Leia - Art School Journey

[leiana.rose]

Hi everyone!
My name's Leia, and I've been drawing for most of my life. I still have a lot to learn, but I'm doing my best, and I look forward to getting to know other artists in this community.
You can find me on Instagram at @sketchbooksandstories .

Here's a couple of my drawings:

My goal is to be able to create my own webcomic one day.
I'll work hard!

[mitsuki-youko]

welcome to the forums

[snakker]

Welcome aboard!

Looking forward to seeing your work, best of luck!

[leenacruz]

Welcome, nice art you have there

[leiana.rose]

For some reason I keep getting an error whenever I try to reply to posts, anybody know how to fix this?

[mitsuki-youko]

@leiana.rose what kind of error are you getting? do you have a screenshot?

[Rin_Louise]

Welcome to the forums!

[Lockenheim]

Welcome to the forums Leia!

[CYP2C19]

Welcome to the Forums!, Can't wait to see your progress, you're already REALLY good so I can't even begin to imagine what your Art will look like later on!.

[leiana.rose]

It's working now, thanks

[leiana.rose]

Thank you so much! My apologies for the late reply, I recently changed jobs and it's been hectic.

[leiana.rose]

Hi everyone! I finally got to study some more and do an update.

Here's my cylinder practice. They're fun to do!

Constructing the skeleton using cylinders was easier than I thought it would be. I did these on top of photo reference.

Body proportions are still pretty hard for me though. I'm used to doing gesture drawing and using photo reference, but because my art is always stylised, it's hard to adjust to realistic proportions. I'll keep working at it though!

Here's another example. I tried drawing the poses (on the right) and later traced the photo to see how it should look (on the left.) The second one came out a bit better but the pose was a bit stiff.

A round of gesture drawing, with 30 seconds spent per pose.

A shorter round, with 60 seconds spent per pose.

I'll keep practicing these, and try to update again soon.

[mitsuki-youko]

eyy congrats on your new job and also nice studies!

[snakker]

Your cylinders are sweet!

Definitely keep at those gestures, you can try experimenting with slightly thicker brush size and to use pressure for soze so you can make slightly more expressive lines in your figures

Cheers!

[leiana.rose]

Here's all the practice I've done until now.

First, some cylinder structure practice - but this time using photos only as reference, not working on top of them.

Drawing the human proportions has been the hardest thing for me so far - it's must easier if I'm copying a pose. So first I tried using a 3D model (I use Clip Studio Paint as my main software) for reference, then tried doing the proportions from memory again.

I worked a lot on anatomy studies as well. I still have a hard time matching the pose exactly so if anyone has any advice I'd really appreciate it.

I also started on the perspective chapter.

I'll keep practicing!

[snakker]

Yo, there is something so pleasing about how you draw your figures. I think it’s in the subtlety of the taper. Everything is subtle, the torso is a subtle bean but its there, every limb has that slight increase in thickness near the joints and overall it leads to a very pleasing aesthetic

Great job

Cheers

[snakker]

Oh just saw the note on matching the pose. Well, for me the things that help is wrapping the figure in an abstract large geometric shape, drawing the gesture, I usually just lightly erase it or you could lower opacity and add an extra layer and placing the main masses of head thorax and pelvis, after that hand and feet before the knees and elbows for construction phase

At least for me, that’s my process, plus lots of little erasing and redrawing when I am going for accuracy

[ksermione]

Hey there, i really love your pose studies, you can really see the progress between the posts!

[leiana.rose]

Thanks so much, I really appreciate your feedback. Thanks for the pose advice too, and Merry Christmas!

[leiana.rose]

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas!