drawing board + head and body studies with some thoughts regarding my personal style!

Made this piece for a friend of mine as donbrothers came to an end 😭 Sonoi's breastplate was fun to draw, actually...

 Also for the practices I wanted to focus on some specific things!

 After seeing a lot of Asterix & Obelix issues on a second-hand bookstore in São Paulo, I felt the necessity of studying the author, Uderzo, that has a more toonish approach to head proportions and specially expressions. 

 It's something that I just feel is more inherent to me? I always tried to make more regular looking faces with a more anime-esque or comic-esque approach but I always end up tooning things up. Not like I can actually do it too lol.

 More research proved me that Uderzo, as the master he is, mastered not only toonish styles, but also more realistic ones. I was a bit shook, trying to deal with the reality of being such a limited artist... Well, at least I'm trying to hone what I believe I'm' better at, right?

 Also...

 There's been some time since I'm unhappy with how I approach anatomy. I get overly obsessed with the theorical approach to it and everything ends weird and stiff - going back into my limited artist whining, I can't internalize it at all, so it feels as they say here in Brazil, "to keep punching a knife's tip". Why keep insisting on it...? I mean, I will but I'll try to not use it as my main compass.

 Back to the toony thing I said about heads, I think it's the same for bodies. I tried thinking: what is a media I've enjoyed that has interesting bodies? 

 I have made myself this question without toony on mind - which led me to do copious ammount of studies of Capcom artbooks and the likes of Jiraya. Silly me though. As if I'd ever ammount to a speck of all those phenomenal artists.

...Well, I had cartoony in mind now!!! Which made Ben 10 come to mind - I always really liked this show, even though I stopped consuming it around the time Omniverse launched!! 

So I tried going around and seeing how they worked the shapes and I made these studies. 

 I'm trying focusing more on big fun shapes. Whatever knowledge I have, it will fill those shapes once I'm done setting them up. It's actually something I have done in some pin up pieces and a practice that I have to make more common.

Sorry for being a bummer okie!!! Thanks for always listening.