Ihalom - Art School Journey

[Ihalom]

@Nosnibor thank you so much and I'm truly glad my work inspire you to grow :).
While I cannot commit to daily assignments, I always count all the exercises from the study companion guide and make a list of how many drawings I should make for the term and then whenever I have the time I trying to fill the list as much as I can ^^.
It gives me a little gamification to all this work as seeing the list being filled gives a good level of satisfaction and endorphins every time I can mark the checkbox :D.
Although I'm lacking a lot with this 3rd term and so far my list is looking like this:

So I'm trying to find the time to draw more assignments not only to learn but to finally fill the list and go further with my learning :). It happens to be a bit of a motivation as well :).

[levelhead14]

This is a cool idea. What's the app called?

[Nosnibor]

It is called Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/ (atleast I think it is). Its free and I've started using it recently too

[Ihalom]

@levelhead14 @Nosnibor yes, it's exactly Obsidian :).
It requires a bit of knowledge to use and I'm still exploring some of it's features, but the best that it can offer is the ability to sync the notes between devices so I have the access to it everywhere, no matter on what device I'm working on ^^.

[Ihalom]

Been a while, but with all what's going on, even if I'm drawing a bit, I couldn't find the time to post :P.
But finally manage to sit for a couple minutes to do this

Here are my next studies - I'm mainly focus on finishing the clothing assignments before I'll get to the anatomy and sculpting, so I hope you'll forgive me for such monothematic ^^.

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First one for cloth on naked figure. I'm still doing it pretty fast and not with too much rendering, but I have to say, I learn some things I can use in my other work already:

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Next, another photo study. I'm pretty close to an end with it, having only one left:

I'm starting to adding some more lineart to those to emphasize the contrast and because pure rendering is not one of my strengths, beside it's also not the style I'm aiming for.

[Ihalom]

Last of the clothing study which makes this assignment done!

I'm gonna say FINALLY, because those were taking a lot of time (around 2 hours each) and while I'm really not that good with rendering (totally lineart person) I had a hard time making those.

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Also: I put some more effort to those exercises lately as I'm feeling slightly better with my spine, so here are another two of clothing on a figure:

I'm starting to really like those because I can make them fairly quick, especially when I'm not focusing on details and shading that much :P.

[Ihalom]

Been a while, but I felt good enough recently so I made some work with either assignments here and some personal projects :D.

Getting really close to end up the clothing section and I can't wait for it to end it's been a hell of work with all those assignments.
Easy to say I start to get a bit bored with it :P.

But whining aside, here are last 5 of putting clothes on a character pieces which makes me done with this assignment at last:

This was both the easiest and the hardest thing to do, because I didn't have to worry about the figure drawing and making all the rendering right, but at the same time I needed to think how the folds would behave and I'm more than sure that I got it wrong a couple times :P. Well, there's still much to learn here, but I have definitely more understanding of it :).

Pose courtesy for those exercises - Mels Mneyan

[Ihalom]

To rest a little from cloth rendering I made some lineart ones and as I'm totally into detailed lineart, this was super relaxing and fun XD:

Five of those makes exactly half of the assignment and each one is taking me about an hour or so, depends on details and complexity of folds. But it's way easier than trying to render or even than putting clothes on character.

[Ihalom]

Here's last 5 of lineart study:
Not much to say about those - pretty quick exercises I haven't really any problem with

That marks the end of my lineart study and I'm pretty happy with the result on it

[Ihalom]

First three of the artist cloths study - definitely the toughest assignments here, I'm glad I'd only have to make 5 of those, those are so time consuming...

You can see I gave up with some parts for the 2nd and 3rd, after about 2 hours (or more), I couldn't force myself to do anything more so I decided to left some parts unfinished.
But I think as soon as I'll make the folds correctly, there shouldn't be a problem with shading and coloring it for me anymore. And I think I'll start to simplify it a bit more. As much as I truly love going into details, I value the speed of work even more and spending hours on one piece (especially when I'm not super fast with drawing) is an overkill for me :P.

[Nosnibor]

Your cloth studies/rendering are inspirational. I am currently reworking my way through the course, I originally hated doing cloth studies but I am looking forward to tackling them again after seeing yours : )

[Ihalom]

@Nosnibor thank you so much, it's really nice to know my work can inspire other people :).
I truly hated drawing clothes as well, as I never understand how the folds work, but after just a bit of knowledge from the course about tension points I can finally try to draw without a fear of complete failing.
And slowly, I'm learning how to put shadows on cloths, which I believe will result in some decent cloth drawing in the future.
I still have no patience for detailing and putting all the folds in place to make it look more realistic, but I'm more confident to create simplified version of it and that's more than enough for me ^^.

[williamclemens8]

oh my God these are so crazy
I am just starting out with clothes right now after basically 8 months of no practice due to school, when you were starting clothes did you just dive straight in with the videos or did you try and go over individual folds first?

[Ihalom]

@williamclemens8 I'm glad you like those, thank you :).
I watched the video, made some notes, try to understand and remember some stuff as all those were quite new for me. Did't practice any individual folds besides those from the video, where I drew it for my notes.
But I always was quite good with copying so I did similar stuff here, when I made those assignments. This time however, I made sure to stop sometimes and not only mindlessly draw what I see, but think about it for a while, where those folds come from and why. Sometimes, on the sketch, I tried to put some tension points to get a better understanding.

It's a hard topic that requite a ton of practice and even after all those exercises I'm not truly confident in drawing clothes, but I know I'm getting closer.

[Ihalom]

last two of a cloth artist study.
it's very hard to find an artist who is not doing sketchy / messy style in clothing and on the other hand there's so many Ai everywhere that I had a really bad time trying to search for those refs.

credits: ./@dishwasher1910

credits: ./@birmit

I really like the second one, especially the lineart and think I'd try to adapt it into my drawings in the future ^^

[SamuraiSingh]

@Ihalom The quality of your work is amazing. You seem more like a Art Teacher than an Art Student

[Ihalom]

@SamuraiSingh oh my, thank you so much . Although I wouldn't dare teach anyone, at least not yet.
But as I grow, I will surely want to try make some tutorials, when I finally establish my style ^^

[Ihalom]

Time for the last two exercises for this section and first is study of self photo in simple clothes.
As I cannot find a good angle to take a selfie in a mirror, I found an old photo of me (from my old modeling days) and tried to redraw it ^^.

Here's just a drawing next to photo in question - I'm so, so proud of the end result :D.

Also - I used a different style and approach, where instead of lineart, I paint on top of a low opacity sketch and put the lines near the end, to pop the whole thing :).
I did a recording out of it, so I'll be making a timelapse for sure :).

[Ihalom]

I'm a bit slow with posts, but here's my last assignment for clothing from Term 3 - fully dressed painting study:

I wanted to use similar style to my previous drawing, when first I put color onto the low opacity sketch and then slowly build the details.
I think I did a fairly good job with this one, hopefully I'll continue to manage something similar for my personal projects ^^.

I made a recording, so I should be able to post some timelapse from it soon.

Finally I can hop into anatomy and sculpting and and this term in some reasonable time :D.

[Violante]

Amazing studies, as always I'm excited for your timelapse videos!