Giuliano - Art School Journey Begins

[gteldeschi]

okaaaay, gesture drawing !!!!
that was fun, it was kinda of therapeutic being kinda loose after the last exercise
well here it is the ones that i had 30 seconds to drawn.

and here it is the 60 seconds one .

I know its kinda hard to say something about this type of exercise, but i can say this, sometimes i did some shapes that was like ''wow that turned out better that i expected'' but i discovered that when a body is upside down i kinda ''bug'' to where should i start drawing there is one in my 60 second one that its just like wtf happened there hahahahahah

[Julia_J]

Know the feeling, it gets better!

[dangras-almeida]

Been there, done that! hahahaha as @Julia_J said, it gets better. Just need to put in the work.

And reading your thread here, I really felt your pain on the "reference drawing" part, because I struggled SO MUCH with that, too. What worked for me, in the end, was to find out key markers in the body after limiting the height of the figure (top of the head and feet). I'm talking about knees, elbows, tips of the shoulder (where the colar bone meet the humerus). And I would start finding those out from the chin. After that, it was all basic shapes.

[gteldeschi]

oh yeah it was a big wtf for me to understand how to spot the key markers and use them properly, i visited your post and your journey helped me a lot as well !!!
btw obrigado pela resposta, seu nome me diz que você é brasileiro* ( thanks for your reply, your name tells me that you are Brazilian*)

[gteldeschi]

ohhh this perpective room assigment is fun and super challenging in the beginning !!!
I had the brilliant idea to start with an idea of my own and not to follow Marc's room exemple... boooy oh boy whatever you do dont do stairs on perspective x) hahahahahhaha, just kidding but they took me a good amount of time and effort to do, its a lot of perspectives lines that i need to trace in the VP to make it right !
I had this idea of doing like a loft room, cuz i really like that style and wish to live in one x)!
its still in development but i quite like it.

[dangras-almeida]

Looking forward to see your progress with it

Let us know if you need any help or feedback!

[gteldeschi]

So i did some progress on my perspective piece.
I have decided to add a balcony in the floor and on the second level as well, and i started to add a little bit of details.
I stopped when i tried to add some bar chairs to the open kitchen bench cuz it was kinda difficult to do them on perspective, and i am going to try to improve the couch as well.

I saw 2 first videos on second term of the classes, but I feel i still need stronger body proportions to advance to anatomy, i will try to do as Marc says about drawing shapes and deforming them like the example in the beginning of the anatomy class.
But i did a second try (by head this time) on the male and female proportions .

Any feedback is always welcome

[gteldeschi]

here are some gesture drawing i did before i have to go to work x)
30 seconds one

60 sec

[gteldeschi]

Okay i need help.
I realized that I struggle a lot with the shape manipulation of the simple objects in the sense of turning and twisting them from imagination, like Marc shows in the beginning of the first anatomy class, and since he said it was a prerequisite to be good at doing this if you want to continue I feel like I need to improve a lot in that area.
I was trying to do some cubes twisting and it went quite ok, but the cylinders are the ones that i struggle the most when it comes to drawn them twisted and turning and make them feel 3D.
You guys have any good exercises that would help improve that sense of 3D shapes ???

Here is me trying to pick a reference and just try to do a quick sketch braking him in the most simple shapes. and it feels weird idk

[dangras-almeida]

This video might help you:

The beginning of it it's all about practicing to make "anything" feel 3D, really.
Might be a good one to check it out Hope it helps.

[gteldeschi]

Thanks Dangras, it helped me !
I was doing a lot of shape manipulation as well during some of my free time to help me get better at this part, i did some practice as well back to basics, some over the reference some just looking at them.

I think maybe i should press on to the classes and see how it goes x)

[gteldeschi]

Was kinda absent here due to going back working full time as a chef but i am going to try my best to find time to practice more and more, so i did!
I used the Line of Action site do some gesture drawing so i did the class section of 30 minutes with 10 of 30 sec, 5 with 1 minute, 2 with 5 minutes and 1 with 10 minutes.

I really liked how the 10 minute finished out for my level x)

[gteldeschi]

Hello folks, testing the waters on the anatomy class here, still haven't found a brush that i am comfortable at shading but i am getting there, gotta memorize those landmarks now, next is mouth and eyes...

[gteldeschi]

Okay slowly but surely getting there ....
I find it still kinda hard the shading part specially choosing which brush to use, i am now in between Marcs legendary cube brush and the soft textured round brush on his started brush pack.
I am not super happy with the front face result, the ears became too small and i was lazy to fix it x) but so far so good from what i can do.
Any feedback is welcome

[snakker]

hey there, snakker here, local noob, loving the progress, keep it up!

cheers

[lolaidaka]

Love reading through your journey! You've made so much progress with the nude drawing/cylinder assignments! And your gesture looks really good! Keep up the great work!

[gteldeschi]

thanks for the kind words, i find it hard sometimes to push it through with my full time as a chef but those words helps a lot

[gteldeschi]

Here is where i hit the wall of my abilities and found myself copying over Marks example, i think i need to understand better how the shapes of the face works in order to shade correctly, otherwise i feel like i am painting with no structure and then is just adding color for the sake of it with no plan to where to put the colors and the order or importance of the shades, specially in a complex shape like the face.

[snakker]

Ho, I agree it’s hard
I am currently learning this part and I feel learning to see the head in flat planes (like asaro head) and learning to see the bone structure helps a lot to better understand how light interacts with it

Cheers!

[gteldeschi]

but here is Mr.Monkey, a drawing that i got inspired of doing while listening to Gorillaz, i really got surprised on how better i can get if i start using reference for the things in my crazy head x), i say this bcz i never had a proper drawing education so i never used references when i drew, but i can see now it makes the world of a difference in the process, so i am just sharing this bcz i felt proud of the progress of this one.

stay sharp folks