Robin Lehner, my favorite hockey player and a huge inspiration in my life.
Hello! I come from another site that is much more in-depth with their forums. One area they have that I wish they had here is an art chatter section, not for selling but for general art-related conversation. My favorite thread in there was the "what did you draw today" thread. It was fun seeing other people's daily drawings and a fun way to try and motivate myself to draw at least something every day. On Toyhouse, while it's art based, sometimes you might want to draw something other than an OC you have on site but still post it somewhere. Sometimes you want to share that silly scribbly thing you spent 4 hours on but not on DA or Instagram (or whatver you post on). So yeah, here's a place to drop your daily doodles!
-Art doesn't have to be fully finished. WIPs and sketches are totally cool to share!
-There doesn't need to be conversation if people don't want it. Feel free to just post your art of the day and run. Conversely, if you want to chatter it's more than welcome, especially if you want to discuss anything relevant to the drawing process :)
I'll make this into post pretty someday
It's a WIP! It's not much, but it'll be my first serious attempt at lineless rendering in a couple of years. This is also the first time in a while that I've produced such a serious rough sketch. I'm rather proud of it (not sure if I'll finish today, though)
I finished shading a drawing of Sparks! He is not a morning person (I feel ya buddy).
Used it as more style testing/refining: tried a new brush, made my highlights softer and forgot how I shade clothing. Continuing to figure out how many lines are unnecessary and trying to carry a drawing more on form. Was also good to get a chance to practice my hair shading technique on lighter hair. It did end up being a bit more involved since with medium/darker tones I can generally get away with 2 shading layers but I'm happy with the result. I was trying to keep value in mind whilst keeping it fairly subtle.
Tbh I could of done better on the sleeve, I re-drew and re-shaded it so many times I just want it done now. I have a half decent working knowledge of how clothing folds work now but I naturally tend to over-complicate things so simplifying is hard for me and could not get simplified folds to look right.
some doodles of NPCs i like! i kinda wanna offer them as commission options but i'm not sure if i like the style enough yet
