CYP2C19's Art School Journey

[snakker]

These look fairly right. Especially the ones in the middle, as you have them at an angle, you can see how the antehelix juts out a bit. It does vary a lot between individuals though, so don't worry too much about slight variations in overall shape. Do note however that it's quite easy to think of an ear as a relationship between the helix and antehelix, after you show how the helix comes out of the depths, to make the outer question mark shape of the ear, the ante helix comes and juts out just a bit at the top to the side and outward (laterally and posteriorly) before coming down, making a small canal between the two that slowly becomes more shallow as you go down and disappears. All that is quite clear in your drawings. the lower part however can be a bit confusing so I typically see it as a continuation of the internal contour of the ante helix and as it reaches the bottom makes two projections: the antitragus and tragus, with the inferior portion between them being the intertragic notch. I really can't wait to start doing these studies but still have to finish term 1 >_<

cheers! and keep it up

[snakker]

These were the same explanations to simplify it that I posted at another sketchbook a while back (do note, I'm no expert, but this idea definitely helps me on how to think of ears in terms of drawing them):

[CYP2C19]

@mitsuki-youko Thank you for the kind words!
@snakker TYSM for the detailed info, My main problem is just visualizing how to draw the Antihelix in different perspectives, and even just drawing it in general xd. Good stuff you've already got some serious experience on Anatomy, I can use you as my personal teacher XD.
Nah but 4 real Snakker, You're seriously big help with practically everything.

[CYP2C19]

Daily Update #14

I was meant to post an update yesterday, but out of pure laziness I didn't, aand cause I slept for like 3-4hrs xd.
I'm also changing from "Random Update" to "Daily Update", As I feel it sounds better, Posting "Random Updates" just feels wrong, calling the Updates Random almost gives me the feeling of "eeh who cares, It's just a random update", whereas Daily Update feels more "Friendly"?.

Anyways Imma just get straight to it, I didn't do many much of Anatomy Studies, I've wanted to get better at shading using Hard Brushes, so that's what I've been fiddling with the most recently on just normal shapes. THINK I've made some progress, one can hope xd.

C&C Always welcome!.
Starting off with Gestures, Still waiting on my FORCE books, they haven't been shipped just yet, so It'll probably be another 2 quick weeks roughly until I can start making proper progress there.

Then we have some simple Head constructions, I use GestureDrawing! (the program you can buy here on cubebrush) to randomize images that I draw the head constructions from, same way I do gesture drawings.
Some of the Jaws ended up a bit too far down, mostly due to miss calculations.

Then we have just a few Ear studies I did yesterday, I didn't check my Cubebrush post yesterday so the advice @snakker gave me wasn't applied in these. But I'll try to use them next time.
Also I just realized I apparently had a stroke on my 1st and 2nd set of ears, the ear in the top right is in the wrong direction on the 1st, and the top left on 2nd isn't flipped like it should be.. How the hell didn't I realize that until just now?!?. sigh

Alright now over to the Hard Brush shading attempts, I didn't use any references for these, not that I know of a website or any consistent source to find good 3D renders of random shapes to go off on, So If you got any that'd be much appreciated!.
And as usual, I have no clue on whether these are correct, But eey We live and we learn.

Thank you as usual for reading through this post, wish you the best of that ArtXP gains!♥.

[snakker]

Yo, you’re gonna make me blush here man, haha I’m always glad to help 😃
As for your work, wow, really good job on the heads, the ears and the shading. It’s looking very nice!

For 3D primitives in random lighting conditions, if you need some reference - now I haven’t tried this myself - but two things do come to mind. One would be to download a 3D modeling app like blender (free) and using it to place some cubes, cylinders, spheres and cones with different light source experiments. The other option would be to find simple objects at home or getting some foam, clay/playdo and playing with lights (a table lamp and paper or cloth) at home to do still life of the objects. Actually, I think now I am going to go buy some clay myself, this sounds fun 😂

Cheers!

[mitsuki-youko]

wow these are some awesome looking studies

[prinzmoana]

Wow these volumes look really good ^.^
You even have a double twisted cube 🤯😂

[CYP2C19]

Almost Daily Update #15

It's Friday lads!, That means my time off has come, and next update will be Monday.
I've been a bit lazy in regards to posting some updates and what not, there's no excuse other than laziness there, gonna try and keep things daily next week!.

Let's just jump straight in to it.

Gestures, I've for some reason just suddenly jumped up in speed on these, on average I've almost doubled my speed, Don't know where that came from but ey hopefully It's here to stay.

C&C Always welcome!.

Some Shading attempts, Still trying to get the hang on Hard Brush shading.

A not so spherical sphere, not too happy with this one in general xd.

I don't know how to shade the top of these cylinders, keep it odd with one solid color?, do this hard shading on top, or go for a softer shade on top?. Any help would be appreciated!.

And here's just a bunch of random shapes I did, after I watched a Video recommended by @prinzmoana
Here's the video for those interested, I highly recommend it.

Here's my stuff, and some I tried shading, some went better than others, still fun to do!.

And last but not least my ears, haven't gotten into shading them properly just yet, merely adding values.

Hope y'all have a great weekend and next week!, much love ♥.

[snakker]

Good job on the studies keep it up!

Do note that drawing an extra line to indicate the thickness of the helix can make it look square or stylized, it is actually round, like a hollow cylinder curved around the ear and cut throughout

Have a nice weekend cheers!

[prinzmoana]

Wuhuu a lot of great stuff going on here, love the form study and how you shaded them!
And I like the iterations you made for the ear, some look a bit flat, but you already wrote a note yourself xD Maybe I would also try to make the top of the ear look a bit mor roundish by using a shadow instead of a straight line... does that make any sense? ^^'

[smudged_ink]

Your doing some wonderful work, its very inspiring. I've heard many good things about the FORCE books. Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton is also quite a good book, it doesn't go quite as in-depth with gesture drawing. I've been meaning to work through it but i don't think i am ready skill wise to tackle it yet

[CYP2C19]

@snakker Thank you for the valuable feedback!, I'll make sure to try that the next time I draw some ears!.

@prinzmoana Thank you so much for your kind words and feedback!, I do agree that my ears look really flat, need to work on making them rounder Thank you!.

@smudged_ink Thank you so much for your kind words!, glad a newbie like myself can be inspiring to someone whose linework is phenomenal!. I haven't checked out the Design and Invention book(s), might have to take a look in to them!.
I'm still waiting for my force books to arrive, might've gotten stuck in transport so I'll have to wait a bit more xd.

[CYP2C19]

Actually Random Update #16

This week has been a bit of a rough one, I wanted to update this post daily this week, but due to some slight health Issues I haven't really been up to par in either drawing or mood-wise, Just haven't felt the best with stomach problems seemingly coming back (probably IBS, still waiting for a diagnosis), but I won't bother y'all with that stuff anymore.

I also haven't been active on this post, though I peeked in to some peoples Forum posts to be a itty bitty bit active on here xp.

Let's just get straight to the little bit I've done.
Mostly been doing Gestures as I've found them to be the most relaxing and fun to do in my current position, So here's roughly 5.5 hours of Gestures.

I also filled in a little bit more on my random shapes practices, a few more Shaded shapes and such, All of the shading here was done using the Hard Brush, still trying to get a good grasp of shading in general.
Also these were all done without any vanishing point or guidelines, just eyeballing them for fun, so there's bound to be mistakes regarding perspective .

And disappointingly only 2 ears, this time I tried some VERY BASIC shading, I prefer the top left one with the "harder" shading than the bottom right with a slightly smoother shading.
I was about to do some more ear studies just now, buut as life would have it, IBS be flaring up like a smokestack rn xd.

I would've put the feedback you all gave me in to practice, but I just haven't been in the mood or shape to do much, Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be back up to full force and maybe this time I'll be able to do the daily updates I meant to do this week.

As always, much love to you all and prayers for your double ArtXP gain!.

[snakker]

Yo, hope you get better! The gestures and shading exercises are looking good and the ears, even if you are not fully rendering them are very clear

Keep it up

Cheers

[mitsuki-youko]

I just haven't been in the mood or shape to do much,

haha totally get u i have moments like that too and i used to just tell myself to do it or i may regret it cus my biggest gripe about life is not having enough time (i work Full Time in a non art job) but after burning out a few times and taking long breaks each time i try to ease into and out of it. imma b more busy in the next few wks at work so ill pace myself and still make some art here and there but won't rly ask too much of myself and hopefully i won't have another burnout LOL! slow progress is better than no progress - or so i tell myself XD

[snakker]

This is true

[prinzmoana]

Your gestures are so smooth and pleasing to eye, great work
Also your shapes getting more and more complex and clean ^.^

[Gordon003]

First of all, get well soon!

Secondary, I notice your comment on some gesture drawing on being too stiff or hard. I'm guessing that's bc you are following a bit too much on what's the model is doing. Don't forget that it's your interpretation of the model pose, not exact copy the model.

But overall, i love the simplicity of your gesture drawing. Well done!

[smudged_ink]

I hope you feel better soon. You've made some wonderful progress and the shading is looking great. As long as you keep practicing when you can, you'll keep improving i am sure, so don't be too hard on yourself. I wish you the best in your endeavours and looking forward to seeing what you post next

[Lockenheim]

Impressive progress! Keep it up!