Andrew V - Art School Journey

Lockenheim 2022-06-15 14:04:50 UTC #4

Welcome to the forums! I believe that there are several tatoo artists in the forums you should be in good company!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-06-15 19:14:44 UTC #5

Great to meet you I'm happy to hear there are a lot of people having success applying these lessons to tattooing!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-06-20 20:42:00 UTC #6

June 20th 2022 Update

Hey Everyone! I put in a lot of work on gesture, full figure construction, torso construction, and mixing gesture and construction! Thanks so much to @daudraime for the torso and gesture resources! They helped a LOT and everything would not have turned out this well without them! Thanks for looking!

Gesture

@daudraime took your advice and tried to do more more confident lines on these even though they ended up looking jankier because of it I definitely am starting to understand how much better a single confident line looks!

Construction

Torso Construction

Gesture and Construction Mix

Squint_io 2022-06-21 06:02:33 UTC #7

Nice to meet you! I'm glad to hear you're starting to regain your spark.

raime 2022-06-21 23:06:26 UTC #8

I gotta say, you have a substancial improvement over the last time! Very good! Keep practicing like this, and I am VERY happy that my studies helped you friend!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-06-23 01:26:57 UTC #9

Thanks so much for taking a look! It's motivating to hear that it's getting a little better!! I appreciate you

Lockenheim 2022-06-26 13:18:44 UTC #10

Nice work so far! Good progress! One thing that may help visualize the cylinders of the limbs in space is to draw the elpise all the way through the form to the other side. It will really help define the roundness of the form. Good work and keep it up!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-06-26 17:42:15 UTC #11

Thanks so much for taking a look! I'll definitely focus on trying that more in my future construction studies!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-06-27 20:10:38 UTC #12

June 27th Update

Another week's worth of construction, gesture, and combining the two. I think I started to grasp gesture a little more this week, still struggling to define it quickly and need up too 5 minutes to capture the gesture with semi-correct proportions. Working on using more c-curves, s curves, and straight lines and trying to make my strokes more confident. I feel like my structure is getting a little better. Haven't done digital at all this week, because these studies just feel better to do in traditional. Let me know if anyone thinks this is a problem, thanks so much for looking

Gesture

Construction

Gesture and Construction Combined

Lockenheim 2022-07-03 13:52:11 UTC #13

I havnt done much traditional but they are the same set of skills so I don't think it matters to much which you practice on. I just like digital for Ctrl z lol!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-07-19 17:31:21 UTC #14

July 19th Update

It's been a while since I posted, but I've been hard at work and have filled a full sketchbook from the last time I posted until now! Been practicing a LOT of gesture, anatomy, and structure. One of my next goals is to start learning about facial structure, but I wanted to get some critiques on some things I can improve on when it comes to how my current work. Any advice/critiques would be very appreciated Thanks for taking a look!

Lockenheim 2022-07-20 18:51:33 UTC #15

For improvement you could work on your line quality. I think that would help the read and the professionalism if the piece. Try making your curves and lines in one clean stroke.vif you don't get the angle right erase and try again. It will be worse at first but will pay off in the long run.

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-07-20 23:04:21 UTC #16

Thanks so much for the advice I'll try to work on that as I go into my next round of studies this week!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-07-25 17:17:02 UTC #17

July 25th Update

My update for this week! Have been working on studying anatomy of the body more and have put off working on faces. I feel like I got a much better understanding of torso anatomy even though its not perfect yet. I tried to work on my line quality from @Lockenheim 's suggestion and I feel like my lines have gotten a little more confident definitely not quite there yet. Any further critiques would be very appreciated Thanks so much for taking a look!

Squint_io 2022-07-25 20:23:31 UTC #18

It looks like you have a good understanding of where the muscles of the torso go. I think you should work on your shoulders more because some of them look unproportionable to the rest of the torso. Keep up the good practice!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-07-26 01:50:08 UTC #19

@Silver_io thanks so much for the advice Ill pay more attention to the shoulders in this week's practice!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-07-28 21:22:25 UTC #20

July 28th Update

Been working on more torso anatomy and I feel like these are definitely better than the last batch! I started to notice @Silver_io 's critique of the shoulder issues when I was creating these and have tried to fix up my neck and shoulder anatomy a bit. Critiques of my anatomy of the torso and general construction would be super appreciated

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-08-08 22:02:42 UTC #21

August 8th Update

Putting in more work on torso anatomy and doing more full body studies. I feel like my lines are slowly growing less sketchy, but still need to work on that more. Any critiques would be super appreciated

Lockenheim 2022-08-13 16:10:07 UTC #22

Nice constructions! Keep up the good work!

Swallowing_Safety_Pins 2022-08-15 19:41:39 UTC #23

Thanks so much