Want to improve my character drawings/paintings, so there's probably no way around drawing more characters.
This one's a mix of Black Metal and Ninja/Samurai, I guess. Not much planning.
i always think about this interview with chuck jones who's responsible for a lot of the animation behind looney tunes and his advice for becoming a good artist was to just "draw from life, draw everything" and i haven't forgotten that since...
I've been trying to do this particular illustration for more than a year now. I have studied every day since this and finally got to completely redo it with my newer skills. I still have issues with legs and some with arms but I'm finally getting to a point where I can draw a body fairly reliably, even if it still takes me a while to get some poses down...