DaCeronNine - Art School Journey

Inkpendude 2023-09-06 16:33:53 UTC #201

Something I forgot to add, people sometimes make their own Inktober list with a special theme. For example if you go in IG and search #inktoberlist or just #inktober you could find more than a few. you could probably find one that fits you...or even make your own. It has to have a cool name tho, it's the law.

If you want consistency and practicing skills I think 1 per week is good enough. I'm addicted to pain so I'll do the 31 days.

daceronine 2023-09-06 17:02:24 UTC #202

Bests of luck there I'm actually eager to see how you do it, and maybe I'll take a harder crack at it next time. For now, yea, I'll pace myself and do a few per week to get the practice in.

Not sure about the theme for now, my head is so buried on the manga development that I'll probably make that my theme for now. Or maybe do some fanart to practice other styles. Maybe both.

daceronine 2023-09-07 01:19:21 UTC #203

Just a bunch of exercices this time as we continue to watch the zbrush videos. It's interesting to watch while I do other stuff.

Some muscles identification with The Rock. Guy has some wide abdominals.

I think I starting to memorize them more!

The some gesture practice. 2 mins. Nothing extraordinary, just trying stay warm.

finally some cloth exercices to dress up some nakey characters from previous exercices.

By that last one I was feeling tired so I ended the sesssion and went to get some air. I feel it could had been better, but it's all good exercice none the less.

And one more manga page! almost done with chapter 24. Good practice for mouths and more expressions

Wew, back to work. Gota keep grinding.

kohkeeree 2023-09-09 17:01:10 UTC #204

Brah, you are pumping these out! The eye movement in this panel is currently my favorite

daceronine 2023-09-10 02:16:26 UTC #205

Thanks a lot! At times I'll get a streak of free time and I'll try to work on this as much as possible, and then there are days like today were I barely get to do an exercice or two.
I really enjoy doing all this, so I'm always looking forward to spending some time on the next drawing or manga page.

daceronine 2023-09-11 03:40:22 UTC #206

Been very busy these last days. But managed to do a few more exercices.

First a few 5 min gesture practices. Tried to follow some tips from some fellow companions, and I think they worked really well!

Only got to do a few though, I'll have to do some more.

Then I retried some clothing exercices. First round didn't go so well, since I tried to create the clothes fully from imagination.

I mean, it's ok... but I knew there was room for improvement. Got a few tips And retried again, taking my time, placing more attention on the fold shading, and using some references this time.

I think it turned out much better on the second iteration! Learned a lot from it. The one on from the back was intended to be a bit loose, but it probably would be better if it was tighter as per his muscular build.

More than anything, I was happy the second attemtps looked a lot more decent. Progress!

Still working on more exercices. Still looking at the zbrush videos, but my focus is on practicing overall term 3 more and more as I get near to it's conclusion to reaffirm all lessons learned so far.

On the manga side, finished one more page (a few days ago actually), and I've since been working on translation, small details, and I'll do a color piece for the cover this week to get it ready for upload. And then on to chapter 25.

Wew, getting a bit of a headache. Gona go out to take some air and then I'll do some more practice.

snakker 2023-09-11 03:52:29 UTC #207

Nice! The folds on arnold from the back look good 👍

daceronine 2023-09-11 05:57:04 UTC #208

Thanks! I actually took a photo of myself and used that as reference for it, since I wanted the shirt to be bit more loose. I am very happy on how it turned out, and I'm using gradient maps more too. I still need to practice these much more though.

cobalt_kat 2023-09-11 06:50:10 UTC #209

These clothing exercises look really impressive, especially the one with color. I always have trouble with clothing folds, so drawings like these look almost like magic to me!

daceronine 2023-09-11 14:40:54 UTC #210

Thanks! I actually feel the same way! I see cloth folds some of my companions here do and I'm blown away on how realistic and elegant their work looks.
It takes some time to get used to, but using Marc's technique for fold shadows from term 2 and using gradient maps (term 2) seems to work really well. And for lineart using a reference is a must (for me), at least until I build a mental library strong enough to do it from imagination.

gregorya 2023-09-11 18:13:39 UTC #211

That is pretty good work on your comic and sketches.
For your cloth sketch of the woman in pink, you may need to darken the shadows.
I like your portrait sketch. The full body drawiing is really good with the screentones.
For the Z brush, there are a free trail for a month and think ther's a free version. But I don't remember the name of it.
Good work on the clothing folds.

Kaz_0 2023-09-11 19:19:38 UTC #212

uuu I like the way the guy in the manga holds the knife. The fold practice looks really awesome too. And good job on the gestures. You captured the shadows nicely.

daceronine 2023-09-11 19:37:52 UTC #213

Thanks! And yer right, folds could use a bit more shadow. Need to practice them more. Need to check more references when applying lights.

daceronine 2023-09-11 19:39:45 UTC #214

Haha, thanks, referneced a photo of myself.

And thanks for the process on gestures, I tried to imitate the video you shared to add a few key shadows and work on limb volumes. Even used a similar blue tone So that helped a lot!

Kaz_0 2023-09-11 20:59:50 UTC #215

Oh I am glad you found it useful. Happy to help !

mitsuki-youko 2023-09-12 00:24:54 UTC #216

yoooo its amazing u can get so many studies in so little time! dat manga b lookin fire as always! i keep forgetting to sub u on webtoon..

Finally just subbed

daceronine 2023-09-12 02:19:08 UTC #217

Thanks! Much appreciated!
I guess time just flies by when you are having fun. Someday I'll be able to dedicate my self to this, but for now, we just need to squeeze as much time as we can.

daceronine 2023-09-12 20:12:44 UTC #218

You all are such good sports

Continued with the next exercice, "Draw 5 character heads from imagination in simple perspective (facing the camera, lineart only)"

And so it was done. Decided to continue the use of ink to keep practicing inking as well.

That's pretty much it, held off on other exercices to work on the Nozomu chapter 23 cover/art piece. The biggest highlight was that I did heavy use of gradient maps to continue practicing that, as well as adding correction layers for tones. I'm starting to get more and more used to gradient maps.

With this I'm almost done and ready to upload the chapter (though it gets published until 9/20)

As I wrap up this chapter, I look back and reviewed the time/production. Seems everything went pretty well!

And that's it for now. Got a lot of work this week, but I still plan to continue with the following excercices.

Thanks for stoping by! a good day to everyone!

mitsuki-youko 2023-09-12 20:42:24 UTC #219

Wow thats like almost 45 hours per chapter / month - amazing work!!

daceronine 2023-09-13 04:11:35 UTC #220

Thanks! I started to keep a record for multiple reasons, but mostly so I know how to pace myself, to see what is a reasonable target date and to measure improvement on speed/quality. This way I can also easily measure that if I where to do a similar manga work of 20 pages, it would take around 90 hours.

Mangakas can usually do double the amount of this in a week. Looking at the hours, 45 is like a normal job, so if this was a job, I'd probably be able to do it this way consistently.

It's not a job though, for now it's a hobby, hence why I spread it in a month's timeframe. Not to mention I've been working on this course among other things.