Hello! I finally finished the "room" assignment. Again, it's not much of a representation of my room, but the moment I realized that, I was too far in to go back. The left side has a lot more detail than the right purely because I was pretty unmotivated to finish the project. I'll probably be moving onto term 2 after taking a break for a day or two.
This room came out so good! You did a really fantastic job with this! Keep up the good progress!
Did the first assignment for Anatomy I. I recognize that my ability to shade properly in digital medium is terrible, so that's something I'm definitely going to have to work on. I did these rather quick as I think I have a good understanding of these concepts already (apart from shading). Looking forward to drawing faces 
I really love your line confidence! Looking great! The head constructions are looking quite solid too! You might try putting some super simple features on them if you feel ready for it. Keep it up!
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Hello! I haven't been posting anything for over a week, but that's because I've been trying to tackle shading. I have little to no experience with it on pencil and paper, so doing it digitally was definitely a challenge. I've had numerous failed attempts over the course of the last week before I arrived at this painting.
The middle nose is my 3 value block-in of the image and the one on the far right is the final result after doing some edge work.
I'm far from being good at this still, so any feedback is appreciated!
One more thing...
If you or anyone you know is struggling with shading, I recommend giving this video (particularly starting at 8:25) a watch. It really helped clarify to me the "process" of shading. Without this, I probably would have continued to be completely lost.
Well i dont know anything in shading but your nose drawing is really beautifull , keep it up you progress a lot !! Thanks for sharng the video too !
Got another nose drawing for today. I don't think this one turned out as well as my previous one did. There was a lot less contrast between values in the reference image for this painting which is why I think it looks more smooth.
I'll probably be moving onto eyes tomorrow because I've been on noses for quite some time.
Feedback is appreciated!
Hello! I said in my previous post that I was going to move onto eyes next, but apparently Marc goes over the mouth before he does the eyes, so I practiced drawing the mouth today. I did a 5 value block-in using a reference image of a nose and mouth. I probably won't be fully rendering this image because it'll take me many hours to do (and I'm also pretty sure that I'll make it worse if I try).
Feedback is appreciated!
I practiced some line art with the mouth and nose combined. I'll probably be focusing more on line art from now on rather than shading as I think it'll help me improve faster.
Although these drawings look volumetric, I'm not particularly sure if I drew the planes correctly, especially for the mouth.
Feedback is appreciated.
Hey! I tried doing some work from imagination today, so I decided to give it a shot with noses! I didn't manage to draw much today, but I decided I should make a post nonetheless.
Since I don't have a reference to check it up against, I would really appreciate any sort of feedback. Feel free to draw over my noses to make any corrections.
Alright, big step today. I decided to do a portrait for the first time in months. This took me roughly 4 hours or so to do. I'm hoping to greatly reduce the time it takes to do these as I practice more.
I am rather proud of this portrait; however...
I don't think captures the "cuteness" that the reference model has. I know that the more details you add, the more of age your drawing will look. I tried to eliminate a lot of the ones I had before arriving at this. I'm not sure if that's what the issue is with this portrait or not. If anyone has any idea, please let me know.
Lovely work! I think the more lines that you have, especially on a a female will make it look a bit more manly. It is hard to capture some of the cuteness with just lines in my opinion. That being said I think your portrait looks wonderful and think you did a great job!
I managed to do two more portraits from the reference images provided on the left. I like how the faces came out in these, especially for the first one since I think it resembles the reference model well.
For the second portrait, I think she has a somewhat of a disgusted expression probably due to me raising her lip up a little more than normal. I decided to keep it like that since it felt more expressive.
I don't think the hair came out bad on both of them, but I can definitely see how it could be better, so I'm going to have to work on that at some point. I'll probably be working on grayscale shading within the following days for these portraits so I can more effectively capture the models' personality.
These took ~2 hours each
Any feedback is appreciated!
Great work. These drawings are very well done.
I tried shading the face of this portrait for a couple of hours and came up with this. Most of it ended up being aimless shading without any real process, so it didn't manage to turn out that well... Shading is gonna be a challenge.
Hey! I managed to do more drawing than I normally did. I decided to take a day off of trying to learn shading so I tried to do something new. I've heard it's important to do studies of other artist's work in order to improve your own, so I picked the cover art of one of the animes I'm currently watching and did a ~2.5 hour study.
I also did some portraits from reference images aswell.
Feedback is appreciated.
I was pretty lazy today, so this is all I've got to post...
I'm planning to work on shading tomorrow.
Hey! Didn't get around to working on shading yet, but I'll be doing that soon. In the mean time, I decided to try and working on an "art style". For the entirety of my time drawing, I've never really attempted to stylize anything (or maybe I have without knowing it). When using reference images, I try to replicate everything I see, but I wanted to change it up a little bit this time.
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The middle portrait is in the heavily referenced style I usually draw in. I didn't bother putting in as much proper detail as I'm only using it for comparison.
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The portrait on the far right is my stylized version. I gave her bigger eyes, a smaller nose, smaller mouth, and a more narrow neck and mandible. I think I achieved a cute-look with this stylization.
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I might try something similar like this soon where I try deviating from the reference by using a different pose while maintaining the model's likeness.
