Aug '23

Final exercice of cloth from artist reference 5 of 5. At least for now. I think next is to start with anatomy 2.

Went with Ryne from FF14 for this study. I like the character design simplicty, and it seemed like a good target for some simple practice. Needed a bit of a break from challenges (which I still had with the manga), so went for something interesting cloth wise but rather simple to address.

I also absolutely loved this particular artist's rendition of the character.

And so, we go through the now usual sketch, ink, tones, shadows pipeline process.

And boom, final one of this series done

And of course, been hard at work at the manga as well. Finished one more page. Only one more to finish chapter 23, and then translation, art cover, a few details, and I can upload it as scheduled on 8/20.

Really liked how some of the effects turned out, such as the BG on the first panel and the light effects. I also took a quick peek at some of the first chapters and, ho boy, have we come a long way!

And that's it for now! Still got a lot more to do! thanks for dropping by!

8 days later

Aug '23

Wew, had to take a little break to wrap up chapter 23 and write the script for 24 and get the draft and work going. Not to mention real life work which always takes a lot of time.

Also started video on Anatomy 2 in Term 3. And oh boy was there a lot to unpack here.

Now, I LOVE the human anatomy, and though I've done some independent stuedies, I had never had someone sit down and help me break down the different muscle groups like Marc did.

It was fascinating and incredibly useful! I can see gaps in my understanding I had not noticed before. Proportions for many muscles finally make sense, and I'm eager to start applying this new found knowledge to see how it works out.

But first, before I jump into the exercices, I went back and and did a little study to review the whole thing so I can really learn and remember most of the bones and muscles explained in this chapter.

I'll continue with the exercies as per the companion guide next.

During this break, I got to do a lot of work on the manga, if you have followed it in webtoon, you probably already saw all these, but still wanted to share some of the work done so far:

Cover art. Did it fairly quickly, still imitating Toriyama's style, kinda obvious with the high contrast coloring :smile: :

And final page of the chapter. Wanted a high view of the field. Wasn't sure of how much detail to pack in, but I think it turned out pretty good!:

Also did a few profile sketches to keep practicing the different face parts, proportions and simplified inking. highly stylized of course, but still trying to pay attention to the individual face parts.

That's it for now! Back into the grind! Got a lot of stuff to do!

Thanks for dropping!

Aug '23

yooooo that cover looks bomb!

love how you did the lightning!

Aug '23

I like the cover. Is the series inspired by Dragon Ball Z or Dragon Quest? The environmental destruction looks very nice and detailed. The face drawings look great.

Aug '23

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daceronine

Thanks everyone! Notifications don't seem to be working, so I hadn't had a chance to reply!

@mitsuki-youko Thanks! I learned a bit about making shiny lightings, it's subtle, but it's there, closer to the fist. Glad people liked the cover!

@kohkeeree I appreciate it! Funny thing, we seem to be our worst critics. I actually feel I fall behind with the amount of work I do at times, so comments like yours are very recomforting. I need to remind myself we all go at our own pace.

@gregorya Thanks! The series is indeed inspired in general by 90s anime, from the action elements to the romcom pieces and all in between. And of course I've always been a huge fan of Toriyama's style, so there are heavy influences in my work. The main character being a dead giveaway, though I do try to take pieces from different artists for different things. For example, most of the girls I draw have styles from different sources. In general I try to imitate and learn from the great ones as a basis (Toriyama, Oda, Arakawa, etc etc) and try to add a bit in between from my end on how I'd like things to be. The destruction piece was quite a challenge, since perspective is not my forte, but I do like how it turned out and environments do seem to be getting easier with every piece!

Still grinding in here for Anatomy for term 3!

First did a few of the primitive exercices as instructed. Wasn't sure on what to do, so just did random stuff and slowly drifted to anatomy, practicing some of the lessons learned so far.

Then did an exercice with Arnold, since there is little question on how ripped mister olimpia is.

Finally, since I was very excited about what I've been learning, I wanted to apply it with some characters to see how it worked out. Decided to copy the girl and remove some of the sketchwork. I'm actually surprised and how well it's all looking!

Oh, and almost forgot. Since I started work on chapter 23, here's the progress on the first page. For all I keep saying I'd like to try other styles... I keep circling back to the usual pipeline, as I really like how it looks.

Thanks for dropping! Back into the grind we go!

Aug '23

Rough couple of days, kinda put the course on hold for a few days. Still worked on the manga though.

Did the next cloth excerice as indicated in the companion guide.

Fairly straightforward, I clearly need to practice this type of shading more, and her right leg turned out funky. Folds seem ok though, and I got some good practice for gradient shading.

Not much else to say, it's a good thing Marc made me go back and retry this excercice again, it's good to keep practicing fundamentals, and it seems I was getting rusty with this technique after focusing on cell shading.

That's it for now. Leaving a few more manga panels here, though I need to keep practicing more.

Really like how the expression turned out on this one

Thanks for dropping by, I'm off to grind some more! Gota keep practicing!

Aug '23

This is looking very professional!

Sep '23

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daceronine

@mitsuki-youko, @patrycja.lerch, @snakker Thanks everyone! Sounds like it's an acceptable state, but I'll keep working to improve it.

Next in the list of the course companion guide is to do a bust from imagination. I've been kinda doing these, but I figured I would try to do a more detailed one for a change and also try to "ink" it as part of the inktober challenge.

I also needed to do a bit of a look design for one of the characters for an upcoming chapter, so it all works out.

Not sure if inktober has any particular rules other than just use black and white "ink"? hopefully it can be digitial since I don't really have physical ink.. or any practice with physical ink...
So anyway, here's the character bust potrait sketch, I'll try to start inking it tomorrow.

I assume I can also do several ink pieces. I do want to get some practice with pure BW ink and this is the perfect time to try it. The potrait is fairly simple, since it's only intended to be an exercice, but I'd like to try something more dynamic as well.

Next is Zbrush, which I'll take a look at, but most likely skip, and even more anatomy practice.

Also working hard on the manga! but only one more page to share for now.

That's about it. Back into the grind!

Sep '23

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daceronine

@patrycja.lerch Thanks!

Couldn't sleep well last night, so ended up trying to ink the sketch.

It was certainly an interesting experience and a lot of fun to dedicate more detail to a sinle piece!

I first tried to do a lot of cross hatch, but then I inked over that and liked better the high contrast of pure black and white. I also refrained from using any type of gray scale, since it is supposed to be only ink.

So first piece for inktober! (And also the bust from memory exercice Marc's course asked for).

Also been hard at the manga. I've been working on my time/quality ratio, and I think so far it's working out fairly well. So far each page takes about 4.5-5.5 hours in average, which is pretty decent and work well with my schedule.

That's it for now! Thanks for dropping by! I'm off to the grind!

Sep '23

Hey that’s some great use of black and white!