Datwaz’s Art Blog

Hi folks, Datwaz here, from France. I'm currently undertaking Marc's LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge and I'll post my progress here. This year is to be a prelude before trying out Marc's Art Program.
As far as tastes are concerned, I have a clear preference for Sci-Fi/Tech/Mechanic/Military stuff, although I like heroic fantasy as well, huge fan of Blizzard's Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft universe.
So far, if my sketching skills have started to get better, I still have a mountain to climb regarding rendering (shading/coloring in particular).

P.S. : I don't always have access to my computer, so I go traditional from time to time. The relationship between pencil and paper is....not the same as the tablet. This is why you'll see from time to time pictures of my sketchbooks.

P.P.S : As a senior CAD engineer by trade, I'll also share some work I do in 3D (I'm not bragging when I say I'm far more proficient in 3D than I am in 2D....)

So, the assignment for January was to do at least 30 sketches of gesture drawing, and do some studies of other artist's art.

By contrast, here is some examples of 3D work I do :

The assignment from February for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : quick gesture drawings + a scene in 1 point perspective

Buren's Columns, in Paris :

The assignment from March for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : gesture drawings, scene in 2 points perspective, and getting started at portraits.

The assignment from April for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : Muscle group study for the upper body + more elaborated gesture drawings

The assignment from May for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : quick gesture drawings, feet studies + lower anatomy studies, environment studies from artists.

Link to reference

Link to reference

The assignment from June for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : elaborated figure drawings, getting started at drawing quadruped mamals, drawing a scene in 3 points perspective.

The assignment from July for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge :

Quick 2 min gesture drawings (half traditional, half digital) :

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Some shading exercise (most ancient to most recent) :

Some character studies (from reference, links below) :
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Link to right reference

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Self portrait (my next of kins told me that I had made myself much scarier than in real life)