Big drawing drop (Patreon)

Well I don't know exactly how this happened but I've been making a lot of things this month. I swear, ever since playing around with line stabilization I'm just kinda enamored with all the lines that can come out of these programs I'm using. 😂

I think my work is diverging into two intensely different directions right at this moment though, I keep finding these beautiful vintage anime/manga drawings that are just impossibly soft, smooth, refined and product-like and meanwhile I am also starting on the Gibson Girl comic (Libby the Librarian will come after that i promise) that will probably see me deliberately not using stabilization, tons of lines, hatching and rough textures.

I guess this is just the nature of creative fascinations, they don't always coalesce in the exact same moment and that's actually okay. They'll find an excuse to come out eventually for the right project.

I don't know if the connection is apparent to in these drawings but these first three I think of being directly tied to the PVC anime figurine studies.  Especially the fingering one I've made the hero image here. One thing I love about those models is the way they have this warmth in faces created by first drawing the features in a warm, burnt sienna color with a colder dark black or brown lineart color on top. It makes them feel like they're glowing from within and it's fantastic.

Also I recently saw a photo of a life size anime figure that seemed hideous to me (no offense intended to the artist making it, it's got incredible craftsmanship, but I think there's something very appealing about the over-rounded forms of a miniature. I don't know if it's because they feel subconsciously precious and soft because of the scale and the photo lens is mimicking the way our eyes focus on tiny precious things, but some of the thinness to the below figure's features makes it much less appealing to me at it's more human scale.

Anyways, long story short, I've started trying to put highlights in the kinds of places where a PVC model would have softer intersections due to the size and the casting process and overheating my lines in places where they intersect like between lines or at the corners of lips and eyes.

I think there is something inescapably beautiful about a big, soft brush drawing a line, especially when there are no stray lines. Makes everything feel plush and fuzzy and cozy.

That's enough rambling thoughts for a Monday. Let me know your thoughts below, am I crazy to be focusing on these minute things? Do you enjoy these ramblings? Might it be worth putting them in a more condensed format? I keep thinking about some of my favorite art youtubers who talk through their process and while I don't know if I have a voice for radio, I don love talking about these things and maybe others would like to listen.

Hope you all have a great start to your week!

<3

Winton