Gabriel - Art School Journey

GabrielVin 2021-10-06 23:19:36 UTC #5

Daily challenge failed in the first day as my internet decided not to work anymore ...

well, here's what I did Yesterday

Gesture Drawing 30s (only the ones I liked)

Gesture Drawing 1 min (only the ones I liked)

Reference using measurements

Perspective with 1 focal point

perspective with 2 focal points

GabrielVin 2021-10-08 04:32:44 UTC #6

Started blocking out my room
my idea is to make a room in a 'tower of clock'

Just realized, Is my clock too small?

GD 30s (should I post all of then? )

GD 1 Min

Figure Drawing using measurements

This time I missed pretty beautifully, but I liked the end result so I didn't even try to fix

GabrielVin 2021-10-09 06:02:39 UTC #7

I refined a bit the room in the Clock Tower ... Well, it's not a Clock tower anymore .

I followed a more steampunk idea
btw how do I measure the objects size? For the biggest ones I'm doing a box around it (like the table or my (almost similar) r2d2 but the random props (like the hatchet on the pipe) I have no idea of the right proportions, is there a good way to measure or is just experience?

my figure drawing of today:

No gesture drawing as I lost sight of time while drawing the room

GabrielVin 2021-10-11 07:04:52 UTC #8

Finally finished my room

And this mark the end of my Term 1 !

Kosmonaut 2021-10-11 12:49:40 UTC #9

Nice room love the design of the roof

GabrielVin 2021-10-20 05:12:10 UTC #10

@Kosmonaut thanks!

I'm getting further and further away from may daily posts goal as my graphic board decided by itself that it needed vacations so I had to pause this last week... I hope this time I'm able to proceed more smoothly

Here's my start on term 2 :
my logo (that I made thinking of using as a Instagran Profile Picture )

my complex shape done with the pen tool -

and my 'monsters '

GabrielVin 2021-10-20 05:23:03 UTC #11

Thanks! I was initially trying to draw a lot of connected gears but the perspective got all messed up . I'm glad I changed though

Lukiesartventure 2021-10-20 12:07:49 UTC #12

Great stuff! I Like the super mario shroom

Lukiesartventure 2021-10-20 12:08:30 UTC #13

Try to focus on using less lines in your drawings, and using the 'ghosting' method for drawing

GabrielVin 2021-10-22 05:31:12 UTC #14

I'm trying to.. but I usually just am too lazy to draw a lineart on top of the sketch
Just did a quick search about the 'ghosting' method .. it's something like what we do in the beginning of the first term?

GabrielVin 2021-10-22 05:37:03 UTC #15

I noticed that I was having a hard time to enter into 'drawing mode' and I figured it was probably because since I fixed my computer I stopped with 'gesture drawing'... so i'll start with GD on a daily basis again.

1 min GD

My 'Box Cover'

Kosmonaut 2021-10-22 15:18:20 UTC #16

good gesture but I would recommend trying to use fewer lines and having more line confidence when you do your gesture drawing so like for example if you are drawing the curve of a leg you would draw a single line instead of doing scratchy/hairy lines to get the complete curve but everything else looks good. I also wanted to comment on your box cover because it seems to not be in the right perspective based on how flat the front plane looks it should be more angled in a 2 point perspective set up.

GabrielVin 2021-10-24 08:14:57 UTC #17

I probably won't be able to improve my lines in GD for now, as I tend to do these hairy lines when trying to correctly adjust the size of the limbs as to not get out of proportion .
I didn't even think about using perspective ( yeah kinda dumb since I just finalized perspective class )

GabrielVin 2021-10-24 08:17:12 UTC #18

For today's studies :

line control :

shadows :

Lukiesartventure 2021-10-25 09:29:48 UTC #19

Great shadows and line control on those last two! If you're struggling to get into drawing, something Bobby Chiu does + recommends is to just sit and sketch whatever is in your head, for 10mins at least to get the hand warmed up.

For ghosting this video was how I learnt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1HAVipdsZM&ab_channel=Uncomfortable

Kosmonaut 2021-10-25 15:55:25 UTC #20

well a way to improve them is just getting used to doing on stroke and seeing where you make mistake by comparing it to your ref that way you can still improve line confidence while making it a habit to check the limb length correctly

GabrielVin 2021-10-26 03:30:54 UTC #22

@Lukiesartventure hmm, i'll try to pay more attention and apply these ghost drawing methods whenever I can
@Kosmonaut I'll start with 2 min gesture drawing, then I can focus more on trying to improve line confidence

GabrielVin 2021-10-26 03:32:56 UTC #23

today's studies:
Color Blending:

And my brush:

I'm with high hopes for the Anatomy class

Kosmonaut 2021-10-26 15:19:36 UTC #24

line confidence with me came from just drawing over and over so it could also be improved over time with 30-second gesture as well. do whatever works for you best or experiment and find out what works best didn't mean to influence you to go for a longer time if you were fine with what you were doing before. basically, line confidence is what comes out of trusting your brain, eyes, and hand to correctly make the line the fits what you are drawing at least to me. That comes with time as you draw more and more so if you thin 2 min. will help go for it.

GabrielVin 2021-10-29 05:07:09 UTC #25

University work's pilling up, but I want to try to keep a daily practice, so here's my study for today: