Alberto Moldes - From Pain to Painting (Art School Journey)

[Alberto_Moldes]

About me
https://www.artstation.com/albertomoldes

Intermediate level stucked artists, 'formal' art education (fine arts) was a waste of time.
Long periods without drawing (YEARS), minor expirience freelancing. Very bipolar expirience with art.

Have used online resources but not so much communities or active help.
Tldr, 30 yo now. Secondary hobby on economics kinda bailed me out gud, lifting and unfucking life without stressing about going broke now.

Open to feedback and art frens
Willing to PAY for dedicated MENTOR (Marc is busy), for consistent Reviews/Feedback/Advice/Direction / Moral support xD

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Some assignments Term 1

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Gesture poses (some reworked after 5min mark), also applying a body mask on some

Body mask on gesture, stylized

Figure drawing not stylized

Applying the skeleton observational technique on referenced model photos

Tracing skeleton/limb volumes over photos

No references boxed skeletons afterwards

[Lockenheim]

Welcome to the forums Alberto! Your work is quite fantastic already! I am a beginner myself so I will have little to offer you in terms of critique but I can be a pretty decent cheerleader at times so definitely I can't wait to see your improvement. One thing I have heard Marc say to artists at your level when they join the feedback sessions is to approach the program as if you are a baby as if you know nothing. Really absorb it all in from the beginning. Take your time with the fundamentals even though its very clear yours are already very strong. If you are looking to get into the feedback group check the site every day, he opens the feedback about once a month. Set up notifications so you will be alerted when it goes on sale. When I was going for it I downloaded a browser refresher that would update it every 5 mins and took me about 30-45 days before it opened. Welcome to the forums!

[Alberto_Moldes]

Frontal female/male sheet, proportions and landmarks, wasn't conscious of a bunch lol

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Reapplying exercise on 5 heads/anime proportions. Porting some proportions to 1/4 from 1/8 and others on guess. Longer legs, bigger head mostly.

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Some figure drawing, right longer
Quicker with pixel pen

Figure drawing focusing on measurements

Stylized figure drawings, goes quicker

30min 30sec / 1min gestures Sesion 1

[Lockenheim]

Beautiful work Alberto! Keep it up!

[Alberto_Moldes]

Photoshop edits

More term1 figures/gestures

focus on angle straight lines nstead of curves for construction

blocking values

Rough render wip

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Perspective 1

[Lockenheim]

Very nice work! Especially with those color corrections, one of the best I have seen so far! I really love your sketchwork and your characters. They all just feel so warm and snuggly. Really love your method!

[Alberto_Moldes]

meh

1pt vanish room, does this even get fun? xd

back to the fun/confort zone
AO painting/ oclusion

[xdarts]

Really amazing stuff Alberto! You're so good already, can't wait to see your progress!

[Alberto_Moldes]

to take figure drawing practice diferently did dis

from short video ref , not quick gestrues at all tho took too long xD

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Finished the pinup

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Portrait / head construction, most close to 1h each

had to swap aproach because copying sucks, style design, actually had to rely more on construction/loomis as intended in term 2 xD

[chonem]

So good

[Alberto_Moldes]

commission wip, "XVIII century vampire chef salt bae meme cooking human parts" lel

somehow

[danilo_tedde]

Studies are looking really good.

This last piece looks fantastic, good job.

[Lockenheim]

I really love how you treat all of the features! This is so good and I love the storytelling on the bottom piece. Keep it up!

[Alberto_Moldes]

Messy process, here's the WiP so far

[Lockenheim]

Daaang this is so juicy! I really love your style! Keep it up.

[danilo_tedde]

Such a great scene. I dont have anything to add other than good job!!