Its been a while since I last posted and truthfully it is because I was out of ideas. Okay that was a lie, I had 2 ideas which I took a note of on my phone, but I was not in the mood to post them. So, I decided to download Krita after and learn some digital art.
When it comes to art, I am used to the traditional style of paper and pen or pencil or whatever tool I want to use. It gives me full control over my techniques but I wanted to try out digital art because it looked appealing. So I made a sketch on a paper of a random character I found on a trending anime called Jujutsu Kaisen. So why did I choose to draw this anime character named Todo?
Let me drop a picture of this person and turn the tables at you: Tell me why I shouldn’t have drawn this character? (I mean just look at him) Now for the actual reason, I wanted to practice facial anatomy and I was initially going to draw a full body image for the digital art but since it was my first attempt, I decided to go a bit easier on myself.
Here is a picture of my sketch and I placed the digital drawing right beside it. It took 2 hours and few breaks. Now lets talk about what I could have done better: I personally think the hair color choices could have been better since they don’t blend too well. Moreover, the lines could be neater. I would also like to improve on the shading process since this art piece does not have shading. In terms of what I like about this art, I liked the color choice for the face and the body as well as the scar.
I started this whole Krita experiment with no real structure but after playing around with it and taking a 72 minute walk (picture down below), I had a chance to clear my head and make a plan to approach things differently. I decided to take on a 30-day Krita challenge where I will track my progress and what I learn on my diary. I made a plan about what exactly I need to improve on and how long I should spend everyday to practice this. More importantly, I have been lucky enough to find a group of pros at Krita to ask for critique (if you are worried about criticism, I hope this post I made a while ago can give you some insight: How to Deal with Criticism on Hive . I am planning on making this a 3 post series of Krita. For my next post, I am hoping to share more insight as well as specific tips and tricks which helped me improve as well as progress pictures.
The above photos were taken with S10.
For anyone else who is just starting out with Krita, take 15 or 25 minutes everyday to get it started, I used the Pomodoro technique to stay on track. If you are confused about what this is, check this out: Power of Habit: Book Review and My Thoughts. Before I end this post, feel free to share some of your thoughts and insights about this digital art and your criticism about how it could have been better
