Ihalom - Art School Journey

snakker 2023-08-22 22:31:21 UTC #21

Great stuff so far, keep it up mate

Cheers

Ihalom 2023-08-23 01:46:02 UTC #22

Thank you ^^.

Yeah, that's probably me having problems with dividing the simple square into thirds . Halves are fine, but how the hell I'd eyeball divide something into three equal parts?
Maybe I should practice those instead seriously drawing anything

Ihalom 2023-08-23 01:48:04 UTC #23

Thank you.
Most of those basics seems pretty simple, but it's nice to remind myself something I was learning long ago and mostly forgot . I was more or less using most of those fundamentals in my drawing, but I've noticed that I misinterpreted some of them and now I have to change some habits.

kohkeeree 2023-08-23 04:30:17 UTC #24

I feel like it's incredibly hard to even divide something by thirds just from eyeballing but that's just because I also have troubles and still can't get it right

Nahhhh~ I think your time is better spent elsewhere. But if you do want to practice dividing, just use Marc's line assignment. Place two dots between start and the end. For every practice/warmup

Best of luck!

Ihalom 2023-08-25 19:03:45 UTC #25

A really small update for today, but I wanted to brag about one thing:

It's been two weeks since I've started the pen control exercise assignment and I want to show you the progress I made:

On the beginning I was convince that my pen control on Huion Kamvas is nonexistent and I was blaming the pen weight and trivial stuff like that. But after the two whole weeks, it changed so much that I really start to believe that getting used to the big tablet is the only thing

When I look at those lines right now, way more confident and way less wobbly, I'm really happy I get myself disciplined enough and make those practices every day.
It was taking me between 20-30 minutes (mostly because I was scrolling through social media all the time while doing this :P), but it was definitely worth it.

I plan to go with the next control exercises from Marc YT video, but I know I want to get back to this at least once a week to track my progress even more :).

snakker 2023-08-25 19:26:49 UTC #26

Very nice, consistency is key

Ihalom 2023-08-28 01:12:47 UTC #27

Thank you <3. it's not easy to be consistent on this, but I do what I can ^^

Ihalom 2023-08-29 02:50:15 UTC #28

I'm using a bit more free time lately to deal with some delayed assignments from week 2 and 3.

I haven't put a lot of effort to them and turns out I remembered about 40% of how those should be done, but my previous PS knowledge happen to be a bit useful (still cannot figure out how to use masks, it's a dark magic for me).

So here's the apples one - pretty simple and straightforward:

Next - liquify tool - as I'm using it on a daily basis it was the quickest assignment ever

And for the next overdue - healing tools. I had no idea what I was doing here and had a feeling that it didn't work as it supposed to but there's some effect and I even quite like it. Especially the beard-ish thing and some gray hair I managed to do ^^

I also checked the proportion exercise again and it turns out that I did the wrong measurement last time - I assumed that the squares (head sizes) for both characters are even, but turns out the male squares are a bit wider than they are high. I don't know if that was something that wasn't mentioned in the video or I just missed this information, but when I used the prepared canvas with measurements, it starts to make a lot more sense:

No more skinny boy . it looks much better now. And it's definitely not about me not being able to divide to thirds properly, haha (well, that too, but not as much as I was afraid of).

I also made a 10 exercises sheet and I spend some time to do each one of those, at least for a bit (I'm doing gesture drawing separately, and traditionally for now, but I think I'll be switching to digital with it too sometime soon.

Onward to the next weeks of practice. I plan to watch a perspective video within next couple days, so I'll add some more exercises to my daily plan :P. I hope I won't overwhelm myself with it, but it's been a while since I had so much fun while going with any course ^^.
So I'm hyped.

Ihalom 2023-08-29 21:42:51 UTC #29

Past 3 days with some gesture drawings made traditionally.
Majority of 1 minute poses, with some 15-30 seconds and a couple of 2 minute ones.
I hate them, but I guess repetition is the key, so I shouldn't complain ^^

catsforsnacks 2023-08-29 23:30:31 UTC #30

Nice gestures!
Kudos on keeping up with the pen control exercises. They really paid off!

Ihalom 2023-08-30 23:01:03 UTC #31

@catsforsnacks Thank you so much.
I think it's easy to say all the exercises pays off, the worst problem is - the further in time, the more of them piles up as a daily habit. Right now, I barely have time for my own projects, because I'm trying to keep with the daily practice of a simplest things and the more into the course I'm getting, the more work seems to awaits me, as a daily practice.
I hope I won't get overwhelmed.

Ihalom 2023-08-30 23:06:15 UTC #32

At first I didn't know what to do with this assignment from the Companion Guide .pdf. It seemed a bit difficult for a beginner level of entry and I wasn't sure if I even understand it correctly.

But I wanted to do this anyway, and while simple copy of an existing character seemed not enough, I made some additional observation and took this small study a little bit more serious ^^. As an entry to understanding my own character design.

snakker 2023-08-31 01:08:33 UTC #33

Wow, that's a very nice study, very detailed

mitsuki-youko 2023-08-31 02:24:04 UTC #34

ooh that is a great study!

Ihalom 2023-09-01 16:30:07 UTC #35

@snakker @mitsuki-youko thank you so much ^^. I'm pretty sure that it's totally off from the basic point of this exercise and I think I know how to make the next ones .

Ihalom 2023-09-02 06:24:33 UTC #36

"Artists on all skill level are doing these":

Does that mean I'll have to go through this pain for the rest of my life?
It's 30 minutes per session and my hand is numb, my brain fried and all I knew so far seem to be worth nothing...
It's more fun when I'm doing it digital way, but still... damn!

mitsuki-youko 2023-09-02 15:15:51 UTC #37

these look great and it gets easier as you do them and you will figure out shortcuts to make those lines in the shortest amount of effort possible keep going u got dis!

funslub1996 2023-09-03 15:23:53 UTC #38

Yeaaa generally majority renown character artist early life will goes through this process to practice body gesture. I believe they stop eventually and apply those body gesture to their OG character. Sometime I saw some animator livestream in Youtube they just draw anime line art instead of this body gesture 30sec body gesture practice.

Personally I stop practicing it because I believe visual library is more important, like really just look at how other good artist draw and paint to catch my attention. And apply those technique and idea.

catsforsnacks 2023-09-05 15:33:43 UTC #39

I totally understand the feeling of getting overwhelmed. I try to only practice one or two things daily for 30min to an hour each. Kinda like a warmup. Then move on to the assignments or illustrations. Otherwise the whole day would be taken up with daily exercises and that would be such a slog. I think its also important to take time to apply what you have been learning periodically so that you can retain it better. Testing yourself can also make you see how you are improving and motivate further. This is just my experience anyway.

snakker 2023-09-05 15:41:10 UTC #40

Well, from what I can surmise yeah, gesture is really helpful and kinda like working out, easy if you are consistently doing em, hard if you stop for a while 🙈 but gotta say, these look really good and at least for me, they are kinda relaxing to do and get me in the mood to keep drawing

Cheers