Faouzi - Art School Journey

Hello the community !

I'll start going through the material of the course I used to draw and enjoyed it a lot when I was a teenager. I stopped abruptly when I started STEM studies. Today and almost in my 40's I'd like to get back into drawing
I use the forum as my personal journal and will be happy to interact with you guys
Cheers and see you around

Many thanks for the warm welcome.

@daceronine I was reading some of your posts and realised that we also shared some professional interest in IT (I work mostly on AI and Cloud). But before that I was a researcher in Biology ^_^.

I really like what you did and now started to read your webtoon. I am very impressed by the increasing quality of your drawing :-). I hope to get there at a certain point

Cheers

Here are the assignments. I decided to focus on the ones that involve playing with colours and mask + drawing lines and circles.

I actually added some exercices from the Drawabox courses (Superimposed and ghost lines).

I never anticipated drawing lines to be so draining. I am oksih and confident drawing horizontal lines. For vertical lines I prefer going from bottom to top. I have diffuculty going from top to bottom and always finish with some wobbling.

That being said it was a very good exercices and a practice that I will repeat as a drill. I had difficulty for the last part with brushes as I needed to translate what I see on photoshop to affinity photos. But it went ok. I still need to work on brush pressure and calibrate it better when I hold the pen.

Here are my trials for the lines exercices I did in extra

The superimposed lines with procreate

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The superimposed lines with affinity photos

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The Ghost lines (similar to exercice 1 somehow) On affinity photos

The second part of the exercices was quite neat and not easy at all. I tried my best to fit the expectations there.

I did not spend too much time for the other parts of the photoshop tool as I want to quickly move onto the drawing part. But I kept tidy notes about what can be done and for which use case. I pretty sure that thing like liquify, healing tools and so on will come very handy when starting to draw more sophisticated stuff

Hello,

Some work on identifying the main part of the body over reference photos. I watched everything before Marc introduced the problematic with perspective

This has to be a routine now.

1. Line of actions
2. Head, chest and pelvis
3. Joints

I tried using both squares and ovales for the point 2. Ovales feel more natural to me but I have still difficulty finding appropriate position for the pelvis. I anticipate this will come with more practice.

First with squares / rectangles

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Next with ovals

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Finally I tried to recapitulate this approach using some references and drawing the line of action, torso and pelvis and joints. I definitely have some proportions issues. But Things are sinking in.

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Here some work studies on line of actions and "body" cylinders.

Exercice was not that easy for me and I am still a bit confused about the perspective I should give to some of these cylinders based on the posture. I need to work more and my spatial skills and relate the body perspective.

I have a set of exercice where I drew on top of photo references

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I tried also to draw a couple of them from reference. There were more dynamic ninja type postures ^_^

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I'll move on the proportion part of the curriculum but will continue working on this exercice.

Cheers all