Apr '24

Hi All, my name is Chiara and I'm 33. I've been passionate about art since I was a kid. I wanted to be a comic artist, but my family didn't support me so I became a R&D chemist.
After 4 years of working as chemist, I felt that my life was empty without art, so I decide to come back to study, hoping that one day I can be a professional artist.
I'd love to work as storyboard artist for animation, or 2D/3D Character design. Look forward to contribute in this big community :smile:

Apr '24

Welcome! I am looking forward to your work. Wish you good luck!

Apr '24

Welcome Chiara! Also love doing manga myself, looking forward to your works! Cheers!

Apr '24

Welcome! I'll be looking forward to seeing your work ^^

Apr '24

Welcome I def feel you on the family not supporting you welcome and I look forwards to your progress

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!