Category: Art

Today’s Fantasy Art Drawing

This is another study of Todd Lockwood’s Dragonlance work. I might finish it tomorrow. We’ll see.

It’s crazy how much he had an impact on me growing up. My dad had a subscription to Dragon Magazine and I always fell in love with the covers and tried to copy them. Todd Lockwood was the one who did most of those beautiful artworks.

Daily Fantasy Drawing Thoughts & Meditations

“Stop panicking.”

“Don’t worry so much.”

“It’s just one bad day. Things’ll get better.”

“Just remember to breathe.”

I feel like it’s easy to tell yourself these things. You’ve probably heard these from other people. It’s just not that simple sometimes. You hear these things and your heart still feels like it’s pumping battery acid.

You’re not panicking or anxious because you want to. You know it’s a detriment. How many times have you worried about something only for your mind to seize up and you end up making more mistakes?

Something I’ve started doing is writing down what’s worrying me. Normally I’m scared I’m going to open my laptop and there’s going to be an angry email from my boss. So, I write it down. And immediately after I write at the bottom… did that actually happen?

The annoying thing about these worries is more often than not… they’re lies. Strangers don’t care enough about you to think anything negative. Your loved ones would truly mourn and miss you if something happened to you. When you’re off the clock or not in class, your teachers/bosses aren’t obssessing over you, thinking about how you always screw everything up (I mean, they might, but at least, it’s not helpful to think that. And if so, it’s not your problem at that time). They’re just living their own lives. Trying not to think about work. Same as you.

Your body is trying to protect you from a tiger that doesn’t exist.

I think it’s helpful to think that with everything that’s going on in the world, everybody feels like this to at least some level.

I found when I stopped caring so much if I was going to make a mistake and just listened to others. To not be afraid of the worst-case scenario if I make a mistake. It was much easier to keep my brain from siezing up. I could hear everything they were saying. When I focused on the other people, seeing their stress and thinking, “how can I make them feel better?” in a genuine way not in a – “Omigod they’re mad at me!” kind of thing, it was much easier.

• Anxiety is a very mild form of narcissism (you’re always obsessing over how everything’s conspiring against you). I’m not writing this out to be mean, I promise. I just found that putting it more in that perspective was more helpful.
• The worries are lies more often than not
• The worst-case scenario is usually not that bad
• Focus on things you can control. Tiny accomplishments around the house.

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Today’s Fantasy Art Drawing

Today’s drawing is Todd Lockwood’s cover of Dragonlance. A classic fantasy art drawing! And a fun one. Look how mighty he is!

Daily Fantasy Drawing Thoughts & Meditations

Weirdly enough, my thoughts for this morning encompassed how fantasy tends to be ‘pro monarchy.’ Many of these stories are about putting the ‘rightful king (or queen, don’t @ me for pity’s sake)’ on the throne. Part of the story is about the hero is reluctant to take on this huge responsibility. Believing they’re not able to do it, what if they fail? And the reason for that is because that’s our everyday. We have responsibilities in our daily life, we know we could be reaching higher, but there’s many obstacles to overcome first. As a system of government though?

I think in general, especially Americans, are taught that monarchies are a very negative thing (I mean, our history did start off as a revolution for crying out loud when the Enlightenment was kicking into high gear- so people were questioning why we needed monarchs). But after a conversation with my husband late last night, I kind of want to explore this topic a little more. Weigh the pros and cons. Especially since I’m writing a fantasy story myself, it would be a good thing to investigate thoroughly rather than try to casually subvert or deconstruct it.

I’m not a social scientist, economist, or expert by any means (though to be fair, I’m not convinced the ‘experts’ are true experts either), but it has been something I’ve been thinking about lately.

Say you were meant to be the king. You were one of those foundling children who grew up among the peasantry, grew up to overthrow the usurper and get your throne back. You could reject the responsibility outright. Focus on living a simple life, maybe opt to start a republic or democracy instead. Or- face the responsibility that if you don’t take it, especially with the understanding that you have a more well-rounded perspective the previous king… what’s to stop someone even crueler from taking your place? How would you rule justly and fairly and not get assassinated by political rivals because you neglected to appease them in your mission to make the world a better place?

It’s a lot to think about.

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Today’s Fantasy Art Drawing

A while back, I bought a book about drawing composition that I never cracked open. The first exercise involved making this sort of ‘S’ shape thing. I turned it into a forest and river. Then I slapped a dragon flying overhead. I do like how the composition turned out, but I want to redraw it again at some point because my pencil skills kinda… went poof.

Daily Fantasy Drawing Thoughts & Meditations

So, I’m gonna be honest. This is not my favorite. I do want to redo this again in the near future. I spent about two hours on it, but I guess the muse decided to take PTO without informing me first because it felt like the more I kept drawing this, the more unhappy with it I got. That’s okay though! The next time I do this, it’ll be even better.

When I relearned how to do digital art, the advice I got was to focus on the quantity of drawings over quality. It was much easier to draw something, mentally take notes where you’re struggling, then move on to the next thing. I did find that I learned a lot more quickly this way. So, even though this drawing isn’t my favorite, I’m okay with that- and excited to do it again!

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Click on the image to see yesterday’s art. This was a study of Anne Stokes’ Dragon Kin.

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Today’s Fantasy Art Drawing

More Anne Stokes fan art! Hooray! I guess it’s only Day 8 out of 30, but I do need to include other fantasy artists in the mix.

Daily Fantasy Drawing Thoughts & Meditations

I woke up an hour earlier than usual today. I feel like the past week, I’ve been trying to draw for 30 minutes, but it goes by so fast. Turns out getting up an hour early was a good choice. I was able to just turn my brain off and draw. When you give yourself time to do fantasy drawings, and not be constrained by the clock, it’s just better for your brain.

Not starting the day with screens is also proving to be a good plan. As much as I love my tablet, just doodling with a pencil is a good thing, plus there’s not the extra distraction that comes with being on the computer or phone- checking feeds, news (which is never good), and all that. Part of the reason I wanted to do this daily challenge was for my own mental health and sanity. The fact that most of these are just exercises, studies of other artists, and therefore not able to sell, really does release some amount of pressure. I can just learn, it doesn’t have to be perfect.

Fantasy art is escapist. The world by its nature is an unsafe and unstable place. I don’t know if it’s more so, less so, or we’re just more aware of it (again, the point is getting away from screens). I don’t know about you, but my own brain feels like it’s constantly ready for an attack, but not sure from where. Being able to just sit down, say no to tech first thing in the morning, and draw dragons and other fantasy creatures helps give the brain the much-needed rest it needs. It can actually process and function somewhat.

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Click here to see yesterday’s Daily Fantasy Art Drawing. I actually wrote a little story to go along with it.

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“What’s wrong, Matthias? You’re not afraid to fight a woman of great power and strength, are you? Or is that why you chose HER over me? Meek, obedient, content to always wear a pretty smile?”

Matthias had to stop himself from halting in his tracks- absolutely bewildered at the dragon slayer maid’s jeering. He brushed the insult away quickly. Surely, this was a trick. To say something so stupid it would render him dumbfounded and vulnerable to a strike.

The only other time Rhea had only met his wife was when she was helping him clean up their campsite to move on to their next adventure. Singing happily as she did so. So of course, it meant she was a helpless waif incapable of hurting an insect.

Rhea did not know the truth about the woman she meant to demean. The awesome and terrible beast behind the pretty face. The fierce huntress. Unlike Rhea, though, Ari’Malcros did not feel the need to demonstrate such power when there was no immediate danger. She certainly found more joy in being loved than feared.

“There’s a difference between strength and… whatever the hell YOU are, don’t you think?” Matthias shot back. Rhea did not like that. She lunged at him with her sword. Her face filled with hate. “Tell me. Why did you want to be a dragon slayer so bad? Did you really want to protect others from the so-called scaly, winged tyrants?

Or do you just enjoy being a tyrant yourself?”

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Daily Drawing Day 7. Inspired by Anne Stokes’ “Friends Forever”. Woke up in a panic (like you do) so I wanted to draw something more comforting.

But as she grows up, she becomes more like the wise and beautiful queen she was meant to be.

Of course, being a mighty beast, you would still be dumb to disrespect her.

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“Hm…. looks like we have some uninvited guests… Matthias? See that they’re given a warm welcome, won’t you? Wait… I’m worried what you heard was ‘Kill them.’ I quite literally meant… you know what? Never mind, I’ll do it. Where do we keep the tea?”

What’s this? No Anne Stokes today? Nope. Today’s daily drawing is a study of Wayne Reynold’s “Below the 4th” cover art.

Once again, it turned into Ari and Matthias.

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