JohnnySuavo

After week without DA I finally walked through all of the notifications of art I missed and even though it's not a big deal, boy did I missed you all, guys I fully moved out and unpacked and I think I'm starting to get use to my job already. I'll spend this week focusing on job and starting from next week I'll start drawing again (after a few tutorials that is, since I need to learn from scratch). The OC creating seems inspiring, which is a great sign and he ideas for the lore are popping, which makes fantasizing about it even my job seem pleasant. It's just that I decided I want to create a theme for my gallery, a lore, a mythology for the art I'm making. And even though my art is all about different real-life ladies, I want to connect the characters they inspired into one universe. And my OC will fit with them... and any other universe if you're down to drawing her visiting yours But more on that later, first I need to finish some promises... Dang I love my DA buddies so much, thank you so much for inspiring

Fun Fact of the day: Originally (back when I was making first promises) my a plan for a first OC was a feminist young woman, who solved all life problems with nudity. It was inspired by my contest entry "In a Long Run" drawing. The quirk was a parody on ENF genre (the one where forces of nature strip down ladies in public), with the character acting not as an average victim, but a confident person, who could fight back, even if she was bare naked. While I loved the idea, because it reflects my opinion on ENF and female strength I couldn't come up with the best appearance for her (the one in original drawing looks meh and kinda similar to OC avatar of a friend of mine, so pass). Not to mention the feeling that this might come out more seist, than empowering. I might save it for future, might write a story or develop her eventually, or maybe not. In the mean time, I'll focus on my "Goddess" theme of the gallery... And yes, my actual very own OC will be a deity

I know, that nobody cares, but I'll update you anyway

Many of you know, I had to pause my art making due to problems with severe case of unemployment. After many months of struggles, this January I was finally hired for a decent enough job position (that is, descent only because it pays well). However the job (Customer Service by phone) is very time consuming, not only due to the fact it's a night-shift job, but also because it requires a lot of material to learn and skills to master. Not to mention coping with stress causing people. Hence, I wasn't able to resume drawing again, simply because I had to dedicate my time to work (and at time my performance wasn't very good). Now, even though I'm better at it and I'm almost done with making myself comfortable at job position, I must admit, that I'm not catching up with life due to very little spare time I have. And I won't be having any in the upcoming days, because I... Welp, time for some good news... next month I'm MOVING OUT! Finally, away from parents to a nice room in a middle of nowhere with a sweet cheap rent.

So, to answer the questions, some friends ask me, no I'm not done with art and I didn't quit DA. Due to my new job I barely have time to check it, hence I'm not as active as I used to be (previously I was daily logged in, now I only have one hour to scan through, during breakfast). My phone is currently broken and I will buy new one, once I save a little, so I'm not using it to browse at the moment (btw, I completely abandoned all other art sites due to being able to log in only on weekends with a desktop PC). Regarding drawing, I'm very eager to start all the projects I planned and promised, but I'll need to find the right time for that. Last week, I found a spare hour to draw aaand it didn't end well, since after several month of inactivity I'm out of shape. I need to revisit my drawing tutorials, but I will only do that once I'll learn to get comfortable at work, which I'll do after I move out, which I'll do once I find time... So... yeah, it'll take some time for me to get back into action...

I'm hoping to be back active somewhere in the middle of July. And I will kickstart my art with the projects I promised so long ago, trades and tributes I wanted to present few months ago. There is a lot of models I want to depict and a lot of artists I want to impress and work with. I'm very excited to resume working on everything I planned, it's just that I physically can't right now. Sure my job very joyless and it makes me depressed, but it also hurt my sleep and appetite and I'm not gonna let it get the best of me. I'll fight back and get my right to enjoy life back to me... Just need more time...

Thank you all who watch me and are my friends here. I'll try to draw again soon. I really want to.

P.S. Bad news is that I decided to scrap my first, long promised OC idea, since I had a great concept, but I couldn't come up with suitable and inspiring appearance... But the good news is that in the darkest depths of my memory, I remembered an old concept of a female character that is ridiculous enough for an OC and not only has an inspiring (to me) design, but also a fun personality but also kinda ties into the mythos of my art gallery nicely and works beyond time and space. Since I never went anywhere with that concept before and it won't have potential in some serious art, but has personal appeal, for the next few days I'll dedicate my spare time for thinking to developing this character and lore around her, so YES I FINALLY came up with my VERY OWN OC!!! Can't wait to make her real Who knows, maybe thinking of her during work will make me feel better... If so, that's when I'll know she's the one

Yesterday I spent a night on Tumblr, checking out all the galleries I followed there. They were all by the artists I know from DA, who posted their explicit material, away from DA's sensitive censorship. Ironically, now with Tumblr completely axing off all adult content, DA seems so much more edgier now

I must say, at one point I feel super bad for all the artists, who posted there, because their hard work is going to waste... But at the same time, I'm so happy, because now I don't have to use this site at all. The content was great and artists are talented, but the navigation was confusing and I had so much trouble getting used to it, that it discouraged me from visiting it... But now I don't have to learn anymore Luckily, all the artists had a back-up hideouts on better websites, that are so much easier to navigate and keep track of... I'm a guy who really likes to keep things that inspire me close to myself, even if I have to make another account somewhere. Because if you're deactivated, I'll miss you, babe. And I don't want to miss a thing

So now I have Twitter, Instagram, Pixiv, Newgrounds, Flickr, 500px, Hentaifoundry and Furaffinity. Probably won't post actively in most of these or maybe I will, not sure.

Bye, bye Tumblr... I thought you sucked before it was cool

Hey guys, just a little update

So after spending several months making my last drawing, I really got concerned over the fact that I'm very slow... Like, criminally slow. Sure, it took me so long, because I had kind of a crisis with my life problems (that I hope to solve soon) which caused me to be unmotivated and procrastinate... but even with that aside, I'm still very slow. Part of it is due to not being able to get used to digital drawing with my tablet, which I work with for 4 years now. And I'm gonna be honest - I don't have a talent for drawing and never had one. I have an urge to draw, but I seem to be lacking few talents like sense of proportion and perspective. That's why I fail at live drawings even more. But yes, practice makes it perfect and I'm definitely much better now, than before and I'm ready to make mistakes further, to progress

Anyways, since I actually need to do a lot of drawings soon, to be ready for 2 events I planned + more, I decided to boost things up a little by improving my techniques. Since most of the strokes are easier to do live from now on I'll be trying to draw live and outlining in Illustrator. And also, I'll be still using my pre-made skeletons, that I'll be copying from the screen on to the paper, since it's easier for me to build poses and keep things proportioned this way... Speaking of which, I also updated my skeleton using several proportion measuring methods. Below you can see the one I used and the new one: 



With my previous skeleton, I still had problems putting body parts in the right places, but now it is more simple and accurate. Sure there might be mistakes here and there, and there will be updates in the future, but I'm happy I developed it like this, it improves work for me greatly and I can't wait to draw someone with it Hopefully, I'll be able to boost my productivity now and I won't dwell on putting lines correctly for too long from now on.

Stay tuned for more news about the February drawing events I'm planning. One for Valentines Day and one to celebrate my 3 year on the site... I know, that no one cares, but I'm chatty and I'll write about it anyway Take Care!

Happy Halloween Everybody!

Watching anything spoopy today? I wanted to do a "Hellraiser" marathon this week, but I stopped after movie 4, upon seeing the reviews for other installments (apparently most direct-to-video sequels are just cheap stand-alone horror movies with Pinhead shoved in to make film more recognizable), so instead I'm finishing it all with watching "Blade". One of my childhood favorites (saw it when I was 7 or 8 and it blew my mind!)