Leia - Art School Journey

[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!

[soft.raincloud777]

your art is already so cute (≧∇≦)ﾉ

you got me excited bc I want to make something similar to a webcomic (webtoon), and it's always fun to see other learning artists working toward a relatable goal!

looking forward to seeing your progress!

[snakker]

You’re welcome, merry christmas!

[leiana.rose]

Thanks, I think it's fun seeing other artists aiming for that as well. Good luck on your own work as well!

[leiana.rose]

Happy new year, everyone!
December's been hectic, but I got back to work as soon as I could this year.
First of all, this is the kind of warm-ups I usually do before I work. What kind of warm-ups work best for you?

Next, I've continued doing cylinder structure practice, using photo reference.

Perspective's always been a struggle for me, so it took copying Marc's demo to understand how to construct a room in perspective. After that, I tried doing one myself, based on the room I share with my older sister.

I'll keep working hard!

[leiana.rose]

I also did a drawing the other day to practice rendering, something I'm not very good at. I usually rely on line-art.

[leiana.rose]

I found a book on interior design that's been around my house for years and wasn't much use, but it's very useful now because it has a lot of nice reference images in 1 and 2-point perspective.
I think I'm getting the hang of 1-point perspective now! It might not seem like much, but it feels like a triumph since perspective's been really difficult for me for so long.

[snakker]

Great job on the perspective study, I always avoid doing these XD keep it up!

[mitsuki-youko]

yo that looks so pretty

[Lockenheim]

Cool one point piece!

[leiana.rose]

Thanks everyone!

[leiana.rose]

I've been doing gesture studies every day recently, so I hope I'll get better at this.

I'm not gonna upload every single one I do, but this next set are the latest ones I did:

[snakker]

These gestures are looking really good! Great flow in those 60s poses

Cheers