Week Eight: Happy Hands and Cats

It's Friday, but I have a busy weekend, and so I decided to upload my sketches tonight. And with good reason. This has been an incredible five days. I almost couldn't do wrong. Let's take a look:

Here are the leftover hands from last week. Amazingly, all of these were done on the same day, which so happened to be the very next day after I drew my first set of hands. It's amazing because the quality is much superior.  Virtually all of these look like hands, and most look darn good.  Again, all shading is completely mine.  Awesome.  I thought hands would be harder -- then again, maybe they are when you don't have a book showing you how.  We'll see, I guess.

The two cats came from two different online tutorials, found here and here.  The second one, in my mind, is much superior, as it feels more like a cat.  Not that the first image is bad.  I decided to shade neither, because the one tutorial was just the line outline, and the other I thought was so nice I didn't want to spoil it.

The final image is my first ever created image.  That is, no stock, no reference, pure imagination.  It's a cape and tunic combo.  I told you, I really like drawing these things.  It's not bad.  It could probably look a lot better, but again, pure imagination.  The last time I drew something purely from imagination I was likely 8-years-old.  I'm pushing more and more of those artistic boundaries.

Holy crap, awesome image alert.  Drawn from an online tutorial found here.  Undoubtedly, this is my best cat yet.  It has whiskers, the eyes are well-shaded, it has more little touches of fur, the pattern on the head is nice, and the fur looks the most realistic yet.  My only regret is that I rushed a little, mostly because I was so excited at how it was turning out.  When that's your only regret, you know things are going well.

My final image is again from an online tutorial.  This is apparently tribal art.  Because I'm an artistic noobie, I've never heard of it before.  I think I like it.  This cat-like image possesses a level of dynamism thanks to the fun shapes.  Other tribal artworks seem to share this characteristic.  I didn't do this perfect, but it still looks decent.  I'll have to explore this field more in the future.


There we have it: five days of very productive art.  I'm tempted to just induct each image into the Hall of Fame.  On the flipside, this week has now set the bar very high, and I'll have to work even harder to match this output.  So be it.  Month two is almost over, and weeks like this make me think this whole challenge might just have a happy ending sooner rather than later.  See you next week!