Curtis - Art School Journey

Ascent 2020-10-30 23:50:22 UTC #21

Hey awesome character up there, you should be proud! Also good to see you push yourself for the perspective assignment, it's looking pretty clean. I get so lazy with perspective stuff.. I'll have to take a page from you.

hyoi 2020-11-01 02:51:54 UTC #22

Started to work on another character, figured I'd draw a witch since it's spooky day. I feel like something isn't quite working with the pose but I've been looking at it for hours and I can't figure out how to fix it.

Frygidal 2020-11-01 21:32:32 UTC #23

Hips look a bit too small and I think you have overdid perspective of the torso, it looks like her chest is right at the camera and suddenly her head is far back.

hyoi 2020-11-01 23:31:03 UTC #24

@pitrek121 Thanks for the comment, I knew there was something wrong with her hips but I didn't even notice the problem with her head.

I'm not done with the final line art yet but figured I'd post an update since I think I'm done with it for tonight. I brought her head down and her boobs up slightly, slimmed down her torso a bit, and sorta adjusted the angle of her hips so they are going back a bit more. I also spent about an hour trying to get her hand to a point where I didn't hate looking at it.

edit: Decided not to make a new post for this so I'm not spamming the forum with every little update...

I went back and did some extra work on the last character I made tonight. I decided to try and do some actual rendering, added a couple extra highlights, and I coloured my line art. Overall I think this was a success.

edit again: finished the witch.

Frygidal 2020-11-03 12:11:08 UTC #25

It came out really nice but you robbed her of the pelvis look on your own piece with katana girl, whole dark blue plane is front of her pelvis, witch girl has very similar pose of pelvis just other angle and her legs stick out top of the pelvis not the bottom like you did correctly with katana girl

brad100 2020-11-03 17:43:12 UTC #26

Man I loved looking at all these, was so fun. You did such a good job on those characters. My favorite is the katana girl, super cool pose and design. I just joined the first class and seeing all your progress has really inspired me. Can't wait to start mine now and see more from you!

hyoi 2020-11-03 23:19:13 UTC #27

@pitrek121 yeah I knew something was still off with the hips but I had spent so long trying to fix them already that I just decided to move on with the piece.

@brad100 I'm glad you are enjoying it even if half of it is somewhat off topic, It's always nice to hear someone likes the stuff you make. Looking forward to seeing your journey!

So funny story, I was watching the digital production 2 video today and I was going to start working on more homework, but then Marc started talking about blending. At this point my brain decided I needed to make my brushes better so I started fiddling all my settings and before I knew it I did another drawing.

Katana girl in a more anime style this time. The anatomy is mostly(?) correct I think... I did this without a reference again because I wasn't really planning to go this far...

I always figured I would have a hard time with a self directed course because I am easily distracted but at least I'm getting distracted by doing art even if it isn't part of the curriculum. Tune in tomorrow to find out if I can stay focused long enough to get through digital production 2.

hyoi 2020-11-04 19:52:29 UTC #28

I made it through digital production 2. Decided to recreate an emoji from one of the discord servers I'm in as a vector character. I scaled it to different sizes to show that the quality remains the same(the smallest one is the emoji for reference).

I haven't quite decided what I'll do for the box art thing yet but I'm sure I'll think of something. I'll update this post later if I get started on it.

edit: I finished my lineart for katana girl version 2. I think I'll put it on the box art for the next project. I spent a long time on this and I'm still not certain about some of the anatomy but I'll look at it again tomorrow...

hyoi 2020-11-05 23:08:09 UTC #29

I think I'm done with this for now, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out I think. Still need to make the text for my box art and turn everything into smart images so I can distort them but I think I'll work on that tomorrow.

hyoi 2020-11-06 19:53:14 UTC #30

Finished the box art, it's super basic but I think I understand the idea behind smart objects at the very least. Clip studio doesn't have a layer styles function so I couldn't really play around with anything like that unfortunately. I tried making my own font which isn't really something I've ever done before and probably not something I will do again if I can avoid it... creating logos and graphics really isn't my thing.

I'll probably work on part 2 assignments this afternoon or something.

hyoi 2020-11-10 00:12:12 UTC #31

Started working on some of the anatomy exercises. I had shading on all the shapes but somehow it all got deleted and I didn't have time to redo it yet...

edit: redid the shading on those shapes and added a couple more studies to the sheet. Updated the picture rather than uploading a second one.

I think I'll start doing more full faces in the next couple days. Maybe just do some portraits? I dunno. I'll let future me figure it out.

hyoi 2020-11-12 22:14:23 UTC #32

Did some mouth studies today. Mouths are hard.

hyoi 2020-11-14 00:51:03 UTC #33

I spent all day working on this portrait . I've never really tried to do a more realistic painting before so I had quite a bit of trouble with this. I know some of the facial structure still isn't perfect but I think I got it close enough to where it doesn't look inhuman anymore. I would like to be able to get rid of the lines entirely but I just can't figure out how to render something without them... it just ends up looking like a mess. Anyway I definitely didn't think about how difficult this portrait would be to paint before starting but I think it turned out okay considering my lack of painting experience. It looks pretty good if you shrink it down or look at it from really far away .

the original picture is a self portrait by Jennifer Bin.

hyoi 2020-11-16 20:41:19 UTC #34

did another portrait study of some picture i found on pintrest.

also did a few more heads, I need to stop working so small.

hyoi 2020-11-17 20:51:54 UTC #35

One more portrait for the road I guess. This time it's a self one done without reference just to see if I could make a face that doesn't look awful. I made a new brush to do the facial hair and I'm actually pretty happy with how it looks so that's something.

Julia_J 2020-11-18 07:58:13 UTC #36

Looking good!
The brush is quite nice, one thing though: his upper lip hairs.. they are growing sideways right now

hyoi 2020-11-20 03:02:32 UTC #37

@Julia_J I was trying to give the impression that the hairs were sticking out of the face rather than hanging down but maybe I took it a bit too far on the upper lip .

I was going to start the 3 point perspective stuff today but alas I got sidetracked once again.

I started with this idea about doing some sort of semi futuristic templar/paladin type character with really big extra hands that were sort of attached by an exoskeleton type thing.

At this point I started thinking about how an exo-skeleton would actually function around the arm joints so I looked up a bunch of mech and power suits and trying to figure out how to draw something that could actually function around the human elbow joint. I ended up disregarding the whole extra hands thing in the end and just went with a big ol' gauntlet. I like the idea but it just wasn't working for me on paper.

I liked where the gauntlet design was going so I slapped it onto my drawing and rolled with it from there. I ended up moving the pauldron to the opposite side to try and give it a bit more balance. Overall I'm happy with where this is headed.

edit: Started my final line work. Spent way longer than I'd like to admit trying to get her hand and the angle of the sword right. I might try to finish the lines over the weekend so I can start the perspective thing next week.

hyoi 2020-11-24 01:17:03 UTC #38

I finished the line art and started blocking in some colour today. I tried to vary my line weight a bit more in certain areas but I think I could probably push it a bit further in future work.

Frygidal 2020-11-24 09:36:49 UTC #39

She looks really cool, but I think the initial design of the arm was much better, now she has big sword, big forearm and need to swing it with her fragile arm I would say her high heels don't suit the design as well, they can stay but they need to be bulkier.

Keep up good work bro!

hyoi 2020-11-24 19:35:48 UTC #40

Thanks for the critique @Frygidal. I tried adding some bulkier armor to her arm but I just couldn't get it to look good . So instead I decided to give her a robotic arm which I think helps a bit. I also made the shoes less dainty because I think you were right that they didn't quite fit the aesthetic.

I'm not certain I am happy with the colour scheme yet so I might fiddle with that a bit more this afternoon before I get to adding shadow/light. I'll probably update this post with whatever changes I make by the end of the day one way or another.

edit: I ended up swapping the colour palette pretty drastically when I was fiddling with the dials. Pretty happy with how it turned out, I might still go back and add some colour to the lines later.