Lockenheim - Art School Journey

Xybb 2022-07-12 14:43:31 UTC #182

Your progress in every single piece is very inspiring. I really like this one so far and don't really have anything of value to add, other than that I disagree with mitsuki on the hair. I prefer how you deviated from the reference.

I was thinking about mentioning the shading on the hands and feet aswell, because I think they are still work in progress anways.

Keep it up, quite excited for your submission on saturday =).

hojoflow 2022-07-12 21:32:31 UTC #183

Feels to me that flowing hair is a stylistic choice. Like Ghost, Spider is on top of a building with the wind in her hair.

As you're deviating from the design intentionally a style is developing. From the foundations of the art to ... beyond.

Lockenheim 2022-07-13 01:56:01 UTC #184

@Xybb Thank you so much for your kind words. It means so much to me to hear these things from everyone and especially from those that have helped me from the beginning. So thank you so much everyone for that. I'm sure I have many mistakes on the hands and feet, you are correct, they were not done in the previous one, I have them rendered here but do not feel super confident in them for sure. They are in a body suit and not open to the air if that makes a difference. @hojoflow you are correct mostly I just wanted to do big wild hair. I have never really tried to make hair look like hair before except on this piece, it was one of my focuses so I just tried the best I could on it. Thank you so much to everyone and I'm exited that others are exited about it. Here is my progress and I plan on putting the final touches on tomorrow until feedback on Sat. A few parts on the hair and some facial features and some outline clean up are not done but everything else is pretty much done at this point. Feedback always welcome!

holyjosh 2022-07-13 10:52:31 UTC #185

Seem your drawing skills have improved a lot, your leatest artwork looks like lt's going to be next level.
This seem to be a little realitsc I like.

Xybb 2022-07-13 19:24:04 UTC #186

Something I just noticed:

The bonestructure under her left eye is not quite correct, The bump would follow the eyesocket. It's a lot lower in the reference than I expected but still not as exaggerated as in your piece.

While trying to figure out how the eye socket sits I also noticed some perspective issues with her eye. So I rotated it a bit clockwise to better match the perspective and changed the shape to fit the new perspective (well, I tried at least, but I think it works a bit better).

Also changed the chin a tiny bit, the angle isn't properly in perspective I think but it's very minor.

Hope it helps.

Lockenheim 2022-07-14 00:58:57 UTC #187

This did help thank you! It came in very hand today and I made the modifications the best I could. I appreciate the help and seems to have made a really big difference! I need to do some eye observation studies as it just makes such a huge difference. Thank you so much! @holyjosh Thank you for the kind words!

gregorya 2022-07-14 23:04:58 UTC #188

It's really coming together. That is a lot of time, and it really shows. The shading and the hair is really coming along. keep up the good work.

alwaysneedsleep 2022-07-16 01:26:04 UTC #189

Your killing the values on the leg @lockenheim. Impressive!

Lockenheim 2022-07-16 16:59:47 UTC #190

Thank you so much for the kind words @gregorya and @alwaysneedsleep I was super happy with this leg, it was probably my favorite thing I have ever painted at this point. Anyways here is some of my practice through the week, Im trying to upgrade my gesture mannequine and it takes me quite a while to get the torso right. But it will get better in time. Anyways here is the work and also some studies! Feedback always welcome.

Anyways new gesture formula needs some work, but getting used to it for now, was fairly pleased with how spider Gwen is right now, will make some changes after feedback with Marc today. Feedback always welcome thanks for checking this out!

lionelkochanowski 2022-07-17 06:20:18 UTC #191

Damn man this looks amazing! I would say to blend in some of the background color into it? like making it a little more blueish, but idk lol it looks great, super realistic!

mitsuki-youko 2022-07-18 00:12:30 UTC #192

ooh i love the way u colored that! its so vibrant!

playforwho89 2022-07-18 22:08:33 UTC #193

Damn. Forms look super sweet. I see a huge jump in quality comparing this to some of your older work. Great job keep it up

typthon 2022-07-21 10:32:57 UTC #194

Wow spider Gwen turned out amazing and honestly looking at all your work from the beginning and the improvement is so inspiring, can't wait to see where you'll get! (and to get there too )

Lockenheim 2022-07-23 15:30:27 UTC #195

@lionelkochanowski @mitsuki-youko @playforwho89 @typthon Thank you so much for the kind words and encouragement! It means a lot to me and I very much appreciate it!

This is my work for the week, with some final changes from feedback with Marc. Any feedback always welcome.

Few changes to Gwen after Feedback.

Thanks for checking out this post. Feedback always welcome. Have the best week of your life Ok Bye!

johann.audouin 2022-07-23 17:22:25 UTC #196

Regarding your last version of Gwen, I think the lack of contraste makes her look a bit flat. Since the legs are black, the shading is really dark and they don't lack volume. However, each flock of hair feels like a ribbon. I think this might be due to the lack of contraste. I think you could also use a "hair" brush to give a more natural feeling to they hair. They feel like ribbons of copper to me because of that. They would need more individual strokes. I hope this is helpful.

Lukiesartventure 2022-07-25 07:19:34 UTC #197

Amazing as per usual Lock! Gwen came out really well! The shading on her leg kneeling down looks slightly off, but I can't pinpoint why. Her left bicep seems a little too small. Her face is very well done though. Keep going!!!

holyjosh 2022-07-25 09:33:57 UTC #198

Your character design is very impressive, look like a game character.
I love it!
Which term is this assignment for?

nikolinkanikolova 2022-07-25 12:38:21 UTC #199

Great work. Your progress is inspiring Your body studies looks great

Lockenheim 2022-07-29 00:15:10 UTC #200

Thank you so much Niko, I had been working quite hard to figure out a more appealing manniquine! I appreciate your support! @johann.audouin Thank you very much for the feedback I will keep that in mind! @Lukiesartventure thank you so much for the feedback and th ekind words! @holyjosh Thank you for the kind words, unfortunatelyt I can't take credit for the design as this is a valorant character from Riot games. This was a material study which I think is term 7? Marc had suggested I work some materials.

This is my progress for this week, I had so many problems with this one. My idea was to do a dark character with a really light background to make them pop out, use a low value range on the character for high contrast with background. But I think in the end it just ended up flatting out everything. I also had a lot of problems with the eye as I am not accustom to this type of eye. I also had a very difficult time converting from greyscale with the values being so dark. Anytways I tried to salvage it. I will continue to work on it some more. Any feedback is definitely welcome!

Lukiesartventure 2022-07-29 05:48:20 UTC #201

Hey Lock, it's a good start. With the value range, given that it's a white only background as long as you use a dark ish grey as the lightest colour it will read nicely.

From my understanding it's good to have a high value range in your paintings to avoid them being flat. I think Sinix talked about started with 2-3 value groups to make sure the main forms read. And then you can go into those groups and detail them as much as you feel like, just need to make sure that your darkest or lightest detail doesn't get to close to a different value group.