I haven't visited this thread for a very long time — lots of new people all around, that's very nice! Also, Jopax and Shook, you've improved
a lot since I've last seen you. Great job!
I don't have much to show, I'm afraid — I now post the best things I draw under my real name, and I don't want to connect this handle to my real name (and vice versa). Reverse image searching is scarily accurate these days.
Last year, I took up academic art — it all fell through some months afterwards because my tutor closed down and moved to St. Petersburg. I did find a circle of art-related acquaintances, though and found another tutor recently. Currently I've figuring out pencil cross-hatching and trying to analyse old portraits (by Sargent and Repin):
I also go to a live-drawing session every week, but all I draw there is signed with my IRL name.
Moving to digital art, here's a thing I made for a Secret Santa thread at another forum in December 2017:
Also, a very quick and rough self-portrait from the same month that I didn't post anywhere else:
An early attempt at figuring out colours, using
this Sargent's painting:
One of the various stupid ideas I have is Middle-Earth experiencing its own version of the Cold War (correspondent to our 1980s). I'm going to work on it further, but it won't be posted here. Still, have an old PS sketch.