Feb '23

Hi everyone!
I'm creating this thread to post my progress in. I'm 1/3 into Term 1 rn :innocent:

Also, I'm always down for sharing feedback and making friends! I look forward to this experience with all of you~

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Feb '23

Hi Lucretia! Welcome to the forums! I hope you find what you are looking for.

Feb '23

So far, so good :sweat_smile:
Btw, did you guys ever have a nightmare that, in retrospect, you found kind of cool? That's me with gesture drawing. Holy hell, what a workout!! I definitely need to practice that more. Drawing/erasing/drawing/erasing/drawing has been a devious loop I've been stuck in for far too long xD

Also, I've been drawing proportions wrong all my life. Turns out, I make the heads too big and the legs too long. Something concrete to work on - awesomesauce!





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Feb '23

Looking very good so far
Good proportions on the figure drawing and good use of overlap. Your forms on figures are looking good as well, only one I feel off is the first lady on the left, the head cube isn’t oriented the same direction as the head (brow line helps) and the thorax cube I am not so sure

Keep it up!

Feb '23

Hey Snakker! Yeah, now that I'm looking at it a second time, you're absolutely right. Way too narrow; thanks for pointing it out!
Thanks for commenting overall; the engagement in this place is awesome, I already love it here! :joy:

Feb '23

Hey, welcome to the forums, great job so far, gesture is a hard thing, i just realized that has been some time since i did one, so i'm sure when i do then again they gonna suck XD looking foward to see your progress tho

Feb '23

Oh yeah. They suck a bit like a slot machine in the casino, don't they? Playing it is an absolute nightmare but you can't help but feed it money and pull the lever again and again :joy: Thanks, btw! It's great to be here and nourish some skills alongside all of you~

Feb '23

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Lockenheim

Hi Lockenheim! That is such a heartwarming welcome - thank you! I hope you find what you're looking for too. Here and everywhere else for that matter. :relaxed:

Feb '23

welcome to the forums! :smiley:

gesture can be hard, but foreshortening gestures are even harder XD

I'm animating something rn and the foreshortening frames are so hard XDDD i spend like 2.5 hrs on each frame haha

personally for me, background and environment art is the hardest but im working on getting better at it :smile:

Feb '23

Hey Mitsuki Y.; thanks, glad to be here!
You animate?! Cool, that's my ultimate goal too! I'm trying to improve my art first in hopes that I'll get better and faster... and not so dependent on reference in the long run :grin: Background and environment, ugh. I feel you. Good luck with your foreshortening poses! You got this, I'm sure!

Feb '23

Haha thanks! yep animating is fun but it takes a long time.. i work full time so the time i have less time to spend on art :3 a 3-4 second animation can take up to 70 hours for me to draw, which usually spans across 3-4 weeks.

Its a lot of work but its super worth it in the long run imo - im currently plotbuilding/worldbuilding/characterbuilding a story that i've been working on for a while - it spans across 2 worlds, with 5 main characters, 100's of side characters with about 24 story arcs and i'm planning to turn it into a comic tho that might take a while since i still have a long way to go and i also want to make 6 animated trailers for it (1 main plot trailer and 1 for each mc's individual piece/view/perspective of the story) :smiley:

Good luck on your art journey as well!! excited to see more of your art :smiley:

If you wanna check out my animations, i post them on youtube (tho the recent vids is more of me making music loool) https://www.youtube.com/@mitsukiyouko/videos

i do post my art on ig: https://www.instagram.com/mitsuki_youko/

and here's a website i coded for my story (first time coding a website and it came out great though there is a lot of unfinished art haha ill get those filled out eventually :smiley: ): https://mitsukiyouko555.github.io/hackwebcomic/

Feb '23

Excuse me kind sirs,
can I interest you in the church of Clip Studio Paint? We have perspective rulers and vector layers.
Don’t get me wrong, I know PS is dope but I love this software with a passion!!
That being said, here’s the first assignment of the second lesson in term 1! I initially wanted to damage this bathroom a little more… bust some of the tiles to give it a more abandoned and creepy feeling; add highlights and stuffs, as well as creepy shadows and the like, but I concluded, the main point of the lesson is achieved - therefore, on to the 2 point perspective view! Eep!
The first outline was excruciating but after drawing the sinks, the rest was hella fun! I mean, please mark your calendars! Me having fun drawing backgrounds is unheard of! xD Also, please ignore the missing drainage hole for the second sink. I freeballed a lot of things in this image...

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2 months later

May '23

Ok, sooo.... I sort of, kind of, pretty much finished Term 2 without actually uploading anything on here. Saw-ree... :sweat: I feel like most of these are half-assed, but I did learn a lot! I now understood the theory behind everything so why won't my hands just listen? Grr.
Drawing backgrounds is a pain, ain't it...and the anatomy of the head is a doozy HOWEVER I've been using CSP for the past, what, 6 yrs? and had no idea that gradient maps exist. Please excuse me while I sink in my shame but gradient maps upped my color game a lot! God, they're so much fun...Anyway, so far so good! I'll keep practicing annnnd onto Term 3!!!


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