Leonarto - My ART School Journey

[leonarto]

Thanks for sharing how you go about designing/drawing your buildings. I'll give it a go and show you guys how it looks when I'm done.

[leonarto]

I attempted the street corner drawing again and its slowly getting there.
You can see that I started getting lazy after my first building XD.
I'll keep on practicing how to draw more details and things for buildings.
I don't really enjoy working so much on these buildings now, but maybe as I get better it won't bother me as much.

[mitsuki-youko]

these look pretty nice!

[leonarto]

I've fallen quite a bit behind with my daily gesture drawings, but I was at least able to do some today.
I'll be starting Term 2 next week Monday.
Have a blessed weekend!

[Lockenheim]

Hi Leon welcome to the forums! Definitely keep it up with these gestures! You are making good progress!

[leonarto]

I think I might need to watch some videos on how to improve my gesture drawings -_ -
I feel like I'm not really making significant progress, but I guess its just something that takes time and practice.
I also started with Term 2's Face proportions and ears.
Can't wait to dive deeper into this!

[snakker]

Yo, construction is looking good
As for improving, I think if you feel nothing is changing then don’t keep doing the same thing - experiment with how much time you use, experiment with brush thickness, your pad position/use of the arm, check out proko or Force videos on youtube

But definitely keep doing gestures

[leonarto]

Thanks for the video recommendations @snakker! I'll check them out and give your drawing suggestions a try : )

[leonarto]

I haven't been drawing as much as I'd like to due to me being under the weather.
But I got a random urge to draw something so here's a look at what I'm working on.
I hope you all are well : )

[leonarto]

Quick update on the drawing, I think I'm done with the linework for now.
I just need to figure out how I'll go about the shading/rendering.

[leonarto]

Added some flats.
I'll try rendering it tomorrow.
I hope you guys have an awesome weekend.

[mitsuki-youko]

noice i like the color of her shirt

[leonarto]

I started rendering the hair and realized it's a bit to realistic and now I feel bummed for putting so much effort into it, just for me to not like it :,)
I feel like it looks better with just the flat colours.
Let me know what you guys think.

[leonarto]

I decided to scrap my original drawing and repurposed it to do a study of Emilyena's art style.
Here is her Instagram handle if you guys want to check out her art:
https://www.instagram.com/strangemilyena/?hl=en

[leonarto]

I finally finished this piece.
I spent way to much time on it.
Still a lot to improve on but I'm happy with the outcome.

[leonarto]

I did some volumes in perspective and deformation sketches.
I'll attempt connections and interactive shading tomorrow.

[leonarto]

Here are some connection drawing practice.
Have a great weekend!

[snakker]

Yo great job on these forms and on the portrait rendering experimentation. Actually liked the cel shaded look on the first try best for some reason but definitely don’t sweat it, just keep experimenting and having fun with rendering styles until you find what you like

Cheers!

[leonarto]

I also really liked how the cel shading looked like but I struggled a bit with the hair.
I've already got an idea and references for my next piece that I want to create, I'll keep you all posted

[leonarto]

I created a new drawing inspired by the screentone techniques zleepy.gal uses on Instagram.
I'm sorry for not posting in a bit, I got distracted with this new drawing.
I have started with practicing noses and eyebrows and will post them as soon as I'm done!
Here's what I worked on: