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! (=^ ◡ ^=)

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

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!

Hello! It's finally time for me to start with term 5!

For this first week I had to start a reference folder. Honestly, I had already created a Pinterest board to save my references quite a few years ago, but because I saved too many images I felt that it was no longer useful, so I created new folders to keep everything more organized.

I'm actually curious to know where everyone has their reference folder, is there another website where you can organize your images better? or does everyone just have it as a normal folder on their device? I really want to know!

But all week I focused on one thing, and that was designing 3 of my original characters!

I really put a lot of effort into designing them, I looked at a lot of clothing references as it's something I'm not so good at, but I'm quite proud of how they turned out! ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ)

Starting with my first character!

His name is Solé! I've had his concept in my head for like two years now, and I had never been able to do justice to his design, at least until now.

He's supposed to be a powerful and eccentric wizard, I've always imagined him with an extravagant and shiny design, but I didn't want to add so many jewels since I still don't know how I would balance all that.

My main reference were the colors and feathers of the peacock, but I didn't put much detail into his cape because I might faint if I tried, and they're really hard to draw O.O

I tried using the grayscale technique and it was honestly a lot of fun, I still don't know how to use the gradient map so the colors are not exactly what I wanted, but they are close.

My second character is called Odel, and he was the hardest of the three to draw.

Her backstory is complicated and involves a lot of time travel, but he's primarily a spirit. I've thought of a ton of designs for him depending on where he is in the story, but I decided to draw the first design I had in mind for him. In fact, at the bottom right I put a drawing from two years ago when I had initially created him, but that design never convinced me and I spent all this time thinking about how to improve it.

When I was little, my family had a doll that we used as a decoration for Christmas, and when I asked my mom what it was, she told me it was a harlequin. I always thought it was quite pretty, it was a completely white doll, and when I thought about the design for this character the first thing I remembered was that doll, so I wanted him to look like one.

Although in the end I decided to go more towards a design similar to that of a pierrot clown, it just suits him better.

The ghost character that I used as a reference also inspired me a lot to create him, since it was part of one of my favorite games as a child. I also used other references like the clown costumes and capes that you can find in the game Sky.

My third character is called Olivia! I was going to draw a different character, but in the end I forgot and chose her because she had similar vibes lol

I actually created her last year, I was trying to make a lot of characters for a project so I didn't really have much time and ended up not putting much effort into their drawing which you can see on the bottom right. But I really liked the idea so I wanted to actually try this time.

She doesn't have a backstory yet, but I imagined she might work in a haunted house, or maybe be a demon or vampire who owns a big haunted mansion. I think I wanted her to be like a dark angel in my first drawing, but the demon wings looked amazing so I'm not going back to that idea.

Her umbrella is pretty much the same, but I wanted to try making a new dress for her. I'm still a little troubled about her puffy sleeves, I like the idea but I think I need more practice to make it look better. The skirt is really not the best, I was overwhelmed by the variety of dresses I kept looking at, but it's something that I might be able to redesign later. But I don't think she'll change her hair, it's definitely my favorite part.

Honestly, drawing these three characters gave me a huge confidence boost and now I feel like I can draw anything I set my mind to, maybe I'll finally be able to draw the thousand characters that I haven't taken out of the basement ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

I'll be back next week with the next assignments!

Hello again! It's time for week 2!

Starting from the daily gesture drawing practice!

For this week I had to do some sculpting and I felt like I was losing my mind lol.

This time I used Blender, so I had to learn how to use a program completely from scratch again. But at least this time it wasn't so difficult, I watched a short video and with that I was able to understand the general tools.

That being said, I still went through a lot of pain trying to get these things to look good.

I tried to make a foot and honestly I think it turned out pretty good.

I think maybe the pinky toe was a little big, but there are many different types of feet in the world so I'm not going to stress about it.

The nails were the hardest part, I wasn't really sure how to do them so I just did the best I could.

I don't even want to talk about his hand.

I'm sure there must be a better way to do them, but I didn't know the program very well and wanted to try to do it myself without watching any tutorials.

I promise not to be so stubborn next time (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

I wanted to try to make an alien with hair, that's all.

I think you can understand my vision, although it is not completely well done.

I still have the same problem that what I do looks very low quality, I think there might be something I need to configure, but I'll look into that another time.

Another thing I did this week was trying to write little a story I had in mind. I know there will be a video on storytelling next term, but I just wanted to try to do something fun, and since developing stories is quite difficult for me I thought it would be good practice.

But honestly I'm not having much fun lol I didn't know writing could be so complicated.

I like to read a lot of fanfics, manga, and graphic novels, so I wanted to try to put a story together because I feel like I don't have the ability to draw something like that yet.

But now I think drawing might be the easier route. (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

I don't think that story will ever see the light of day, but I'm learning a thing or two about how to develop a story and not die in the process.

I'll try to come back next week, I think I'm starting to get a cold, but if it's not too serious I'll keep working on the assignments ( ◡̀_◡́)ᕤ