Alana_wittman - Art School Journey

[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.

[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
• 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

• 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

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 ; 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

Thank you all!!

[daceronine]

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.

[gregorya]

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.

[wittman.gutierrez]

Thank you @daceronine , 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