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pshaw_raven) wrote2019-09-22 03:35 pm
pshaw_raven) wrote2019-09-22 03:35 pm
Moderately Lazy Sunday
It's almost Calendar Autumn! Actually, tomorrow morning, according to Weather Underground, I should be able to open the house for a little while. It wouldn't hurt to air things out for a couple of hours. We're having some mornings in the mid 60s which is a nice mild temp for September, but knowing Florida it'll get hot again.
I ran a treadmill 10k this morning in 66:48. Not really my goal time for that distance, but on race day I have the advantage of adrenaline. So today's time is a good sign that my speed training over the summer is paying off, since I don't think I'd ever done a training run at that pace.
I am also starting to work more diligently again on my comic. One major problem I've identified about myself is that I tend to want to make everything fully rendered and realistic, to the point where a single page can take weeks. This is not optimal. I started going over some manga books we had sitting around, and studying up on Disney sketch blogs. I'm looking to refine my drawing and stylize my characters more. Not cartoonishly stylized, but more than what I tend to do now. I figure that if the mains are somewhat stylized, then I can make incidental characters over-the-top toonish and it won't be as weird. It also is helping to make faces look very different from one another. I don't fall into the anime girl face problem, but exaggerating some of the features is helping develop different character's identities.
This is a sheet I did where I have my two mains interacting in the same space with each other - I also picked a couple of facial expressions/emotions to illustrate and think I did a decent job. I'm used to drawing them separately, but I really need to start putting people together in scenes so you can get a sense of their relative sizes.
Droopy the Crow brought a friend to the yard yesterday. He's been back a few times today, showing up once after deer had cleaned out the ground feeder. When I used to take morning walks and fed the local crows, I had a crumply old camo bucket hat I wore, so I put that on and refilled the feeder. Droopy was in a tree nearby and I wanted to make sure he saw the hat and the food. I figure if crows can communicate enough that stranger crows will attack a human who's hurt a crow in the past, then they'll be able to communicate about a human with a specific kind of "head feathers" who has food.
I ran a treadmill 10k this morning in 66:48. Not really my goal time for that distance, but on race day I have the advantage of adrenaline. So today's time is a good sign that my speed training over the summer is paying off, since I don't think I'd ever done a training run at that pace.
I am also starting to work more diligently again on my comic. One major problem I've identified about myself is that I tend to want to make everything fully rendered and realistic, to the point where a single page can take weeks. This is not optimal. I started going over some manga books we had sitting around, and studying up on Disney sketch blogs. I'm looking to refine my drawing and stylize my characters more. Not cartoonishly stylized, but more than what I tend to do now. I figure that if the mains are somewhat stylized, then I can make incidental characters over-the-top toonish and it won't be as weird. It also is helping to make faces look very different from one another. I don't fall into the anime girl face problem, but exaggerating some of the features is helping develop different character's identities.
This is a sheet I did where I have my two mains interacting in the same space with each other - I also picked a couple of facial expressions/emotions to illustrate and think I did a decent job. I'm used to drawing them separately, but I really need to start putting people together in scenes so you can get a sense of their relative sizes.Droopy the Crow brought a friend to the yard yesterday. He's been back a few times today, showing up once after deer had cleaned out the ground feeder. When I used to take morning walks and fed the local crows, I had a crumply old camo bucket hat I wore, so I put that on and refilled the feeder. Droopy was in a tree nearby and I wanted to make sure he saw the hat and the food. I figure if crows can communicate enough that stranger crows will attack a human who's hurt a crow in the past, then they'll be able to communicate about a human with a specific kind of "head feathers" who has food.
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