A character study of Nezuko from Demon Slayer.
I think I am going to move on to Term 2 since I don't feel like I am learning much from these character studies at the moment and would rather put my energy into other exercises that can help me build up to creating my own character designs.
Maybe I will do a few more in between the Term 2 homework.
The environmental study looks pretty good. I like the line work and the environment does look lively. The line work on Nezuko is good as well.
Following along with Karl Gnass on New Masters Academy. (The Spirit Of The Pose Course) Images are from Michelangelo's The Last Judgement. 
17 days later
Getting back into the swing of things after a little break for the holidays. 
Here's my first post for Term 2. I actually did 2 pages of these, but unfortunately lost the file for the first page. On a positive note, i'm starting to feel more comfortable drawing these forms freehand.
Practicing head rotation drawings. I referenced a book called Special Training Animation for these. It helped to block in a grey circle base as a guide. 
More head studies. I find the extreme rotations and keeping the proportions correct with perspective challenging. I tried keeping the circles on the sides of the heads in the middle row here, but I think I prefer the lob off method I was using for those angles in the sheet I did yesterday since I don't think the the circles wouldn't technically be visible from that straight on view. I got the practice sheet from youtube.
The head studies are pretty great. The anatomy studies as well. The head rotations and lines make it pretty 3-dimensional.
I didn't have a ton of time today so I did a little bit of gradient blending practice.
Some ear studies with some quick shading. I also tried to apply a few contour lines to show the forms.
Great Studies so far. Keep it up.
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.
Nice work mate!
keep at it
Breaking down the nose studies by drawing over them is a great idea.
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.
Yeah, it was pretty helpful. I think I will also do it for the mouth before I attempt to draw those.
9 days later
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. 
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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.
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.
27 days later
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.
