Dan Tedde - Art School Journey

danilo_tedde 2022-01-26 06:37:50 UTC #1

Hey everyone!
I had already started the 1st term and now decided to create a topic to keep track of the progress and hopefully get some constructive criticism and share experiences.
When I started actually trying to study drawing/painting with more discipline, I started by the human head. It allowed me to some progress and motivated me to keep going. Nowdays Im following the Terms orders to establish a good foundation/fundamentals.
Here's my favorite painting I've done (It was a value study, just added the colors for fun cause I have NO IDEIA how to use colors lol).
my english = bad btw

gregorya 2022-01-26 19:02:43 UTC #2

Hello and welcome. I wish you luck on your journey. This portrait is very good so far. You may need a little more light for the right eye so it won't blend with the shadows.

danilo_tedde 2022-01-27 05:14:47 UTC #3

Finished one of the perspective assignments.

leeireo 2022-01-27 09:31:45 UTC #4

Whoa this is great! You understand the concept very well. This is super well designed as well.

Lockenheim 2022-01-27 14:21:34 UTC #5

I love this! You have a really strong understanding here and the cats are super cute!

creARTive_Paul 2022-02-08 16:53:12 UTC #6

welcome ... the perspective assignment is strong, also love the cats ... ur female portrait is nice too and i think u nailed the color setting, maybe smooth some of the brush strokes a bit more ... hope to see some more good stuff

danilo_tedde 2022-02-09 03:17:17 UTC #7

Thank you very much everyone!!

@creARTive_Paul Oh yeah, I defenitively need to work on the brush strokes. I usually start with hard brushes to define the form better, otherwise I kinda get lost (especially using the airbrush), so I have to work on smoothing it. Thanks for the advice!

danilo_tedde 2022-02-09 03:26:02 UTC #8

Did some perspective studies before starting the last assignments on Human Figure. It was really fun to draw these. I tried to add some basic shading (just to define areas of light/shadow) and one of them I added color (the result was kinda frustrating since I didnt learn how to properly use color yet but ok).

For the next ones I'll try to add more rounded buildings/objects.
Would appreciate any advices/tips!

Lockenheim 2022-02-10 13:27:12 UTC #9

I'm not familiar with values but these perspective drawings are just so cozy, I love them! Some of my absolute favorites I have seen on here.

creARTive_Paul 2022-02-10 18:07:43 UTC #10

great perspectives again, seems u got thing for those ... nice coloring on the second one, would also like to see the upper with color too

danilo_tedde 2022-02-19 02:44:02 UTC #11

Thanks a lot guys! Its been really fun to do some of those exercises.

The past week I tried to get used to split 50/50 of the time I spend drawing between studies and "drawing just for the sake of drawing" (or putting everything that i studied in practice on a full piece) to avoid burnout. So far its working nicely.

For the study part, I practiced some loose sketch portraits. I had 2 things in mind while doing those: 1- draw the face with correct proportions and planes and stablish the light and shadow areas with simple values quickly (About 30-40 minutes each); and 2) work on brushstrokes to play with edges and shapes to make it more interesting (Im trying to follow what Marco Bucci teaches about this subject on his Value/Edges video).

And for the other half of my time, I have a "splash art like" piece that I didnt finished yet and I did a portrait of Raiden Shogun (Genshin Impact). Tried to use some texture and lost/hard edges to bring the focus to more relevant areas of her face. The process was greyscale then added the colors by using different layer blend modes.

Lockenheim 2022-02-19 19:32:04 UTC #12

Whoah! Great job! I want to study your work! Do you like to leave your line art in and paint it in? Or Pop it on a different layer? I tried both ways this week and am not sure which I like best.

danilo_tedde 2022-02-19 21:41:07 UTC #13

Oh thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it.
I like to keep the line art on a different layer, yeah. Usually I lower the opacity so I can see what Im painting underneath the line.
Then I just use the lasso tool to select and block a local value for the character (or whatever Im painting) on a new layer. After stablishing some of the shadows (the core shadow and reflected light) and some of the light (the core light and halftones) I merge the layers and start painting over the line art.

creARTive_Paul 2022-02-26 16:28:19 UTC #14

when ur interested in lighting/ shading/ brush strokes, anthony jones could also be the wright address for u

danilo_tedde 2022-03-03 00:39:02 UTC #15

First, sorry for late reply.
And wow, his work is absolutely incredible. Its definitively a direction I would like to aim at/learn about. I will 100% study his work, thank you a lot for the indication!

creARTive_Paul 2022-03-05 10:09:21 UTC #16

he also sells tutorial vids on robotpencil, i think

danilo_tedde 2022-03-14 00:09:32 UTC #17

Its been some time since I posted here.. hehe
Those are some of the studies for perspective and nude figure drawing/gesture drawing.
This one I tried to think about the composition too, not only the perspective (these "things" on the left are supposed to be birds flying towards the viewer lol).

And another one:

I've been doing gesture drawing practices also (30 sec and 60 sec, 20 images each).

And some proportion/basic figure drawing practices:

I feel confortable starting Term 2 now and Im excited to get the basics of anatomy started.

Lockenheim 2022-03-19 17:43:43 UTC #18

Wow Danilo! These perspective pieces are amazing! I really can't wait to see the final results. Quite impressive.

danilo_tedde 2022-04-09 22:37:56 UTC #19

Its been almost a month since I dont post anything here (I took some days/weeks to try to fix my sleep schedule and some other things on routine, so I was lacking motivation to draw/study) but now I'm getting things back on track.
Started Term 2 and tried to focus more on improving shading basic forms and working slowly on each class.

Also, here are some human figure proportion practices that i kept doing from the first term:

danilo_tedde 2022-04-09 22:39:40 UTC #20

And here are some of the arts Im currently working on (WIP) :