Ihalom - Art School Journey

daceronine 2024-07-04 00:17:44 UTC #148

Oy! really good work! You're killing it with these exercices!, clothes look delicious!.

mitsuki-youko 2024-07-04 04:43:40 UTC #149

yoooooooooo these look amazing!

Ihalom 2024-07-15 05:20:11 UTC #150

@snakker thank you ^^. I barely shade this way and with such detailing, but I too think it looks really good here. I had this feeling that the textile looks a bit artificial with this additional light, but actually it might give it more of a volume and "not that realistic" vibe which I'm aiming for :).

@daceronine thank you <3. if only it would take a bit less time, haha. I'm literally spending hours trying to make those clothes look good :P.

@mitsuki-youko thank you ^^. That means it was time well spent :). I cannot wait to learn how to put vibrant colors on those too :D.

Ihalom 2024-07-15 05:27:40 UTC #151

Yoo, this month is not easy for me - trying to live through some family emergency while simultaneously taking two different art courses is a bit taxing, so I'm a bit behind with everything.
But as keeping the flow going (at least a bit), I did another sheet of gesture/figure drawings, 2 minutes each:

It had different outcome - sometimes I felt like I'm nailing it with even some time to spare and sometimes I hated the result. But I guess overall it's not that bad and I started to focus more on the form itself and less on the details for the pose. It was way easier to grasp the curves and flow that tried to draw along muscles when I'm not that familiar with anatomy yet.
I plan to watch some more videos about gesture drawing and possibly incorporate some more tips (although I feel that at this point it's more a matter of practice :P).

I also hope on getting back to some assignments in an upcoming week, finally. The lack of time and ability to draw for the past weeks makes me really frustrated xD.

daceronine 2024-07-15 16:19:36 UTC #152

Hope you're doing better now! No need to worry, life be like that sometimes. Though I'm not going through an emergency myself, I can relate to the lack of time and frustration. Just need to resolve it as it comes and do what we can with what we have.

At least it seems you are enjoying the process, and that's a lot of good work there.

williamclemens8 2024-07-27 01:27:44 UTC #153

my God those clothes look absolutely peak man

Ihalom 2024-07-29 23:31:50 UTC #154

@daceronine thank you. On top of all that I decided to take one more 8-week course, so trying to make the time for all of it is really hard :P. But the emergency is over now, so I can slowly try to catch up with some things :).

@williamclemens8 thank you. they are also extremely time consuming and really hard at times. I still don't really get all those tension points and how to place them, I'm still mostly copying what I see, but I hope at the end of those assignments I'll be able to understand way more

Ihalom 2024-07-29 23:37:01 UTC #155

3 out of 12.
I took a half day of break from all the other stuff to make this one.
Not really happy with this - the skirt turned out to be way more difficult and confusing than I thought, probably because of this pattern.
And for this I change the image to grayscale to see more values I was about to paint :).

I probably might sit a bit longer with it, but more than 2 hours was enough for me. I just hope I'll be able to slowly add some more, soft lineart to those paintings, to make them pop a bit more.
Overall it's not that bad. I already picked all of the references a couple weeks ago and I intend to stick to them, so I'm choosing from the easies ones xD

Ihalom 2024-09-03 17:31:31 UTC #156

First out of three environmental studies for this term.
This time, instead searching and drawing conv. lines directly on the reference, I've tried to build it myself from the scratch. It wasn't easy and I ended up tracing some lines on ref anyway, but I kept that only for getting some more information about the perspective.

The separate thing was a fact that I've notice that I used an AI generated reference for this one and since I thought it doesn't matter that much, it was a big mistake, because I guess AI doesn't know how to create images anyway and they look good only with a first glimpse on an eye. Once I start to analyze it and search for details and how they're done, I've found an enormous amount of mistakes and my work slowed drastically because of that .
So because of this, my perspective may seem a bit different from the reference one, and I honestly don't really know if it's done properly, but I've learned my lesson and will make sure to not take AI generated pictures as references, even if they look quite cool at first.

daceronine 2024-09-03 18:58:37 UTC #157

Your exercice looks good despite the AI shenanigans!

I actually made the same mistake, I tried to use an AI generated image becuase at first glance it looked cool. Figured I could just correct the obvious mistakes and use it. Just like you, once I started looking at the details, so many things didn't make sense and there were so many things to correct it just wasn't worth it.

I think it's especially troublesome to use them while learning as it could skew some of the lessons and provides a faulty template. It's much better to use photos or pro artists as references.

Lesson learned as well. Those lessons are part of the journey, so no biggie, now we know what to do.

uggievang 2024-09-04 02:17:47 UTC #158

Yea it doesnt help that its becoming increasingly hard to find platform that dont flood your search with ai generated images so it can get a bit confusing

Ihalom 2024-09-26 22:40:48 UTC #159

@daceronine Thanks. Yeah, I've been trying to use some AI prompts to get at least poses or some shading copied from it, but as for this enviro, I regretted it pretty quickly. And it's a shame, because I'd really like to learn from some artists whose style is something AI is based on but now it's almost impossible to tell if those are their work at the first glance and I don't want to spend a lot of time when looking for references to look closely on every picture to search the glitches.
Seems only photos are now quite decent source of references and it's a shame. Even some famous anime style pictures I've been trying to learn from are full of this AI crap

@uggievang that is so true. Pinterest is done, same as every google image search. I can try to dig into my own visual library I've been collecting for years, but then I have many things put in one folder, without categorizing and there's no way to find a proper reference quick enough :/.
The quality of everything went down after AI came

Ihalom 2024-09-26 22:52:46 UTC #160

4 out of 12 clothing study.
I haven't done it for so long I completely forgot the steps and I've made a whole lineart for this before I get to render. I wish to combine a nice rendering with some good, crispy lines of contour and I'm looking for a way to do it. Hopefully someday :D.

I also rushed it a little bit, but I'm pretty happy with the result. Clothes are being so hard and even if I'm trying to understand all the tension points and folds, there seem to be a lot of other shades and folds that probably come from the type of textile and influence of the environment.

Also - my first try to dress up a naked photo reference.
I know I should maybe start from something more from imagination to get a better understanding, but this is not that bad :). (and I take every responsibility of putting a yukata on a female, I just realize it way too late -.-')

I manage to put some contour lines around the cloth, but even with that it doesn't look too artificial and strange, so I'm happy with that :D.

I hope to make more exercises soon, as I plan to work a bit more on the course assignments :).

daceronine 2024-09-26 23:41:47 UTC #161

ooh these look really nice! nicely done clothes!

Ihalom 2024-10-23 23:41:11 UTC #162

Damn, this term is going sooo slow for me....

5 out of 12 clothing study. This time I've spent a bit less time on this as I didn't want to use any lineart at all. It may seem to have a bit less contrast than original, but using some spots of value instead of thinking what to do with every single line was an interesting experience :).

Also - second environmental study, to fill out my need for sketchy lines

Even if I messed up the proportions / distances a bit, I really like the look of it. I did my best with observation and building everything myself, only trying to guess how the perspective lines would look like by looking at the original.
Hope I'm making some progress, even if in some days it looks like I'm not

mitsuki-youko 2024-10-25 05:52:03 UTC #163

ooh the studies look rly professional

Ihalom 2024-10-29 16:26:04 UTC #164

@mitsuki-youko oh, you think so? Thank you <3.
I honestly sometimes think like I'm making a step back in my art. Especially when I cannot be consistent with my style :P.
But I'll continue to do my best. I plan to spend a bit more rime now on the course, because I want to go with next lessons and there's still so many assignments to do .

Ihalom 2024-11-14 02:50:53 UTC #165

2/2 2 minute gesture drawing for this term:

I'm pretty happy with those as I managed to make them quite detailed and I tried to start remembering some shapes for anatomy. Although sometimes I had to go a bit over 2 minutes, because some of those poses were just too difficult and I didn't want to end with only half done :P.

kalienator 2024-11-14 17:08:13 UTC #166

Seeing the progression of your studies is really inspiring me to keep going. Really great work!

daceronine 2024-11-17 18:57:38 UTC #167

That's a lot of practice! Nice work!