Holo hellooo~~~ I'm back on my grind again today and I feel like I was pretty productive today despite how bad my anxiety has been lately.
Okay, so I did a glaciox fan art because I missed my dragon vibes and quite honestly, I've only had the mental capacity to do black and white stuff lately. Like my mood has been that terrible on my dy to day ;;-;; and I am really struggling to cope sometimes. Well, it's why I turn to drawing anyway, so that I can actually cope with my moods.
Software: Gopaint
Duration: 2.5 hours
It was definitely another quick sketch but this one came out a lot more detailed than I hoped it would XD and I liked this new brush I discovered. The speedline brush that I optimized to give me those little streaks of white. I was too lazy to do those individually so I went for optimizing a brush and lol it worked.
For the progression:
So for this one, I stared with a gray canvas and my very unidentifiable rough sketch. I have never drawn a dragon in a weird angle before so that kind of tested my capabilities right from the get-go
Then I started blocking my color and my main object and I recently learned that blocking the entire outline in gray or dark colors really help distinguish lines? dunno if it helped in my case but I usually block then make blurry details as I go darker on my palete
This is the mid tone and lol I didn't notice my canvas orientation was tilted, but it usually saves on the same orientation as I was working on it.
And this was my darkest and blacks and I was actually pretty satisfied with the drawing at this point because of the depth. But me being me, I know I needed to highlight and surprisingly, I did 3 layers of highlighting for this one because I was just that fixated with the drawing.
This was the first and second highlight with the very very light gray and the white and I feel like this would have been pretty good as is but I was trying to experiment on layers so I optimized this speedline brush then I applied a perspective blur on it since I did not have the patience to blur or smudge all the lines one by one XD then I used a more solid brush for more light beams and voila!
That is how I ended up with this overpowered glaciox XD and I live for it!
I would say it was almost 3 hours well spent this afternoon in between inking my papers because I wanted to do something for September again.
IDK I feel like depression and anxiety make me more productive because I'm trying to avoid facing my problems by keeping myself distracted.
I did attend my counseling sessions though and I do do the Journaling assignments, I just tend process things differently and that should be okay.
Anyway, that's all from me for today. Tomorrow is another work day, I need to figure out what else to draw in between my Sketchtember attempts and all the activities I want to get back to. IDK I think slack season may have triggered my anxiety too because when I was busy as heck, I didn't even have time to processanythig. But now that I have some time on my hands, I don't even know where I should start figuring myself out again.
Sorry for ranting though but you'll probably see me rant for the next few days because I'm still sorting my thoughts out.
I hope the new week treats everyone kindly!