Alana_wittman - Art School Journey

[wittman.gutierrez]

I've already tried different size pic . Thank you!!

[wittman.gutierrez]

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.

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 .
Thank you !!

At least it's a sexy orange square!

It sounds better like this

[gregorya]

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.

[wittman.gutierrez]

Thank you @gregorya , Marc's challenges helps me to improve, I'll try to do more in the following weeks

[wittman.gutierrez]

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 **

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

[mitsuki-youko]

eyy these look awesome!

[daceronine]

That box looks really pro! Not sure how you managed to stay still to make that drawing, when I did that exercice I just took a photo. Looks good though! Seems you are getting good practice with the overall digital tools.

[wittman.gutierrez]

Thank you @daceronine , I had a good time remembering how to use digital tools. For self-portrait, I moved a big mirror at home and put it next to my laptop and tried to keep the same position (drawing position was the most confortable ); anyway, It felt strange, I never tried it before.

[gregorya]

Nice robot character. It looks pretty good on the game box. Nice work on the self-portrait.

[wittman.gutierrez]

Hello again everyone!. Long second week for me that seemed a month but still keep on going for sure.

TERM 2
Week 2 Anatomy 1 and Photoshop

Last weeks I focused so much on practicing volumes and tried to get familiar with face structure that Marc explained on the video class.

Feelings:

• For me is hard accomplish the assignments and It's becoming easier to get stuck because of that, maybe I should pay more attention to my weekly practice.
• Practicing volumes and overlapping helps a lot to improve your skills.
• It's fun to draw faces but I'm getting used to making sketches without finalizing linearts; I guess I should solve this.
• In transition exercises I found the three tools useful (smudge, soft and hard brush) so I guess I should practice with the three of them in my drawings. For me It's easier to use the soft brush but I guess that it depends of the case.
• I keep doing character studies. I'll try to keep on doing this

Gesture drawing (2min) exercise this week.

Photoshop Exercices - B

Photoshop Exercices - B

Volumes in perspective

Some faces with lineart

Artist: Artgerm - Character Study

Hope you are all OK!!. Enjoy this summer ! Thank you!!!

[snakker]

Wow, you are doing great! That's a very beautiful self-portrait you made there!
and I really like your lineart overall, seems you make very precise strokes and good, purposeful use of line weight, it makes your character studies and volume practice pleasing to look at.

I did notice you bend your distal interfalangeal joints when holding your stylus (based on what I see on your self-portrat XD - it just makes me wonder if you're not clenching it too hard, I mean, your line work is really nice so it must work well for you, but just be careful not to injure yourself from repetitive hand stress motions

cheers!

[daceronine]

Oy, very nice practices! linearts are really nice and pretty!

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh your lineart is so nice

[gregorya]

It's fun to draw faces but I'm getting used to making sketches without finalizing linearts; I guess I should solve this.

I have the same trouble. There are many sketches to work on.
Nice work on the exercises and face practices.
Nice work on the line art study. It's almost hard to tell which character study is which.

[wittman.gutierrez]

Hello again everyone!. Long summer...long weeks with no posting : /, but still working on

TERM 2
Week 3 Anatomy 1 and Portrait

It is true that last weeks I continued practicing but I get stucked on the same week 3 topic: heads, so I didn't move on the course.

Feelings:

• Despite I get stucked I kept practicing volumes and overlapping to improve my skills.
• At least I don't think my work is getting any worse.
• I found harder to create faces from my imagination rather than copy (well, I guess It is normal)
• Still strugling with proportions and hard for me to apply it on drawing faces.
• Still making sketches without finalizing linearts.
• It is true that summer and work itself made me to slow me down in the process, but I was regular on practicing.

Honestly, I feel sometimes that suggestions on the weekly study may be bored. I'll try to these excercises with some other related to it.

Pen Control Exercises

Face parts

Faces from imagination

Portrait**strong text**

Hope you enjoied the summer ! Thank you!!!

[wittman.gutierrez]

Hi @snakker, Thank you I keep on going. And regarding my hand, that's a good point, hehe, I didn't notice my particular way to hold my pencil; i've always done it like that, but It is a good idea to take care of that and take some rest from time to time I guess. Thanks!!

[mitsuki-youko]

AWE YEA!!

These look beautiful!! they look so professional too!

[kalienator]

Great stuff! I can see the improvement since your first post.

[daceronine]

Lots of great practice here. Your fundamentals are really strong!

[gregorya]

Nice work on the studies. The line work is very good as well.