Luke - Art School Journey

Vonschlippe 2021-12-01 22:31:18 UTC #22

Hey Luke!

These ears are by no means incorrect or bad, however they have that distinct "from imagination" look. The structures are all there, but their shape is approximate and especially their proportions look a bit incorrect.

I recommend you try a few more ears, but with photo references on the side, which combined with your anatomical knowledge will result in perfect-looking results! This approach may also help you achieve slightly more natural looking shading/rendering.

Keep at it, and good work so far!

luke.buersgens 2021-12-02 07:31:49 UTC #23

Thank you Vonschlippe for the feedback.
Thats true, these are all done from imagination so I'm gonna try to do a couple ears from references.

luke.buersgens 2021-12-02 16:31:33 UTC #24

Did 3 ears today, more tomorrow, just stopping by right now to see if I'm on the right track as @Vonschlippe said some really important things.
I noticed a lot of changes in my shading, especially when I saved the file and looked at it with "not tunnel visioned eyes".
I feel like 3 is the best out of those, so I will probably continue to do ears like that (Until I see one I like more)
Oh btw, shadows sometimes dont really "fade" from dark to light, sometimes they stop almost immediately and convey a great change in depth, I don't really know how to integrate those in my drawing yet, so I hope somebody can give me tips related to that ^^

Kosmonaut 2021-12-03 00:11:59 UTC #25

I may be wrong but I think it has to do with your light source for shading so if its a harsh light source you would have hard shadows or also called the terminator shadow iirc but if the light source is soft then you would also have soft shadows transition softly into the light areas. that's my guess on how to do it hope this helps.

luke.buersgens 2021-12-08 19:30:16 UTC #26

Hallo guys, been 6 days now.
My Laptop which also powered my Wacom died last week.
It's getting repaired at the moment but I don't know how long that will take with all the shit going on at the moment.
So yeah I will resume as soon as I get the chance ^^

luke.buersgens 2022-01-10 13:41:38 UTC #27

Hey guys, after a little more than 1 month I return to finally continue the journey.
My laptop is finally repaired but they needed to reset it completely, that means I lost all my files I drew over months. Didn't save anything on a USB or Cloud (My bad).
Like in art, you learn by mistakes

Today I continued where I was last time and drew more ears.

I think it's time to slowly move on to the nose ^^

luke.buersgens 2022-01-11 14:58:21 UTC #28

Moved on to noses and.....they are really hard, that tells me I need to learn them atleast for a couple of days before moving on.
As I move on through all these drawings I really notice that I get better each time, I also feel like trying newer things and get inspired by them ^^
I'm really satisfied with the bottom right nose, teached me a lot about rotating and getting the angle right aswell as shading the whole nose.

luke.buersgens 2022-01-18 17:09:15 UTC #29

More noses. Most of them are from reference, and the last raw is inspired by sinix. Rotating them is really really hard so I'm gonna try to focus on that next.

LesleyCarol 2022-01-18 23:56:48 UTC #30

I really like the way you shaded these!

luke.buersgens 2022-01-31 17:05:15 UTC #31

Hey guys ^^
This is the first time I tried shading with colour instead of greyscale/value.
Couldn't work on this page last week because of my booster vaccination (Didn't expect it to throw me in the bed for 4 days straight)
Probably gonna treat the lips the same as the nose and stay here till I have a good grasp of it.

guys

Don't mind the colours near the lips btw, I'm trying to more accurately guess the color, color pick the real photo and see how off I was.

luke.buersgens 2022-02-04 11:29:52 UTC #32

New lips and new stuff learned. Trying to get more bold with my shading and it turned out pretty good I think.
Going to spend 1 more week on lips to really get the hang of it.

daniellynch1000 2022-02-04 12:19:06 UTC #33

Good job! these lips are vey well done!

luke.buersgens 2022-02-08 12:30:31 UTC #34

Combined references to do something more different this time.
Tried a different shading process too and experimented way more with color ^^

Thank you for the support guys, keeps me going strong.
If you have feedback please don't hold back.

luke.buersgens 2022-02-11 12:03:47 UTC #35

Back again with more lips, I didn't finish all of them this week because of time.
The bottom left is wip and I have 3 more planned for this page.
For some reason my brain is more concerned about the "3D" rendering than the actual structure learning of the lips. Still trying to get over it somehow.

Stuff I want to learn / do (or get better) in the future:
- General Shading (Realistic)
- Cel Shading
- More drawings from imagination
- Light and Shadows
- Observation
- Dedicate more time to drawing

luke.buersgens 2022-02-15 15:19:20 UTC #36

Finished the one from last week and one that I had planned.
I always stumble upon new challanges and things I didn't know about.
Still trying to improve my shading and the structure of the lips at the same time.

luke.buersgens 2022-02-18 17:33:15 UTC #37

Page done.
Scrapped the ones I had planned and made a final lip with a "semi" realistic shading.
Copied the lineart for the before and after comparison.
I shaded this one a lot more loosely which resulted in a nice balanced looking final image, I will definitely keep this in mind when I move on and explore it a little more.

My art glove has also finally arrived a few days ago, it's a lot more comfortable and has a really nice feeling to it when drawing.

LesleyCarol 2022-02-19 14:26:47 UTC #38

I really like the shapes you use and the last pair of lips look really solid. The highlights were very well done.
I feel like there's a little too much detail in the teeth that's distracting from the lips. Also, taking away from the line art might make the forms pop a little more.
Hopefully you don't mind, but I did a small paint-over to help show what I'm talking about. Hope this helps!

Lockenheim 2022-02-19 19:24:23 UTC #39

Power glove activated. Great study!

luke.buersgens 2022-02-21 08:56:13 UTC #40

Thank you Lesley.
Yeah the teeth ;D I put a little bit of purple at some spots to make it more interesting.
Seeing it know, it does look distracting a bit. I will keep that in mind for next time.

I don't mind at all, I definitely know what you mean.
I tried experimenting with the lineart not long ago, like Coloring it at some spots and deleting it at the points where light hits.
It looks really good if done well, so thank you for pointing it out here, I will try to do something with this the next time I draw.

luke.buersgens 2022-02-22 14:03:27 UTC #41

Finally started the eyes today.

Trying to remember all the important terms for today.
I actually did not plan to shade today but I did it anyway because it felt like I would waste time doing nothing.
Tomorrow I will try to only shade with brush density instead off opacity + brush density. Idk if thats better or not, but I heard it's something worth trying out.