Lockenheim - Art School Journey

[lionelkochanowski]

Wow forgive me for not seeing this sooner, but I am very impressed with your progress! This is a great showcase of improvement in only 5 months. Great job! Hoping to see you by the end of this course!

[danilo_tedde]

Its impressive and inspiring to see the amount of work you are doing Lock, keep it up you're improving.

[alwaysneedsleep]

God damn @Lockenheim you sure your not studying to be a physiotherapist the way your studying those muscles haha. Love how hard you going at this man, inspiring stuff.

[Lockenheim]

@chonem thank you for the words of encouragement!, @wombatfooy thank you for your support! @jasminerosepowell trying to work hard anyway =) the muscle studies don't feel so much like work to me for some reason. @lionelkochanowski Thank you! I work very hard and have big motivation to improve! @danilo_tedde thank you so much! Sometimes I feel like I'm not improving or could be doing something better. I appreciate your kind words and encouragement! @alwaysneedsleep lol no I'm just looking to be a character artist. I figured it would be worth it to get the bulk of anatomy out of way at one time. I have a background in medical, while a lot of this I had forgotten having some background in anatomy does help, especially the medical vocabulary. Also I have ADHD which has advantages and disadvantage in this case its a big advantage. When something is about putting in time for memorization or rote practice I typically can focus quite heavily on it. The downside is when I need to learn a new process it can be quite difficult. So it comes with pros and cons for sure. Thank you everyone so much for the support and kind words!

[playforwho89]

Amazing to see how much work you have put in. This always inspires me to work harder on my own training, keep it up.

[000_peanut]

I admire your persistence and determination Lock
Impressive.. very impressive

[Lockenheim]

@playforwho89 @000_peanut Thank you for the kind words! This is my work for the week. My friend wanted me to draw her and her spirit animal a hippo. I wanted to practice anatomy so yeah this is what I came up with. Feedback always welcome!

Any feedback or criticism is always welcome. I would eventually like to have an understanding of colors and try to paint with them but I don't feel like I am at that stage yet. Thank you so much for checking this out.

[playforwho89]

As what i have come to expect a impressive amount of work. I relly like the way you show steps you took to create the finall piece. I dont feel like im on high enough level to provide valuable criticism. The way you went about constructing the hippo using basic shapes while still keeping the feel of the "pose" shows understending of his volumes. If i were to suggest something it would be to practice hand gestures and constructions, that is wat i will be doing this week. But dont take it the wrong way Hands are a really dificult part of the anatomy and the ilustration looks great. painting with colours is definetly outside of my comfort zone so saddly i cant help you with that. ps. nice to see someone using gwent cart as refrence

[Lockenheim]

Thank you much! I definitely need to do hand gestures and constructions no doubt! I agree! Its definitely on the soon to do list =) and I really love Gwent art, really fantsic artists on that priject. Thank you for the advice!

[000_peanut]

Wow
Excluding the hand ... you've improved a lot Lock.!!
Like, really improve. Keep going!!! Lezzz gooo!!!

[Cha0s]

Awesome work! I like that you showed your whole process and how you incorporated your references, very interesting! The anatomy looks good, the left hand is a little off though.
For the lighting, try adding some highlights and rim lights to those crystals to really bring out their reflective nature.

[Lockenheim]

Thank you so much for the advice! I definitely need to work on the hands for sure! Thanks for the tips @000_peanut and @Cha0s. Unfortunately I saw it before I made a few revisions Chaos but I will keep it in mind for next time!

This is my work for the week, feedback always welcome! Started working with Zbrush this week but had a hard time getting a smooth stroke, its always bumpy and wierd for some reason. I put that question in my feedback for Marc this week.

And thats the work for this week! Thanks so much for checking this out. Feedback always welcome. I hope you have a good week.

[alwaysneedsleep]

Quality study @Lockenheim

[playforwho89]

Great work! I need to start doing the value study your way it looks really helpful.

[Lukiesartventure]

Great stuff as per usual Lock! I go afk for a few weeks and when I come back I always have to scroll for hours to get through all the work you've done! Keep it up! Do you start your value paintings with a sketch or jump straight into painting?

[Lockenheim]

Thanks Lukies! I definitely start with a sketch, I didn't realize I hadn't copied over that part on my process. I use the sketch to help define my planes of the head like this.

I drop the opacity way down and then start to do the blending with it still on. I disable the sketch layer once I have the shapes rendered in a way that I dont need the sketch anymore. This is how I have been doing it, I don't know if this is a good process yet. I am trying to find the right worklow for portraits so take it with a grain of salt

[Cha0s]

Nice head construction! I see you're really starting to get the hang of facial proportions. Your lighting and values are also very good!

[k_idraw_]

I really like the construction breakdown of the face!

[jasminerosepowell]

INCREDIBLE! I appreciate that you show the whole process

[Lockenheim]

Thank you @Cha0s @k_idraw_ @jasminerosepowell Thank you so much for the kind words! They are very much appreciated! This is my work for the week. This character is a fan art of Luke's character from the livestream. Any feedback is appreciated and welcome this was the first time I made a 3d model for the picture.

And thats it for this week! Thank you for checking out my work and feedback is always welcome!