A Gesture Book 2025

s-haha-n · September 10, 2025, 4:03pm

I love gesture drawing and finding faces and forms in the lines, just filling pages with lines and lines by feel and what looks right. I set the gain to 5 (max) on my pressure curve (OpenTabletDriver) and zero threshold to just barely touch touch when I draw and it was tough to get used to at first but ultimately better long-term I think.
I use a Huion RTP-700 it was like $99 and I fear running out of nibs as I think that model didn’t exist for long. So that’s why I also crank pressure sensitivity .. I only have 4 nibs left lol.

but yeah, wanted to share my process and see if anyone draws the same way or tries other things.
I love Amano and Yoji Shinkawa’s art they are my main inspirations.
Always open to feedback and critique too.

I’ve been drawing since I was a kid, used to have a sketchbook on the old conceptart org forums if anyone remembers those lol.

I also started messing with setting the brush hue to pressure input

dragonscales · September 11, 2025, 2:01am

I felt like the kid in the second picture from the top, looking at the second picture from the bottom.

s-haha-n · September 12, 2025, 6:25am

@dragonscales Thanks lol that one felt inspired by the Babadook or something honestly.

i did some more gestures tonight:

still noticing some weird egdes drawing with basic circle brush at 100% zoom and small sizes. not sure if its normal. i do have anti-aliasing on.. wonder what it is… drawing on an A4 size preset at 350dpi

s-haha-n · September 12, 2025, 9:20am

couldn’t sleep.

made this animation. duplicated and pushed hue

Lithium-rose · September 12, 2025, 4:14pm

So cool

s-haha-n · September 25, 2025, 6:23pm

thank you!

So I learned that I don’t know how to really use Krita/digital art software at all beyond some basics i picked up from tutorials over the years. Like noticing how most brushes by default don’t have opacity and then someone explained to me how textures or inking is done differently.

I watched a bunch more videos and the ones off the Krita youtube channel and it was mind-blowing, kicking myself for not checking it out sooner…. Also the resources section of this website is insanely cool and.. expansive!
Apparently krita can just DO what Alchemy did (speed shapes and displacement even!) lol, and there’s a full fledged inspector for the UI!
There’s some OCA tool for krita-blender stuff! There’s SO much i couldn’t find via googling/lazy gpt-ing, but so many questions answered and problems solved. I could really get lost in the brush settings. Slowly figuring out my keyboard shortcuts too, interested in a numpad with 2 dials…

I tried drawing a bunch of different stuff, i think i have a good grasp in some aspects of drawing like gestures and quick sketches but really struggle with perspective and finishing a piece.

still not sure what i really want to do. would love to do comissions of any kind, but just getting into it, finding work looks so daunting. I also need to make a portfolio of finished stuff.
i’m also thinking about doing more 3D work and it’s like everything starts with a decent sketch, some base amount of visualization or drawing skill to go from 2D to 3D and greasepencil blurs those lines amazingly, BUT i’ve also seen artists take their 3D sculpts/scenes/renders and process in csp/krita which is super cool to me. There’s so much…… stuff, Krita can do just scratching the surface

s-haha-n · September 28, 2025, 4:15am

some flowing faces

s-haha-n · October 6, 2025, 4:46am

Some sketches from the week, I want to delve more into animating in Krita.
I really love the nice easy way Greasepencil and Blender’s timeline work with moving around keyframes, wonder if anything exists to bring some of that to Krita. i should probably draw from reference more, but is there like any… other popular way to “get better”? lol than reference.
maybe a stupid question but i’m rollin’ in stupid questions
*i get that life drawing and reference are like core essential of visual knowledge building type things… and all that.. it just feels, tedious. sometimes.

s-haha-n · October 13, 2025, 1:10pm

instead of studies I tried animation and rotoscoping. Krita’s timeline is more like Blender’s and more flexible than I thought, shortcuts are huge in the animation workspace.