Mar '24

Reply to

wittman.gutierrez

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your comments : ). Almost done for the term 1 although still pending work to do.

TERM 1
Week 6 Perspective

I took two weeks this time. I found very useful to continue the 30 days challenge from Marc's channel; it helped me a lot to feel more confidence in the perspective excercise.

Feelings:

  • Honestly, I got a little confused drawing the room at the beginning and as I was progressing, I found myself redrawing some parts due confusion in perspective and it took me long time to finish the assignment.
    • In the perspective assignment It was interesting to add details that don't exist in my real living room. It was hard but fun :smile:
  • The 30 days challenge helped me a lot to getting faster and more accurate in the perspective assingment.
  • I tried again the proportions exercise; at the end , I found it kind of annoying :/. I'm still failing in this excercise in proportions; I think I should find another way or other exercises to improve this skill or take some distance from it by the moment. I'm open to ideas to improve this skill :smile:

  • In 5 minutes gesture drawing I found myself a little confused; I had more time to draw, but I was not able to decide what details to draw. I guess I need more practice and anatomy practice.

  • I could barely finish the room assignment so I haven't started any environment study yet :expressionless:


Gesture drawing (5min) exercise this week.


3 life changing drawing excercices - First excercise


30 days challenge - until day 20


Perspective assignment - My living room

I feel as if I hadn't drawn a character in a while :confused: ; I'll take advantage of the next week to continue doing character studies and complete some environment studies too.

Note: I see that many of you have a picture in your forum profile, I'd love to know how to change the mine; I'm getting tired of the orange square :sweat_smile:

Thank you all!!

Mar '24

Yo, good work all around man.

As for the profile image, right here:

As for gestures, I think your work looks fine. The idea is to capture the "pose" or "energy" of the reference, beyond that, there are few guidelines. It helps to look for the relative position of the spine and limbs, though it seems some with more experience go directly in 3D shapes of the overall body.

It's all about refining your observation skill though, so as long as you keep trying, it's alright.

Love the room, many (including myself) struggle with perspective, but you can easily tell the angle and most objects. There is clear intento to use lineart weight to enforce the perspective, and most proportions seem to fit in well, so overall it looks good.

Mar '24

I think with gesture drawings I usually get as many details as I can after I capture the pose. There was so much time left with that when it's 5 minutes.
The living room line art looks so clean as well as the shapes.

8 days later

Apr '24

Reply to

daceronine

Thank you @daceronine :smile: , I'll keep in mind your advices on gesture drawing, I'll try to improve on week 8; On the room you are right, I tried to use the line weight to emphasize objects that are closer,; I struggled a little with small and most distant objects so I have to improve that too.

For the profile I did what you said but the small square doesn't seem to be changed :pensive:

Apr '24

Reply to

gregorya

Thanks @gregorya !. I may spend too much time trying to capture the pose before adding details. When I think I capture the pose, some times I focus too much in a single part of the body and because of that, I screw up the proportions of the entire body :sweat:.

I hope after doing the living room, I spend less time to draw an environment :sweat_smile:

Apr '24

Reply to

wittman.gutierrez

I have heard of others having similar issues with the profile picture not updating. I think it might be worth trying the usual recommendations:
1) Might take up to 24 hours to update.
2) Try clearing cache or opening in another browser to try to force it to update.
3) Maybe resolution/type affects it? The one I use is 1024x874, PNG format., 82kb. Maybe try to use that format and see if it helps?

Apr '24

Thank you!. I tried your recommendations; Now, i'll wait 24 hrs :sweat_smile:

23 days later

Apr '24

Hello Everyone!! I had a couple of hard weeks in my workplace ( a project and team switch in my job) :disappointed_relieved: but I'm keep on going donig my best to keep improving : ).

TERM 1
Week 7 and 8 Perspective

I finally finished the assignments for the last week in the first term. Apart of my situtations, honestly, it was challenging for me to finish the 2 point vanishing point perspective assignment; despite of that I decided to continue the 30 days challenge from Marc's channel; It helped me to keep my skills.

Feelings:

  • In the assignment, I maybe chose a building a bit hard to draw for my current skills, but at the end, It helped me to understand and improve some skills that I guess I had to learn.
  • I was starting to get a little bored because I was spending more time in the environment study assignment than drawing characters (apparently I like character drawing more :smile: ) .

  • Despite I continued doing the 2 minutes gesture drawing for all these days, honestly I don't feel the improvement in my observation skills (on capturing the rythm); I may be study better the way I do this exercise.

  • Despite I like Dragon Ball so much and Akira toriyama's style, this is the first time I draw Goku :sweat_smile:

Still pending some term 1 assignments that I want to finish (like environments and characters studies) but I think I will move forward to the next term and keep advancing.

Gesture drawing (2min) exercise this week.

30 days challenge excercises


Perspective assignment - Street corner Buidling - Pavon Theatre - Madrid, Spain

Character study

At the end I was not able to change my photo profile : /. I maybe have to resign myself to be the orange square : (

Hope you are all good!. Thank you !!

Apr '24

Maybe the pic u used was too big?

Nice studies btw!

Apr '24

It's all good practice. I think the building looks great. I think our adverse with environments just has to do with not being used to it. I've found that as I do more of them, it becomes more fun and interesting to do them. Though I also still have a preference for characters.

Goku is spot on! I love Akira's style.

At least it's a sexy orange square!

Apr '24

Yes, I think your are right;, the more you do the better you get. I've never drawn a building this way, using two vanihisng points; I'll try more environment pictures to study and improve : ).

Drawing Goku was fun, Maybe I'll try another DBZ character :smile:.
Thank you !!

It sounds better like this :blush:

Apr '24

Reply to

wittman.gutierrez

Nice work on the gesture drawings. They look pretty good. The 30-day challenge exercises have some pretty interesting shapes. I like the line work on the perspective street assignment. The Goku study is pretty good.

16 days later

May '24

Opening Term 2 with new stuff to learn; I'm keeping on going doing my best to improve my skills.

TERM 2
Week 1 and a half Photoshop and Self portrait

These two weeks I tried to mix excercises from the first and the second week, but I was able to finish only the assignments for the first one (The ones related with photoshop for production); I also keep doing some pen control excercises especially with circles.

Feelings:

  • I felt relieved on changing the kind of exercises these days. By doing the Photoshop assignments I did some review of graphic design fundamentals and some Photoshop tools I hadn't used for a while. It is important to keep in mind the basics. I felt a little rusty designing a cover again.
  • To keep my routine to improve my pen control and abstraction skills, I took volumes excercises recommended by Marc on week two. These kind of shapes get less harder to do each time.
  • I felt strange drawing me myself watching in the mirror; It's the first time I did so. It was interesting and challenging.
  • I tried to finish a character and an environment study, but are still work in progress; I'll share the studies later.

I found challenging sometimes to keep motivated on falling in a routine of exercises. I see that It's important to change from time to time the routine and improvise some days.

Volumes excercises

A Robot Character

A Game Box Example


** Self portrait :sweat_smile: **

Hope you are all good !!. Thank you!!!