Lockenheim - Art School Journey

[Lockenheim]

Hello everyone, my name is Locke. I got extremely interested in art when I attempted to create my own Dungeons and Dragons maps to use in my campaigns. My original background is in education and medicine. I have no background in art, have never taken an art class and have no relevant experience. So needless to say I found making these maps challenging. I found Marc's Art School streams on youtube and continued to learn from there. I continued to practice making DnD maps and assets for several months with a mouse when I realized I would need to become a better artist overall to achieve the goals I wanted.

So, about a month and a half ago, I purchased a tablet, joined art school and got to work. I will post some of my starting work and some of my newer work as well. I am super excited to join the live streams this weekend and look forward to learning with everyone else.

Please feel free to critique any mistakes as I frequently don't know what I'm doing!

[Lockenheim]

This is my first attempts with these assignments for Term One.

This is my first time attempting the digital pen control assignment.

My first cylinder practice.

This is my first proportions practice.

[Lockenheim]

This is my work after about three weeks of practice! I felt a good amount of improvement, some of these, especially the measuring practice took a great deal of time but I was happy with them.

My cylinders after some practice

This is me working on measuring proportions and more cylinders.

This is was my improvement on the pen control at this point.

I also started gesture drawings at this point. Which I found to be the most difficult thing I have done yet. Most of the other work I was able to put as much time as I needed into them to do the best that I can. So I found gesture drawing very frustrating at first.

[Lockenheim]

This is some of my most recent practice!

I practice gesture drawing quite a bit and struggle quite a bit but I keep practicing. After doing this set of 30 second poses I found that I was not getting as much information and struggling quite a bit, so I bumped my timer up to one minute after this set.

This is some one minute gesture practice after another week or so.

This is my measuring practice around this time.

My proportions practice from this time

This is my first attempt at the 1 point perspective assignment.

Here are some more recent gesture drawings

[Lockenheim]

This I also completed a few weeks ago, this is an example of the Dungeons and Dragons stuff I work in in addition to the art school. Nearly all of these assets were made with a mouse so I was pretty happy how it turned out! That's all I have for now. It's so nice to meet everyone and I look forward to hanging out with all of you!

[LesleyCarol]

I love this map! It's so chill and quaint

[Lockenheim]

Thank you so much! This was the first full finished map that I have made as I had mostly just been grinding away at textures / assets.

[Lockenheim]

Hello, I just wanted to post some updates. This is some of my progress I have submitted for review last week to the stream and some of the new things I have been practicing since then. Any comments and criticism is welcome!

This was my second attempt at the one point perspective assignment. This took me so much time but I feel like I got a better understanding of perspective. Marc suggested that I add ambient occlusion to this piece to update it so I did that as well in the next picture.

I feel like it makes quite a bit of difference!

Here is my construction for this assignment.

Here are some examples of cylinders / constructions / measuring drawings I submitted last stream.

Those are the pieces I submitted for last weeks stream. Here is some of my newer work and some of the submissions for this upcoming stream.

Marc suggested I move to 2 minute gesture drawings so this was my first attempt, I sometimes take a little bit longer if I am struggling and mark down how much extra time I take next to each figure

I wanted to be able to quickly show the head direction so I did 30 sec head direction sessions and added more if I had extra time.

I feel like the head practice helped in this round of drawings.

Marc suggested for my measuring drawings that I take away the grid that I have used to help measure and use negative space to help position objects of the body, so I was very nervous to draw from reference without using a grid, so I did quite a few quick practice drawings before hand until I could get the figure down in 2 minutes.

I had almost completed my two point perspective assignment before last stream, and I put the final touches on it last Sunday I believe. I added an ambient occlusion pass to this as well and if anyone has any suggestions to enhance this please let me know. The circle in the top right is supposed to be a scrolling menu, but it turned out kind of unclear.

and here is the construction for the 2 point perspective assignment.

Thanks for looking through these assignments from last week and this week. If you have any advice or criticism please let me know! Especially about the Black Cat Cafe assignment. Thanks!

[leo.glt95]

Great improvement, keep going!!

[_Sasha_]

That cafe is really clean, I like it!

[Lockenheim]

Hello, its me again! I just wanted to post some progress from this week. I moved into term 2 and had such a hard time warping shapes! But I keep practicing.

Blending Practice

Sphere practice, I wasn't happy with most of these and will keep practicing. In retrospect most of these arn't spheres lol.

The main thing I worked this week was warping. Oh I found this so very difficult. Here is some of my practice.

After many tears and sweat here are my submissions for the week. I attempted to shade the bottom one but am not really sure what I am doing yet lol!

Thanks for reading! Any feedback is always appreciated.

[Zelkheart]

Hello Locke,

i just saw your posts and these are great studies! Im looking forward to see future results

[Lockenheim]

Thank you so much!

[omarkamil2003]

Crazy progress, keep it up !!😮👏

[Lockenheim]

Here is some of my work for the week! Head constructs are so hard to understand! If anyone has any feedback its always welcome!

Some of my warping practice

and some constructions for the week. My first time trying to construct something living that isnt a human!

Thanks for reading! Any feedback is appreciated!

[meme.aijou]

Hi, that's a nice amount of work, I like your figures

The heads also are looking nice and mostly well constructed
I have some feedback for the heads, but take it with a grain of salt since I haven't reached that part of the program or studied heads in a while.
First I'm just curious why some of them are upside down ? the model was hanging or something ? x) or is it to have a new look on them ?
Then the front facing head on the last page, you drew an ellipse for the center line when it should have been a line if it is full front and symetric. Also the same one, don't forget to erase the side of the base circle at the temples
If the head is tilted up or down, the ellipses of the hair line and nose should be tilted accordingly (especially in the last page). The proportions end up skewed.
On the first two pages the center line is sometimes not in the center for the 3/4 views
And finally I feel the vertical part of the jaw is a bit too short and too vertical, it should be slightly towards the front

For the construction practice, for the cylinders you can curve the wrapping lines more at the edges to improve the 3D feel, like you did for the spheres.

Hope that helps, it's a lot of text but not big problems to correct, you're on the right track!

[Lockenheim]

Thank you very much for the feedback! I have had quite some difficulty learning the head construction. Thank you for pointing out these issues. Truthfully I am not sure why a few of the heads are upside down lol, I probably had the canvas rotated and didn't think about it.

Thank you for pointing out that the front facing center line should be just a line and not an ellipse that makes sense! Cutting off the sides definitely makes sense now!

Thank you for letting me know about the hair line and nose ellipses when tilted. I thought I was curving them but now I realize I was not curving them enough. This will help me considerably as I continued to have the same issue this week.

Thanks you for pointing out that the center line is not quite right on the 3/4 views. I think I have a better understanding of that aspect now. What do you think about the last page? Do you think those center lines are more accurate?

For the cylinders and construction practice thanks so much for the advice! I will curve them more to convey that information better. I have been trying to get a good handle on this as I want to draw a giant serpent in my 3pt perspective assignment.

I appreciate the time you took to let me know the issues with my work and thank you so much!

[Xybb]

Man your stuff is awesome. Your pieces are overflowing with creativity and you are making huge improvements within a short amount of time.

Only a small piece of advice. Draw your constructions freehanded more often. It will look worse for now but it will help your linequality in the long run.

[Lockenheim]

Thank you so much for the kind words and the advice! I appreciate it! I will definitely start doing more of the free hand. Regarding the free hand, are you referring to the construction on the circles using the guides? Thanks so much for your help!

[Xybb]

Yeah, that's what i ment. Also,I thought your shapes exercise and your cylinders for the figures looked like line / ellipse tools being used, they are exceptionally smooth. Upon closer inspection I see that this likely not the case.

Is this completely freehand or do you use line smoothing? That's incredibly impressive linework for freehand.