Thanqol Learns 2 Draw: Every Step Is The First

[SiuiS]

Day 388: Morning

So sick. You're lucky you get this much. I can barely type. This is what willpower looks like.

Some morning Stephanie. Do not get that girl up before 4pm.

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Time: 30 minutes
Music: Super Biyatch

Hoods are funny things. Despite what television and video games tell you, they aren't bad ass. They are either A) useless as hoods, and are therefore like poorly tailored Dracula cape toppers, or B) useless as combat clothing because they don't actually turn with your head like that, giving you a roughly 30• cone of vision and making your Rogue girlfriend hot and bothered (dat sneak attack~ <3)

Well done, seriously noteworthy, but that hood. It does not obey fabric laws.
ARREST IT!

"Why wouldn't you trust me? Do tell. I'm deadly curious."

Mostly it's that emphasis.
The sexy, sexy emphasis.

[the_druid_droid]

"Why wouldn't you trust me? Do tell. I'm deadly curious."

I don't trust myself. Don't take it personally.

Also, your iron levels are looking a little high; consider a chelator.

*stores signature for future reference*

[Thanqol]

Day 403: The Slowest Fast Guy

Forums entered an 8-hour downtime which prevented me from uploading this on time. It still happened on the relevant day so the challenge goes unbroken, but man it bugged me to end a day without posting in this thread.

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[Thanqol]

Day 404: Update Not Found

I've been feeling so good about my sketching recently.

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Time: 20m
Music: Spectrum

[Thanqol]

Day 405: A Little Additional Despair

Hum.

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Time: 35 mins
Music: Spectrum

[Domochevsky]

Day 405: A Little Additional Despair
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Rappin' like a pro and pretty good at the turntables too, eh?

[Story Time]

Time: 35 mins
Music: Spectrum

"...hide where love can save us." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫

[Thanqol]

Rappin' like a pro and pretty good at the turntables too, eh?

Spider Jeruselum turns the tables.

"...hide where love can save us." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫

It's a lovely song.

Day 406: The Walk

Tried some things.

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Time: 2 hours
Music: Riders On The Storm

[the_druid_droid]

Day 406: The Walk

Tried some things.

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Time: 2 hours
Music: Riders On The Storm

You know it's summertime around here when the funnel clouds start swirling.

[Thanqol]

Day 407: Credit Distribution Network

Well, that was certainly a session of a game. Mr. Keynes, my character had a max HP of 7. The enemy was a Dark Eldar Lord with 90HP, armed to the teeth with ultra-tech weaponry and backup goons.

But there was one important difference between us.

He wasn't wearing his gas mask.

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Time: 45 mins
Music: Do You Believe In Magic?

[Abscondcrow]

Hello Thanqol! I don't have any advice for you, as honestly I'm more terrible right now, than you were when you started! So I'll just say this, the progress you've made in one year is unbelievable, and has inspired me to do something similar. I'm not sure if I'll end up uploading the images onto this forum, but perhaps I will.
So anyway, KEEP IT COMING!!

[Thanqol]

Hello Thanqol! I don't have any advice for you, as honestly I'm more terrible right now, than you were when you started! So I'll just say this, the progress you've made in one year is unbelievable, and has inspired me to do something similar. I'm not sure if I'll end up uploading the images onto this forum, but perhaps I will.
So anyway, KEEP IT COMING!!

WILL DO!

Day 408: Execution Before Idea

Decided to a custom TF2 lineup as an advanced challenge. Realised after an hour I only had five character ideas on hand, making the process rather mad.

There's more to this sketch than is linked below but this is the most finished part; this is gonna take a real while. I'm aware of the incomplete-ness of the image and the leg problem. But a large scale piece like this was really relaxing to set my mind against.

I'm not sure who I'm going to slot into each role. Seems like the sort of thing you'd normally work out in advance. This has also made me realise my games run to games played in is still really, really bad. So far I've got:

Scout - Stephanie
Soldier - Charger
Pyro

Demoman
Heavy - Vorel
Engineer

Medic - Jayden
Sniper
Spy - Metal Mask

Time: 1 hour so far
Music: Shelter

[Tectonic Robot]

Are you taking suggestions for characters to fill up the slots? Because I really love tricking getting artists to draw any of my OCs.

[Thanqol]

Are you taking suggestions for characters to fill up the slots? Because I really love tricking getting artists to draw any of my OCs.

For a lineup like this it'd be weird for me to use someone else's characters, I think. Or at least characters I haven't directly gamed alongside.

Day 409: Watch Your Flank

I love Lyra. Best backgrone pone.

Anarion's contest prize - I'm a man of my worrrrrd. Incomplete speedpaint, barely past flats. Finding reference photos of that angle is virtually impossible so this is almost pure compositioning

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Time: 1 hour
Music: Twist & Clank, Watch your Flank!

[Thanqol]

Day 410: Writing Bug

I got the writing bug. I made an illustration. It's sucked all my non-writing things into it's deadly mandibles. (Owe Gunnerkriegg Court directly for the concept)

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Time: 20 mins
Music: Bones and Skin

[Thanqol]

Day 411: Vagarities

There was a topic here somewhere, right?

Writing bug continues.

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Time: 20 mins
Music: Labyrinth

[Thanqol]

Day 412: Happy Fourth of July

The Queen remembers those who have crossed her.

Just saying.

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Time: A few hours
Music: The Sole Regret

[Thanqol]

Day 413: Hippocratic Suggestion

The past few days have been exhausting. Sigh.

The positives is that I'm still feeling increasingly confident with sketching. The downside is that I haven't quite worked out the next stage of my colouring and painting. I thought time would free up after test week but it hasn't yet due to a series of ongoing Things...

Oh well. The thing comes and goes. I know I'll find time to step it up before too long.

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Time: 40 minutes of sketching
Music: Dear Sister

[Thanqol]

Day 414: Grand Theft Linework

Stolen shamelessly from the Prince.

Learned some really neat stuff with this. Not a smashing success, but nice and educational.

Anyone else got some decent linework I can steal?

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Time: 1.5 hours
Music: Discord Jazz

[PrinceAquilaDei]

Yes, good.

Loving the inverted colours.

I'm a bit surprised you simplified the hair though since you expressed approval of it earlier.

[Thanqol]

Yes, good.

Loving the inverted colours.

I'm a bit surprised you simplified the hair though since you expressed approval of it earlier.

I've got a fantastic new hair brush in SAI which, while wonderful, I have not yet mastered.

[Domochevsky]

Stealing linework, eh? Show me your moves.

[Thanqol]

Stealing linework, eh? Show me your moves.

Day 415: Busting Out The Moves

I sincerely apologise for the pun.

Not quite finished and not nearly perfect but I played around with a few things to try and find a colour style that fit the lineart.

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Time: 1 hour
Music: One Of A Kind

[Zorg]

A fully loaded Glock 17 (a rather light weapon) weighs in at around a kilo, so would not be teriibly comfortable to hold in one's mouth. Probably should be rotated counter-clockwise a little too.

Unless her shirt is designed with an off centre placket she'd be buttoning it slightly to the right of frame. There's some odd body construction/perspective issues going on around her left collar bone - looks to me like the defining line of her breast shouldn't meet the line of her shirt collar but turn up around where the shading is on her left bicep.
And the base of her neck is shaded wrong, so her skin bleeds over to where there should be the inside of her collar (or she's really working her trapezius' ).

That said you're expressions and faces in general, are looking great lately (day 405 was awesome) as have the poses and variety of designs so, yeah, high fives all round for that

[Thanqol]

A fully loaded Glock 17 (a rather light weapon) weighs in at around a kilo, so would not be teriibly comfortable to hold in one's mouth. Probably should be rotated counter-clockwise a little too.

Unless her shirt is designed with an off centre placket she'd be buttoning it slightly to the right of frame. There's some odd body construction/perspective issues going on around her left collar bone - looks to me like the defining line of her breast shouldn't meet the line of her shirt collar but turn up around where the shading is on her left bicep.
And the base of her neck is shaded wrong, so her skin bleeds over to where there should be the inside of her collar (or she's really working her trapezius' ).

I take no responsibility for the composition and linework, I just coloured the thang!

Right about the neck thing, derp.

That said you're expressions and faces in general, are looking great lately (day 405 was awesome) as have the poses and variety of designs so, yeah, high fives all round for that

Excellent, that's great to hear!

[Domochevsky]

I take no responsibility for the composition and linework, I just coloured the thang!
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You also modified the linework during coloring it in various more or less subtle ways. No wiggling out of that, bucko.

[Thanqol]

You also modified the linework during coloring it in various more or less subtle ways. No wiggling out of that, bucko.

There's minor adjustments and there's compositional redesign. And the entire point of doing this is to wriggle out of responsibility.

Day 416: WIPS

Stole new linework, this time off SiuiS. Intended to be an experiment in three tone shading, if I get back around to it. Kind of turned into a bit of a time sink.

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Time: 1.5 hours
Music: Rainmaker

[Thanqol]

Day 417: Trustworthy McLegitimate

I think we should trust him.

Speed inking; just trying to get something that looked decent without spending a hobjillion hours at it. For that purpose, I succeeded.

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Time: 45 minutes
Music: Professor Fate's Theme

[smuchmuch]

for something done in less than an hour, I'd say it's very good.
(I think the arm might a tidbit too long, given the perspective) (Nope probably just an impression.)
Nice work on the hand.

[Thanqol]

for something done in less than an hour, I'd say it's very good.
(I think the arm might a tidbit too long, given the perspective) (Nope probably just an impression.)
Nice work on the hand.

Thank you.

417a: So legit

Quick sketch of the actual Trustworthy McLegitimate

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