Curtis - Art School Journey

hyoi 2021-01-21 00:23:26 UTC #81

Finished with my female torsos and started working on male ones.

artist.rieljin 2021-01-21 02:22:11 UTC #82

These are some really good studies!

dangras-almeida 2021-01-21 07:33:24 UTC #83

Amazing studies! And loving the line-art with the hatch shadows.

hyoi 2021-01-22 01:26:13 UTC #84

Thanks for the compliments I'm quite happy with how these have turned out for the most part. It really does seem a lot easier to make sense of the muscles, especially on the back, after understanding which muscles go where and what their functions are. Anyway I finished the last 4 torsos on my male page so I guess I'll post that. I'll probably move on to folds and clothing stuff tomorrow and then probably try to design a character that shows off torso musculature and has cool clothing once I'm done with all that.

hyoi 2021-01-23 02:44:35 UTC #85

Not a super productive day but I did one clothing study so that's something I guess. I think I need to try to use even fewer lines when expressing some of the folds but it feels so unintuitive to me, I just want to use lines for everything...

hyoi 2021-01-27 00:27:09 UTC #86

Working on another clothing study today. I'm still trying to figure out where to use lines and where to just paint different folds but I think it's turning out okay. I also spent way too long trying to make her hand look decent again like always. Can't wait to get to the hand anatomy portion of this course...

dangras-almeida 2021-01-27 08:45:56 UTC #87

Wow! Loved the skirt here. Looks almost the same as the real picture! 💙💙💙

hyoi 2021-01-27 23:47:14 UTC #88

Finished my "study", it turned out more like a finished piece of art though. I added a bit more dynamic lighting and colour gradient because I love the effect that has. I'm really happy with this overall.

hyoi 2021-01-29 00:08:06 UTC #89

Working on another clothing study today. I'm trying to take Marc's advice on my muscle studies and pick out the "important" folds enough to make it look like a realistic piece of clothing without overdoing it. I think it's working? I like the way the sleeves turned out but I think I could probably afford to simplify the chest area a bit more for the sake of design or whatever.

Julia_J 2021-01-29 07:54:23 UTC #90

I really like it! The attitude is great

hyoi 2021-01-30 00:06:26 UTC #91

I think I'm done with this man. It's not a one to one replica but I think it still reads as clothing which is more or less what I was going for.

hyoi 2021-02-02 01:43:24 UTC #92

I added a bit more contrast with the darks and highlights on the coat as per Marc's critique today and I think I'm going to call it done.

That didn't take very long though and I spent a good portion of the day looking for cool objects on pinterest to use as concept fodder. I recently saw a bunch of art of people making characters out of random objects and I decided that was cool and I also wanted to do that. So here's my first attempt at a monk type character based on some ring I found. It's still pretty rough but I like the direction it's going.

hyoi 2021-02-03 00:38:45 UTC #93

I did up a couple extra designs and then mixed some of the elements I liked from each. Pretty happy with the final design and I've started working on a cleaned up version. I think I might work on a female verion once I'm done with this guy before putting the characters into an actual illustration but I haven't decided yet.

hyoi 2021-02-05 02:40:02 UTC #94

Cleaned up my design a bit today. There's something I don't like about it but I don't really know what it is...

hyoi 2021-02-05 22:55:58 UTC #95

i redid all my lines a bit bigger and added a couple details. I'm not certain why but think it looks much better now. I also started doing some minor rendering to help distinguish different materials a bit. I think the crown might be a bit much so I might change that down the road.

Frygidal 2021-02-05 23:15:28 UTC #96

This one is mega-solid, just be careful with values, you have brightened tighs too much and legs lost roundness, the skirt is just perfect!

hyoi 2021-02-09 02:23:39 UTC #97

I decided to design another character instead of doing more with my last one. I'm liking where this design is headed but I feel like it might be missing something. I'll sleep on it and see how I feel tomorrow.

hyoi 2021-02-10 03:09:28 UTC #98

Cleaned up my drawing and did a back view as well. I think really need to spend more time doing gesture/figure drawing, it takes me so long to get the poses to a point where I'm happy with them...

hyoi 2021-02-11 00:06:54 UTC #99

I tweaked some of the line art that was bothering me and blocked in some flat colour today. Also started to render the flesh.

dangras-almeida 2021-02-11 08:30:20 UTC #100

Looking good! Can't wait to see the final result!