DaCeronNine - Art School Journey

[mitsuki-youko]

yooooo that cover looks bomb!

love how you did the lightning!

[kohkeeree]

The amount of work is incredible!

[gregorya]

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.

[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!

[daceronine]

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!

[mitsuki-youko]

dat manga b lookin good

[patrycja.lerch]

This is great! Expressions look really nice!

[snakker]

This is looking very professional!

[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!

[patrycja.lerch]

This sketch looks really nice!

[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!

[snakker]

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

[daceronine]

Several points over my last post.

It's not inktober yet. It was 3 am, my brain somehow made me think it was already october. That was weird and embarrasing.

Though the piece was great practice... after looking at it with fresh eyes I was not satisifed with it. I kept thinking.... I can do better. And so I set out to try to do so.

Same idea, same character, similar design, but tried to make it better. And I think I finally found a proper way to use screentones, in combination with ink (which I think is their main purpose). Also experimented with resolution resizing which worked great!

All in all, I feel I learned a lot from doing it! and got a better piece to start inktober when it actually starts!... though I guess this counts as an early start.

Also started watching the zbrush videos.

I've been bouncing back and forth on doing the exercices or not. On one end, I can just do them to learn something new, on the other, I don't see myself using it in my pipeline anytime soon.

Then I noticed the license cost and... yea.. I'll be skipping the exercices, but at least I'll watch the videos to know about it.

I do use CSP 3D capabilities... sometimes... barely. Honestly when I need a reference I'll just look for one, use google maps, or take a photo of the angle or piece I want and use that as the reference.

Anyway, still got a lot to do in term 3.

And also been hard at work on the manga! 3 pages to share for now. Almost done with chapter 24!

Back to the grind! Thanks for stopping by! Later!

[mitsuki-youko]

Then I noticed the license cost and... yea.. I'll be skipping the exercices, but at least I'll watch the videos to know about it.

Yep - same lol if you really wanna model later on tho u can try blender

Here's a good vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYuUlQO-kYE&list=WL&index=156&pp=gAQBiAQB

Blender, like Krita, is free

Yooo that drawing looks sooo good with that bg texture!! and the comic's lookin awesome too!

[Kaz_0]

Nice work ! Using only black and white can be tricky but you did great. Are you going to do all 31 days of inktober ?

[daceronine]

Thanks man! I think I'm finally starting to understand screentones more. Mostly because i'm forcing myself to work in Black and Whites.

Yea, if I were to start learning 3D, I'd probably chose Blender. I don't plan to incorporate 3D in my pipeline any time soon though.

I mean, I get why it's in the course, since there are many people trying to get into an industry where 3D is widely used. If that was my case, I'd probably do an investment on it. Instead my interest is on the manga side, which is why I purchased my license for CSP

It's all good, to each their own.

[daceronine]

Thanks!

I probably won't do all 31 days, probably not even most of them. I wish I had the time for it, but in between everything else it's unlikely.

I will at least do a few pieces though! It really is very useful to try out different techniques.

[Inkpendude]

Yeah the 31 days is definitely a tough challenge. I'm only gonna try to do it this year because I know I will have time for it (and because I'm working in the sketches a month before instead of coming up with ideas on that same day)

Here's something that the official website has:

Note: you can do it daily, or go the half-marathon route and post every other day, or just do the 5K and post once a week. What ever you decide, just be consistent with it. Inktober is about growing and improving and forming positive habits, so the more you’re consistent the better.

My goal is to get better at inking digitaly, and also to get over the "fear" of showing your drawings to the world.

[Kaz_0]

Yeah same here. I will probably skip some days. I am looking forward to seeing everyone's drawings.

[daceronine]

I wasn't really familiar with the challenge, only that it existed. Just did a quick search and found the details you posted.

In the end, I guess anyone can take the challenge as they see fit and adjust it to what they want to achieve.

Personally I want to try it to test different digital drawing techniques, and doing just BW is a good fit for someone who is trying to do manga. To get better understanding of screentones and some practice on BW style drawings.

I realize part of the objective is to be consistent... though I'm not sure what frequency I'll aim for. Maybe only 2 or 3 pieces per week? I'll keep practicing and we'll see how it goes.

I'm also excited to see what drawings you all do though!