Cking's Art Journey

cking.books89 2023-01-11 20:51:45 UTC #1

Hiya everyone!
I have been doing art for off and on since I was 5. I have taken several art classes/courses off and on as well. In high school I was offered a full ride scholar ship to an art college that was near where I lived, which I turned down for a few life reasons, one of which is because of peer pressure.
I love art, but my skills have drastically diminished over the years because I didn't have a clear concise goal for what I wanted to do, or draw.
I'm an author now and have a goal that is driving me to improve my art. My goal is to be able to draw and illustrate the characters that are in my books, I want to bring the words to life to help myself and those who read my books to see what I see in my mind while I write my books.
I hope you can all help me along my journey!
I appreciate all tips or nudges/suggestions on how I can grow closer to my goal. I look forward to this course and the journey ahead.

snakker 2023-01-11 21:13:53 UTC #2

Hi and welcome, i wish you good luck
Also, you should probably move this post to art school forum

Cheers

cedricgo 2023-01-11 21:22:25 UTC #3

Hello and welcome! I'm sure you'll find what you need here. Best of luck to you

mitsuki-youko 2023-01-12 21:28:12 UTC #4

welcome to the forums

daceronine 2023-01-13 19:53:56 UTC #5

Heyo, welcome, glad to have some company in this journey. Bests of luck!

Lockenheim 2023-01-14 02:15:32 UTC #6

Hello and have fun in the forums!

cking.books89 2023-01-18 21:08:00 UTC #7

Its been a bit busy lately so I wasn't able to do much but today i was able to finally sit down and start.

Usually I'm just looking at a reference on my other monitor but I'm going to follow instructions better to cement a better foundation. Lets go!

cking.books89 2023-01-19 17:10:27 UTC #8

Today work. red is line of action, blue the three main shapes, green for joints/limbs

snakker 2023-01-19 18:53:30 UTC #9

Great work, keep it up!

cking.books89 2023-01-20 19:38:10 UTC #10

added orange for the arm shape and volume. trying to keep all the color pallet for each lesson. Ive noticed as I'm out and about, or just watching anime/tv/youtube, or just browsing the internet looking at pictures that my mind is breaking down all the different points, its a little trippy but pretty fun.
Here's the cylinder practice-

Here's the over body practice-

snakker 2023-01-21 01:09:29 UTC #11

Oh I feel you, doing art really changes how you see things

Keep up the good work,

Cheers

cking.books89 2023-01-21 22:33:19 UTC #12

Practicing volume poses again today. tried doing one without reference. the one in the bottom left i tried to copy the reference without being directly over top.

Also tried my hand at the next part with drawing the body proportions.

I feel like i need to work on the female more. One step at a time, progress!

cking.books89 2023-01-23 01:10:56 UTC #13

Practiced some more on proportions and poses again today. I think i did better on the female this time than yesterday.

For the poses I tried to not use any references, when working on them. I did better then I thought I would, still feel like i need to practice more.

cking.books89 2023-01-24 22:05:36 UTC #14

next leson. I did this both sidemy side and then overtop. I realized the i needed to make the body more cubed to better show the twisted areas better.

going to be working on this part for a little bit till i feel like i can do it better

cking.books89 2023-01-30 19:21:18 UTC #15

A lot has happened so wasn't able to do much with art. but back at it till next weekend when another break is gunna happen. Life sucks some times...
But heres todays work-
Attempt 1- made it way to wide with the shapes, so the proportions are way off and had the wrong angle on the head and different parts.

Attempt 2- A little better closer on the correct proportions but some of the angles need to be a bit sharper.

The improvement is slow but becoming more apparent each time. One Step at a time. but I have been able to see the improvement step i take to redue and adjust how i look at things.

snakker 2023-01-30 19:59:17 UTC #16

Nice work! Keep it up. Iterating like that over the same fogure can be very helpful, especially as you are aware of mistakes and asking yourself questions along the way and not just mindlessly stroking the canvas (which, tends to happen a lot - it’s easy to fall into the trap of just going through the motions and making it a mechanical exercise and not a mental one!)

Cheers!

cking.books89 2023-02-06 17:56:59 UTC #17

Still Working on the proportioned poses,

here's try one for the day-

here's try 2-

The thing I realized the most as I was doing the exercize was that I wasn't putting enough of the curvature of the body to really show the correct proportions. thats why between try 1 and 2 its such a large difference in body length. This exercize is what im having the hardest time with in term 1.
Any Suggestions?

snakker 2023-02-06 18:44:09 UTC #18

Nice one. I sometimes do both gesture and proportions study on one same figure. You can try doing the gesture in one layer, then draw the figure on top, try suggesting rather than drawing all the lines. When you do the gesture it gives a good idea of what to really emphasize with your line work

Cheers

cking.books89 2023-02-08 20:37:25 UTC #19

Thanks @snakker I decided to do a gesture drawing session for a quick 30 minutes, and the comparing them to the proportions ive done previousley and what a vissible difference. I'll do a gesture proportion exercise later. after i feel a bit more confident with the gesture exercize. but here it is, i did 15 at 30 seconds. 7 at 1 minute. and 3 at 2 minutes.

I used the gesture drawing app that Marc recommends in the course video. What a helpful tool.

cking.books89 2023-02-15 17:49:37 UTC #20

Heres some more Gesture Practice. Same intervals as the last one.

I feel like i was able to get a bit more into the 1 and 2 minute poses then the last one. Still needing to work on it. Progress is Progress!