CowsGoMoo

About time I made another dump. A collection of a few drawings I did this year.

On 12/7/2018 at 1:43 PM, skadjkajehwhqnnsja said:

Lookng through this thread, your anatomy and shading has really improved

Thank you! Happy to know you think that, it means a lot!

Alright, it’s been like a few months, so here’s an update (from my current WIP to older stuff):

Dom (Late-Fall 2018) (Current WIP)

Getting back into color. Actually like how the colors came out for this one! Tried to add cooler purples and blues in the shadows of her clothing, and introduce warmer reds to her cooler skin tone. Can’t wait to finish (if I ever do) this one!

Tyson Fury Study (Late-Fall 2018)

Wanted to do a face and skin tone study to try and figure out colors. 

Elrich’s Office (Mid-Fall 2018)

Tried to draw environments. Originally wanted it to be colored, realized that was a bit of a too big of a jump for me, so I safely returned to the safety of B&W. 

El (Late-Summer 2018)

Wanted to do something more line-heavy, and had a pop-art feel to it. Came out alright.

And a video process of this one:

Dom (Mid-Summer 2018)

Dom (Mid-Summer 2018)

Dom (Early-Summer)

Some unfinished studies:

On 9/8/2018 at 12:15 PM, El Sexpresso said:

 

Amazing stylization, with absolutely beautiful colors. 

I love it. Great work!

22 hours ago, The Womping Wizard said:

lookit how far you've GROWN AHHH 

congrats on winning the art contest, am a proud mama c':

also get discord ye shite

 

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Fu(ck) man, that means a lot. 

Those pictures bring me waaay back. I'm surprised you still have them! 

Glad you stopped by!!!

Reminded me to start posting some of my traditional drawings. I'm definitely still trying to figure out shading (you'd think I'd know how to do that at this point), and I didn't add in a lot of details, cause a lot of them are mostly just supposed to be reference studies.

Here's a sketch of Rein.

A sketch of El

Some buff demon dude I guess idk (i just wanted to draw abs ok)

Here's Horace

And this topless gun guy in a weird pose

Anyways, that's all folks. 

On 4/21/2018 at 5:24 PM, Allieice said:

amazing, 10/10 beautiful, fantastic, spectacular, gorgeous, love it 

Thank you.

Your art's also fantastic! Love how expressive your character drawings are. I've always had trouble with expressions myself, which is why every character I draw either looks hella peeved or has a neutral facial expression. I'm definitely still working on that!

There were tons of remarkable submissions, so I'm pleasantly surprised that I made it to the top three, much less won.

Thanks for the fantastic competition, I had a ton of fun with it! 

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

I always get excited when I see that something new has been posted on this topic. Well done castaway volleyball, keep up the good work!

Oh **** man, it's been forever.

Thanks so much for still stopping by! I'll try and update this thread more often -- maybe even post some of my traditional pencil sketches, cause I've been doing those a bit more often than digital art. Trying to build up my visual library and sense of anatomy, albeit very slowly! 

21 hours ago, KefKong said:

Whoa, this is some good stuff you made there!
I love the style you're heading for, keep working at it :D

The drawing of Rahj is pretty cool, actually I like it the most. 

I really like the colors I used for that Rahj drawing. If only I was better at facial planes back then! That would've been one solid piece.

I suppose I can always go back and improve it, that'd be pretty fun actually.

Thank you. I'm super glad that you like my stuff.

3 hours ago, Kim said:

sick as **** dude, i love coming back and seeing what you're up to @CowsGoMoo

 

Your artwork is amazing too. The style and color palette of your work is crazy distinct and top notch!  I'm still trying to find my own style.

I'm really glad you like my work! 

This is some seriously amazing stuff.

Love the colors, style, and general atmosphere with all of your drawings.

Also, the line art on the last post is my absolute favourite kind of line art --  messy but very coherent. Reminds me a lil bit of Karl Kopinski.

Keep it up, man!

Going home over Spring Break and leaving my tablet behind tomorrow, meaning idk if I'm going to finish this by the end date of the competition...

So I'm just gonna post my current WIP art submission.

Tried my hand at drawing the first sunny day of Malin's Welcome after the cold snowy season of Snow's Maiden. I like never draw environments, so this was freakin' rough!  

Only the cool old skool kids will remember the big statue in front of Hanseti all the way back in Asulon. Hanseti was honestly the most beautiful region of the map -- until it was like... filled with toxic gasses??? I still don't really know what was up with that. 

Time to update my thread once again! Here's some of my WIPs from newest to oldest. Gonna be honest, this quarter's been giving it to me hard, so I've been pretty unproductive in terms of art output. 

Riverboat Dark Elf Woman (Winter 2018)

Close up to face and B/W values: 

I think the value and general design details are just about done. It's the colors I really need to work on still.

And here's some studies/older work from this year:

Horace (Winter 2018)

Wanted to draw with more clear shapes and hard edges. This was a "quick" study where I basically abused the polygon lasso tool.

Ketas(?)  (Winter 2018)

This was when I had just gotten my new tablet, so I was getting used to it still. Really rough, and with strange saturated colors. Definitely need to tone down on the brightness and saturation in my colors when I'm drawing! 

Well. About time to update this thread again.

Dom (Fall, 2017)

Started this drawing back in... October. Unfinished, because I have a fear of commitment.

Elrich (Fall, 2017)

Wanted to turn one of my sketches into a portrait -- so I did. Still not done, I only added a rough layer of color, so everything's a bit unsaturated.

Will I ever finish it? Well, looking at my past record of finishing things... No. No, I probably will not.

Cowboy Study (Fall 2017)

I actually finished something! And... it was just a movie still study from reference. ****.

Still proud of this one. Finally, I got skin color right! 

And here's a little WIP of something I started working on yesterday.

Seems counterproductive to spend so much time trying to get human skin color right, and then jumping immediately back to weird skin tones, but screw it. Tried to gave him Chinese facial features -- and you'd think a Chinese guy can draw Chinese faces pretty naturally, but I guess I don't draw Asian people often enough. That's something I should work on.

On 9/24/2017 at 11:58 PM, Dante said:

haha nice! keep go!

 

 

nerd, haha just kidding. Thank you!

Another "quick" portrait study I did today:

I tried to record a time lapse for this one, but... I fucked up a billion times, and now the video's corrupted, so that's that. 

Spent probably 4-5 hours on this. This one was a huge struggle! The skin color was very difficult, and color in general was probably my main focus in this study. 

Here's an environmental study I did a while ago:

Mostly tried to focus on colors.

Here's an unfinished duo character drawing:

I really need to work on my line art. :C

Well, here's another update, and another timelapse.

This portrait took me way faster than that black and white one from a long time ago. Almost half the amount of time (8 minute timelapse video vs. 4 minute timelapse video). Pretty happy with how this one came out, though once again, my colors are ever so slightly off and muddy, but I'm trying to get better with that. I only used one layer, and tried to be really rough. I'm going to try and get into physical oil paintings, so this was kinda just me trying to test the water via digital media. 

Yippy, I did it mom!

It was a lot of fun. ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

Well, just did a study in color. Here's the process!

First time using color in like... forever. So I'm kinda proud with how this came out. Very rough and messy, because I tried to be quick (and it was dead week). 

On 3/15/2017 at 2:49 PM, claireanne said:

these are gorgeous!

do you have any pointers for working in black and white in terms of contrast? it's something i've struggled with and you got it down to a science lmao

Thank you!

There's nothing I can say that can't be explained better by other people, so here's also some resources that helped me a ton, and an excuse to fan-girl a metric ton while procrastinating during dead week:

A+ Youtubers

- istebrak: https://www.youtube.com/user/Istebrak 

Infinitely helpful in explaining to me how to think more in 3D, and not in 2D. Talks about values, colors, lighting, blocking stuff in, forms, all kinds of stuff. Does great critiques that are flipping long but well worth your patience.  Can be heavy handed in the way she critiques others, but that's one of the reasons why she's great. Go to her if you want to get better at contrast, form, shapes, whatever, or just general tips on just about anything. 

- Sycra https://www.youtube.com/user/Sycra 

Love this dude. Charming, down-to-earth, and is constantly looking for new ways to improve himself. If you're looking to improve, take a look at his tutorial videos (he has a lot of other stuff on his channel, equally fun to watch, but I'd start from his tutorials first). Tutorials mostly focus on anatomy (which I think is one of his strongest points) and how to simplify it down. Also, he has one of the best videos on how to draw boobs (seriously). Also talks about drawing processes -- how to practice, getting out of your comfort zone, stuff like that, which is also helpful. Go to him if you need help with anatomy, simplifying things down, or how to practice and improve your art. And boobs.

- Proko https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV

Super charming. Also, great breakdown of anatomy, but can be a bit dense with his explanation of muscle groups and stuff. Though, he does simplify things down for you too. Go to him if you need help with anatomy, but want more details about bone, muscle groups, and how things connect and work together in the body. 

- FZD School https://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL/videos

Focus on environmentals, designing for cinema, also has flipping long videos. Go to him if you want pointers on environmental design.

A+ Websites

- Cntrl+Paint https://www.ctrlpaint.com/

Great website for colors, values, and other fundamentals for drawing (which I completely lack!!!). Also talks about how to use photoshop, which is useful also.

- Draw a Box http://drawabox.com/

Great website, though very infrequently updated. Good tips on environmentals, shapes, forms, human figures and stuff.

A+ Books

- Figure Drawing, Design and Invention - Michael Hampton

All-time favourite anatomy book. Haven't finished it though (it's flipping looong), but it's been infinitely helpful in breaking that shizz down! In my opinion, the best resource for getting better at anatomy!

- Human Anatomy for Artists, The Elements of Form - Eliot Goldfinger

Great resource. If you want to really go knee deep in anatomy with all of the muscles and bones and shizz. Good for obsessively getting to know anatomy. That ****'s too dense for me to read really fast, but from what I can tell it is also A+.

This was an overkill, I know, but I've always wanted to do something like this. Hope this was helpful! Sorry about the overt focus on anatomy... that's something I'm desperately trying to get better at atm.

On 2/18/2017 at 6:45 PM, Genevieve-Chan said:

Join her google community if you haven't already it's a blessing!!!

I haven't joined her google community yet, though I'll probably join it sometime in the future, maybe, idk.

Anyways, I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's an update on a few lazily cropped WIPs I've been working on. 

Rein

Ketas

Will I ever finish them? Probably not. But it's the practice and process that matters, I guess. Or at least, that's what I like telling myself.

On 2/12/2017 at 7:46 PM, Genevieve-Chan said:

papabless is that Istabrak yer watching

Yessery. She's been super helpful for drawing faces! 

Here's another drawing. Started with me trying to figure out possible fashionable things people might wear to keep the sun off their face, and then it spiraled completely  out of control. It was supposed to be a "quick" sketch!

First drawing in a while of one of my characters, tried to draw my old character Dom wearing a chaperone (the thingy Roche wears in the Witcher). 

Here's how my portrait drawings of Domelvia has evolved over the years... 

Weird how I began to use more and more color, and then BAM! I'm back to grayscale again... It's mostly 'cause I need to get better at value before I tackle color again.

Here's a portrait study I did, after I realized my portrait drawing skills needed some serious work. Took me fuckin' FOREVER, because I actually used a soft brush on this drawing to build a base (which is something I SHOULD'VE been doing), which was a new and terrifying experience. Once I started using a hard brush  again though, the drawing came together quite well, so I guess that's something I'll continue doing. 

Also, since I take a lot of pleasure in watching other people's process videos, I made one for myself. Mind the watermark though, I was an idiot and didn't test out the damn thing before recording everything. 

Well, here's another art update.

You're probably thinking, "Why Kenny, this looks familiar." and you'll be right, I touched up an old drawing, one that you can reminisce about under the spoiler here:

Also, I drew an anatomy study again. I guess I have to put it under another spoiler, though, because "oh no, cover your eyes timmy, breasts!":

Also, Happy New Year!