickey and the Mickey Mouse Club opening Mickeys. Been having a lot of fun and it's exciting to think of these as a little more of my own than the straight-up referenced studies (I feel less silly showing them to people who ask at school).

Improvement

Finally, the finish doesn't feel like a complete downgrade.

However, the arms really don't make a lot of sense and the eyes are up too high on his skull. I don't think there's enough sense of weight on his foot to the right, even if he is tiptoeing. Also, the sock cloth on the end of the toe to the left doesn't look like it's totally logical. It should be pointed more downward, at an angle.

I got the idea to draw this from Jory. Both he and I love the old cartoon trope of bedtime getup, cap and candle included. He draws it on top of a lot of my doodles when we have a class together, so of course he put one of the bazillion Mickeys I've drawn this past week. So, I decided to draw one, myself.

A dapper chap

I didn't have the model sheet for reference in the finish, and it shows in where it's less confident (I'm looking at you, pants). You can see where I changed some stuff in the red; before the arm felt too long and sort of awkward, so I brought it in, but the hand wasn't as good. I just gotta keep reminding myself this is a learning process...

dammit

Here's a Photoshop color study of a BG I liked... This isn't my first attempt, but the one I tried a few days ago failed miserably. This one is considerably simpler, so I had an easier time with it, though I kind of wanted to call it quits on that gray.


I hate doing studies digitally because when I am allowed to, I check for errors compulsively and end up taking a hundred million years for accuracy no one cares about.

Anyway, here's mine:


I did this in the spirit of the talented Anne Bush, who is phenomenal and fast at these studies. I, uhh... struggled a bit. I know it'll improve with time. Like Anne, I did use the eyedropper tool. Unlike her, though, my painting is mushier and not as tight in many places. A good exercise, though.

More Mickeys on the way, been doing them, but it's almost 5am and I'm a dingus for staying up this late.