Inkpendude - My Art Journey (TERM 3)

patrycja.lerch 2023-12-23 08:07:19 UTC #404

Looks cool! I like markings under eye

Inkpendude 2023-12-26 00:19:25 UTC #405

This one is pretty sketchy

mitsuki-youko 2023-12-27 01:05:24 UTC #406

ooh this looks really cool except her right hip (left from our view) looks a bit too far out..

Might look better like this? imo..

Inkpendude 2023-12-27 02:32:24 UTC #407

Yeah I think I agree it does look better like that. Although the reason why it looks weird is because I tried to follow the reference (She has massive hips lol) . I struggled a bit with the hips/legs and then adding the armor made it a bit more confusing. I didn't even drew the foot because In other references you can't see it hidden behind the leg, and in this case it wouldn't be 100% necessary for the drawing.

Changing the position of the leg and adding the foot on the other side looks better.
leasson learned tho, You don't have to copy the reference, just steal some aspects of it.

mitsuki-youko 2023-12-27 03:36:32 UTC #408

Ohh haha i c

ah gotcha

Looks good tho!

daceronine 2023-12-27 18:01:42 UTC #409

She's coming along really well! You planning on using her for art pieces or looking ahead for something more?

gregorya 2023-12-28 22:42:18 UTC #410

That's pretty good so far.

Inkpendude 2024-01-22 19:24:27 UTC #411

Coming back after a little break! I was also doing some pixelart work, so the break was longer than I intended. Honestly not sure if I have to move on to TERM 4 yet. I don't feel like I'm ready + money has been tight...I think I'm gonna have to keep working on this term for a while more.

I also feel kinda disoriented, I need to figure out my goals for this year and that hasn't been as clear as last year. In the meantime..I'm gonna have to focus on a recap of what I learned last year about the torso.

Here's some stuff I've done as a warm up for this month.

snakker 2024-01-22 19:27:40 UTC #412

Yo great job on these studies mate! I really like how you tackled the environment study with the head, the notes on the composition are very useful

Cheers

gregorya 2024-01-22 23:44:44 UTC #413

Nice work on the poses and portrait studies.
The clothing folds are getting better.

daceronine 2024-01-23 00:59:22 UTC #414

Yo, at your current level I can definetly see you working through term 4. It seems you have the knowledge and it's just matter of practice, which you can do regardless of the term.

Then again, I can also understand money being tight and reaffirming knowledge as you save up. If that's the case there are plenty of video and exercices to warm up for term 4, which is mostly anatomy and color/light theory and practice.

Good exercices here though. It does seem for the one where you placed clothes on the non clothed girls it was mostly from imagination. While that's also a good exercice, I recommend looking at references of clohtes in similar poses as well. I noticed a distinctive improvement when I tried to do it 100% from imagination and when I looked at some references and used those as basis for dressing up the naked characters.

Inkpendude 2024-01-23 04:06:47 UTC #415

That's correct! I'm definitely gonna do that next time. It was a good warm up for the brushes tho

Inkpendude 2024-03-08 14:09:23 UTC #416

3 months in this year and I feel like I haven't done anything. apart from some stuff that I have been doing in january, the rest has been hard. I feel the pressure of not "accomplishing anything" yet. I have been doubting If I could ever be a professional illustrator/ character designer, but I still havent given up. I'm still drawing and I think I can draw better figures

I had to come back and remind myself of the basic proportions, The side view is not hard, but is hard to remember what all the muscles look from that view. They look a bit stylized which doesn't bother me too much. I've been studying how other artist simplify parts of the body.

The first one on the left looks a bit disproportionate. I think I made a mistake with the lengh of the legs/ knees so it looks very odd

I'll continue to draw at least a figure a day, but I think I need to start prioritizing CLOTHING, which I struggle a lot with.

daceronine 2024-03-08 20:37:35 UTC #417

Yo, hope things are looking better. Doubting is normal, we all want to get to our goals, and sometimes it doesn't happen, but I think the journey and effort is important all the same. And you just never know when something will click.

Practices good look, the first one feels like he's leaning a bit to the right, like he's losing his balance xD maybe that's where the leg part comes into play.

These all look really good though. It's a nice stylized look.

strelok_2012 2024-03-08 21:33:24 UTC #418

Excellent studies, the only issue I can see is that the Tibia looks a bit short (lower leg). Don't worry though, if your studies look this good its very easy to change things up as needed.

Inkpendude 2024-03-08 22:11:02 UTC #419

He's 1 second away from falling, or maybe he's doing that one Michael jackson move lol
thanks tho! I can't wait to start practicing legs.

Inkpendude 2024-03-08 22:12:55 UTC #420

Thanks! I havent learn much about the legs yet, I believe that comes in term 4. So I'm just going with basic proportions and what I've seen other artist do. I don't even know where the tibia was haha

gregorya 2024-03-09 19:29:25 UTC #421

Nice work on the studies. The only thing I noticed is that in the fourth picture in the anatomy, the right arm looks a little long to me. I'm not sure why.

catsforsnacks 2024-03-14 20:27:25 UTC #422

Ayyy welcome back!
It's good seeing your clean-as-hell linework on the forums again.

To add to the leaning man discussion. It looks like in the ref his hips are thrust out a bit more, making his center of gravity feel a bit more centered.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

Inkpendude 2024-03-19 18:48:07 UTC #423

Thanks! I unfortunately had not had many time. So I don't have a lot to post yet. Progress has been slow