Fsoda
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drawing board + head and body studies with some thoughts regarding my personal style!
🕑 Added 2023-03-09 20:48:15 +0000 UTCMade this piece for a friend of mine as donbrothers came to an end 😭 Sonoi's breastplate was fun to draw, actually...
Also for the practices I wanted to focus on some specific things!
After seeing a lot of Asterix & Obelix issues on a second-hand bookstore in São Paulo, I felt the necessity of studying the author, Uderzo, that has a more toonish approach to head proportions and specially expressions.
It's something that I just feel is more inherent to me? I always tried to make more regular looking faces with a more anime-esque or comic-esque approach but I always end up tooning things up. Not like I can actually do it too lol.
More research proved me that Uderzo, as the master he is, mastered not only toonish styles, but also more realistic ones. I was a bit shook, trying to deal with the reality of being such a limited artist... Well, at least I'm trying to hone what I believe I'm' better at, right?
Also...
There's been some time since I'm unhappy with how I approach anatomy. I get overly obsessed with the theorical approach to it and everything ends weird and stiff - going back into my limited artist whining, I can't internalize it at all, so it feels as they say here in Brazil, "to keep punching a knife's tip". Why keep insisting on it...? I mean, I will but I'll try to not use it as my main compass.
Back to the toony thing I said about heads, I think it's the same for bodies. I tried thinking: what is a media I've enjoyed that has interesting bodies?
I have made myself this question without toony on mind - which led me to do copious ammount of studies of Capcom artbooks and the likes of Jiraya. Silly me though. As if I'd ever ammount to a speck of all those phenomenal artists.
...Well, I had cartoony in mind now!!! Which made Ben 10 come to mind - I always really liked this show, even though I stopped consuming it around the time Omniverse launched!!
So I tried going around and seeing how they worked the shapes and I made these studies.
I'm trying focusing more on big fun shapes. Whatever knowledge I have, it will fill those shapes once I'm done setting them up. It's actually something I have done in some pin up pieces and a practice that I have to make more common.
Sorry for being a bummer okie!!! Thanks for always listening.
Comments
Fsoda
that's reassuring to read gobby, I'm always under the impression people think my exagerations are weird 😭😭 thanks for the boost and nice words man, gotta take things like that in consideration when I'm feeling bad about my art!
n0m
I'm super duper into cartoon/exaggerated aesthetics myself; i think it's honestly a quarter of the reason i got so enraptured by your style. The melding of typical anatomy meeting your cartoonish proportions/expressions and aesthetics alongside your absolutely *beautiful* color choices, poses, and polish are wonderful! I haven't a complaint whatsoever myself! It's been sorta why i've been on your tail for the longest time just enjoying the wonderful pieces you craft, heh.
Fsoda
I really don't know why I'm so insistent with that realistic, perfect approach!!! Maybe I compare myself with other artists that I deem much much more capable than me and get obsessed about some arbitrary bs... sigh. But YES that's what I'm aiming for now!! Also don't mind it at all, always happy to hear from others on what I could use to improve, specially someone that has been tagging along for a while and I know wants what's good for me!! thanks man
Oneiros
I like the idea of starting with a really fun, expressive shape and working your way from there with the necessary detail. Your knowledge of anatomy helps you complete that shape in a way that still makes sense, it doesn't have to enforce realistic perfection! I'm just a watcher so it's easy to give advice from the sidelines, but I think sometimes the trick to making good things is just letting yourself do it instead of fixating on how to perfect it.
