"A Hopeless Dream Chaser"
Today is the final day of 2024. This year sucked and the coming years don’t seem very promising. But despite that I hope me and my family can overcome what ever comes our way.
Drawing is just a quick sketch that I then finished with Clip Studio. Hope I can put more effort on future art, we’ll see. I’m also planning to draw something for the first day of the year, but I guess that depends on how I feel.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
In focusing on painting and trying to understand color I started neglecting form and proportions. So it’s time I go back to basics and start drawing again. I’ve notice I find it much easier and natural to do so traditionally. I’ve been feeling a bit off so hopefully I can get back in the groove soon.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
This should be the last prompt that I will follow. In this case “jumbo”. For some reason I remembered the Ohmu from Nausicaa which is great because it became the perfect subject. It was also a nice change from drawing humans (or human-like beings).
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I’ve been wanting to draw some Punch Punch Forever! art for a while. I started with Nono of course.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I haven’t been doing any Halloween activities now that I think about it. And that includes drawings. So perhaps I should do just that for these last days.
I kinda wanna see some movies too.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Camp is todays prompt so I decided to draw Rin Shima from Yuru Camp. I finally broke out a brush that I bought a while ago. Covering large areas instead of the non refillable one made covering large areas so much better.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
There was this idea that I had for a Ranma drawing and I finally decided to draw it today. I have also been wanting to draw Shampoo for a while and figured out a way to work her into the drawing. Because of the amount of details and whatnot, I decided to use a large paper this time.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
For Today’s drawing we have the prompt as “drive”. I decided to make some fan art of the racing girls from “私をスキーに連れてって” or “Take Me Out to the Snowland”.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Today’s prompt is guidebook. I had a couple of ideas but I’ve been wanting to draw some Dungeon Meshi art. So for today’s drawing it is Marcille reading a guidebook.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Wow, can’t believe I forgot to use the brush pen. As soon as I started using it things flowed so much easier and faster. Aside from areas that required finer lines. I’ll probably be incorporating it into the next drawings. Sadly I didn’t wait for some of the ink to finish drying and smudged it a bit on the face. Luckily I managed to fix it a bit with an eraser.
Apparently Berserk will be back later this month. Can’t wait if true.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Limited time today again so I decided to do another portrait today, but in exchange I decided to add more details. I had the option to either hatch or ink. And although inking has it’s appeal I decided to go with hatching. When it comes to hair, following the contours just looks better. But on the flip side it takes a while to do. And when working with dip pens, one has the danger of spacing out and smearing the ink. But it’s so worth it.
Looking back at past ink drawings such as my previous attempts at drawing Sayumi Michishige, I have improved quite a bit. I always feel a power up every Inktober.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I started re-watching Psych. Man I love this show. Funnily enough in the first episode they were using binoculars so I decided to draw one of the scenes. Everything is traditionally done but I messed up Gus’s skin by using a really dry Copic marker and in the wrong tone. Thinking back, it might have been better to use an ink wash. I was also contemplating just hatching it all out. but that would be an insane amount of lines to try out some of the ideas I had. So I had to make a choice, redraw it all and hatch it all again or just edit it digitally with Clip Studio Paint. I opted for doing it digitally. Although if I was smarter I should have played around with it digitally first before committing to just doing something irreversible. One other mishap was on Shawn’s hair where I was careless and rested my finger on some fresh ink. Hopefully I won’t be as tired tomorrow.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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