What's this blog about?

This blog is all about tracking my progress as I try to become better at drawing, painting and other art related things. The main type of drawing I would like to become better at is comic book style drawings because they look awesome to me but that will not be my sole focus.

I have always enjoyed drawing with sketching being my forte and I have always wanted to be better at painting and including colour into my images. I am not a complete novice but my skill level has plateaued since I draw infrequently these days.
I will try, at first, to commit myself to drawing 2 times a week, maybe doing more if I feel like it, and I will then post the pictures on this blog as a way of tracking my progress.

Below you can see some of the pictures I have done and you can see the kind of level I am at. I want to improve beyond this level and hope to achieve the level that makes me think 'Wow!' when I see other peoples drawings. I know that twice a week is not enough to reach that kind of level but you have to start somewhere and I don't want to burn myself out either by doing too much too soon.

Pig Man Sketch

Evil Crocodile Pen Sketch, originally part of a game design I was working on

Dungeon Boss room for a game design I was working on. It is a painting and demonstrates the  current extent of my painting skills.

Comic book character design originally drawn in pencil then coloured in with pencil crayons and outlined in black pen.

Comic book style sketch

An attempt at drawing a comic book character of my own

All the images above are my own to which I own all rights and may not be used without my permission.

So now you can see the kind of level I am at and how I draw/paint at the moment. I have many more images and will put some of them up in future posts as comparisons to my most recent work.

I am going to mix up the types of drawings/skills so that I get a good variety of images done in different mediums.
The kinds of things I will do are:
- Still life drawings
- Drawing from an image
- Self-portrait and portraits
- Upside down images
- Negative space images
- 3D and perspective drawing
- Graphic design
- Drawing an image from memory
- Creating a drawing using the minds eye

The list above contains a mixed bag of different types of drawings that should help me develop observational skills, drawing what is there and not what the brain thinks should be there, detail, perspective and imagination.

For the various types of drawings I will be doing I am going to force myself to use something other than a pencil. I intend to use pens, paints, pastels, crayons, charcoal and Photoshop in addition to a pencil so that my mind is not only working in greyscale but in different colours also, which if you remember is one of the areas I wish to improve.

The kinds of drawings I would like to be able to create are comic book style, fantasy and sci-fi style drawings as those are the kinds I like best but a great part of my current skill lies in observational drawings.