Sketches are under appreciated as creative exercises that help you develop a unique art style, so feel free to post your silliest and roughest sketches here- I'll start.
Sketches are under appreciated as creative exercises that help you develop a unique art style, so feel free to post your silliest and roughest sketches here- I'll start.
This one's from 2019.
It's a sketch I made on my phone of Untitled goose game. It's mostly traced. I can't remember if I traced fan art or if it was in game picture; I just needed to kill some time.
Oh, that’s a fun idea for a thread!
My art process is 100% line-less, so my sketches tend to look a lot more uhhh… polished(?) since they naturally have some degree of rendering in them. I made an effort to find a particularly rough page though, and remembered a good one from 2021:
I did all of these pretty quickly in a drawpile session, I was using photrefs ofc but they still have that rough vibe since I was working quickly with unfamiliar tools :D
This one's related to game development.
This is a little level sketch I made back in 2020. The level's name was Maple Island. It needed to be symmetrical since the game was a last team standing style.
Here are the rough sketches:
And here is one of the screenshots within the game:
Yup! Biology on the left, binary on the right. Consumption goes both ways.
I call this piece "consumed consumer".
Been doing a lot of "chalkboard" style sketches and I'm pretty happy with this friendly orc guy
Here’s one from earlier in the week, as I’ve began to recover more concretely from my wrist issues I’m finally able to mess around with my tablet again. The piece itself didn’t turn out so good, but I had fun with it and that’s what matters!
Tofu drift machine. I made this in early 2022 after watching initial D for the second time.
That’s how it goes sometimes! I like it when you start doodling a little and a piece just comes out on its own
A sketch of 'Call me Kevin' that I made in 2019
Done in S-Note
Well I thought I would post some of my sketches too, a lot of artist try to have "perfect" sketches, or try to not do mistakes when sketches are supposed to be rough. There's no true mistake, no shame to have either. On my case, I just began to draw again after some time of pause, so sketches are my bestfriend.
These are great! I love the structures in the second two, even rough they still have a very strong sense of form.
This is a great thread, there are a lot of cool sketches here.
Here is a rough sketch that I've made during a train ride this year. I was going for a robot rabbit with a gun, but it ended up looking more like weird a raccoon to me.
The ears are the most defining feature of a rabbit. Maybe they are too abstract to recognize here. Any way it's nice loose sketch which helps to invite creativity.
I'm enjoying this thread too, it'd be cool it it was made sticky.
Thanks for the feedback about the sketch!
I agree, it would be cool if this thread got pinned/a sticky, as it is a good opportunity for many artist's to share their sketches and get feedback.
I'm making a puzzle where you have to bargain for funds in my game Human Upgrade Labs and I decided that I want to design a currency for that. It's called the infinibuck and here's a sketch I drew a few days ago:
Great sketch, there's so much to look at!
I love how this sketch feels like a mix between many styles that can be found on money (mostly bills/notes) and how it manages to give it's own twist.
I'm looking forward to seeing the other infinibuck bills!
Glad you like it.
Sadly this is probably going to be the only infinibuck I draw. It's for a little minigame and strictly speaking I don't even need this artwork, it just seemed like a fun addition. When a final version takes days to draw, I will likely focus on other artwork, of which there is a lot to do.
And I finished the Infinibuck! Like always it took way longer than expected but it was fun to design and to draw.
I didn’t start the thread, but I think it’s ok if it’s the finished version of an earlier sketch post. Especially since folks were looking forward to it!
Very rough sketch of a wandering rat man.
The sketch started with just the bone and developed from there.
I guess these would fit in here. These are some initial planning sketches for a (not game-related) commission I’ve started working on this week:
The final piece will be pixel art, but it certainly faster to lay things out with my tablet. I’ll probably keep using this hybrid approach in future pieces as well.
I meant to post the hires version of the 2nd as well, but I guess I clicked the wrong file! I guess you can use that to see what resolution the final version will be at :D
Pixel Arthur Morgan.
I challenged myself to make Arthur within an hour using the cover art as reference.
Because of that, there are some oversights.
At first glance it looks alright but if you look closely, you might start to see some errors made.
This is so incredible! I love the colour palettes and the detail. I am also trying to learn to pixel water falling at the moment and it's not easy.. Maybe I should do some studies like this one!
Pixel Dutch Van Der Linde from Rdr2.
I suck at drawing eyes, I had to do them numerous times. This is the best I could do.
I agree! It’s when I’m sketching I free myself if limitations or “trying to make” something and I always surprise myself!
I did these sketches on my iPad while waiting hours online to buy TS tickets that were selling out fast yesterday. Can you sense my anxiety from these pictures? Lol I feel our emotions come out more easily when we sketch and that surprised me yesterday haha 😂
Right before May started, I made a little walking sim for "Cozy Spring Jam 2023" called "Relaxing Walk" (I know, Such a creative name)
Before I started any work, I made little sketches for what the levels in the game should look like. Some sketches have been updated in post.
The winter to spring transition level was supposed to be the first level but I ended up scrapping for the time being (since we were given 3 days to make a game). Recently (2 weeks ago) decided it was time to add it back to the game.
To save myself some time I ripped the landscape of level 1 from another game of mine, PropHunt.
I permanently moved to GNU/Linux after 8 hours of update, error, 6 hours of try to roll back and the blue screen in the end
Good. Microsoft's push to windows 11 is slowly making me move towards linux as well.
I really don't like overly simplified settings menu and the automatic updates. ( I forgot to disable windows update service this time around )
I only use services.msc ( the normal service app in windows ). Type services in search, scroll down till you see windows update and just disable it's service.
typically it works but it could be that newer updates have task scheduler checking if updates service is on or not. For that you might need group policy editor.
since I'm using windows 10 home they disabled the gpedit or Group Policy editor however you can easily bypass that.
While working on Magical Girl TRPG, I've been designing characters for the protagonists. Here are my progress, thus far:
A very weird drawing i made. It was made in adobe draw back in 2020.
I don't even remember what i was trying to make.
Playing around some environment ideas for my rpg. This first attempt is a little too generic I think, but I’ll get there in a few more tries no doubt!
That sounds like fun!
Here's a thing I threw together in a few minutes to try out a different artstyle.
Alright, you got me. This is a thread I can get behind.
I'm not posting these in any particular order, but there's a couple more that I probably have elsewhere on my hard drive somewhere.
The funny thing was this was based on some alcohol pods that were inspired by that really stupid trend going on a few years back when people were eating tide pods.
Granted that was years ago but it really did inspire me to make it, but I never got the chance to finish it and it just ended up being one of those things I never bothered to finish.
These sketches are pretty neat! The ones with the astronaut and the skull are my favorites.
There was a pixel art challenge posted on Mastadon the other day, to recreate one of several photos as a 1-bit piece. I sat down and just kinda zoned out for an hour, and when I woke up this was on the canvas:
For comparison, the original ref is here
Very cool!
1-bit art is always interesting to look at. This makes me want to try it out!
Well... I guess I should participate!
First one: Drew it with my finger
Second: meow
Third: Drawn as fast as I possibly could
ok. just wait. because soon i will make frisk okay?
Edit: maybe you try to make all deltarune charcters: Kris, susie, and ralsei (hatless) while i am doing it?
Thank you! You've got some serious skills by the look of it as well :)
Unfortunately I don't, I've never shared art on those kinds of websites, but I can post more art here if you want to see it! I can probably also update my user page with other art (there's only one digital piece there currently)
So here is a sketch of a new kind of level I had the idea of making for a while and finally got to tackling. I was kinda intimidated about using a half 2d , half 3d approach like you see here, but also it seemed like and interesting effect and it opens all sorts of possibilities for different puzzles I could make with these. I though about doing entirely 2d isometric levels, but I liked the idea of being able to move the sprites around and to rotate the entire perspective like you see above. If it's possible to do in 2d at all than it would be a real pain to code and way beyond my skill.
This seems to be more or less working like I wanted it to do, but I had to employ some weird integration nonsense to make this work. For example, you aren't seeing this whole tileset from above the ground ( which would be easier to do if the sprites didn't move vertically), the camera is actually completely flat and looking from a strict birds point of view. I had to do that because otherwise the colliders would intersect whenever I try to move any of the sprites up or down and that just doesn't work at all. Kinda hard to explain what I mean without showing in engine examples, but all the ways I could find of making something like this use some goofy workarounds. Oh well, as long as it works. Hope I don't put myself in the situation where I have to make several versions of the same thing like I did when I had to code three slightly different versions of the same dialog window for different levels because I had no idea what I was doing, haha.
And I finally finishized these. The sprites and the rest of the level. I spent almost as long trying to make the gun thing on the bottom right track the mouse almost as long as I spent painting the trees, and it still only kinda works, haha:
Ahh you got me!
But I do love a nice fire too. That smokey smell, and staring into the flames and embers when it's getting cold at night <3
Sry Determination709, don't take it personally! You can block me too, maybe that'll teach me.
I’m pretty new here but I’m always down for a Sketch thread. Here’s my most recent sketches
Working on trying to nail a particular vibe in my head. Still not quite hitting it, but I’ll keep trying…
So here's a sketch for a little experiment painting I'm making for my puzzle game.
Usually in painting it's all about the shading, the values( darkness/lightness of colors). I decided to say screw it and to see if i can paint something using exactly the same value for each color. If you turn off the saturation for this psychedelic mountain thing sketch it looks like a flat gray image and nothing is discernible. Should be an interesting challenge.
Here's a sketch of a character thing i want to paint. A bit inspired by those creepy Victorian baby pictures where a mother would creepily sit there or try to hide, sometimes under a tablecloth, because the picture took too long to just leave the child on a chair by itself.
Thanks. I did go with a well tested path of combining browns and blues here. It rarely fails
Hi!! Thanks for making this thread it’s always nice to see other people’s sketches and art. So I’m always down to clown.
Also I’m doing good, how about you?
These drawings look nice!
I'm wondering how you managed to get water color like effects along side markers? Are these special pens or is it a technique?
It's (normal water soluble) ink applied with a fountain pen, and them smeared with a wet paint brush. The ink creeps into the water, just like with water color.
had an itch to draw something Dark souls related so here’s Solaire. Didn’t really care about colors so I just went bonkers
- Something I made a few months ago to cheer up some mutuals, esp. when on the grind :0
Some monster sketches. I actually already painted the final versions of some of these I liked.
Nice thread! I like looking at everyone's stuff. Here is some sketches for a game I been working on about a red panda that grows big after falling into toxic waste.
world peas <3
