Kalin - Art School Journey

kalienator 2024-11-08 21:33:32 UTC #24

More gestures! I'm starting to enjoy working on these more than I used to. Letting go of any expectations for them and letting the lines flow has helped a lot.

kalienator 2024-11-09 04:40:45 UTC #25

Finished a first pass of the figure draw overs - boxing in the head, the pelvis and the ribcage & marking the joints and limbs. I'll draw in the cylinders sometime this weekend.

kalienator 2024-11-11 02:45:22 UTC #26

Finished up my figure draw overs tonight by adding cylinders for the limbs that I could see and the line of action. Now I am going to make myself some cookies as a reward for finishing them.

snakker 2024-11-11 18:42:55 UTC #27

Off to a great start mate, keep at it

kalienator 2024-11-11 22:37:56 UTC #28

Thank you! This feels like it’s going to be a long journey!

kalienator 2024-11-12 00:41:53 UTC #29

Thought I would hop over to one of the perspective assignments tonight and find some converging lines in 1 point perspective.

kalienator 2024-11-12 03:31:27 UTC #30

And some 2 point perspective draw overs - finding the horizon line and vanishing points. I didn't fit as many onto this sheet but it's late and I'm tired.

kalienator 2024-11-12 19:13:49 UTC #31

Practiced the drawing exercises. Ribbons are very hard.
I left the gesture drawing out since I have been doing it separately.

kalienator 2024-11-12 20:47:51 UTC #32

Cube Rotations. These were really hard to get accurate.

uggievang 2024-11-13 02:29:12 UTC #33

nice practices

kalienator 2024-11-13 04:38:28 UTC #34

Thank you!

kalienator 2024-11-13 04:51:34 UTC #35

First character study of June from the mobile game June's Journey. I tried out Marc's Legendary lineart brush and it's so lovely to use. I'm looking forward to doing the next study with it.

kalienator 2024-11-14 01:47:18 UTC #36

Following along with Marc's male and female proportion video. Glad I found some time to get more studying in tonight.

kalienator 2024-11-15 22:54:14 UTC #37

Full figure studies from reference focusing on accuracy & the grid method for measuring.
I am happy with how these came out since I haven't used the grid method much and was pleasantly surprised with the results. I'll definitely use this method again for anything requiring a high degree of accuracy.

I'll be moving on to some of the perspective drawing exercises next and also the character and environment studies. I've been looking up reference images already and have been noticing an increasing amount of AI art which has been making it more difficult to choose references to study from. I've pinned a few to my Pinterest boards by accident then had to remove them after i zoomed in and saw the details were all jumbled.

kalienator 2024-11-17 03:16:13 UTC #38

Character Study 2 - Ren Amamiya from Persona 5 Tactica
I like how they made the characters into stylized chibis for this game.

Observations
Slender Body
Large Head
Large Eyes
3 1/2 heads tall
Clear silhouette
Thin linework with large sections of black

uggievang 2024-11-17 23:42:18 UTC #39

Really love the studies the details and lineart are super clean. as for the ai references I feel that in my soul. I found out if you pin more real artwork and tell pinterest to not recommend ai art then your feed literally becomes almost ai free.

kalienator 2024-11-20 03:27:39 UTC #40

I've been working on the 1 point perspective room. It's been taking a while since I was trying to come up with something that looks decent. I only have the perspective block-in ready to show tonight, but I've built it on top of a rough sketch that I hope to refine in the next step.

I find these sorts of drawings super challenging. For them to turn out nice, they seem to need a balance of structure, but also looseness in the lines or they look too mechanical. I'm not going to rush the process and I hope things eventually click for me to be able to draw environments like this more easily. Drawing through the forms especially in this construction step has been super helpful to figure out spacing and make sure I'm not drawing objects through the wall by accident.

levelhead14 2024-11-28 12:28:58 UTC #41

The room goes super hard. This kind of thing is hard for me but you really soothe the eyeballs with your line work

kalienator 2024-11-28 12:54:49 UTC #42

Thank you! I got a bit side tracked with progress on this one since work got busy, but am hoping to finish up the final line work soon.

kalienator 2024-12-04 00:29:03 UTC #43

Here's where I finished off with my 1 point perspective room. I probably could have done more detailing and added more items to the shelves, but I'm ready to move on. I also took out the lights I had planned for the wall because I didn't think they looked good.

Here's hoping I can get back on track with the course. It gets hard when things get busy and I feel like I get knocked off course with staying consistent.