ink INK INK

While most of my bigger/more complicated paintings are done digitally, I think what I enjoy most is actually wet mediums. Watercolor and IIIIINKKK

So recently, with an evening where Studying Proved Impossible Due To Overload I decided to spread a little ink on my palette and do some practices from photos to get a little better at controlling ink and using values.

All original size. Love my tiny watercolorpad.

 

 after a while I didn't feel like doing that anymore but had ink left so I just made some spontaneous paintings, using washes instead of sketching first.

 The mask-peddler from Zelda: Majora's Mask snuck in since I recently played it with friends.

I tried to do some proper digital paintings too but it just wasn't meant to be. This was also the evening before  lectures started again, resulted in a quick emotional self-portrait.

...which has pretty much been accurate ever since. Haven't really drawn in a while and the few things I DID draw weren't that good. Maybe I should just add like half an hour of practice a day to my schedule to at least PRODUCE SOMETHING?

Where did it goooooo

Mhhh has been a few months since I last posted something here...

For once there is a reason, and I realized this when I put together a "year summary meme" (the ones where you pick one drawing for each month) last month. I don't really have the feeling I'm going anywhere with my drawings, because what I mostly do is churn out an embarrassing amount of (fan)art over the span of my holidays and then, when university has me in its iron claws again, go down to zero output.

It kind of feels like I'm constantly retracing my steps every time I get into a drawing phase again, and it doesnt help that everything I WANT to draw then is silly fanart I will be kind of ashamed to show later.

So?
I either have to be less embarrassed about my art or try to get a schedule (daily sketches, weekly musings?) which is kind of hard because I never feel like I'm saying anything here that hasn't been said a million times before...

Or I have to blog about school but nobody wants that haha

currently I'm still fighting my battle with ecoline - since I think it is a solution instead of a suspension of pigments I want to see how lightfast it is. There is a test-strip lying on my windowsill but it might take a while until I can make any judgment on this, since well...it's january.

tl;dr I'm a bad blogger but I'm not dead

tw:arachnophobia and also avenger spoilers...

mhh I seem to be having a weird problem with blogger - when I visit a blogger-blog (haha), I don't get the "follow" button anymore, but a "share" button instead. Did I somehow change something in the settings? is this normal now? Am I blind?

oh well.

My next exam is on the following monday, so I didn't draw much more than doodles recently. My biggest motivation for passing the exam is actually being more at ease with my time managment. While it is certainly not true that I have to spend all of my time studying, I tend to feel like that quickly, which results in guilt once I do something for my enjoyment :/
Once that exam is over I will be able to finish up my commissions, open the etsy store and enter a competition. Looking forward to that <3

I drew SOME stuff in the meantime though

a friend needed something like this for a presentation and asked me for help

gross...but perfect to take my mind off things haha

practicing skintones on my original character Pfeifer. Best smile ever.

One thing I DID allow myself is going to the cinema to watch the Avengers. I can only recommend it, because I had a BLAST. It's probably better if you saw some of the movies that led up to this (captain america, hulk, ironman, thor) but I did only see the first Ironman movie and had no trouble with this flick. You might get more enjoyment out of it otherwise, idk.
If you don't like superhero movies, you should probably pass? but even then, I'd say give it a chance! This movie has some amazing chemistry between the characters and Joss Whedon really knows the cinematic rule of ESTABLISHING and PAYOFF something that I found to be lacking ever since Michael Bay started assaulting the movie industry.

EHHHR SORRY FOR RAMBLING I have a lot of feelings about this movie. For now I had only time for doodles, but here you gooo (spoilers ahead)