Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut as well as a self-taught painter. He is notable for being the first ever human to go on a spacewalk as well as being the artist who drew the first sketch made in space.
It’s a drawing made with colored pencils depicting the sun rising over the Earth.
It’s a humble drawing, made with passion and hope. Compared to his usual paintings it might even be described as incomplete.
And that is what this mega is all about!
◇ ◇ If you drew something that is still a Work In Progress (WIP), this is the place to share it. ◇ ◇
◇ ◇ If you have any art related thoughts or questions, this is the place for that discussion. ◇ ◇
This mega’s purpose is to create a casual, low-pressure environment for artists and non-artists alike to engage in sharing their incomplete art, giving feedback to others and holding general art discussion. If you are an artist with original works that are complete, you are highly encouraged to make a standalone post for it.
And when I say incomplete, I do mean literally anything that you wouldn’t consider a complete illustration or artwork, from basic anatomical sketches and messy perspective exercises to half-rendered paintings. All skill levels are welcome.
To encourage people to post their art in the comm, I will also feature one of the drawings made and shared in the comm either as a mega comment or a standalone post, with permission of course.
(Because this is the first ever art mega, I will give one of my own incomplete drawings.)
◇ ◇ Featured drawing: ◇ ◇
This mega’s art prompt word is:
◇ ◇ future ◇ ◇
It seems we got taken out of the site’s pinned posts, it was good while it lasted. (I have 0 idea who pinned it in the first place, but thank you if you are reading this!)
This mega will stay up before a new one gets made for 2 weeks or the entire month of April depending on activity. But so far it seems there’s more than enough activity to justify a bi-weekly schedule. I have really been enjoying everyone’s sketches and doodles so far, keep up the good work.
Thank you for your service
Also it was likely @CARCOSA@hexbear.net that featured it since they were following the process. I’d ping them when you set up the new one so you can get some time in featured
I started drawing/sketching. I have no idea what I’m doing. But. Its nice. I just made one thing so far. I dont know if its finished or not. And I dont want it posted as its own post.
Its not a literal self portrait. Its my insides, not my outsides.
That painting by Alexei Leonov is so cool! Any idea where I could find an archive of his works?
Sadly I have yet to find a centralized archive of his works, even on soviet art archive websites. All his paintings seem to be scattered in random articles about him.
Same here. Unfortunate
I got a hold of Scott Robertson’s HOW TO RENDER book and I hope it will be what I need to reach true competence.
My true concern is that I need to finally muster the concentration needed to read and put into practice 250 pages of information. I am pretty sure I don’t have an attention deficiency, but I always struggled with reading big books.
But alas, there is no choice here, I must get better until people have no choice but to notice my work.
Please let us know if it’s worth reading! I am looking for a new art textbook after making my way through a couple basic ones
Will do. I will give a short review when I’m done with it and make sure to ping you.
I spent a little while doing some marathon sketches earlier. I really love these characters.
Some of my own sketches and doodles
I really need to create a system where I can actually start and finish a drawing in less than 48 hours, I am slow as a snail when it comes to this.
It doesn’t help that I have a whole story in my head with 4000 different world-building ideas screaming to be done all at once.
Wait, have I seen a new megathread born?
yep, its brand new
There was some discussion and @Vostok_@hexbear.net volunteered to run it! I’m excited to see where it goes
thanks for setting this up! that drawing by leonov is one of my favorites!
my work in progress
only just getting back into drawing very recently so i’m very out of practice. i started drawing this bear boy earlier today. it needs a fair amount of reworking (especially those paws) but yeah i’m just having fun either way :]
I dunno if these count as incomplete since I’m not gonna work on them anymore but here’s the latest sketches I’ve done
arte woooo
I drew this in 5 min for y’alla and to make it a wip I will come back and do something else to it 😸
finished it : https://hexbear.net/post/8078706
I wish I could draw, but it’s a huge time investment and I don’t get as much as a dopamine hit compared to writing or programming
Oooh! This new mega is very exciting!
I have been drawing nudes of my partners recently, but once I’m onto something else, I’m excited to post lol
What a cool idea for a mega! Big fan! Not an artist in any way myself tho…
Now that can always change.
Haha, I appreciate it, but I have my own skills and hobbies that I work on right now. Maybe down the line I’ll come around to it, but for now I just like seeing what everyone else can do!
