Cyberspectre (romeo) - art school journey

cyberspectre 2022-01-06 22:08:55 UTC #1

Helloo I’m Romeo and I’m 21 yrs old. I started art school about a week and 1/2 ago. I work 5 days a week so I am doing one class at a time, starting with nude figure drawing (term 1). I have been drawing for a long time and started taking art seriously (I want to pursue a career in art) a couple years ago. My fundamentals are lacking so taking this course should hopefully help with that.

cyberspectre 2022-01-06 22:25:54 UTC #2

Here are the cylinder mannequins I’ve done over images. I think this is too easy, so I’ve moved on from these.

cyberspectre 2022-01-06 22:30:29 UTC #3

Here are the ones I’ve done so far from reference (not tracing/over top).

cyberspectre 2022-01-06 22:35:41 UTC #4

Here are all the gesture sessions I’ve done since starting the program. I was initially using the vine charcoal brush because of the line variation, but switched to pencil to ensure that I would have to use clean, singular lines to achieve a clean look.

cyberspectre 2022-01-06 22:39:32 UTC #5

Please feel free to criticize anything here. I have pretty thick skin so feel free to be harsh, I actually kind of prefer that. If anyone would like some criticism in return, I would be happy to return the favor. Just link to whatever you’d like me to comment on.

Kosmonaut 2022-01-06 23:04:10 UTC #6

welcome the forums! everything looks great but for your gesture I would try to include feet since that is what makes the pose feel grounded and believable that they are standing on something and for your skeletons I would lead some space for the joints like the knees and elbows otherwise great expressive gesture and skeleton construction

cyberspectre 2022-01-09 18:10:30 UTC #7

thanks! I’ll prioritize finishing the feet in my gestures

cyberspectre 2022-01-09 18:12:24 UTC #8

gestures from the past 2 days

_Sasha_ 2022-01-09 21:55:24 UTC #9

Your gesture drawings are all really nice, and have a lot of movement in them and really express the pose and movement.

In some of your gestures some of the joints and limbs feel a little awkward. It might be worth running a separate line of action through the direction the limbs are going to more emphasize the movement and not break the solid dynamics you otherwise have.
My feedback might not be 100% correct though so hopefully someone else can give feedback too ^-^

Kosmonaut 2022-01-09 23:25:28 UTC #10

with the joints and limbs feeling awkward I can see some of that but I would actually do more figure studies if you haven't done any before. Figure studies help you learn how to draw the body basically and notice the small things like how the arms and legs bend or what shape the legs take when they are straight vs. bent, so doing both gesture and figure in tandem will improve your gesture as you do more figure studies. It could also be a time thing where your trying to get everything down and not caring too much about accuracy which in that case just keep at it and you observe things faster the more you do it being able to draw faster and add less awkward connections due to time constraints or even add in some more details to your gesture

cyberspectre 2022-01-11 16:59:06 UTC #11

@sasha0wood thanks for the feedback! i can definitely see your point. since your comment i have been trying to take into account the feedback and think more about the flow of the pose as well as trying to make my joints/limbs less awk.

@Kosmonaut you're right that it is partially a time thing too, and taking account feedback has made me slower (although i def think it's necessary so dont think im complaining haha). and yes i do need to do some more figure studies. it's not as easy to be consistent w em since they are more time consuming :') thanks again for the feedback!

cyberspectre 2022-01-11 17:00:54 UTC #12

gestures from past 3 days

cyberspectre 2022-01-11 17:02:32 UTC #13

the past couple have been way harder but i think once i get over this hump the gestures will be much improved

i have the day off so if i get thru everything else hopefully i'll be able to do even more later

cyberspectre 2022-01-11 22:16:51 UTC #14

just finished some more gestures. someone on the art school discord recommended me to move on to anatomy 1, so I’ve also started practicing head construction (w/o details so far)

cyberspectre 2022-01-13 22:31:22 UTC #15

dump!

_Sasha_ 2022-01-13 23:02:08 UTC #16

Nice, I love the sense of form you have in the 3D one, it's done really well

cyberspectre 2022-01-13 23:02:16 UTC #17

cyberspectre 2022-01-13 23:05:14 UTC #18

thank you

cyberspectre 2022-01-15 14:08:58 UTC #19

daniellynch1000 2022-01-15 15:42:52 UTC #20

your gesture drawings are really good, they really express a action! Also good job on the heads proportions look great!