Alex - Art School Journey

Lockenheim 2022-06-13 14:59:46 UTC #21

Great work on these and great practice! Keep it up! I remember I spent several months at the stage you are at to really feel more confident with it. You are doing exactly whatyou need to!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-15 12:33:25 UTC #22

This is my first time looking through your thread, and it's awesome to see the improvement you've made!

In your figure drawings, I notice that you lose the perspective on certain poses when their bodies are turning or foreshortened. When the model is turned like we see a lot more of her front hip and thigh while we see less of the other side of the hip and thigh. It takes a lot of practice to get a feel for perspective, so keep it up!

alexander.engel84 2022-06-20 17:23:25 UTC #23

Thank You ErrolsTheFool, i keep that in Mind

alexander.engel84 2022-07-01 12:08:15 UTC #24

I am practicing not so much as i wish i would, the heat of Summer ist not my friend and sometimes i feel as my Progress is going sideways and not forward.
But Marc said that learning Art is a Marathon so keep going.
I try to do a little Art every Day, the Pen-Control-Practice is a minimum. And I find time to do the very first Assignments to practice with my Software (Krita), Image Adjustments and Combining Images. Just to unwind my Mind a little.

hojoflow 2022-07-01 12:23:21 UTC #25

Just skimmed your work, from the first to the last it is clear that your eye is being trained by all the draw overs you are doing. Each time you are training your subconscious to understand form.

Keep going and don't beat yourself up if you miss some days.

"The best day to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best is today."

All the best.

alexander.engel84 2022-07-10 12:52:55 UTC #26

I took some Time to practice with my Krita-Software. I used the Pictures from the 1 Term Photoshop-Assignments:
First, the Apples

and for Second, try to Morph a Photo from an Old Person and a Young Person, not so happy with the hairstyle. (Kind of Gendo Ikari Vibes?)

And practice with the Liquify-Tool in Krita. That is some sort off horrible Result

alexander.engel84 2022-07-31 11:06:20 UTC #27

After some kind of Flu, it is Time to Start all over again
I build a little "Dreamhouse"

And this are the Source Material:

And a little curious Question for the more experience Art-School Students.
When Do you know that the Skill-Level is okay to continue with Term 2?
Should your Skill be perfect? Or Do you just continue after a period of Time, no matter how good you are?

Lockenheim 2022-08-03 14:02:29 UTC #28

Marc typically recommends spending 2 months per module. The more time you can spend on the earlier modules the better as they are the fundamental skills which keep coming back and back. So definitely keep practicing term 1 if you can. But he also says the fun is the most important so if you arn't having fun practicing term one then move to term two. If the next term is to difficult then take a step back is my suggestion.

alexander.engel84 2022-08-04 10:27:08 UTC #29

And Thank You again Lockenheim. I really appreciate your Support.

alexander.engel84 2022-08-07 14:17:21 UTC #30

I tried some work on Perspective. It is trickier than you think.

I tried some "advanced" cube on this one.

And a 1 Point Perspective with curves.

qdominois 2022-08-07 17:08:54 UTC #31

Hello ! Nice improvment ! Cant wait to try perspective myself ! It look hard !

alexander.engel84 2022-08-08 15:15:26 UTC #32

Hi qdominois, thank You. Perspective is challenging, but Marc explain this part very good.

alexander.engel84 2022-08-13 08:41:33 UTC #33

A little more Practice with Perspective....
on thios one, iam not sure about the round shape on the side. Should be sort fo a tunnel

Cut some part of a Cube away...

And here i want to build a cube who mesh with another cube. Maybe next Week the full picture.

qdominois 2022-08-13 10:04:15 UTC #34

Intersting shapes ! Keep practicing you're improving !

alexander.engel84 2022-08-14 08:48:57 UTC #35

Thank You qdominois. And I could not wait and tried the "Stamp-Perspective" today....
i should draw the lower Cube a little further down to get a better View on Top, so the "Stamp" is better to recognize.

Lockenheim 2022-08-17 15:59:52 UTC #36

Really nice work with these! Looks like you are getting the hang of it. Keep up the good work!

ennenkurt 2022-08-18 10:35:43 UTC #37

Hello! Your perspective on those last ones seems pretty good to me. I also really enjoy the puzzle piece idea it adds a bit of fun and good shapes practice. Cheers!

alexander.engel84 2022-08-21 11:41:15 UTC #38

I can not decide which room i draw for a 1-Point Perspective. So i try and make one up my mind.
It should look on the end like a Hallway from a ship. And after this pieca of work, i start over with Human Figure Drawing.

alexander.engel84 2022-08-28 11:15:41 UTC #39

And here is the Finish Picture. Maybe a little deserted, but with more experience, i will try to improve this piece of work. The second is with all Perspective-Lines.

And one more just for the fun and yes the right side of the "Cube" is absolutly not correct. But it wasn't intended to.

AND now back to Human Figure Drawing!

alexander.engel84 2022-08-30 19:05:09 UTC #40

Aaaand here we go again.....
Sometimes I feel like my brain cells start to build up the links to process and produce Art.
The Forum need some sort of "Heavy Thinking"-Emoji.