
More Goldman studies. Not sure what went wrong with that bottom foot - it's too wide.
-the Centaur
Words, Art & Science by Anthony Francis

More Goldman studies. Not sure what went wrong with that bottom foot - it's too wide.
-the Centaur

This small portable notebook has been working very well for me. I've augmented that with a small book of art examples (hands and feet, Goldman, right now) and a roll of the kinds of pens and pencils I use most:

The whole setup fits nicely in my bookbag, so there's no real excuse not to draw every day.

Onward!
-the Centaur
Pictured: Wow, those took a long time to upload, even after I shrank them. I've had this happen before, where the network just decides it doesn't like certain images. It mostly happens at coffeeshops. I wonder why? Anyway, they uploaded now, so I'll stop talking. Enjoy,

More studies from Goldman. Something went askew with the width of that leg there.
-the Centaur

Another Goldman study.
-the Centaur

Now this is what happens to yesterday's idea if you take just a little time to draw pencil roughs first.
Onwards!
-the CEntaur

As it says on the tin. So many hours today, so little time.
-the Centaur

Super quick sketch as it is late and I am tired, and no post-processing as my computer is applying updates.
Don't break the streak, hit send.
-the Centaur

So, another, "super quick sketch as it's late and I'm tired but I don't want to break the streak".

Nowhere near as good as the original, but I think I learned something about its composition, so yay me, I guess?
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur

A Passenghast, or Ghost Walker, an alien from a series of stories I am working on.
-the Centaur

Cat, when it's raining: "Let me out! Let me out! But not this door, it's wet. Let's try another door. And another! Or another! I gotta get out! Just hold the door open until the rain stops!"
Also cat, when it is nice and sunny: "Who cares about going outside? Ima gonna havva nap."
-the Centaur
Pictured: the cat-shaped void, Loki, actually using his void-colored cat tree for once. Image taken in infrared bands and color enhanced by NASA to show surface detail.

Drawn from an image, not a screensaver, so I had more time; but no construction lines, so the face ended up kind of kwonkeldy. I believe that construction lines help close the loop; but the exercise here was to carefully pay attention to the hair shapes to see how it flowed. For that purpose, it came out okay.

Definitely room for improvement on my end!
-the Centaur

I had a somewhat ruined piece of paper, not a lot of time, and there was an image of Belldandy from Ah My Goddess on my computer's screen saver, so I decided to draw that. Unfortunately, the screen saver kept changing, and even though there were several pictures of characters from the franchise, I couldn't quite keep the image straight.
Ah well, it's late, I'm tired, scan and send - keep drawing daily, no matter what.
Don't break the streak.
-the Centaur

A barista noticed my Green Lantern ring, and gave me a Green Lantern mocha. :-D

-the Centaur

Another hand, after Goldman. I thought I was doing quite well until I tried to close the loop on the hand, and realized I'd messed up the spacing, making the hand too wide, which I partially fixed; but that in turn messed up the webbing between the hand and the finger - leading to that dark line I could not fix.
Oh well, next time. Drawing every day.
-the Centaur

More Goldman studies. Like an AI, I kept drawing this foot with six toes, not quite sure why. Mostly fixed it, but it could have been better, if only I had learned to count.
-the Centaur

More studies from the Goldman book.
-the Centaur

We have a black cat, so we got a black cat condo (just barely visible to the left). But of course, our cat-shaped void is a cat, and so prefers the blue couch, where its voluminous shedded fur is easily visible. My wife caught him in the act, so, enjoy this picture of our cat-shaped void, doing cat-styled things.
-the Centaur
Pictured: Loki on our couch. Interestingly, this picture was taken at an angle, so I rotated it, then used Adobe Photoshop's generative fill to recover the outer edge of the picture. The very outer edge is ... mostly right. Some weirdness is visible in the carpet patterns on the lower left, the brick pattern on the upper left, and whatever it is on the table on the right isn't there in reality. Otherwise, not a terrible job.

Xiao Dreamweaver from f@nu fiku again, this time drawn with a little more breathing room.
-the Centaur

busy putting out a fire. this is what you get. ciao, xiao.