Enno - Art School Journey

[enno.eilts]

Hi everyone, I’m Enno from Germany.
Usually I don’t share my work with too many other people, but I like the idea of this art journey forum and hope to get some good critique on my way to an better Artist. I think it can help me to stay motivated. Its not the first time I try to learn how to draw. My best attempts are shown below.
These are pictures I sign off and I hope to get enough knowledge here to start painting my own creations and get more confidence in my skills.

These are some of my 3D Projects. Usually I work with Cinema4D and use the Character Creator for Human Figures. But I’m looking forward to learn how to create my own figures in Photoshop and maybe in zBrush.

[enno.eilts]

So, as I started the ArtSchool end of last year I already finished Term 1 and shortly started with Term 2. These are some samples of my progress so far.

I really liked the Photoshop assignments. Learned a lot of that. But after that it really got harder for me. I’m so bad in proportions… But I’m practicing every day and get better and better… step by step. 😊

[enno.eilts]

Working on Term 2...
Unfortunately I messed up the deformed cube. Should have painted the top lower to match perspective… but I think the rest looks fine… What do you think?
I like that exercise and surely will do it a few more times bevor I continue with the anatomy part.
Oh and as you can see I had some fun with the gradient map
The shading is mostly done with the pen, with a little bit of improvement using the smudge tool on some parts. Only the tube is done completely with the smudge tool.
Next time I think I will try to use a finer pen stroke for the outlines… But overall I’m pretty happy with the result

[enno.eilts]

I couldn’t stop working on the next volume exercise.
The second result is a bit better I think. This time the curved cube looks a lot better.
Tomorrow I think I will start with the anatomy class… and I still have some assignments from the beginning of term 2 left open… maybe I should do them bevor I continue…

Ok, that’s it for today. Have a good time

[_Sasha_]

Nice progress! It looks like you have clear understanding in a lot of places but don't feel like you have to rush through the course.

Make sure you keep practising the circle and line pen control exercises until your outcomes are smooth and well shaped! It seems like lots of your lines are drawn quite slowly which either makes them come out wobbly, or "chicken scratchy", but for the best linewoirk later down the road you want to be able to acurately and quickly make the lines for the cleanest result.

Also you should totally post some gesture drawing exercises here if you're doing them as I think we'll all here be able to better gauge what you need to work on.

[Kosmonaut]

so for the deformed/soft cube laying on the sphere if it is laying on the top of the sphere, we would see half of it with the rest being on the opposite side of the sphere and it should be more bent conforming to the sphere's curvature imo

[enno.eilts]

Good morning!
And thanks a lot for the feedback! sashaOwood, you are absolutely right. I have struggles with my linework and sometimes I tend to rush
My brain is thirsty for new information
So thanks a lot for reminding me to step on the brake! Ok, so back to practice my linework. Oh and the gesture drawing… actually I do gesture drawing almost every day, but I’m really not happy with the results. Usually I delete them right after finishing my exercise. But of cause deleting them and not showing them here will not help me to improve. So I will make some more gesture drawing and post them here…
And thanks to Kosmonaut for the reply. I knew something was wrong with that soft cube on the sphere, but I could not name it… but of cause you are right. Now it’s hard not to see the mistake
So my plan for the next days is training my linework and doing some gesture drawing and share it with you. After that I will return to do some more volume paintings.
Thank you for your help!
…but before I start I need some coffee

[enno.eilts]

After a lot of training to draw smother lines yesterday, I had no time left for something else. But today I continued with some gesture drawings and this is what I came up with so far.
I’m absolutely not sure what to think about them… Would love to get some Feedback. Thx!

[jarobrei]

I can totally relate to not being sure what to think about gesture drawing as I really struggle with them.
I can see what most of your figures are doing in their motions which is cool, but to me they feel a bit stiff. I think Marc mentioned in the lecture to avoid using straight lines in gesture drawing, and that might be what is causing the feeling of stiffness. imo of course.

[enno.eilts]

I was pretty busy at the weekend, but still managed to practice my linework, painting cycles fast and trying to get rid of my straight lines in the gesture drawings. To keep you up to date I post the best attempts… still a lot of room for improvement…

[enno.eilts]

After a break, because of health issues, i'm finally back at the drawing board
I still need to get better linework... my hands are always tembling a bit. thats not realy helpfull any tips for that?
Today I practiced drawing cicles and shading a bit.

[Lockenheim]

I am glad to hear that you are back! In terms of the hands I'm not sure if they are trembling from medical issue, or if they are just shaky when drawing. My hands were super shaky when I first started. I did the pen control page every day for quite a while and it helped me considerably. If you have shaky hands for medical condition I am not quite sure but I do believe some of the people on the forums have a similar issue and hopefully they can provide assistance if that is the case!

[enno.eilts]

My trembling hands are existing since i'm a child, so i think it's a medical issue
I think I will do the pen control page also every day to try to handle that problem i bit better.
Thanks for your reply!

[enno.eilts]

I don't have much time for drawing at the moment. Never the less I was able to progress a little and started to lear drawing ears.