Lockenheim - Art School Journey

[alwaysneedsleep]

You’re nailing the colour and shading @Lockenheim, so rich.

[gregorya]

I like the colors and pose of the cow girl. The tie looks a bit off to me though.

[prinzmoana]

These poses are getting very dynamic and "flowy" :}
Also your anatomy did improve vastly!

[Opal]

I'm loving the anatomy and the forms of your character drawings they are looking natural and it looks like you are confident in what you are doing.

[Lockenheim]

@snakker Thanks so much for the kind words!

@alwaysneedsleep Thank you very much, I studied a spash art from Riot to learn from the colorson this one!

@gregorya Thank you very much! I appreciate the feedback and will take a look!

@prinzmoana Thank you very much I do try to add more dynamism to the gestures I do think it is something I have trouble with!

Here is my work from the past few weeks.

Gestures:

A few head sketches:

I wanted to do a copy study of a work by Oscar Vega to gain some insights on their process and style, this was the reference I did a study of, this is by Oscar Vega you should totally check out their work they are great.

This was my attempt at a copy study of their piece.

If anyone has any intrest I did make a time lapse of my process for this and was happy with how everything turned out. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq26V5esues/

More Gesture:

Some Anatomy Studies:

Then I did some more works based off of the process from Oscar Vega, here are some recent ones I did.

I made a time lapse of this process here https://www.instagram.com/p/CrI6w4Gu4o9/

The last one was my favorite of the bunch.

Then I did some more gestures:

Then I did this piece for a DTIYS Challenge for Ymrrart if anyone is interested in participating the contest is here https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqfkh-PtcQO/ I don't think im done with this one yet but, its getting close

Then I did some anatomy study for an upcoming piece

Anyways I hadn't posted for a while so had a bit to post. Thanks for checking out this thread and feedback is always welcome!

[olashamala]

Hi Locke, I'm sorta new to the forums, and this is the first I'm seeing your posts. Wow! it's such an inspiration to see your dedication and constant work on different areas of art (and you try to apply it to your original pieces which is something I would like to do in the future) I'm still on term 1 so I'm very much behind but looking forward to trying on some of these exercises I saw here.
I'll be sure to check your work whenever you post, can't wait to see how you progress in your art!

[mitsuki-youko]

whoa these are soooo good!! i love how you color!!!

[gregorya]

The figure drawings and studies are amazing. I like your studies as well of other artists.

[Sthingz]

Holy crap, you have made so much progress! I love the copy study you did and the Ashe drawing. Your anatomy studies are very deliberate and clearly indicate each of the muscles. Thank you for the time lapses as well - these are not only great for you to study, but also for others, including myself. I do have one question: what exactly are you trying to accomplish with your mannequin drawings? To me, it's somewhat unclear as you are showing more than gesture...you are showing us construction. I am guilty of doing this myself and I was rightfully called out for it. I do see that some of these are straight out of your imagination, which I think is fine. But I believe those you are using references for can be upgraded to figure drawing since you seem to have a solid understanding of perspective - just a thought.

[Lockenheim]

@olashamala Thank you so much for the kind words and your support. I have documented pretty much all of my art journey on these forums which is pretty wild but definitely been a challenge! I appreciate you checking out the work and if I can help with anything pelase let me know!

@mitsuki-youko Thanks so much! I definitely feel like I am getting more into a rhythm with myh coloring!

@gregorya Thank you so much! I felt like i learned a ton from copying another artist and it was a ton of fun!

@Sthingz Thank you very much for the feed back and the kind words, if I can ever help let me know. My manniquin drawings are my gesture drawings which I do most days. On some I am looking to get the forms correct, on others I am looking to push the gesture, it really depends how comfortable I am with the pose. I am mostly trying to accomplish understanding the form in perspective, the flow, and how the muscle groups behave in different angles. While it may not be obvious based on my mannequine I try really hard to think about the muscle groups as I am drawing them. I am not really sure what you mean when you say you were rightfully called out for using a mannequin. I know different artists have different opinions, for example synix thinks you lose part of the gesture if you use construction, but others like Marc tend to value the construction very highly. I definitely still struggle with the construction at times, the perspective can be very challenging depending on the pose. When you suggest doing more figure drawings, could you provide an example of what you are referring to? It seems to me there are often times many different definitions for what figure drawing is. Anyways I would love to learn more about what you are suggesting but I don't think I understand right now. I am thankful that the time lapses are helpful, perhaps I will try to do more! Anyways, let me know I would like to learn more from you thanks so much!

[jasminerosepowell]

Really nice work! the detail of the textures is really nice to see

[Sthingz]

I totally see your point, and I acknowledge there are different interpretations of what gesture drawing is. However, as Marc explains in Term 1, anything beyond drawing the gesture, such as mannequin construction, starts to wander into "figure drawing" territory. Of course, this is not to say that wrapping lines are considered construction - they are not. Therefore, what you are doing I would call "figure drawing." A great example that closely mimics what you are doing is Hide (https://www.youtube.com/@hidechannel2). As you will see in his livestreams and videos, he focuses on drawing mannequins as you do, and elaborates on them thereafter. I think his style may be a little different than yours, but the idea remains the same. All I am trying to say is that if your focus is on construction and anatomy, you would be better off focusing on mannequin studies AND drawing the anatomy on top of them. This is a method Mike Mattesi employs and encourages in his FORCE books and videos. Another way you can approach construction and anatomy is by following Bridgman's method, that is, drawing skeleton figures instead of mannequins and drawing the muscles on top (check out moderndayjames for tutorials on how to do this). As for me, I am still heavily focusing on gesture drawings b/c I have not progressed as far as you have, which I applaud you for. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, you are the one who decides how to approach studying art and all its fundamentals. What may work for me may not work for you and vice versa. And thank you for engaging with my comment

[Lockenheim]

Thank you for the thoughtful reply, you have given me a lot to think about. Thank you for providing examples, that helps me a lot to understand where you are coming from. I agree with you I think it would be beneficial to both do shorter more gestural drawings and also longer mosre anatomy drawings. I will be checking out these resources and trying to mix it up. Thank you very much for the information!

[Lockenheim]

Some work from the previous weeks just been studying heads. Went through Marco Bucci's head course, highly recommend!

Finished up this DTIYS piece.

Kept working on this piece, I still have a few changes to make on it, not super happy with how it turned out but feel like I learned a lot, need to manage lighting a lot better.

Some random trees.

Then I spent a ton of time on the design of my comission page, design is one of my weaker skills and I Really wanted this to look good. So after much blood sweat and tears and a CSP file of insane size I landed on this. I switched to CSP fairly recently and managing all of the alignment and rulers was a really big challenge for me to learn.

So after all this I just grinded Marco Bucci's head course and did a bunch of head practice. His course was great and definitely worth the price.

Then I did some practice for this draw a box exercise that is slaying me.

Then some lighting studies. I wasn't happy with the one on the left, didnt feel like I showed the form very well so I did more.

Then In Marco Bucci's course he suggest to draw these simplified heads he has many times so I started to draw it using a few different construction methods at first.

Then I thought it would be great to draw it 100 more times as a challenge. I really wanted to get the feel for the relationships of the face and the rhythms as my main goal.

I regret doing 100 more for several reasons. First I think I got diminishing returns after the halfway point pretty significantly and secondly I put a lot of strain on my arm, arm soreness is always what keeps me from drawing more and it hurt my workload for a few days.

But I am super stubborn and really dont like failing goals I set for myself so I pushed through. Anyways here are the 100 extra heads I drew.

I made a video on it if anyone was interested in seeing it in video form, but its super speed so hard to see much. I put it on TikTok, the instagram link doesnt seem to be working.

https://www.tiktok.com/@lockenheim/video/7236037937018768686

And here is the 100th head, actually about 130th head

Thanks so much for stopping by and reading, feedback is always appreciated and ill see you next time!

[gregorya]

I like your head studies. How do you record your videos.

[mitsuki-youko]

duuude i love how you color!! your shading is so good!

also that corgi is SO cute!

that first pic looks like it came out of an anime! the way you color highlights is so aesthetically pleasing!

[Gordon003]

Another big W.

Man, I didn't realise that you are also going through Bucci's head course. Is it the one on Proko called "Painting and Understanding the Heads"? Look like I have another references to look upon.

But yeah, saw your commission post and I wish you nothing but good luck to it. Hopefully, you don't see weird stuff that I did back in my teenager time.

[Lockenheim]

@gregorya Thanks so much gregorya, Clip studio paint has a built in timelapse feature which I have been loving. So I usually use that. If I didn't use Clip studio I would use OBS to record video. Then I do the editing in capcut.

@mitsuki-youko Thanks so much for the kind words! I actually used my corgi as reference for that one lol. The cell shading was new for me, it was for a DTIYS and I misread the information about the challenge and actually thought it was in their style, so I tried some cell shading for a while lol. But I had quite a bit of help with how to execute this style from Marc and Xybb and Tell so a team effort!

@Gordon003 Thank you! Yep that is the one, but it may be cheaper on his website instead of on Proko, also I don't know if its on cube brush but you may check here as well. But I have taken the head course and his coloring course and been super happy with both. I really like the way he teaches and its been a big help for me. I am not sure what wierd stuff you are referring to but I have definitely had some uhhh strange inqueries lol.

[Sthingz]

Incredible vibrant drawings. You are pouring a lot of effort into head studies and the fruit of your labor is showing!

[Lockenheim]

@Sthingz Thank you so much! Definitely interested in portraits at the moment!

Here is the majority of my work from the past few weeks!

This is an illustration I did for my dnd character I am playing.

Some plane and value studies over reference

My sketch of this portrait with planes

more studies

my sketch

some form and color studies

This was my painting from the reference i studied earlier

Thanks so much for stopping by, feedback is always welcome!