Lukael - Art School Journey

lukaeldesign 2020-09-22 05:04:21 UTC #1

Hello everyone! I'm Lukael, 32 from Quebec, Canada, and I just recently purchased Art School. I like to draw mostly characters, be it fanart of video games or original creations.

I've been drawing for my entire life but have been growing increasingly frustrated at my lack of progress/motivation over the last decade, so I've decided to take a leap of faith and I recently quit my job in order to put 100% of my focus into art and improving. Over the next year, I want to dedicate myself to completing this program, and then hopefully find a way to make a living from my art in the future.

Because I've never had any proper art training or schooling, I felt like it would be a good idea to start from the beginning and learn the fundamentals again, which I'm hoping this program can help with. I'm gonna be starting from Term 1 very soon and I look forward to sharing my experience with all of you, let's all become better artists together! I'm always open to feedback and critique!

If you'd like, you can check my stuff on my social media:
https://twitter.com/Lukael
https://www.facebook.com/LukaelArt/
https://www.instagram.com/lukaelart/

Here's a few of my recent pictures:

lukaeldesign 2020-09-22 05:06:59 UTC #2

Also, this may be a stupid question, but how can you change your profile picture? I've looked in all the settings/profile pages and I can't seem to figure it out

BadRooster 2020-09-22 06:41:32 UTC #3

Welcome! You're work thus far is wonderful. You and I share a similar story for the most part. Given that I work in a theme park in California, I haven't been able to work since March. Being equally as frustrated with my own upward mobility, I decided to take advantage of my "down time" and focus on improving my art.

Having only been in this class for three weeks now I can honestly say there's nothing like it. From what I have seen the content is solid and even better the community is extremely supportive. We're all after the same goal.

Lastly, to change you profile pic go to the far right icon at the top and click profile. That should take you to page to where you can change it.

Looking forward to your progress.

Vonschlippe 2020-09-23 01:17:31 UTC #4

Great work you've got there already. With a solid foundation like that you'll go far! I recommend you join the Art School discord chat as well

I've been drawing all my life, but starting at the absolute basic level with term 1 has helped me progress in ways I did not suspect. It's been about six months now and my art skills have leveled up tremendously just by doing my homework.

Looking forward to seeing your work, et un ptit bonjour venant de Montréal

WeirdOwl 2020-09-23 02:44:52 UTC #5

You already have a well established style, which is extremely important! I think going through the fundamentals of the first terms will improve it even more. Looking forward to seeing how far you'll go.

lukaeldesign 2020-09-23 15:47:10 UTC #6

Thanks for the nice words guys! I did join the Discord as well but I still can't figure out how to change my profile picture lol

Here's a commission I just finished, I've already been trying to implement some feedback I heard from Marc to other students in his past livestreams which I've been binging while drawing, overall pretty happy with a bit more action-y pose piece but open to feedback!

lukaeldesign 2020-09-24 21:39:57 UTC #7

Finished another picture, this one was very busy so I kept the shading and details to a minimum so it wouldn't take longer than it already did! I tried incorporating some simple perspective and to have the lines point toward the object of focus on the right (the main character), overall I think it gets the situation across but I definitely want to work on improving perspective a lot in the future.

Vonschlippe 2020-09-25 13:44:47 UTC #8

Hey Lukael!

First off, great work and I love your line-work, designs, and attention to detail. Even your color palette is spot on!

I am offering critique based on perspective based on your text above, but know that there are other (minor) improvements you could also do on your values and composition to increase the readability of the image.

First off, I noticed that your background is a bit "stiff" and takes away from the image a little bit. I cropped it out and immediately the image felt more organic to me (see result below).

Second of all, your camera's viewpoint is situated slightly ABOVE the crowd, looking down. The service counter is already done using this perspective. This means that there should be a vanishing point for the vertical lines in the drawing, as seen on my second iteration above. By just transforming the background to account for this third vanishing point, immediately the perspective felt more "right" to me.

Also, as a suggestion, I desaturated the background to give more attention to the bright and vivid characters in the foreground.

Bottom-line, try to keep the background consistent with the foreground perspective and you're golden!

lukaeldesign 2020-09-25 17:14:57 UTC #9

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I can definitely see the improvement! Will keep those things in mind

lukaeldesign 2020-10-04 20:37:31 UTC #10

Finished another picture that I've been trying to get done for a long time, a fanart from the game "Catherine", I used a reference and initially tried using the same lighting but it didn't work at all, so I had to come up with different lighting from scratch but I tried to make it somewhat interesting? Struggled a lot with this one, I think it could be better but I tried my best, all feedback is welcome!

lukaeldesign 2020-10-11 20:22:20 UTC #11

Still working on the program, practicing the figure drawing of Term 1 with cylinders and whatnot! in between I've been working on some personal art, here's Jean from Genshin Impact which I've been playing a bit. Feedback is welcomed!

lukaeldesign 2020-10-12 20:59:50 UTC #12

Done watching the figure drawing video from Term 1 and did my first session, gonna try to make this into a daily routine! something I should have been doing for a long time, tho I am a bit skeptical about the benefits because it feels like I'm more practicing observation than anatomy per say? but I guess that's not entirely the point, more so just lines of action etc.... we'll see in a few weeks if I can see a difference!

lukaeldesign 2020-10-13 19:52:07 UTC #13

Another personal art, from Gravity Rush, one of my favorite games! Used a number of references for this, from a spilled drink to a person tripping, ultimately I'm pretty happy with how it ended up. I rarely use much movement in my images so this was a fun challenge, and drawing food is surprisingly fun too!

WeirdOwl 2020-10-14 14:12:29 UTC #14

You captured the pose so well! One question though: what did she trip on? Was it the cat? (cats like to do that to people). Would add to the storytelling if you have the culprit more defined.

lukaeldesign 2020-10-14 20:13:22 UTC #15

Thank you! Honestly at first I had drawn a small ledge on the ground, like her foot got caught in the pavement or something like that, but trying to have it be within the frame messed a bit with the overall composition so I opted to leave it out to keep the focus on the character. She's rather clumsy anyways so I could see her just losing her balance even without any obstacle. Thank you for the feedback!