657 Articles 0 Followers
16 Nov 2020 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
I have been practicing elements, and doing careful studies of specific body parts and slavishly copying photos, etc, and it is probably time for me to start thinking more about combining those elements into images with a little more story. With that...
16 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments abisai
RONA Is an Indonesian word that means "hue" or "radiant" in English. The word rona is often used to describe the radiance produced by an object. In addition, rona are also often used to give a perception of the beauty that radiates from a person,...
12 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Last post I had drawn a man sleeping on top of a yellow duvet, and I was not entirely satisfied with the way the fabric looked. Or, more specifically, I was not able to capture all of the wrinkles and folding in the duvet as well as I hoped, and in m...
10 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
No hands in this piece, because I am a little sick of them. Just some relaxation and a cozy quilt. I need to work more on how to draw fabric. When I was in college, my artist friends SWORE by fabric, because it was apparently so easy to draw, and th...
10 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments abisai
KAREP - abisai KAREP Is a word in Javanese which can be interpreted as "desire" or "lust". This illustration exercise I did is based on a photo I (accidentally) saw on a friend's mobile device. I don't know who is the woman in this picture, but I t...
2 Nov 2020 1 minute read 5 comments DoctorPlatypus
I've been struggling with the hands on my figures all through October, so I promised myself I would get in a lot of practice drawing hands once Inktober had ended. Here are three hand poses I drew today, on the way to learning to draw hands more reli...
2 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments abisai
SALIN - abisai SALIN A Javanese word for "changing clothes". This is my weekly illustration practice. Nothing much to say about this one since this was just what I like to draw. So anyways, I really hope this one is enjoyable. Stay safe, and...
1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
In an intermediate revision, not shown, I added detail to the foreground and background. In this revision, I softened some of those details and improved others, including adding a ridge to the sandy bottom. I also removed a cave I had added to the mi...
1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
In this revision, I softened the shading on the left foot and lower leg. Very simple, very small, but I think it's made a substantial difference. Probably just to my eye, I imagine, but anyhow. When I looked at the earlier version, my eye was always...
1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I spent some time this morning looking over the drawings I did for Inktober this year, and in a few cases I saw things I could fix without starting over, things that I thought might make a real difference, so I went back in with the eraser and pencil...
