Drawing - Learn How.

I need to learn how to draw. I'm saying this because I'm not a bad artist, I consider my art okay or decent. I find that when I draw characters I make them too much like anime characters. My characters will in some sence be anime looking but borderline to the real looking. A my style of artwork, sometimes I get close to that look but then later I noticed flaws in my doodles

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Flaws - What I've done to fix them.

• Inconsistencies of my character designs - My Resolve: I keep on drawing.
• 2D pictures, (paper doll drawn characters on paper) because it's hard to do anything else - My Resolve: I draw my characters doing things.
• No backgrounds - My Resolve: Draw backgrounds.
• Unable to draw faster - My Resolve: I keep drawing and time myself.

Overall solution...

and this...

Eww! Fool! Do it better!

I've completed that goal for getting those character designs done but well pasted the deadline I set for myself. This means I fail, a deadline is a deadline and I didn't make it. This has left me angry at myself because I'm the guy who got screwed over by me.

After I was finished with the designs I realized that my art is still 2D and flat. A number of my honest relatives expressed to me this common flaw in my art. I was aware of this before I started the character designs. I had hoped that I would fix this while doing these character designs. There is one benefit to this failure. I have a very clear idea of what my three main characters should look like.

Overall Performance: 20%

Deadline #1: Three main character designs completed by 02/08/09

Deadline met: NO - Project was completed at 02/12/09 - Four Days overdue!

Important Things and the New Goal.

On a side note here I spent most of today working on personal things, taxes, my 'other' business yearly functions taking place, family functions and overall things I rather not do today but I did these things anyway.

This was a irritating situation for me, I would rather have been starting up the last two of the three main character designs for the deadline I set for myself and you (the reader) a couple of posts back. I want to set a good example to you readers by making sure that I complete these character designs before the deadline. That said I'm doing to set another deadline or in this case a new goal.

So, beside the fact that I have like only 2% of the webcomic ready to launch I've set the goal to have this project launched by January 1, 2010.

This includes all of the following:

• At least 10 pages backlog.
• Completed Business Plan.
• The entire story conception completed with a simple written plot outline.
• The script for parts one and two, completed.
• All character designs completed.
• A test comic completed.
• The website completed and ready to launch. (This kinda goes without saying, but I said it anyway)

Here is the last but most important goal: "To have a drawing process that is detailed, colored, and fast."

What I'll need to do to:

• Put six hours of work everyday into the webcomic on any level, with the hard stuff being done first.
• During these six hours I have to draw at least three drawings of characters, buildings, or anything involved in the webcomic, this will also be for designing the future time things in the webcomic.
• Study human anatomy and perspective.
• Learn how to build a website.
• Not waste my time.

So with the extra 6 hours and this new job (maybe) 8 or 12 + 6 = 14 or 18 hours of working this means one or two hours of fun, studying, eating, shopping, and paying bills. This gives me 5 or 4 hours for sleeping or maybe no sleep, because sleeping is a waste of time. Those marines in Iraq sleep like one or two hours. The special forces don't sleep at all for days!

By the way, I still have the problem of having my characters looking 2D when I want them to look 3D. The studying of human anatomy and perspective will help I hope!

So that's it people.

The video below has very similar action to what I have in mind for part two of my webcomic!

Warning: If you get sicked out with people being killed, blood, heads chopped off, and knives... going into people... then don't watch the video!