Sketchbook Pages 12 - 16

Sketchbook 12- I'd really started up by this point, really fleshing out, how I want my sketches to look! Something I can do quickly and repeatedly and with a steady quality! I like the look of the brushstroke colors, though it does give my sketches a kind of complexity that looking back from where I am now (page 17), I'm not sure I care for! Not bad, but not satisfied with where I've landed!
Characters:
Darkou
Deej
N30nPum4
Erofas
Huttser

Sketchbook 13- The thing about the brushstroke look of the colors, is that it's literally just a brush setting. "Color jitter" Both the problem and the greatness with this setting, is that it's the program that handles it all, and it doesn't seem to handle all hues/ values equally, leading to an inconsistent outcome, which I don't like. The pros are that I don't have to spend too much time thinking about color choices. The cons are, I can't take TOO much credit for the outcome AND a lot of my own personal artistic voice gets lost.
Characters:
Fynath
Itoma
Norman Frost
Sandalf

Sketchboook 14- So by this point I had begun thinking about what I like about the brushwork WHILE working. I LOVE the brushstroke look, so if I can keep that, while cycling out the "color jitter" it would improve the final outcome. The JC Leyendecker look is what I was going for. But if you paint white on white, you don't get any brushstroke texture, you get flats. Contrast. If Clip Studio wasn't handling it for me, that would mean I would have to manually add contrast. Which would mean I would have to actively change the colors hue/ value/ saturation: An active choice. More time, unless I can internalize those color choices to be automatic. But to get fast, I first have to be slow. So better quality wins out, and sketches start getting values and actively chosen colors. A dangerous choice to make. How often can you make that choice to take longer for the sake of quality, before you've argued yourself into full paintings?
Characters:
Plum
Reese and Azro
Tiberious (happy birthday!)
DraScotty

Sketchbook 15- Finding myself a little bit burnt out on these gift (and owed) sketches, and wanting something a little more simple for my mornings, I decided to draw boxes. But being me, they couldn't just be normal boxes no. They had to be ding dang fish eye lens boxes. BUT doing this gave me better understanding of how to use fish eye lenses and perspective in general! The sketches were commissions! All characters are owned by Hozzerino!

Sketchbook 16- Having not yet completely abandoned the idea of the "color jitter" setting, and I probably won't completely, you can still see the vibrations of color in there. Though more common, is a more present value structure. Gosh I'm just torn, but I'd probably be less torn if I gave J.C. Leyendecker's work a closer look! These ARE just sketches, so there's only so much I can put in there, so whatever is added needs to come at the sacrifice of some other quality if I'm going to maintain these, and the more consistent I am, the more practiced!
Also, Tobyfox put out a little memory flower post on Bluesky where you could do a drawing and leave a memory for the flower to repeat somewhere! Very cool Toby.
Characters:
Zefius
Marrow
Higgs and Hakawne