Cosmo - Art School Journey

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh yea these look great!

[uggievang]

some really nice work those clothing studies are amazing you got those values and shapes down

[AveCosmo]

I completely forgot to share my work for week 3! So here it is!

First some exercices!

I also tried to do a muscular bust, but it was definitely a challenge. I wanted it to look better, but my wrist was hurting a lot for the past week, so I did the best I could.

And some anatomy studies too!

I'm very proud of this last assignment. I learned from my past mistake and chose a simpler photo, I think that's why it looks so much better than my last attempt.

I was going to focus just on the clothes, but I thought this could also be an opportunity to learn more about coloring, so I ended up doing the entire body.

I've always heard artists say that it's more important to focus on the whole drawing than the small details, but I think I finally understand what they meant.

[daceronine]

Wow that last one is really impressive, I could barely tall them appart until I tried to take a closer look.
The torso sketch waist is a bit too small (unless that's intended, could just be style), but otherwise looks nice.

[leeireo]

That last study is incredible! I really couldn't tell the difference from the photo and the study LOL.

I just wanted to give some insight on how you did the muscular bust though. In the last clothes study you did, you captured the shadows super well with nice big shapes, but it seems you haven't tried doing the same on your muscular bust drawing.

I drew something to try and show what I mean.
On there you'll see how I traced your shadow shapes and you can see how it doesn't really connect to eachother, but instead it seems as if they've all been shaded individually without thinking too much about the big picture.

Going off of that, I feel like you're trying to go from a sketch to shaded in one big step instead of taking it step by step.
I've broken down the steps I usually take when shading the body to hopefully try and help in that area. I will try to keep it short with bullet points in 3 steps.

1. Capture main shadow: Basically every area that is not directly exposed to the lightsource.

2. Ambient Occusion / Secondary Shadow: Here you'll use black or anything that is almost black to paint the areas where no light will hit and then add a secondary shadow with a color that is a bit lower in value than the main shadow. It'll mostly be used for capturing the basic forms of the whole body.

3. Finishing Touch: And this would be the step where you can do what you were initally doing and paint / shade in the details on the individual body parts. One disclaimer though is that you want to paint while keeping the lighting set up you've made in step 2.
For example, If you go back to the drawing I did, try looking at example A and B from afar. You won't really be able to tell them apart from one another because of the fact that I kept the lighting the same while adding in the details.

Honestly from what I saw from your clothing study though, you probably know what you're doing. I just wanted to try and do more critiques cause Marc says so in term 2... >>
Hope this helps regardless though!

[uggievang]

Oh wow that clothing study is super nice seems like you got folds pretty nailed down, and I hope your wrist feels better hope it's nothing to serious.

I would like to bring something up about your torso challenge and study. I think you generally have the placement and proportions pretty good and in some instances some of your attachment points seem to be a bit off but honestly it could be a style thing. But strictly speaking from a study standpoint there are a few parts of your torso that do stand out to me. Learning where the muscles attach will greatly help in the placement of muscles and how they move for example sternocleidomastoid muscle should attach all the way down to the sternum and up to around behind the ear

This pretty much goes for all the other muscles for example the obliques in your bust drawing they seem to narrow down a bit to much exposing the back muscles. But as you can see in the picture they take up the whole front and even wrap a bit into the back

There are a couple other things that I also noted down in the drawing

[AveCosmo]

@leeireo @uggievang I'm really grateful for your advice!

I noticed I didn't really take the lighting into account, I'm not even sure why, but I'm really grateful for the little tutorial about the shadows!

This was actually my first time ever trying to make a muscular torso, so I also appreciate the help with the proportions and placement of the muscles and attachments!

I'll be making a new practice for my next post from the things I learned! And thanks again for the much needed feedback (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)

[AveCosmo]

Hello again! It's been a while since my last post, these weeks have been a bit hectic so I decided to combine week 4, 5 and 6 into just one post.

My biggest challenge in the past few weeks was ZBrush. I had never touched a 3D sculpting program before so I felt like a fish out of water. The videos were very helpful, but not being familiar with the program I felt quite overwhelmed with so many new things, so all the knowledge I gained I forgot immediately afterwards. Honestly, my biggest enemy was my ability to retain information.

The barrel was the first thing I did, I tried to add some details to it, but I didn't want to put too much resolution on it because I didn't know how much my laptop could handle. The metal rings were the most difficult part, I think they look pretty bad but oh well I tried (I almost cried)

I wanted to make a human bust at first, but it started to look like an alien, and for some reason I ended up with a cat face ?? I think this one is a lot better than the barrel, but I had a horrible time trying to make the ears (they look even worse from behind) And even though I wanted to do the whickers, for some reason it looked really weird so I gave up.

The other things I did during these weeks were less overwhelming. I was practicing with anatomy, I also tried to draw other types of faces, and I was experimenting with clothes.

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I also did some more studies in my sketchbook, but my drawings are very messy and don't look very good in photos.

I also made a study from one of my favorite artist that I have already shown in some of my other posts. I had wanted to do this for a long time because I really love their style and wanted to learn more about their technique.

And I also made a new version of the torso that I posted a few weeks ago! This time it actually looks a lot better thanks to the advice I received, I still have to improve with things like shadows and lighting, but now I have the motivation to draw muscular men without fear of the torso looking weird! Yay!

I might take a week to work on personal projects that I need to finish, and recently I got Clip Studio Paint so I also want to familiarize myself with the program. If anyone knows how to use it and has any advice or comments about it I would also like to know!

[daceronine]

Yooo! These is all great stuff! your characters look so cute!! (and so well done too!!).

Torso already shows a lot of improvement! though I'd recommend having some references at hand when you do the next anatomy exercice, it really helps get those proportions and position better.

The barrel and the cat head look great too!

All around amazing work. You're really killing it there!

I'm also a CSP user, so if there's anything I might be able to help with, feel free to DM me, or post your question and I'm sure any CSP user can help (many here also use CSP). I'm also at discord if you prefer to touchbase there.

Cheers!

[patrycja.lerch]

Great work! These sketches are so adorable!!!

[snakker]

These sketches are looking good. On the skeletal guys I think something is off on the proportions of the rectus abdominis and pectoralis

cheers!

[mitsuki-youko]

the barrel looks great!

the studies look great as well! Fellow csp user feel free to send me a dm of a discord chat if there's anything particular you wanna ask about

[AveCosmo]

Hello Again! I had to take more time off, but I kept working on the course and finally started with term 4.

These are the assignments for the first week.

I wanted to try changing the colors of one of my drawings. The colors in the image on the right were a little more difficult, but I liked the ones I used in the middle image.

I did my best with the box assignment, but I didn't really like how it turned out, so I might redo it later.

And I also did the assignments for week 2!

Since I didn't like the shadows in the previous assignment, I tried to do better with this one.

Learning about muscles was honestly very difficult, but the ones in the arms made me suffer even more.

And I also did some line art and upper body studies.

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh i love how you color as well as the shade of blue you used for the shading

[AveCosmo]

I'm back! August has been a pretty tough month for me, I had to take a lot of breaks to take care of my health, but I'm totally fine now, so I'll be able to post weekly again!

I continued working with term 4, so here's my work for the last three weeks!

Muscles are still hard to understand, but I'm learning a lot with these assignments!

I tried making different expressions, but I think I need to practice more.

I tried my best to mimic the colors in those three illustrations, but it was a lot harder with the last one because it is very detailed.

I don't usually draw feet, but while doing these assignments I thought that maybe it is a little easier than I expected, I just need to practice more.

And I finally finished drawing the muscles on the skeleton bodies! I think it looks pretty good, but I had to use a lot of references because I was getting really confused lol

And that's it! I'll be back next week to finish term 4! (=^ ◡ ^=)

[daceronine]

Oh wow you've been busy! That's a lot of good work!

Your style for them faces is really cute.
I'll try to refrain myself from making any hand puns, but both hands and feet are really on point! (huh.. is that a pun? I'm not sure)

Muscles can be pretty tough, but you seem to have a good handle on most of their location and structure. Just knowing they're there and how they wrap is a huge boon for your arts.
The Traps on the back of the final piece seems to have a different right and left side, which makes it look a little weird, but otherwise most look pretty good.

Keep it up! you're doing great here!

[mitsuki-youko]

woah these look great! your clothes studies are amazing!

[AveCosmo]

Hello! For some reason I thought I had already posted the last assignments of term 4 last week, but apparently I forgot (o_O)

So here they are!

I'm still having a hard time drawing the muscles, but I guess that's something I'll get used to if I keep drawing and trying, so I'll keep trying my best and getting used to doing new things.

I also wanted to try to make a muscular female body and give her my aunt's hair and glasses. I think it looks a little silly but I tried ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ ) I will continue learning how to make different body types, but for now it is a little complicated.

I took last week to finish some work that I hadn't been able to do last month, but I've already started working on next week's assignments and I'm really excited to start learning about character design, and it's a good excuse to draw several characters that I have in mind as well!

I won't forget to post next week, I swear (๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭

[daceronine]

Yo! good progress with anatomy. Specifically for the male one I did a few corrections from what I also learned so far:

Mainly:
1) Bicep goes under the where the pectoral attaches (close to where the deltoid ends).
2) Sartorius wraps around the leg and down at the side/under the knee.
3) Gastrocnemius form on the back.
4) Other small adjustments to some arm and legs.

Looking forward to those character designs!

[AveCosmo]

Thank you so much for the corrections! I tried using pictures as reference, but it was still very difficult to draw and I kept getting confused with so many muscles T.T I will keep your advice in mind for my next practices!