ART/VIDEO – Drawing Batgirl Part 8: Fixing What’s Not Working

Sometimes you need another pair of eyes to point out things in your drawings that you may need to address.  This is what happened to this drawing.

I showed the drawing to a friend of my at work, he then pointed out some thing that I should fix.  The decision was to either acknowledge the mistakes and move on or to go back in and fix the issues.

Obviously I chose the later.  Mostly because I thought it would be a good learning moment to make a video out of.

Well, it became much more than that.  As you watch the video, you’ll see me mess up.  You’ll see me struggle.  You’ll see me look for solutions, and fail to find them over and over until I finally get it all to work out.

This is a very honest look at the struggle that drawing can be, even for someone with a lot of years under his belt.

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VIDEO/ART – Drawing Batgirl Part 7: False Finish

How do you know when you’re done with a drawing?  For me, most of the time, it’s when I’m tired of working on the darn thing.

Also, sometimes I think I’m done when I don’t know what else to do with it.  In the case of this drawing, that’s where I was.

In this video I finish the drawing.  At least, I thought I’d finished but this is not the last video.  There’s one more video.  However, you’ll see in this video what it looks like to finally reach what I thought was the end.

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ART/VIDEOS – Batgirl Drawing Part 6: Making Adjustments

Sometimes, a drawing can take a while to get right.  Especially once you’re getting nearer to finishing.  You start to see all the little things you need to take care of that you missed the first time through.

In this video I start making adjustments.  Also, I finally get around to fixing the hair that’s been bothering me for so long.

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ART/VIDEO – Drawing Batgirl Part 5: Adding Light

Once you have a base foundation of color, it’s time to add some light.

Usually I do this in the tonal pass.  For this Batgirl drawing, I decided to do things a bit differently and added the light now.

In the last video, you same me mess things up.  This time around I get it right.

What does it take to make a final drawing look good?  A lot of work.

The sped up videos really don’t do the time justice.

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ART/VIDEOS – Drawing Batgirl: Part 4

Once you have a tonal study of what you want your drawing to look like, how do you turn that into color?

There’s a lot of different ways to do this digitally.  It this video, I show you how I go about doing this.

Later in the video, I also show you how I totally mess things up when adding a layer of light.  It’s the only part of the video series that I intentionally speed up, simply because I don’t want to waste your time, but I think it’s important to point it out and show you why I wasn’t working.

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ART/VIDEO -Every Drawing Has a Story.  Drawing Batgirl: Part 3

There are two ways of adding tone to a drawing or painting: going straight to color (in it various methods), or the “grisaille” method.  Most of us tend to want to learn the straight to color first.  However, it may be best to learn the grisaille method first.

What is the grisaille method?  Well, you first do a grey or grisaille version of the values you’re going to use and then you tint the paint with a color layer.  That way you’re colors have the values you want.

In this video you’ll see me do just that. I create a black and white version of the values I’m going to use, so that when I add color, the values are working.

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ART/VIDEOS – Drawing Batgirl: Part 2

Continuing my video series of creating a Batgirl drawing from start to finish, I tackle inking the drawing this time around.

However, a lot more refining had to occur before I to the point where I was comfortable inking the drawing. Even after I took care of these refinements, I still came across some trouble.

It came in the form of not liking the head I’d drawn, even after I inked it.

This is a long video.  It was one of the longest straight session of drawing I had for this particular piece.  There was a lot to be done and a lot to be fixed.

It takes as long as it takes.  This is drawing in real time and it takes a lot of time to get it right.

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ART/VIDEOS – Drawing Batgirl: Part 1

How a drawing is created from start to finish may be a bit of a mystery to some.  Often, we assume that it just happens magically.  As if there isn’t a struggle or any complications.

We sometimes think that, because an artist draws for years that they never have trouble.  While we struggle getting anything to look right.  As if, the drawing just happens.

This isn’t the case.  At least not for me.

In this new series of videos I show you my process without speeding through it.  You’ll see it all in real time.  I’m doing this so you really know how long it takes to draw something.  Too often, sped up drawing videos give us a false impression of how long a drawing takes to come to life.

I show you how long it takes me to draw something, what I’m thinking about as I draw it, and how I struggle to figure out solutions to drawing problems that come up along the way:

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ART/VIDEO – Designing A Location: Fantasy Tower Part 02

Once you have a rough notion of what you want out of a design, what’s the next step? This time around, I try to finish up the design based on the silhouette I came up with in the last video.

You’ll see me use reference to fill in details as well as inspire me.  At the end of the video, I don’t think I get exactly what I wanted but I did get something to work off of.

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ART/VIDEO – Designing A Location: Fantasy Tower Part 01

When creating any visual art, design becomes key.  Design is what draws the eye.  You don’t even need to know how to draw academically to learn or use design.

There’s even people who can draw very well academic drawings who don’t know anything about design, which makes their very well drawn art unappealing.

All this to say that I had the task of designing a tower for my up coming comic project.  It was a struggle.  I recorded the first part of my designing process.  Here you will see how I approach designing something new.

In this case, a tower, but the process of designing a character is very similar.

You’ll notice it’s not easy and there’s a lot of variations and experimentation that goes into just getting something I like.  It doesn’t “just happen.”

I hope that watching this will help you when you’re designing your own things.

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