Inkpendude - My Art Journey (TERM 3)

[patrycja.lerch]

Good job! Portait looks really nice but ear is too short

[Inkpendude]

Thank you! yeah I think I got so into trying to draw the rest, that I ended up neglecting the ears.

[mitsuki-youko]

eyy nice job! the muscle studies look awesome as does the portrait study!

[catsforsnacks]

Hell yeah dude keep it up!

[daceronine]

Nice work all around man! The potrait looks great! I also still struggle to get ears to be the right size.

Muscle anatomy studies also look good, though something I noticed in those last 2 anatomy exercices was that the crotch seems to be a bit higher than it should. Makes the torso overall feel smaller.

Also "fuckface" was not an anatomy term I was familiar with xD

[Pattu_w]

Everything looks pretty good to my eyes!
Man one thing that i just can't figure out on anatomy is the trapezius, can't see to figure out how low it attaches on the spine, in some models it ends right on the bottom line of the rotators, but in others looks like it goes all the way to the tip of the rib cage. Just expressing my confusion lol

[Inkpendude]

in some models it ends right on the bottom line of the rotators, but in others looks like it goes all the way to the tip of the rib cage.

Yeah it's weird. I made a few mistakes because of that too. according to my research it usually goes like this..

It usually ends before the lats, never longer than that. the tendon that has less mass it goes a bit further which gives it that extra lenght, some artist draw that, other artists dont and I think that's were the confusion is born. you so have to be careful with the references..although I don't think it affects THAT much if you draw it longer than usual

another thing I noticed is that in most references and 3d Models, it ends right at the same lenght of the 10th rib, which is kinda where the square of the torso ends.

Maybe Marc mentionted this and I didn't even paid attention lol.

[Inkpendude]

Also "fuckface" was not an anatomy term I was familiar with xD

The Perks of being Self Taught, you make your own terms lol

[gregorya]

Nice work on the muscle back study.

[Pattu_w]

Oh i see, thanks for sharing it!

Maybe Marc mentionted this and I didn't even paid attention lol.

I may have watched the lesson with some metal music pumping on the background... i may lol

[Inkpendude]

So far I struggle a lot with understanding and identifying the folds in real life clothes. I tend to draw random lines without thinking and I often draw more stiff lines too, which ends up making a stiff pose. in that second drawing, the sketch (right one) had a lot more gesture. I think if I use a brush with less hardness and start using hatching to end the lines, it could look better.

I also need to remember to use less lines, and simplify what I'm seeing.

the reason why I'm doing this and not how mark does it in the video (going straight to painting) is because I feel like I'm not really learning with that method, It just makes me good at copying and not understanding, and I really want to make my own OC before the year ends, and I don't feel "ready" for it...

[Norma]

I can see that you did more than just copy. Your own interpretation of the folds went in the right direction.

[Inkpendude]

Some enviroment paintings did for fun. Not my best work of course, they look very amateur but at least with works as a "Starting point" to compare to later. Pixel art landscapes are much easier.

[catsforsnacks]

the reason why I'm doing this and not how mark does it in the video (going straight to painting) is because I feel like I'm not really learning with that method, It just makes me good at copying and not understanding

I know exactly what you mean. Learning information like this can be so slow it feel like its not even happening. Its not like math where you can learn something new, do a few problems, and pretty much have it learned by the end of the day. Progress can DRAG.
I think once you start drawing clothes on the naked figures you'll see some things that you have absorbed and feel more confident. That happened to me this morning and it was a nice affirmation.
Keep up the good work dude - you're killing it!

[mitsuki-youko]

your environments look gorgeous!

[Inkpendude]

I think once you start drawing clothes on the naked figures

Oooh damn I completely forgot about THAT assignment! I'll probably give it a try tomorrow.

[daceronine]

These all look good to me. I think you have the right ideas. I personally also struggle a lot to draw folds as Marc intended and lean to simplify and reconstruct with an eye on the references more so than copying the shadows.

Either way it helps to understand the folds.

The only piece of advice I could share was that while doing these exercices, at one point I tried to construct clothes completly from "imagination", and just follow the points of tension rules, foregoing references to dress the naked people. It didn't look that good.
I switched back to look at references if only to "construct" new clothes by looking for clothes in similar poses, or even posing them myself and taking a photo, and the result was almost night and day.

So the lesson I learned then was to just keep using references until I gain more experience, even when "constructing" new clothes.

[catsforsnacks]

I was thinking about that the other day. Are there any sources for finding models nude and clothed doing the same poses? That would be incredibly helpful. Scrounging around for similar poses online can take awhile. Mimicking the pose and taking a photo is a good solution but I only have one body type lol.

[gregorya]

Nice work on the environment paintings. Especially the warm colors.

[alejorey.1995]

The color scheme looks so calm, the use of color and the atmospheric perspective are really good.