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Published: 2015-04-06 03:52:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 13879; Favourites: 136; Downloads: 199
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30-Day OC Challenge"Day 5: 15 minute sketch.
Man, talk about pressure⦠for me, trying to get anything that looks even halfway presentable in that little time is a challenge! But I also wanted to make this sketch do double duty: later this month, I'll be refining it (hoo BOY will I be refining it!!), coloring it, and submitting it for the monthly theme at FemaleMuscle ("Jane of the Jungle"). So I found a suitable reference photo, set up my program, my canvas, and a timer, and started drawing. When the timer went off, I stopped drawing, whether there was still stuff to do on it or not.
I'm pretty proud of the face and torso on this; the arms and legs - well, as I said earlier: refining! All in all, though, I'm pleased this thing looks as good as it does, given I only had 15 minutes to crank it out!
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Looking forward to the finished product.
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Tetsuko as a jungle girl has incredible possibilities!
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Actually, I was thinking Shanna the She-Devil (who was also the inspiration for my own character, Erinye the Jungle Goddess). I guess every good artist has to draw at least one sexy girl in leopard-skin in his career, eh...?
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Yeah but I feel sorry for leopard girls who have to give up their skin for that
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As I recall, Shanna wears the skin of a fallen friend, a great cat murdered by a hunter, to honor her. Β Which is actually a bit creepy, by the way....
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Very impressive. Glad you're able to keep with this challenge.
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Tetsuko of the Jungle didn't need to watch out for any trees. They cleared a path for her.
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Once again, better than what I could do. Β And that's part of the challenge.
And it still looks pretty good for only 15 minutes. Β Chose a theme, pose, concept, and everything. Β Bravo.
You ought to try sketching something in the time breadth of a song from a random playlist like from an earlier challenge!
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Well, I chose the theme, the pose, and got the reference photo ready before the time started. The 15 minutes was spent entirely on drawing.
Sketch something in the space of 3 - 5 minutes? Ummm, no. I couldn't get past the chicken-scratches stage.
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Forgive me if my memory is foggy, but you're a caricature artist by trade, yes? Assuming that's right, what are the time limits when doing that, and how does a 15 minute sketch like this compare?
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No foggy memory there; I am indeed a portrait/caricature artist.
The time it takes to do a drawing at my job depends on where I am: at Liberty Square (Magic Kingdom), we work in pastels. It takes about 20 minutes for me to do a color drawing from profile (side of the face), and about 30 minutes for a full face.
At the Disney's Hollywood Studios park, I do profile caricatures with a marker; a drawing there takes about 5 minutes per person.
The differences between these drawings and this 15-minute sketch: when I was first hired by the company, they gave me about a month of training in techniques and drills in how to get the face drawn quickly and accurately; I'm limited in what I can draw (a few of those limits are self-imposed, admittedly; I don't try to draw realistic hands on the job, for example); and over the years I've developed a style that allows me to do these drawings relatively quickly.
Probably the most important difference, though, is that my aspirations are higher for the drawings that I do for my own projects and commissions than for the work I do at the job. At the job, I'm just trying to do work that will make the subject/customer happy; here, I'm trying to make myself happy (and I'm my toughest critic).
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Huh - intriguing. Thanks for the info!
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What do you call this, Jungle Dynamite?
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Lookin good Dave, last time I tried to draw something remotely close to looking halfway like this, it took me 4 hours lol.
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I could take three or four hours and never be as good as your quarter-hour.
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