Marco Blanco - Art School Journey - Get a load of this guy

marco_blanco 2020-07-19 16:00:42 UTC #1

Oh boy here we go!

My name is Marco Blanco! I am a non-professional artist, and I am on a journey to become the best that's ever been! or something to that effect.

I am creating my own world and characters, and one day aim to be Head Honcho in the studio that animates those very characters!

I have taken a character drawing course before, but I am taking now this course so I can build on my current knowledge, never hurt anyone to know more.

I look forward to seeing the results of this course.

So to start, let's post a current drawing so we have something to compare to in the end.

I look forward to the journey, what better place to start than the beginning, where so many others ventured from. Term 1.

marco_blanco 2020-07-19 16:10:07 UTC #2

Day 1 - 19 / 07 / 20

I am doing exercises as I listen along, I am sure that a lot of the assignments will have me re-do some of these.... lets post then!

lip3chi 2020-07-19 17:52:08 UTC #3

Really clean lines

marco_blanco 2020-07-21 07:45:45 UTC #5

Now, for the practice! I will keep this up to date as I practice more! I will increase the time between updates so as not to over post just practice.

Gesture Drawing

Measuring Drawing

ghostmonster 2020-07-21 07:54:09 UTC #6

welcome, looking forward to following your journey.

marco_blanco 2020-07-26 10:19:49 UTC #7

Is this over the top for perspective?

chiara.arcidiaco 2020-07-26 15:15:37 UTC #8

That It's just insane hahaha So many details!!! It's five minutes that I'm examining all the different objects hahah
Just one thing that I can say is that you could try to add some ambient occlusion between concave corners and thicker lines near us and thinner on the background, but maybe it's a tip for the next one, this is just great

marco_blanco 2020-07-26 15:19:19 UTC #9

I know what you mean, I didn't do a lot of rendering here, that would have helped, cheer Chiara

cedricgo 2020-07-27 20:01:46 UTC #10

Might be, but over the top doesn't mean bad XD It's actually pretty cool. As @chiara.arcidiaco mentionned maybe having some lineweight or basic shadows could help us read the picture better by separating the elements. But yeah it's awesome!

marco_blanco 2020-07-28 18:01:53 UTC #11

Term 1 - Photoshop Digital Editing
I went a bit of track and did a scene instead of my dream house, I quite like the result, it was fun

References

Result

chiara.arcidiaco 2020-07-28 21:37:49 UTC #12

Daenerys is coming

marco_blanco 2020-08-09 10:49:32 UTC #13

In keeping with the dragons and knights theme I have going on, here's my current piece, any suggestions on what I should improve before I start rendering?

WeirdOwl 2020-08-10 03:22:04 UTC #14

Can't wait to see how far you can push this.

joseph_k 2020-08-11 07:35:01 UTC #15

I like your gesture drawings. You've got some style and seem to have a good understanding of human form already.

ghostmonster 2020-08-11 22:18:52 UTC #16

shade completely in black and white first. the cape should have soft shading as well as the hair, leather etc. the dragoin scales and the armor should have very hard edge shading so you can tell the surface is slick and metal/scale. that would be my suggesting based on the first pic you posted when joining the forums. Good Luck!!

marco_blanco 2020-08-16 08:58:54 UTC #17

Another one this week, really pushed my painting on this one, it came a lot easier than before, actually enjoyed the process.

marco_blanco 2020-08-27 21:25:56 UTC #18

Practiced a lot of anatomy these last couple weeks, heres a couple of the nicer looking sheets

marco_blanco 2020-08-27 21:28:40 UTC #19

My first portraits, I really did not expect having so much control of the facial anatomy after that first anatomy class. It still takes me ages and tons of measuring and remeasuring, I am trying to do these in both painting and lineart so as to not rely too much on one.

WeirdOwl 2020-08-27 23:24:29 UTC #20

Nice job on the portraits. The last one is a very difficult angle, but you showed it very well. For critique, I'd say pay attention to the eye positioning, for some reason all your females have the left eye a little further away. The male portrait was perfect on the other hand.

marco_blanco 2020-08-28 07:27:20 UTC #21

oh yeah... don't know why I didn't spot that, I actually had it other eye smaller in both of those, I think I overshot when I adjusted the size, thanks