Desertwind56 - Art School Journey

[desertwind56]

I have another clothed figure, this time panted digitally in Krita. I'm struggling. Both with the clothed figure and digital painting. Only thing I can do is keep plugging away at it.

[desertwind56]

I have some more to upload. Here is another clothed figure study. My digital brushwork in the clothed figure study is so blah. And hands and feet, ugh. Yup, haven't done feet on the last two. (Okay, the face doesn't look so good either).

Here are two line art face studies:

Thanksgiving is this week and I doubt that I will get much done this week. Everyone have a great week!

[mitsuki-youko]

these look great!

[desertwind56]

Thank-you!

[desertwind56]

I've gotten a bit off track. Thanksgiving slowed me down and I'm not motivated to get back on track. I've been messing around with 3D in Blender. Its fun and frustrating at the same time.

And I'm struggling with clothed figure drawing. I'm working on another one in Krita, but bleh. After I finish it, I'm going to do 2 more in pencil and move on to week 2.

I've managed to do 6 more head studies from photo-reference:

[mitsuki-youko]

these look nice!
glad to see that you're having fun with blender! its on my list of things to (re)learn

[desertwind56]

Thank-you! I've been spending a lot of time playing with Blender. It's one very deep rabbit hole.

[desertwind56]

I finished another clothed figure drawing. It's a little better than the previous ones, but I still need a lot of practice work.

[desertwind56]

Here are two more clothed figure studies. I'm not really happy with these. I'm struggling with "painting" digitally. I think I'm going to do some digital painting practice for a bit.

[desertwind56]

I've decided I'm going to work on anatomy before doing anymore of the clothed figure. Drawing the figure and then adding clothes was a big fail for me.

I guess I better post something. I've backtracked a little and did some studies of the facial features. I did them in Krita so I could practice digital painting.

[desertwind56]

Wow, it's been a month since I posted. I'm still plugging away, even though the holidays sidetracked me a bit. I'm struggling a bit with anatomy and clothing folds. I underestimated how difficult tracing muscles on photos could be.

I've been keeping up with my gesture drawing and have been practicing faces a few times a week. I haven't even attempted drawing clothing on a photo yet. Hopefully I'll get to working on that next week. I have been working on the clothed line drawing assignments.

I'm just posting clothed line drawing 8 for now (I have two more to go).

[snakker]

Looking good mate, keep at it!

[desertwind56]

Thank-you!

[desertwind56]

Here are two more fold studies (line only):

[desertwind56]

I finished the barrel assignment! I used Blender instead of Zbrush. I watched Marc's Zbrush tutorial, but it didn't really help with making the barrel in Blender. I had several false starts, and spent a stupid amount of time on this.

I followed several YouTube tutorials to complete the assignment. Grant Abbitt's tutorials for the barrels and texture painting them. Ryan King Art's tutorials for the texture for the metal rings, the wall and the ground.

[snakker]

They're looking worthy of some DKC or some hack n' slashing

[desertwind56]

Thank-you! Been some struggles, but overall I've been having fun with Blender.

[desertwind56]

I've done a lot of procrastinating on adding clothes to reference images. Not going to get any better if I don't work on it. Oh boy, it's a struggle. Here are my first attempts:

[desertwind56]

Here are two more with clothing added:

[desertwind56]

I have one more: