Leeireo - ART School Journey

leeireo 2022-01-12 10:40:14 UTC #42

Hi everyone! I haven't really been study this week, but more so using the time to relax and solidify everything I've learned so far. Today I did a fun little project and I hope you guys get enjoyment out of it as well haha xP

If anyone here watches hololive on YouTube, you may understand it better xP

leeireo 2022-01-15 23:35:10 UTC #43

Hi! It's been a while yet again. I just had somewhat of a break and let myself chill for a bit. Now I'm ready to start the studies again! To start off this year of studies, I did a redraw of a greyscale headshot artwork.

I've been redrawing this every now and then and it's already been 5 years since I've started drawing! Time really does fly by extremely quickly. Every time I redraw this headshot I always think to myself that there is no way I can improve my abilities any further than this, but every time I redraw it I feel like there are slight improvements and I'm very happy to see that I haven't reached my limit yet.

Here's to another 5 years!

LesleyCarol 2022-01-16 00:45:08 UTC #44

This is awesome! I love how you were able to scale back on the details and contrast in 2020 and then bring them back this year with more skill and better decision making. Nice job leveling up.

daniellynch1000 2022-01-16 01:37:31 UTC #45

Great job! this looks awesome, it is so easy to see the progression throughout these portraits. Can't wait to see what you'll achieve this year!

leeireo 2022-01-16 01:45:47 UTC #46

Thank you! I feel in the earlier years I wasn't as afraid to create strong contrasts. But as I became "better", I started to become afraid of creating a bad artwork hence why the contrast is not as striking. If I look at it that way I think there's a beauty in the earlier artworks that I could learn from.

leeireo 2022-01-16 12:50:55 UTC #47

Attempted to do a little character design tonight! The description for the character was given by another artist friend. I could have spent more time rendering it, but I didn't want to work on it too much.

Criticism is always welcome!

_Sasha_ 2022-01-16 17:50:55 UTC #48

Oooooh, I really love this design so much. The only feedback I can give is I can't really tell what she's doing. I feel like she's hovering/floating but that might be the intentional pose so feel free to ignore me haha.

leeireo 2022-01-17 00:13:50 UTC #49

Ah yeah I didn't have real action or anything in mind for the drawing. Just a simple little character design. Making her stand on the ground would have been cooler instead of having her just float there like that though, I agree. I'll keep that in mind for future designs!

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-17 11:49:57 UTC #50

HUGE jump from 2020!!

leeireo 2022-01-18 07:30:22 UTC #51

Master study of an artist I look up to, Dao Le Trong.

I initially went in trying to figure out how he draws the hair of the character, but ended up trying to study how he does everything. I could stay and render it more, but I feel like that isn't the purpose of a master study? If anyone here has a lot of experience with doing master studies, please leave me tips!! I would really appreciate it!

daniellynch1000 2022-01-18 12:18:54 UTC #52

That looks so dope! You did such a good job, and the original is such a good reference

leeireo 2022-01-18 12:25:52 UTC #53

Thanks! Yeah their artworks are soooo good @.@ definitely my art goal to be able to draw like them.

leeireo 2022-01-19 07:56:04 UTC #54

Painted some eyes today for practice. Criticism is always appreciated! I will be going back to the artschool lessons starting tomorrow, continuing from the final anatomy lesson.

LesleyCarol 2022-01-19 10:31:19 UTC #55

Wow these are really beautiful! The lighting and brushwork are amazing.

leeireo 2022-01-21 08:58:21 UTC #56

Did a little portrait today. This was a painting I did today without reference and I realize that I still have tons of trouble with facial features and color / lighting. Starting today I will start doing portrait studies through photographs and see if I can fix this problem.

Criticism is always welcome!

leeireo 2022-01-21 09:02:23 UTC #57

Oh and also, I would like to add this here. Up close it looks fine, but when I zoom out, the hair looks like a big blob of paint. If someone could leave me tips on how to paint hair so it doesn't look weird when zoomed out like this, I would really appreciate it!

LesleyCarol 2022-01-21 13:41:16 UTC #58

I love the complex lighting set up you have, the pink adds a nice contrast with the teal.

I think controlling the values and light source more might give you what you're looking for.
I did a paint-over to lower the values on the hair and focus the bounce light on the left more since it's closer to the source. I also reversed the lighting on the cheek and lower lid since the pink light seems to be coming from the bottom.
Hope this helps!

Kosmonaut 2022-01-21 17:13:28 UTC #59

love the colors in this portrait and great job on the rendering/lighting!

leo.glt95 2022-01-21 21:59:56 UTC #60

Looking gooood great job !!

leeireo 2022-01-22 00:14:44 UTC #61

Thank you for the comments everyone!

@LesleyCarol Thank you for the paintover!! Your paintover blends in more nicely and doesn't leave her bangs looking like three symmetrical pointy blobs when zoomed out like mine does xD
I will take note of these for the future!