Llucià - Art Journey

llucia.riba 2021-04-11 23:57:17 UTC #1

Just a brief introduction. I am a senior artist very experienced (I started working in the 90s), and for the last 8 years, I did work in the video games industry. Until now, I was a self-taught person, but I realized that I need to update my skills to 21 century. On the other hand, I hope this course will help me with my current block and make me feel great again.

You can see some of my pieces here:
https://www.artstation.com/lluciariba
https://www.instagram.com/llucia.riba

llucia.riba 2021-04-12 00:02:15 UTC #2

This is my first submission to the community.

Perspective
I remember when at the art academy, in Barcelona, there were no computers! So, we learned to make perspectives without any tool more than pencil and ruler. But fortunately, I was always very agile at making them (also because my father and brothers are architects, so I got the best school at home).

It was fun to do all the process again and work with the lighting, my favourite part. Enjoy!

HANDRO 2021-04-12 10:12:15 UTC #3

Welcome! love the colors, very reminiscent of the traditional marker coloring - the ones I see in the architecture offices, although less messy rooms

Vonschlippe 2021-04-12 14:57:18 UTC #4

I love the touch of saturation you added on the edge of the light shape on the floor, as well as the bounce light everywhere. Great work, considering 1 point perspective is always a bit boring! You went above and beyond to make this room look really cool.

llucia.riba 2021-04-23 12:04:55 UTC #5

Hi! Here a 2 points perspective WIP... I did use Blender and the tool Grease Pencil to "draw" the schema of the scene, and now, I am drawing the details. The hardest part is being to draw straight lines without looking too different to the freehand lines. I found that Photoshop is not so good on it. So I am thinking to start the line art again with CSP vector brushes.

llucia.riba 2021-04-23 23:56:35 UTC #6

Image adjustments exercice

llucia.riba 2021-04-25 22:04:53 UTC #7

For the perspective exercise... I liked the idea that I was doing before, but thanks to the feedback, I realized that I needed to work deeper on details, so taking advantage of the 3D scene, I did some fixes and restarted the line-art (with Clips Studio, this time).

HANDRO 2021-04-26 10:11:05 UTC #8

great work. I find the mechanical aspects to be a bit daunting to approach but your process makes it look approachable.

Vonschlippe 2021-04-27 02:49:41 UTC #9

I love this composition much more than the previous one. Fantastic mechanical details - keep it up!

llucia.riba 2021-04-30 16:02:10 UTC #10

WIP

dangras-almeida 2021-05-03 18:31:00 UTC #11

This is turning out really amazing!

llucia.riba 2021-05-04 11:59:35 UTC #12

Here an update. This is being tough because it is my first time on many things. First perspective and inking (from the last 20 years at least). The first serious drawing with Clip Studio... Completing this picture is being hard like a puzzle, but it is satisfying

By the way... Can you help me? I have serious doubts... I should do with or without shadows?

HANDRO 2021-05-04 18:08:44 UTC #13

Really good so far. Give's me some Ryan Otley Vibes.

not sure what you mean about shadows. from the looks of it you are opting for a comic style for it. I think what you have is good so far. if you decide to color just remember to adjust to hues and tones for the colors.

In my opinion though I think your spaceship drawing could really benefit from adjusting the line weights for the objects in the back. I know its a lot of work since its really detailed but I think reducing them will really make your drawings pop in the future.

Vonschlippe 2021-05-04 20:10:37 UTC #14

I like this drawing, but I am strongly against the black shadows.

I know this is a classic comic-book effect, but it works best for really strong core-shadows, and even so, they're very rarely used in detailed illustrations like the comic book's cover. They're there to save time, really.

If it's not too late, leave the black shadow shapes out completely - do them justice in rendering. Shadows are delicious to render, picking up the ambient light's color, and subject to all sorts of effects like subsurface scattering, bounce light, and ambient occlusion. Don't do your picture a dirty by making the shadows black.

llucia.riba 2021-05-07 18:48:17 UTC #15

Thank you for all your comments

I am happy to introduce the final version (I hope). The shading was hard to do because I wanted to challenge myself, limiting the tones, giving it the look and feel of a real black and white comic.

Line version

llucia.riba 2021-05-07 19:29:11 UTC #16

Some last minute improvements

dangras-almeida 2021-05-07 20:01:17 UTC #17

OMG! This is so amazing!!! Congrats!!! The level of detail in here is mind blowing! You're nailing it so far. Really well done 💙💙💙

LesleyCarol 2021-05-07 23:30:22 UTC #18

I really enjoyed seeing your work flow for this! This looks stunning!

One thing I will say is that I liked when you added the dark shadows earlier in the process. I feel like with this amount of detail it helps to break things up a little. The area where the figure is working on the parts and the tool holder is a bit hard to make out.

Overall this is amazing work!

mau.wamp 2021-05-08 05:50:11 UTC #19

Wow really really awesome work!
I love how you concentrated the details of the engine to create a focal point!
Great that you dropped the black shadows and went with lighter tones!
Keep it up!

llucia.riba 2021-05-20 12:58:31 UTC #20

Hi there! Thank you all for the kind comments. Here I started thinking about a new idea, this time for the 3 vanishing points perspective. Again I will use the 3D, also because I want to use a 3D model that I was working on.

I want to give it a fresh look and feel (colour ink and watercolour and so). I will draw the detail directly instead of sketching them.