Cking's Art Journey

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!

daceronine 2023-02-15 22:41:34 UTC #21

Hey! nice progress man. Honestly, the best advice is to keep practicing more and more.

The fact that there's already progress between your tries 1 and 2 means you have a critical eye for your own work and have been able to make corrections.

That being the case, one piece of advice that has helped me a lot on regards to proportions and structure, as simple as it sounds, is to flip the image horizontally as you work on it.

I know there's a lenghty explanation for what it does, but basically, it allows your eye to view the same art piece with a "fresh perspective". Kinda like tricking your brain into thinking it's looking at a different piece of work. This allows you to quickly identify misproportions to correct them.

Try to setup a shotcut for this flip action (or just look up what the shortcut is), and do it frequently as you work on your next first try.

Once the image looks well proportioned flipped back and forth, then you know you got it right!

Keep practicing and going through the terms. I'm barely on term 2 myself and already there's a lot more to learn on regards to human proprotions and perspective!

cking.books89 2023-02-17 17:39:09 UTC #22

set up a new duration for gesture drawing exercises and i have to say it ended up better then I thought it would. did a 2 3.5 and a 5 minute draw,

Still needs work but its coming along, not great proportionately but as far as form and shapes i feel like its progressing. gunna do my best to make it more acurate!

snakker 2023-02-17 20:58:22 UTC #23

Nice work, just keep at it, keep iterating and analyzing what can be improved then try applying what you learned you will improve fast that way!

Do try to minimize fuzzy lines as they are hard to read, in its place, try analyzing first, measuring a bit maybe ghosting the stroke (like flying over the canvas) before hitting the canvas and placing your mark. Doesn’t have to be fast from the get go, I can tell ya my gestures were a struggle the first few times so I stopped doing them fast and just eased into it by being a little more analytical and giving myself a little more time to think - of course that meant some of my gestures were incomplete and I had to move on, but you learn from it and gradually improve

In gestures its best (according to various artists) to summarize all the action in what seem like C S and straight marks. Line weight can also help convey the feeling of movement using marks that taper at both ends and are heavier at the middle

Ofcourse all of this advice is just my opinion. - a beginner’s opinion still and there is definitely no real right or wrong eay to do any of this
Cheers!

cking.books89 2023-02-21 18:06:41 UTC #24

Thanks for the pointers so far. I decided to go a bit slower for these three and really focus on the basic shapes and not the more fine nitty gritty details.
no super fine lines and really let the lines flow.

snakker 2023-02-21 18:36:25 UTC #25

Nice! You can definitely feel the flow on these. I think a few straight lines and sharper corners at the knees for example, would add more dynamism

Cheers!

cking.books89 2023-02-24 20:59:28 UTC #26

Heres a couple for today. Trying to meld all that I have been working on together. they turned out more proportionate to the reference images which I'm happy about.

I think a few more and I ready to move on. Well to the perspective part anyway well still working on the findementals