Erro - Art School Journey

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-10 17:08:03 UTC #1

Hello! I bought the ART School course back in September 2021, but I ended up in an art rut shortly after. I'm feeling very inspired, and am ready to start improving! I've lurked through these forums before, and this seems like a cool community! I'm excited to get involved myself!

I've done a lot of practice with figure drawing, but I have neglected basically everything else! XD I really hope to expand out of my comfort zone and transition from simple character drawings to full illustrations with better storytelling!

As a frame of reference, these are my most recent drawings. The first is my original character, and the other two were gifts for friends.

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-10 22:40:24 UTC #3

Started off with completing all of the Photoshop For Digital Production assignments. Most of the digital pen control was done in Clip Studio, but I'm new to the program, and so far I can't find any brushes that even come close to what the last exercise asks for, so I used Krita for that one. It still did not turn out great however. I've got a lot a work to do when it comes to pen control!

Lockenheim 2022-06-11 13:07:23 UTC #4

Welcome to the forums! I look forward to seeing your progress!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-11 14:34:35 UTC #5

Thanks for the welcome! I'll be sure to follow along with your progress as well!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-11 15:40:43 UTC #6

Here are some simple skeletons! This was actually more challenging than I thought it would be! Trying to figure out the perspective of the cylinders can be a bit difficult. For the second batch, I decided to go fast, so I wouldn't worry about making the lines or shapes perfect. I think I'll take more time to consider the volumes in the future.

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-11 19:42:52 UTC #7

The rest of the figure drawing assignments. I realized that I'm so used to building my art in layers of sketches, so I'm not good at clean lines straight off the bat. Hopefully that can improve in time!

Barry_ 2022-06-11 21:51:15 UTC #8

Great job on those gestures!

I also build my art in layers of sketches. What helped me to refine my lines was to lower the opacity after each pass. Draw the full figure with loose lines, lower the opacity, do another pass on a new layer with tighter lines and so on.

To be honest I really like your figure drawing. The loose lines give it lots of energy.

playforwho89 2022-06-12 12:26:43 UTC #9

Hello I really love those gestures, your lines give off so much energy. Great work.

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-12 18:54:00 UTC #10

Thanks, everyone for the feedback!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-15 11:51:53 UTC #11

Some more simple skeleton exercises, first I traced over them and then in purple, I did from reference. Looking at others' work I decided to make the cylinders longer, which compared to the first skeleton, the other two look a lot better. The main thing I observed is that when I do it from reference I lose the subtleties that I captured in the traces. In the future, I want to be more observant and capture the poses better!

I also did a 15 minute session of 30 sec gesture drawings!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-15 12:04:34 UTC #12

Here is more measured proportions practice! This is the part that I have the most challenge with. I've done a lot of gesture drawing, but this analytical approach is new to me.

I can see I made the figure a little too short, and her arms too long, as well as some issues with foreshortening.

Lockenheim 2022-06-16 02:03:12 UTC #13

Really nice work with this! Pretty darn close! Kep it up!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-19 23:01:29 UTC #14

Thank you, Lockenheim!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-22 08:36:58 UTC #15

I finally started on the Perspective lesson! I've definitely neglected this part of my art studies, so I hope as I practice, my art improves as well! For the cube assignment, I'm not sure what the norm is, but I personally find the line tool more cumbersome than not, so I did all the cubes and perspective lines freehand. I obviously need to work more on my marksmanship, but are there any improvements needed to be made to the perspective? Thanks!

I'll also be starting the Drawabox course because I've seen others recommend it, and it seems it'll be beneficial to my perspective!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-23 11:33:23 UTC #16

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-24 14:11:10 UTC #17

A sketch of a kitchen I did in one-point perspective. Really wanna start practicing drawing environments and props. It'll add a whole new flair to my art! This isn't my official drawing for the Perspective 1 assignment, just some practice!

Lockenheim 2022-06-26 13:26:57 UTC #18

Looks like you are getting the hang of it! This is a really cool piece. Im not familiar with traditional but I think all the noise in this adds a really cool effect. Keep it up!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-06-27 14:25:25 UTC #19

Thank you! To be fair, the "noise" is just smudged pencil, and it wasn't intentional, but I'm glad it works!

ErroIsTheFool 2022-07-04 18:54:58 UTC #20

Hello! It's been a while since I posted. As I was starting to do the Perspective assignments, I decided to also start the Drawabox to improve my line confidence and spatial reasoning, I'll be posting these in batches. Starting with the lines exercises!

leo.glt95 2022-07-05 00:52:14 UTC #21

Your gestures are nice ! try to incorporate more of them when u do figure drawing, be more relaxed and try to make long, curvy lines, you can do it i can see on your gestures

Keep up with drawing boxes and cylinders in perspective everyday, its gonna help you so much in the long run with thinking in 3D

Good work keep going !!