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started watching apothecary diaries

jinkgo_ (@jinkgo_) Check out jinkgo_'s commissions and portfolio! | artist in training! music making and singing on the side. occasional games player. profile by @bun_mii ...

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helloo,

i've recently reworked the way that i draw and wanted to showcase that here with some new sketch c0mmissi0n sheets!

if you want more info, feel free to DM or check VGen!

A donut a day keeps the sadness away! #Munchiart

Art by: @redbeanporridge.bsky.social

Music by @jinkgo.bsky.social

Animated by Piku Ken

clothing studies #rkgk

started a new challenge for myself to draw a scene every week. i feel like i need to start practicing the things i want to draw vs studying how to draw them. so with that being said...

the scene of this week is a fight scene!

im really fckin wit da real g-pen yall... #rkgk

just commissioned this pfp from @jinkgo.bsky.social heheh. I'm happy with how cute it is and the attention to detail he puts in it is wild from my rough lil ref sheet and small suggestions.If anyone looking for a comm pls check jin out 🤩!

more 3 value portrait studies

these studies are absolutely changing the game in how i view painting and drawing in general. the replication looks complex, but it's actually VERY doable, especially when starting with simpler shapes. can't reccomend these enough.

3 value portrait studies

slowly starting to introduce another value into my portrait studies. i'm getting the hang of recognizing shapes and using them to draw the portraits. having a lot of fun painting these which is huge!! bc i hated painting!!

mean corvid lesbian woman oc? from ME?
always

#oc ┃ #ocsky ┃ #WIP

YouTube video by brokendraw this painting exercise is unreasonably effective...

youtu.be/5P6gaSJCgBo?...

black and white value studies

came across a youtube video that i'll link in a comment but

kinda changed the game for me. reducing everything in an image to just black and white really helped train my eye to see just the essentials. will be doing these a LOT more.

Vivian Banshee WIP

#zenlesszonezero

value background study

i actually really enjoyed doing this study. started by blocking out the darkest values and move upwards. also tried keeping the shapes as big as possible and progressively added detail as values got lighter.

but how do i translate this to colors...

#artstudy #background

this feeling of wanting something that's difficult to obtain in your life.

Despite all my complaining about my inadequacy as an artist, I still maintain an optimistic outlook on where I can grow from here.

Hopefully this encourages and helps yall feel the same.

And either through practice or by approaching it differently (or sheer luck), I end up moving forward in my art journey. I wish I could pinpoint what it is about art that makes me want to figure things out. But regardless.. If you have something similar in your life, I hope you can relate to-

fight for my life in order to draw something somewhat decent in my eyes.

But the difference is that, for some reason, with art.. I'm constantly trying to figure out WHY it doesn't make sense and HOW I can make it less challenging

I've always been the type to give up on something if I didn't have an innate knack for it. If it didn't make sense from the get go, I would lose interest and move on. That is, until I started drawing.

I complain a LOT about things not making sense and about having to-

armor studies

i'm starting to realize that i am really inexperienced at painting. there is so much more to explore in regards to values, shapes and COLORS (god, colors...)

feeling both overwhelmed and excited to learn more. i love art!! but its a lot...

link is the son of a blacksmith and eventually uses the triforce of courage to FORGE his own master sword.

i loved the idea of ganon being more sympathetic character consumed by rage, so the idea that his initial desire to help people was overtaken by a obsession to seize power.

Legend of Zelda Samurai AU

the more i doodle these ideas, the more i make up more brainrot lore

here's what i got so far:

zelda is raised as a farmgirl by impa. the triforce of wisdom is connected to the mark in her forehead and allows her to see visions of the future. 1/2

LOZ AU

ganon is a warlord trying to seize power since his lands are wartorn and impoverished.

link and zelda are childhood friends who grew up in a small village together.

zelda was sent away at birth by the emperor because of the coming war. link dreams of becoming a samurai.

clothing studies from stream

while working on these, the process felt clunky and the overall drawing felt unrefined. but looking at them now, they don't look bad at all! in fact, they look a little different from my usual stuff. maybe the background studies are helping.

#rkgk

yet another background study

honestly, my appreciation for background artists has grown exponentially while doing these. watching princess mononoke today made me think, "my god, these backgrounds must have taken so much work."

improved - values
to do - shaping, texturing and.. values.

another background study, this time with a person!

i'm finding that while some methods like adding a bunch of values and carving a shape out of that can work in some situations, but i don't think it works if i'm not confident with values to begin with.

values values values...

background studies from stream

i think texture and values have been a big issue for me when doing these, so i'll be focusing on them more going forward. doing these feels like a sidequest that helps further the main story.

some more faces drawn from imagination on stream. starting to feel more comfortable with face shapes, but still struggling with eye placements.

recognizable characters include: sana, tamako and saber

#rkgk

i wanted to get better at drawing more quickly / confidently from imagination, so i decided to draw a bunch of faces on stream the other day.

here are some portraits from memory i did on stream (used refs for the more recognizable characters)