2-to-5-minute studies with wax pencil I like how this set of poses had a lot of pushed muscles, I liked exaggerating those angles in my drawings!

Still working on drawing more lightly towards the start of a pose

I'm still unfamiliar with drawing clothed figures, so adding this extra while preserving pose and energy was an exciting challenge!

As I shortened the drawing time, I noticed that I focused less on blending and more on the hard-edged shape design

The group I chose was the officers of the Animation Club I'm in (I'm furthest on the right in the image). Coming back from distance learning, I loved how many little interactions I got to see play out in person whenever the club met up, so I wanted to capture some of those antics here. For the composition, I tried out a method I learned from Andrew Loomis, where I based every figure, either standing or sitting, off of the horizon line. For the standing figures, the horizon line cuts through the hips, while for the sitting figures, it cuts through the middle of the face. I still struggle with lighting indoor scenes, but I enjoy the color contrast caused by the projector.

Here's my attempt for this month's challenge. I studied a picture I took of a pigeon a while ago. Work time was around 50 minutes.

For my submission, I studied a photo of Coconino National Forest. I wanted to highlight the brightness of the rocks in the midground against the darkness at the bottom of the trees, but my first draft felt like it lacked a unifying element. I added a canoe in the second image to provide scale, introduce more contrast, and convey a sense of movement through the piece.

Hi! Here's my comic submission for the storytelling challenge. The short scene will hopefully speak for itself, but here's a brief overview of the backdrop I had in mind:  In early Christian Poland the tension between the old pagan faith and Christianity is mounting and feelings are running high not only between people but also between the spirits of old, folk saints and devils. A new dawn is rising, a war is afoot and those who want to take part the least will come to suffer the most. And that's that :) BTW, the title, "Zorza", means "aurora". Cheers!

(2 of 2) One thing I enjoyed doing this challenge was refining my art pipeline to get these drawings done more quickly. Not only did I have to streamline how I stylized the characters, shading, and environments, but I also had to change the order and the process with which I went about making the artwork. This challenge helped me unlock a new skill, in a sense.

(1 of 2) For my submission, I went back to Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. The game's story is about Nathan Drake, a witty treasure-hunter, searching for the lost pirate city of Libertalia with his brother Sam. It was an interesting challenge to adapt both cutscenes and gameplay moments into cinematic compositions. I experimented quite a bit with the color in these drawings, more than I ever have before.