Matt - Art School Journey

matthewwemes 2022-09-14 21:56:35 UTC #26

I finally finished my 1-point perspective... I ended up spending way more time on it that I meant to. I was having too much fun adding all the details to this. I will try not to make my 2-point so complicated because now I'm getting impatient to move on to the figure drawings!

prinzmoana 2022-09-14 23:27:38 UTC #27

Love this 🤩 So much detail, there is even a second tiny little ship 😆

Squint_Prints 2022-09-15 01:52:31 UTC #28

You have great line art

matthewwemes 2022-09-15 05:09:44 UTC #29

I had to add something there lol, that empty space in the open window was bothering me >.<

Lockenheim 2022-09-18 14:05:32 UTC #30

The amount of time and effort put into this piece is apparent, you did a really fantastic job with this!

matthewwemes 2022-10-01 03:48:21 UTC #31

Well I lied a little bit, I ended up making my 2-point pretty detailed as well, and I did a small extracurricular concept exercise for it too... I think with these I may have been doing some subconscious procrastinating, technical things have always been my artistic comfort zone and I've always had some fear of drawing people, but it looks like there's finally nothing left for me to do but start the figure drawing!

JosueAnesPaz 2022-10-01 12:43:39 UTC #32

Great work so far and I definitely understand that sentiment about technical things versus drawing people. I think it's because technical things tend to be uniformed and easy with straight or simple lines. On the other hand, people are far from uniformed and that can be nerve racking at the start!

matthewwemes 2022-10-02 09:40:14 UTC #33

Thanks and that's definitely true. Also it seems like to me there are almost intangible qualities that make good drawings of people/characters feel alive... so far so many of my attempts have just felt wooden and I just have so much trouble getting that alive feel... this is something I'm hoping to learn!

marco_cprn97 2022-10-11 20:05:07 UTC #34

wow this is really good! Good job!

matthewwemes 2022-10-11 20:15:03 UTC #35

Thanks @marco_cprn97 !

I'm just getting started with the figure drawing but I figured I'd post what I have so far to see if there are any glaring problems before I keep going. I realized I probably drew too many things over my first round, it turned out a bit messy. I also realized the references I picked may be making it harder... it seems like these exercises are easier to do when the limbs don't overlap:

marco_cprn97 2022-10-11 20:47:48 UTC #36

Yes it' simpler to draw figures without overlapping limbs, maybe it's better to start with simpler poses and then move to complicated ones. You still did a pretty good job! Your analysis of the limbs with the use of cylinders is on point too and they're in the right perspetctive. I think it's a pretty good job overall.

matthewwemes 2022-10-17 23:33:53 UTC #37

Here's my initial proportions and gesture stuff... well sort of initial, my very first 30 sec gestures were so messy most of them just looked like random scribbles >.< I think I started getting the hang of it after a few pages. working with a 30 second timer was harder than I expected though!

prinzmoana 2022-10-18 00:04:22 UTC #38

For the start these gestures already look nice and clean. You only used few lines which is also very good 👍
If you feel a bit to overwhelmed tho, just try some 60 sec gestures. Will make it a bit easier ^.^

matthewwemes 2022-10-18 07:56:27 UTC #39

Thanks! I just thought I'd stick with 30 seconds at first, I guess I'm just the type that always likes to play games in hard mode, even if I keep dying all the time

I'm not sure there's an art equivalent to dying all the time in video games lol, but I am enjoying it and I feel like I'm learning a lot, even if it is a bit stressful.

Lockenheim 2022-10-22 13:10:09 UTC #40

These proportion exercises are looking great, the female proportions are very aesthetic. Keep it up!

matthewwemes 2022-10-23 06:09:59 UTC #41

Thanks for the feedback! For those proportions I mostly tried to copy Marc from the video, these are the first ones I tried from memory:

And some 1-minute gestures:

I ran out of space for some of these, and on my last ones too. I think the ones that turned out better are where I remembered the lesson of the proportions exercise and started with the head.

I think I'll try the last figure exercise a few times and then start Term 2. The great thing about these self paced lessons is I can always go back to these ones if the new ones start to feel like too much.

prinzmoana 2022-10-24 21:18:39 UTC #42

Haha I get it ;} What video games are you playing? ^.^

matthewwemes 2022-10-25 06:17:10 UTC #43

Lately Cyberpunk 2077 and Sekiro! Which are probably having an influence on my art...

here is my first try at the figure measuring exercise, it has some issues but I'm happy with it for a first try... maybe I'll get the courage to try drawing faces on my next ones!

prinzmoana 2022-10-25 11:44:37 UTC #44

Oh Cyberpunk 77, yeah it's a nice game :}
... unfortunately I bought it for ps4, so I've never played my own game haha xD
I tested it with a friend (he had the pc version) and I'm thinking about buying it for pc 🤔

matthewwemes 2022-10-27 07:43:29 UTC #45

It is really good on PC! Especially since they fixed almost all the bugs now.

Here are some more gestures., first a couple pages of 30s and then one of 1m, then one more figure measure drawing, which turned out a bit messy because I felt like I spent to much time on my last one and I decided to try to do this one faster:

Using references with boxing gloves is a good excuse not to draw hands