K - Art School Journey

kalienator 2025-01-18 01:32:43 UTC #62

Trying to break down the structure of the nose with some draw overs. I also tried coloring the different sections in with a different color.

snakker 2025-01-18 22:39:35 UTC #63

Nice work mate!

keep at it

gregorya 2025-01-20 17:19:05 UTC #64

Breaking down the nose studies by drawing over them is a great idea.

kalienator 2025-01-22 23:26:11 UTC #65

My progress has been a bit slow lately and I hope I can get more study time in this week. Here are some more nose studies. Structure rough in + some shading.

I'm trying to think of everything as a 3D volume these days and think about the contour lines going across the form when I sketch.

kalienator 2025-01-23 16:28:17 UTC #66

Yeah, it was pretty helpful. I think I will also do it for the mouth before I attempt to draw those.

gregorya 2025-01-23 16:32:56 UTC #67

Nice studies. The shading and shape of the noses are good.

kalienator 2025-02-01 19:37:43 UTC #68

Some lip studies. I could have spent time and done more realistic rendering but didn't feel like it was worth it so I just quickly laid in some values under the line art again while zoomed out. Things were busy again this week with work so I didn't make as much progress with my studies as I would have liked. I guess eyes are next. .

kalienator 2025-02-01 21:49:19 UTC #69

I have been playing a lot of Infinity Nikki lately and for the box cover, I decided to make a new treatment for the Infinity Nikki logo and imagine what a physical box for the game might look like if they sold physical copies of it. I staged the whole thing in a marketing banner design and photoshopped different imagery together to make it look nicer.

gregorya 2025-02-04 23:17:01 UTC #70

The lip studies look good. The Infinity Nikki box looks adorable. Normally the E rating is on the front or back of the game box. I'm not sure if it's on the side.

kalienator 2025-03-04 03:00:44 UTC #71

Work got extremely busy again and I completely fell off the wagon with my practices. Balancing life, work and practicing art is a real struggle for me at times and It makes me feel bad because I had such a good momentum going too. I made a little chain and fence brush tonight which was all I could fit in for today. Hopefully this small step will kickstart me to continue again.

I also made an ugly character in photoshop with the pen tools. There's a reason why graphic designers use illustrator instead of photoshop for vectors. lol I guess I can say I tried the tools and don’t like them.

kalienator 2025-03-08 04:22:58 UTC #72

Notes from the 3 point perspective lesson. I started on some eye studies as well but haven't shaded them in yet. Glad I was able to make a little bit of progress this week after being away for a while.

kalienator 2025-03-08 19:14:17 UTC #73

Study sketch of a portrait from the book 'Drawing The Head for Artists'. I completed the rough sketch then tried some deformations of the drawing to push the shapes. I feel like pushing the shapes a bit brings a bit more attitude to the drawing.

vstriferv 2025-03-09 07:27:16 UTC #74

I really like the clear planes you're using in this, especially in the nose section. I always overwork that, making it look too blocky.

kalienator 2025-03-10 01:32:37 UTC #75

I drew some boxes on the 5 point grid.

I'm still struggling with daily practice. Sometimes it's a fight with myself to get going but once I get going then it's much easier. Just starting is the hardest part for me. Especially when I am already feeling burnt out with everything else that's going on in my life.

Even one small thing a day is better than nothing at all though.

kalienator 2025-03-10 04:27:42 UTC #76

I tried the man in 4 point perspective. This was turning out soooooo wonky looking while I was working on it that I burst out laughing because he was so wide! I must have gotten the initial measuring proportion off, so i slimmed him down by squishing the art horizontally. I also had to go back and adjust the head since it was super tiny compared to the rest of the body. I think it turned out ok in the end, but don't think I am ready to attempt more of this just yet on my own.

kalienator 2025-03-12 16:33:56 UTC #77

I took a bit more time to render these eye studies than the others. I had to cut myself off though cuz i could just keep going further into hyperrealism.

I want to study some anime and cartoon artworks next I think since I kind of want to get away from realism eventually and I'm interested in learning more about stylization.

gregorya 2025-03-13 16:34:27 UTC #78

Nice work on the chains and fence brushes. You may need more practice with the 3-point perspective. Nice work on the faces and the deformations of its shapes.

The 5-point grid looks great, as well as the eye studies.
The four-point perspective mand does look a little challenging. But it works

kalienator 2025-03-17 21:40:25 UTC #79

Thanks for the comments. The 3 point perspective stuff was a note taking copy from Marc's lesson. I haven't actually tried applying that to any art yet.

Taking notes while watching the lesson helps me to remember what he said, but I think i'm going to do some perspective lessons out of a book soon though since his lessons on that topic aren't very in-depth.

kalienator 2025-03-17 21:42:37 UTC #80

I did some studies from the 100 heads challenge pinterest board. I stuck with just line art for these since they were pretty time consuming.

kalienator 2025-03-20 19:18:47 UTC #81

Back to some gestures and feeling rusty. I really need to make time for these every day.