Alana_wittman - Art School Journey

[gregorya]

You're doing pretty good so far. Keep it up.

[wittman.gutierrez]

Hello again! Thanks again for your feedback and your advices :).

TERM 1
Week 3 Figure and Gesture Drawing

This week I started top 10 drawing exercises and keep focusing in pen control, figure drawing and gesture drawing. Still pending some photoshop assignments and accomplishing them little by little.

Feelings:

• Still struggling drawing circles, but I continue seeing some progress performing them, and not only in circles but in all kind of lines.
• Sometimes not sure which kind of pen sensitive have to use in each
  excercise, so I'm still doing experiments.
• I'm not able to follow Mark's weekly study proposal pace, but the
  method seems to me effective. I feel as if I were in a drawing Gym.
• I already had experience in gesture drawing in traditional method,
  but in digital, It feels harder; Anyway, when you only have 30 seconds to draw, the preasure to draw fast at the end makes you to increase the confidence in tracing increases the confidence in tracing.
• 1 character of 5 ; As I said, not easy to follow the pace
• Don't know why I completely forget to draw cylinders exercise this
  week, I need to do it next one and improve.
  
  Figure drawing along this week.

Last Gesture drawing exercise this week.

Top 10 exercises this week.

1 character study this week.

I'll keep trying to follow the pace and improving digital pen control. Thanks again for all your feedback

[mitsuki-youko]

eyy looks great!

[daceronine]

Heeey that chracter study looks REALLY good! Keep it up!

Don't worry about the pace, we each eventually follow the pace and the companion guide in whichever way best works for us. Ideally you want to follow and do as much as possible, but sometimes we simply don't have enough bandwith and will tweak the tasks to fit within our bandwith.

Personally, I also can't follow the guide as faithfully as possible, so instead I go through it as if it was a checklist, making sure at the very least I perform the exercices mentioned without any real timeframe limit, understanding the objective of each task mentioned. I'll usually also add a few more points to each exercice to get the most out of it, for example, practicing inking, a specific style, character desgin, adding perspective, etc. Seems to work out well so far.

[wittman.gutierrez]

Thank you again for your words : ). I think you are right, better to keep moving forward and not to be worried too much about the pace. It's good idea to do extra excercises focusing in what we want to improve. I'll try to do so too : ).

[gregorya]

Your gesture drawings look pretty good. The exercises are good as well.
I was following the monthly challenges last year.
I haven't been able to follow all of the guides, but I think I should continue it.

[wittman.gutierrez]

Hi everyone!! . I continue my journey : )
TERM 1
Week 4 Perspective 1

This week I started perspective exercises ; meanwhile I'm still focused on gesture drawing and digital pen control by doing the proposed exercises to improve.

Yet, the perspective assignment No 1 is left; I'm working on It (It's fun to do this exercise)

Feelings:

• Drawing circles is becoming less complicated for me; I strugle with
  It less than before.
• I'm less worried for the pase and more focused in improving.
• At the begining, with perspective, I strugled a little trying to create the vanishing point lines, but I figured out how to make it faster by copying and
  rotating one line.
• I still practicing with one single vanishing point, but I found interesting to practice texture in perspective figures.
• In figure drawing I realized that I need to practice Proportions
• 2 character of 5 ...little by little. I found this one hard for me
  but fun. I'd love to copy a differnt author each time.
• I think I still need to do more cylinders; i'll try to do a few more excercises this week.

Last Gesture drawing (1min) exercise this week.

Last Nude figure drawing exercise this week.

Perspective excercise 1vp.

1 character study this week.

I'll start practicing wiith the second vanishing point this week and try to finish two characters (I'll try it...I'm still spend too much in only one ).

Thanks again for your comments and feedback

[daceronine]

Yo, so far so good! Them brick boxes look nice. And phoenix is lookin good too!

You mentioned you copy and rotate the line, and while a valid approach, depending on the tool you are using you might want to look at the rules it may have available. It might take a bit to get familiar with them (I struggled to understand how they worked in CSP), but they help a lot! (I feel like this was mentioned before...? I don't remember...)

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh your lineart is so nice and crisp!

[wittman.gutierrez]

Thank you @daceronine : ); I might should take a look if there is a better way; I'm using photoshop CS6.

[gregorya]

The gesture drawings look pretty good so far, as well as the figure drawing.
Nice work on the Phoenix study.
I like the textured look of the bricks.

[Pattu_w]

Really nice stuff, the line work looks pretty good!

[wittman.gutierrez]

Hello everyone!. It took me more time this time to post; last week was one of the less easier let's say . Thank you so much for your comments : )

TERM 1
Week 5 Perspective

I continued practicing perspective and just playing around with different shapes and kind of materials.
Also wanted to keep improving my pen control so I found interesting to follow the 30 days challenge from Marc's channel this week ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5AV42mgAe0&ab_channel=MarcBrunet][1]).

I just realized this week that I confused about the third assingment (the room); I thougt it was the first one; I'll finish it this week I guess.

Feelings:

• I feel more confidence drawing in perspective (one or two vanishing points)
• I found confusing the proportions exercise and the way to measure
  with a pencil , I decided to not doing it this week to better
  understand the next.
• I think the 30 days challenge is very useful to obtain more
  confidence on tracing (and to improve making circles and cylinders)
• I found little hard to simplify and capture the motion on figure
  drawing daily excercise yet.
• 2 character of 5 again :/. It's fun to do character studies but still takes me a while to finish
  each one.
• I'm less worried about pace but pending assignments are pilling up a bit;
  anyway, I'll keep moving forward with the study guide.

Last Gesture drawing (2min) exercise this week.

Perspective excercise 2vp.

Figure drawing - Proportions

First character study this week.
Sketch made by Rinotuna

Second character study this week.
Sketch made by Artgerm

I'll work again with proportions and try to understand better. I find very fun and useful to make studies, so I'll try to finish more this week.

Note: updated references

Thank you all of you

[daceronine]

Looks good! seems you are getting better with lineart and general forms. There's some noticeable improvement in the Misty study.

[gregorya]

Nice work on the perspective, and gestures.
Nice work on the character studies. The eyes look a bit too wide, I think. Who is the first character?

[snakker]

Yo those character studies are really nice, it helps to be able to compare to your reference, if any. I really like the counterpose and gesture of the second one in particular, looks like a very purposeful use of applied anatomy there, the way she has her head tilted one way, eyes looking opposite, shoulder forward, the gesture of the fingers etc

First one, I think the foot is a bit short (compare to forearm)

cheers!

[wittman.gutierrez]

Thank you : ); I feel more comfortable now using my digital pen despite still struggling with circles

[wittman.gutierrez]

Thank you @snakker, I updated the post with the reference I took. The study I made in the second one was from an sketch made by Artgerm; I like so much his drawings and the poses he uses are great!.
In the first one, you are right , I'm trying to focus this week in understanding how to handle proportions properly : ).

[wittman.gutierrez]

Thank you @gregorya :). The first character is just an sketch from Rinotuna, but I liked her.

[gregorya]

Thank you for the information @wittman.gutierrez. I've never heard of this artist.