I finally jumped over my hurdle and tried out some expression sketches, and I had a lot of fun! I think I improved massively over the course of the two hours I was playing around, and I got some things down. I need to be careful about pug-ifying people and making their eyes bulge away from their faces.

Time lapse under the cut.

I’ve adjusted how I do my LoA practice. I do my ten 30 second sketches on one or two layers, then I’ll add a new layer for the five 1 minute sketches, a new layer for the two 5 minute sketches, and finally a layer for the 10 minute sketch and the final line art for that 10 minute sketch. It’s. Shaky. I’m still learning and I can still see improvement (I’m getting a bit faster, so I can add additional details in the 10/25 minute sketches that I didn’t think of on previous practice runs), but it feels like a long road.

I tried to do some expression drawing, which will show on one of the time lapses, and I was overwhelmed almost immediately. I’m not sure if it’s just me being insecure or my process with trying to draw faces/expressions, but I would barely draw the outline of the head before the image switched to a new expression, and I got through maybe 6 expressions before I went back to figure drawing. I asked some people I know about their process with expressions since I wasn’t sure if it was me or the process, and they kinda reminded me that I’m still new to the process and should take my time for things like this, and also to not limit myself purely to figure and expression drawing studies. It was probably something I needed to hear, and while I don’t think I’m pushing myself too much with the emphasis on figure studies, I am going to try to leave my comfort/practice zone and. Create. I want to make portraits, and comics, and fanart, and original art, and I’ve been so paranoid and clinging to the idea of doing them “right” that I haven’t done them at all. I’m going to still do my daily figure drawing practice, but I’m also going to push myself to do more “fun” art. More sketchy comics that I can create now and improve upon later, characters that don’t have proper proportion now, but will once I learn more. It helped being told to slow down and just. Do.

Time lapses under the cut.

I’ve started using more layers depending on the practice length, and need to find a less annoying way to upload all the layers with procreate. Just a lil thing.

But I did three practices on LoA on Saturday.

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No still since I switched to a new layer and had to cut things short due to a minor emergency. But here’s the time lapse. Sideways. Oops.

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Time lapse under the cut.

Day 2 of practice! I’m using Line of Action’s figure drawing practice for 30 minutes each day, then I’m just drawing or doodling the rest of the day. I like the process, and while I’m terrible at connecting the dots after doing the action lines, I’ll figure it out someday.

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Hi! If you’re here, you probably know me. If you don’t know me, I’m Sems! I do a lot of streaming, gaming, crochet, and (now) art. This is going to be a collection of my art practice and projects over time, so I can track where I started and where I’m going. There will be a lot of sketches, color practice, complete pieces, and general posts about tools I use and how I feel. Really, it’s anything art related that I feel like sharing.

I’m working on an iPad Mini with a paperfeel cover and an Apple Pencil Pro, and I’m working inside Procreate for now. I have licenses for CSP, but I don’t know if it will transfer over from my Surface Pro 6 or if I’ll need to get a new mac-specific license. It’s not that big a deal, as I’m enjoying Procreate immensely.

This site doesn’t have any sort of subscription or newsletter associated with it, and while comments are enabled, I’m back and forth on whether I want them to remain. This is a hobby that I love and am finally committing to improving and practicing, and I want to do it in a fun space with no negativity.

I’m always open to suggestions and advice, and positive feedback, so feel free to share if you have any of that 🥰

For now, thank you for your time and I hope you will appreciate my new journey into art.

Time lapse under the cut.