Apr '24

Hi All, I'd like to share with you my progress, so far. I've started the Art School in November and I've watched the videos until Term 6.
With a full-time job and a father with Parkinson disease, it's not easy to find the time to study art, so I tried to be consistent by drawing from 20 minutes to 2h every day.

I started focussing on gesture/figure drawing and portraits (not a big fan of environments and background :sweat_smile:). I initially kept everything in black and white to better understand values and line weight, and now I'm attempting to apply colours on previous drawings.

I used Procrate on a iPad Air with Apple Pen using photos and reality as reference. I'm still learning how to properly use blending mode to colour over a black and white piece with this software.
I'm quite happy to appreciate the progress comparing the first page, made in November, with the last one, made in March. What do you think about them? I'm open to any comment :blush:

1.Gesture/Figure drawing

November

Gesture-Figure drawing 1 - November.PNG2480x3508 1.21 MB

January

Gesture Figure drawing 2 - February.PNG2480x3508 2.9 MB

March

Gesture Figure drawing 3 - April.PNG2480x3508 1.58 MB

2.Portraits

November

January

March

3) Attempt to color Portraits and create some OC, testing different style

Colored portraits

Portrait (light study)

OC - Onryo

OC- Portraits in different style from imagination

The last but not the least: Perspective Assignment - 1 Vanishing point room

Look forward to read your feedback
Cheers

Apr '24

Hey! Great work there! there's already great improvement from November! and it seems you already have a style you are comfortable working with!

Shading is pretty nice overall, though there is some area for improvement that I think you'll see once you get deeper into the terms. With colors for example, the color used for shading needs a tint to it, more so than just making the base color darker.

It's a bit early though, a lot of this will be addresses with some of the topics from the first terms, but you already have a very strong basis here!

Love the lighting in the blue haired girl looking out the window.

Perspective also looks well done! I see there's also some line weight applies to reinforce the perspective, such as the lightbulbs vs the furniture at the back, or finer lines for details. Perhaps just a bit more curves at corners to smooth out some elements in the image?

Looking forward to more works!

Apr '24
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Reply to

chiara91br

Awesome work! You improved a lot. I like that you experimented with different styles, :smiley: love how the gestures became more fluid as the time went on. Also, Your OC looks wonderful. You are on the right track!

Apr '24

Reply to

daceronine

Thank you very much for your feedback :heart_eyes:, indeed I don't like how I colour the shading as well. I used to draw when I was a teenager only with pencil and Bic Pen, so I'm not good with colouring. Thank you for the tips, I will try applying some tint in the shading.

I agree with you there are too many edges. The room was made with laziness, cause I don't enjoy very much drawing environment, but I must fix this :sweat_smile: , I have to learn to do background as well.
I will try to improve this piece by following your suggestion, smoothing the edges, and maybe adding also some colour.

Apr '24

Same here! I had the back of my notepads filled with doodles, characters and random drawings. Kinda wish I had kept them. Don't sweat it, keep at it and you'll get to the color topics in time, and there's a world of video resources to get started as well.