Desertwind56 - Art School Journey

mitsuki-youko 2023-09-16 16:32:23 UTC #41

haha your creatures are pretty cute

desertwind56 2023-09-18 17:24:31 UTC #42

Thank-you!

desertwind56 2023-10-07 19:54:14 UTC #43

Went on vacation for a couple of weeks. Been back a few days, trying to sort out where I'm at with Art School. I worked on a lot of assignments while I was gone. Weeks 2 and 3 for Term 2 are done. I've done parts of weeks 4, 5 and 6. I haven't finished any of the perspective assignments. It is much easier for me to do on my computer, which I didn't have with me. Currently I'm working on perspective assignment 1.

Here are the character head studies from week 2. They are done with pencil and finished with a Micron pen.

desertwind56 2023-10-09 00:48:12 UTC #44

One of the week 3 assignments - portrait study. Done in pencil. I couldn't fit the entire thing on my scanner, and I couldn't get a good photo of it.

It came out okay. The proportions for the nose and chin are off - a little long. Drawing and reference photo:

mitsuki-youko 2023-10-09 01:36:24 UTC #45

woah this looks really nice!

snakker 2023-10-09 02:06:14 UTC #46

good work! it can be really hard with graphite! but it's great for details. I find 10B soft pencils (I get mine from Hi-Uni mitsubishi on amazon) are good for getting the darker values

cheers!

desertwind56 2023-10-15 00:56:29 UTC #47

Thank-you

Since I've been back from vacation, my motivation has lagged a bit. I still have things I haven't posted.

I've been spending a lot of time on the 3-point perspective assignment. I think I'm close to finishing it.

Here are 5 heads drawn from imagination. They are kind of blah. BUT, I would have never been able to draw them at all if it wasn't for this class. When I get to the "add hair" assignment, I'll fix them up in Krita (I hope).

desertwind56 2023-10-18 01:52:55 UTC #48

I think I'm done with the first perspective assignment. Going to think about it and post it in a couple of days. I'm working on the second perspective assignment, and I ran into problems, but I think I'm squared away now. Get that done and I should be done with week 5.

Here are the 10 heads from photo references. Some are better than others. A couple are almost likenesses. And some well, not so good. But they are overall better than I was able to do 2-3 months ago.

desertwind56 2023-10-22 17:53:09 UTC #49

I just finished up perspective assignment #2. So I am mostly done up through week 5. Having a little bit of trouble with Anatomy assignment #4, drawing the head from memory. I reviewed a lot of the anatomy video over the last few days. I can draw a head, but I can't seem to add the shading. Worked on it last night, oh what a hot mess!

Anyway, I moving on. I'll continue draw heads from reference and imagination.

So here are perspective assignments #1 and #2. Hopefully someday I can manage to do some rendering on these.

Assignment #1

Assignment #2

mitsuki-youko 2023-10-22 23:33:20 UTC #50

That is like SUPER detailed! Amazing work!!

Also some of the vanishing points are going towards different directions..

Here's what I think will make it better (pretty rough tho):

Here is the new layered on top of the old so you can tell the difference:

And everything all together:

Hope that helps!

desertwind56 2023-10-25 17:29:58 UTC #51

Wow! Thank-you so much for your critique! I'm posting my perspective drawing without all the details. I messed up a lot of the perspective when I added the details. I see now too how off the arches on the right look (I had a lot of problems with them). And it looks better without the tower on the right. Thank-you for your critique!

Eventually, I want to make this into a finished painting. I'll make corrections (it may be a bit before I get to it) and re-post.

Looking at the bare bones drawing, the arches need a lot more work.

mitsuki-youko 2023-10-26 00:06:47 UTC #52

noice, this ver looks good so far

desertwind56 2023-10-30 02:54:09 UTC #53

Getting close to being done with week 6. The only thing I haven't finished is the portrait (working on it).

Week 7 Marc says "have fun practicing whatever you’d like or working on personal art". I'm thinking of working on the "100 Head Challenge". It's a challenge where you are supposed to draw 100 heads in 10 days. I'm still way too slow drawing heads to do 100 in 10 days. But I thought I would see if I can do maybe 35 in a week? We will see. I may also download blender and do a couple of tutorials. Again, we will see.

So here is perspective assignment number 3. I had an awful time with it. My lack of knowledge of anatomy made this assignment difficult. The feet and hands are awful.

I practiced hair all week, then worked on my faces from imagination. I added hair to them, did my final line art and here they are:

These were fun to work on.

leiana.rose 2023-10-30 04:17:12 UTC #54

Your faces look great, good work!

Gordon003 2023-10-30 10:20:59 UTC #55

Interesting facial design and features you gave each character. Look like each character have different personality. Great job!

desertwind56 2023-11-01 20:54:51 UTC #56

Thank-you leiana.rose and Gordon003! I had fun working on them and hopefully over time I'll get better.

I finished week 6 a couple of days ago. So for week 7 (practice whatever I like), I'm attempting the "100 Heads Challenge". There is a Pinterest Board for it: https://www.pinterest.com/aaldoori/portrait/
I'm picking an choosing which ones I'm going to draw. There are some that just aren't working for me.

Also, I installed Blender. I am planing on using it next term instead of Z-brush. I started a Blender donut tutorial. Oh the learning curve! It may be a while before I'm ready for the Term 3 3D assignments.

Anyway, here is the portrait from Term 2, Week 6:

desertwind56 2023-11-01 20:57:09 UTC #57

Opps, forgot the reference photo:

desertwind56 2023-11-07 20:56:39 UTC #58

I am nearly done with Term 2. I did a few days of the "100 Heads Challenge", but then I got anxious to work on week 8. I did about 30 heads. I'm still doing about 2 a day. Here are a couple from last week:

I think I'm done with the self portrait for week 8 (haven't decided if I'm going to post it or not). Only thing left is to finish the monster portrait. Hopefully I be done with that in a couple of days.

desertwind56 2023-11-11 03:35:08 UTC #59

I'm officially done with Term 2! Yay! I going to kick-back for a couple of days, work on some other art things and search for references for Term 3.

On Monday I'll start watching the Term 3 videos. Then Mid-week or so I'll get to working on the assignments for Term 3.

Here is the character/monster assignment for the last week of Term 2. I spent a stupid amount of time on it and had all sorts of problems. A lot of references were involved. I struggled with the drawing, fought with Krita and learned a lot along the way.

Its not perfect (far from it), But 2 months ago there is no way I could have done this project. I am pleased with my progress and am looking forward to continuing on!

desertwind56 2023-11-17 03:03:07 UTC #60

I've officially started on Term 3. Yay! I watched the Clothed Figure Drawing video and the Anatomy video. Oh my, so much info, especially in the anatomy video. I'm going to be watching both videos more than once.

I haven't watched the ZBrush video, yet. I'm planning on using Blender instead. A new version of Blender was released this week. I need to fight my way through some tutorials and then watch the ABrush video. Hopefully it will somewhat apply to Blender.

Here are two head studies, lineart only, done in Krita. I tried different brushes on each study. I'm not happy with the brush I used for the gentleman. But, I'm going to continue to try different brushes as I do more head studies

Next are 2 clothed figure drawings. I'm kind of meh about these. They are done in pencil and looked okay enough in my sketchbook. They don't look so great after scanning in. I also need to take more care in selecting reference images. There were things in both images I could not make sense of.

OPPS! I forgot to draw the buttons on his vest.