Datwaz's Art Blog

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-04-11 21:24:14 UTC #1

Hi folks, Datwaz here, from France. I'm currently undertaking Marc's LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge and I'll post my progress here. This year is to be a prelude before trying out Marc's Art Program.
As far as tastes are concerned, I have a clear preference for Sci-Fi/Tech/Mechanic/Military stuff, although I like heroic fantasy as well, huge fan of Blizzard's Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft universe.
So far, if my sketching skills have started to get better, I still have a mountain to climb regarding rendering (shading/coloring in particular).

P.S. : I don't always have access to my computer, so I go traditional from time to time. The relationship between pencil and paper is....not the same as the tablet. This is why you'll see from time to time pictures of my sketchbooks.

P.P.S : As a senior CAD engineer by trade, I'll also share some work I do in 3D (I'm not bragging when I say I'm far more proficient in 3D than I am in 2D....)

So, the assignment for January was to do at least 30 sketches of gesture drawing, and do some studies of other artist's art.

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-04-11 21:32:30 UTC #2

By contrast, here is some examples of 3D work I do :

malcom 2023-04-12 18:38:17 UTC #3

Nice work. I definitely recommend entering our current art challenge this week. This week is a focus on gesture drawing. Link here for more info on it.
Looking forward to seeing your growth throughout the year

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-05-01 21:04:58 UTC #4

The assignment from February for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : quick gesture drawings + a scene in 1 point perspective

Buren's Columns, in Paris :

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-06-02 20:58:59 UTC #5

The assignment from March for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : gesture drawings, scene in 2 points perspective, and getting started at portraits.

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-07-10 22:00:55 UTC #6

The assignment from April for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : Muscle group study for the upper body + more elaborated gesture drawings

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-07-11 21:14:58 UTC #7

The assignment from May for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : quick gesture drawings, feet studies + lower anatomy studies, environment studies from artists.

Link to reference

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-07-21 19:45:06 UTC #8

The assignment from June for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge : elaborated figure drawings, getting started at drawing quadruped mamals, drawing a scene in 3 points perspective.

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-09-02 15:41:48 UTC #9

The assignment from July for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge :

Quick 2 min gesture drawings (half traditional, half digital) :

Some shading exercise (most ancient to most recent) :

Some character studies (from reference, links below) :
Link to left reference
Link to right reference

Self portrait (my next of kins told me that I had made myself much scarier than in real life)

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-09-02 15:48:51 UTC #10

The assignment from August for the LearnToDrawIn1Year challenge :

Hybride animals design + variations of common outfits for characters (I was in vacations away from the computer, so here are the few pages that I doodled for this particular assignment) :

Environment painting (from reference : Link )

I'm very happy about the outcome of this painting.

Datwaz_Klauzinov 2023-09-02 16:01:16 UTC #11

Also, I've started a parallel project in Blender, the goal being to have a robust and serious model to try out different kind of rendering technics, especially technics that would allow an anime or manga-like render.