Ihalom - Art School Journey

[Ihalom]

@mitsuki-youko @catsforsnacks @uggievang thank you so much, I'm also incredibly happy with my progress :). Especially that consider myself an artist for a long time I though there isn't that much ways for me to grow, so it's even more surprising :D.

[Ihalom]

And as a small treat of today - I've challenged myself with making a portrait study assignment but this time with shading.
And, honestly... I didn't expect THAT... O.O

Version with photo ref (I guess I kept the similarity):

I was always afraid of shading / rendering, especially in digital, because I never could find a way to make it not look like plastic. Here, I think I could only add some texture to the skin to make it look more awesome, but even without it, it looks surprisingly good, I was in awe.

All was made by using only two brushes: my personal inking brush for for initial sketch and Marc's Legendary cubebrush. I couldn't believe that I only had to change between size and turn the shape dynamics on and off to achieve this.
Also - in less than 1,5 hour.
Yes, the visible brush strokes are on purpose, because this has always been my favorite way of rendering I've seen from other artists.

Fortunately, I got this recorded, so I'll be doing a timelapse from it someday :D.

[patrycja.lerch]

Looks great!

[mitsuki-youko]

this looks AMAZING!!! love the subtle brush strokes!! great job!

[Ihalom]

Second out of two portrait study - I feel like I've rushed this a little, but it was pretty late when Ii was doing it and I didn't want to stop and get back to it on another day :P.
Still, this took less than 90 minutes so I'm pretty happy with it because that might mean that I start to speed up my drawing a bit ^^.

Version with ref, so it's visible that I made a lot of mistakes and made this portrait a bit different from original. For my defense I'll say that it's a difficult angle and I always had some problems with it

Probably with spending double amount of time on it, I'd make it way better :P. Mostly cause now the day after I see more and more things I could do better on this.

[Ihalom]

I'm slowly trying to finish off all the term 2 anatomy assignment to get to the perspective class already, so I made a shaded head from imagination.
I did not check how Marc's head look like aside watching the video for the first time, a while ago, so any similarity is not intended XD.
Not my usual style but I've tried to incorporate shading wherever possible, even if at one point I totally forgot where the fat pads should be

[mitsuki-youko]

oooh noice!

[Ihalom]

@mitsuki-youko thank you. Not bad for a shaded head from imagination XD. It was pretty hard remember all those small details we've learned on the anatomy lesson and I probably missed something, but that's fine. I know I'll be drawing many more heads from now on and this time I will be able to make them more anatomically correct

[Ihalom]

Post anatomy self portrait is done and I must say I made a nice progress during those couple weeks when I was working harder on the head anatomy :D.
To see the difference I made a comparison of the two. Both were drawn with the mirror reflection only with second I could actually put the mirror somehow on my desk so I didn't need to hold it al the time :P.

I also made a terrible mistake with the second one to draw on a background layer in PS, so I couldn't even make a good shading and making it more clean with erasing sketch lines XD.

[uggievang]

oh wow you can def see the improvements especially the area around the eyes and eyebrows

[williamclemens8]

God you're stuff is so well done

[Ihalom]

@uggievang thank you, I was hoping for some improvement :). And it's funny, because I always thought that lips are giving me the most hard time when in reality it was eyes all along ^^.

@williamclemens8 thank you <3. Although I still have the feeling that I'm way below the place I'd like to be :). All in due time hopefully.

[Ihalom]

Volumes with carving, turning and whatever else done XD.
Jeez, this exercise is definitely the worst :P.

With every day I'm closer to my Term 2 goals ^^
Can't wait for Term 3, seeing what head anatomy did to my drawings, I want to put more effort into the next part

[Kaz_0]

Great work! The lineweight is very nice

[br00dley]

That's some amazing progression, well done. Looking forward to seeing your work continue to progress.

[Ihalom]

@Kaz_0 thank you. I made this exercise mainly about of lineweight practice as I've never used it in my drawings so far and it gives a nice effect :).

@br00dley thank you so much. I cannot wait to see more progress. Many of the assignment seem tedious at first but I guess those small things are the main reason for developing the skill. So I'm trying my best to get through it .

[mitsuki-youko]

noice! these shapes are beautiful!

[Ihalom]

Getting close to the end of term 2 assignments, sadly only the hardest and more tedious left -.-'.
But here's a "compilation" of my 10 minutes gesture (or rather figure) drawings and at thee same time the ones I'm proud of the most. I've never think that I really can draw a full human figure in less than 10 minutes but it seems I can and that's awesome

I censored it a bit, because I had more time to focus on details and I don't want it to be consider NSW

[daceronine]

Yo! all this work looks great! those are amazing for less than 10 minutes!

[mitsuki-youko]

these look GREAT!!