Thanqol Learns 2 Draw: Every Step Is The First

[SiuiS]

Yeah yeah, was based off a Panty-Stocking cartoony style, know it's bad should stop.

I only biting it up because that and making everything faceted are becoming your Style. They are all over the place if you look and from experience that's the kind of thing you really don't want your casual styling to slide to.

All I see are the errors! D=

know that feel!

Really neat though. I am presuming a Beak-like protrusion angled down demurely?

[Thanqol]

I would agree. Something interesting seems to have clicked.

Och aye.

I only biting it up because that and making everything faceted are becoming your Style. They are all over the place if you look and from experience that's the kind of thing you really don't want your casual styling to slide to.

Point, will reflect. What do you mean by 'everything faceted?'

know that feel!

Really neat though. I am presuming a Beak-like protrusion angled down demurely?

Yeah.

Day 635: Different Gazes

Aw yeah, I don't think this is too disagreeable a look. Hey there Athi.

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Time: +1.5 hours
Music: Rejected

[SiuiS]

Point, will reflect. What do you mean by 'everything faceted?'

A lot of your sketchwork is very rectangular, and it seems like you're aware on some level so to prevent everything from being a square, you sort of make them all rhomboids and octagons, ans ennagons, and such. There are a lot of corners on things that wouldn't have corners, like hands and torsos and things. An after effect of you blocking things for sketching (in the sense of building blocks, not obstructions. Couldn't make that sentence unawkward).

Your finished pieces have not begun to show too much of the effect, except in the hair (but anime hair is supposed to do that, so....) but it is... I dunno, I suppose it's a quality of resonance you're adding to all your work? I'll give it more time and thought and observation, make sure it's not incremental bias of memory on my part.

[Thanqol]

A lot of your sketchwork is very rectangular, and it seems like you're aware on some level so to prevent everything from being a square, you sort of make them all rhomboids and octagons, ans ennagons, and such. There are a lot of corners on things that wouldn't have corners, like hands and torsos and things. An after effect of you blocking things for sketching (in the sense of building blocks, not obstructions. Couldn't make that sentence unawkward).

Your finished pieces have not begun to show too much of the effect, except in the hair (but anime hair is supposed to do that, so....) but it is... I dunno, I suppose it's a quality of resonance you're adding to all your work? I'll give it more time and thought and observation, make sure it's not incremental bias of memory on my part.

Not following clearly?

Day 636: Back To The Wheel

Tired, but starting to look back at Domo's challenges.

Links

Time: 25m
Music: Thunderstruck

[Thanqol]

Day 637: fight

path of least resistance

links

time: enough
music: only

[Maxtronaut]

Day 637: fight

path of least resistance

links

time: enough
music: only

Metal Mask Vs... Metal Mask? How the hay did this happen?

Oh, good drawing by the way.

[Thanqol]

Metal Mask Vs... Metal Mask? How the hay did this happen?

Mask has half a dozen contradictory backstories, one of which is that the Mask is an evil artifact independent of the pony. The flame-haired pony sometimes seen wearing it is sometimes called Sundancer.

Oh, good drawing by the way.

Thanks

Day 638: wake

Charger, you have bed mane.
"Perfect"

Did about a dozen quick sketches like this, just abstract stuff like wings and shoulders and stuff. Will do something cool tomorrow.

Links

Time: ~30m
Music: Lil'Pip

EDIT: I did draw a pretty legendary trollface on a pizza box at work when a customer asked for a 'smiley face' on their box.

[the_druid_droid]

Mask has half a dozen contradictory backstories, one of which is that the Mask is an evil artifact independent of the pony. The flame-haired pony sometimes seen wearing it is sometimes called Sundancer.



Thanks

Day 638: wake

Charger, you have bed mane.
"Perfect"

Did about a dozen quick sketches like this, just abstract stuff like wings and shoulders and stuff. Will do something cool tomorrow.

Links

Time: ~30m
Music: Lil'Pip

EDIT: I did draw a pretty legendary trollface on a pizza box at work when a customer asked for a 'smiley face' on their box.

Fun fact: I interpreted "wake" as the funeral tradition, so I was briefly very confused.

[Thanqol]

Day 639: Grandkids

Been wanting to use this colour pallette for ages. Need to work out tools that work better with it though.

Mr. Grandkids.



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Time: 1 hour
Music: On My Mind

[Thanqol]

Day 640: Doctorbs

I'll get to all those things I've promised to do soon, I swear.

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Two

[Thanqol]

Day 641: Monochromatic

So, the challenges. This has basically turned into a big B&W experimental thing. Learned at least two interesting things so far. Finished product will probably be a mess but that's hardly the point.

Links

Time: 30m
Music: Allons-y

[Thanqol]

Day 642: Sepiachromatic

Combined some long running trends into a single experiment. Not a particularly promising line so far, may just drop it.

Links

Time: 45m
Music: Heartbreaker

[Domochevsky]

Did somebody take your rulers away or something?

[Thanqol]

Did somebody take your rulers away or something?

Was just eyeballing it because I was only really interested in seeing if the colours worked out.

[Thanqol]

Day 643: SPEHELCHNHEHEE MAHRBGINES

Torchlight happened.

Actually liking this, will probably finish it.

Links

Time: 25 mins
Music: This Distance

[Thanqol]

Day 644: How Are You?

Pencils. Lookin' good.

Links

Time: 1 hour
Music: Hello, How Are You?

[Thanqol]

Day 645: Ruining Something

So I ruined my picture and my plan for my picture to try something new and see where it lead.

So far it's not that bad.

Links

Time: 1.5 hours
Music: Harvest of Dreams

[Thanqol]

Day 646: Into The Grey

I'ma stick a fork in this and call it done.

Good fun, I learned a lot.

Links

Time: 1 hour
Music: Tribute

[Thanqol]

Day 647: Terror Incognito

This session of Exalted:
- We sent the Kukla and the Defence Grid to have a death match. Defence grid won.
- The Unconquered Sun died. I fought off a necromantic army to ensure he could die in peace.
- We were unexpectedly(!) betrayed(!!) by the guy we knew was Chosen of the Ebon Dragon, the Archgenitor of Lies.
- We killed Tepet Ejava, who was also Chosen by the Dragon.
- We nominated the God of our conquering empire as the Unconquered Sun's successor.
- My past life took over and instructed our human-shaped Defence Grid terminal to do something.

Good day!

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[Elemental]

He's not particularly Unconquered if was able to die...

[Thanqol]

He's not particularly Unconquered if was able to die...

He chose to die. He told us (paraphrased), "I'ma go kill myself via necromancer general. When I'm dead, the Ebon Dragon is gonna think he's invincible and step through into creation. When that happens I need you to whack him for me. We cool? Cool. Oh, also it's on you to pick my successor. Bye."

[Elemental]

He chose to die. He told us (paraphrased), "I'ma go kill myself via necromancer general. When I'm dead, the Ebon Dragon is gonna think he's invincible and step through into creation. When that happens I need you to whack him for me. We cool? Cool. Oh, also it's on you to pick my successor. Bye."

Oh. That makes sense. Though it shows a lack of planning to not already have a chosen successor.

[Thanqol]

Oh. That makes sense. Though it shows a lack of planning to not already have a chosen successor.

Heaven, at the time, had a First Age Eclipse in it who was absolutely DESTROYING the place with Essence 9 Bureaucracy charms. Anything the Sun did as the ruler of Heaven would have done more harm than good.

Now he's dead, the social unit of Heaven has broken down and all those Bureaucracy charms are attached to a dead thing. We have to remake the entire thing from scratch, and he decided to trust us to do that.

[Elemental]

Heaven, at the time, had a First Age Eclipse in it who was absolutely DESTROYING the place with Essence 9 Bureaucracy charms. Anything the Sun did as the ruler of Heaven would have done more harm than good.

Now he's dead, the social unit of Heaven has broken down and all those Bureaucracy charms are attached to a dead thing. We have to remake the entire thing from scratch, and he decided to trust us to do that.

Well that was a completely inefficient bureaucracy then.

I have no idea what any of that means... Except magic breaking because the victim was dead.
Good luck with rebuilding everything...

[Domochevsky]

There's also this little detail of the Unconquered Sun being unkillable, what with his virtues being uncompromised and such. But hey, as long as the session was fun...

[Thanqol]

There's also this little detail of the Unconquered Sun being unkillable, what with his virtues being uncompromised and such. But hey, as long as the session was fun...

When the Unconquered Sun sets out to kill himself, how the hell do you think he could fail?

[Thanqol]

Day 648: Skyward

I am determined to figure out sepia tones if it kills me.

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Time: 45 mins
Music: Haunted

[Thanqol]

Day 649: that looks uncomfortable

Tried and failed at Domo's perspective challenge. Will take another run at that later.

Instead have Lafyette in an uncomfortable and mildly suggestive position.

Links

Time: 35m
Music: Auriel's Ascension

[Elemental]

For a moment there, I thought you meant the Marquis de Lafayette and I was very confused. But then I remembered he wasn't the only person in the world with that name.

Fun fact for all you Americans: The Marquis de Lafayette and his wife both had the same first name; Marie.

[Thanqol]

Day 650: Perpetual Sketching

Just spent an entire afternoon doing sketches. I should do more like this.

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Time: Lots
Music: Faster