Michaela - Art School Journey (Archived)

[LesleyCarol]

This looks great! I wish I had assignments like this in high school I wasn't able to take classes for digital art due to schedule conflicts. Your school sounds awesome. Can't wait to see the finished product!

[milkcee12]

Thank you! The packaging project is usually supposed to be like box branding and more modern/sleek stuff, but I stretched the rules a bit haha. I figured that book covers are packaging too and squeezed in the chance to do some digital painting in class

[LesleyCarol]

LOL Great logic

[dangras-almeida]

This looks amazing so far! 💙

[milkcee12]

[Term 1] Perspective 1
AHHHH I FINISHED MY ONE POINT PERSPECTIVE ASSIGNMENT!!

I learned so much doing this assignment, from workflow to design to having patience. So many hours of painstaking drawing and referencing later, this is definitely a piece that I'm proud of. Thank you guys for looking.

Michaela

[dangras-almeida]

I'll just echo @Doomblick's words on Discord: this is definitely one of the best 1p perspective drawing I've seen so far in this course. Congrats Michaela, this turned out SUPER amazing. Straight into your portfolio.

[HANDRO]

Couldn't agree more. Great Job! @michaelachang

[milkcee12]

Finished the Viscomm 2 lecture. I've been watching through the Term 2 Anatomy 1 and slowly taking notes, but recently I've finished two more pieces! I'm not studying as I'd like to, but that's not something I want to stress out about. No big deal, just keep making art

[HANDRO]

So good! only thing that stands out to me is the hands on the second drawing. not sure they should rotate as much as you have them drawn. at least I wasn't able to replicate that angle in person. Great rendering style.

[LesleyCarol]

Ooh, these turned out nice! I really like the lighting in both of them. I also like how you executed the blue tips in the hair on the second one, it's really beautiful.

[mau.wamp]

Wow those two pieces are really great, Michaela!
Theres just one thing I am not quite sure about:
In your second piece, the girls hands as she is tying up her hair are extremely pronated. I‘ve tried to do that pose myself and, as I am an inflexible dude, couldnt do it. It feel a little unnatural to have the thumbs turn upwards. Letting them point to the floor feels more natural and easy.
Hope that helps✌️✌️

[milkcee12]

@HANDRO @mau.wamp
Yeah, I realized the pose is kind of hard/impossible to do in real life. It is possible to rotate your hands in that direction (and I often do when messing with my hair) but not as far as I have them drawn haha. I guess the only thing to do is get references next time .

[milkcee12]

[Term 2] Anatomy 1

It's been a while, but I'm back with another set of study pages! I'm officially on summer break now too! It took a long time but I finished taking notes for the facial features part of the lecture. I'm going to do studies of each facial feature in sets of 10 + 2-3 from imagination. Here are my lecture notes and ear studies

For the ear studies, my basic method was:

1. Sketch
2. Base silhouette + shadow shapes
3. Overpaint focusing on:
   • Midtones
   • Occlusion shadow
   • Highlights
   • Accent color/color variation
4. Any final touches with a hard brush (no opacity).

I haven't done painting studies in a long, LONG time so it was really fun to do these. Usually people see their improvement in their personal pieces, but I'm seeing improvement in my studies instead because I don't do them as often hahaha.

[mau.wamp]

I think you did a great job on those assignements, michaela!
Your heads have good structure and I really love you ears, especially the sketches, they already convey a good sense of depth even without any rendering👍👍👍

[milkcee12]

Haven't posted here in a hot minute! Finally done with noses
I've been doing a lot of personal art (which you can see here https://www.instagram.com/milkcee12/) but not as many studies.

I feel bad about it, but one of the things I want to work on in 2022 is only comparing my progress to my past self. So, I'll count this post as a win. I've started studying again.

[Ushillust]

These are so good! The way you use colors is extraordinary!!

[_Sasha_]

Wow your rendering is incredible. :o

[milkcee12]

(01/04/22) Some lighting warmups with an oc.

(01/06/22) Eyeball sheet finished. Just got the lips left, then portrait photo studies

Page 3 Reflection

• I thought eyes were a super detailed/complex part of the body, but
  they aren't. It's a part of the face that's mostly soft edges; the
  highlights make a HUGE difference in the perception of detail.
• The shape of the highlight was the most impactful in describing the
  form of the pupils. Make them follow a general curve and your pupil
  will seem round and full of form.
• Resist the urge to draw every eyelashand eyebrow hair.

[hikarisunlight]

ahhh your studies and art look absolutely mesmerising. i love your style.

[milkcee12]

This is the final page of facial features! Going to move on to photo studies now hehe

Page 4 Reflection

• Use the underpainting to separate light and shadow. You can add color variation after, but focus on the light patterns first.
• Don't use all the same size brush strokes. Shape variety, like how you rendered the eyes!
• Lipstick != lip forms. Lipstick is simply color on top of the forms of the lips, they can be applied smaller or larger than the actual shape of the lips.

In general, I've been really happy with how these studies turned out. Before starting ART School I was already somewhat familiar with the anatomy of facial features, but I had never taken the time to study them individually. It was a good mini-project to get back into studying again, so now I'm excited to try some more ambitious studies

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Finally, for personal reference, here's how I plan to do the portrait studies (and finish off Anatomy 1!)

• 12 photo studies (6 male, 6 female, 2 extreme angles, 1 senior, 1 child)
• Original character (10 angles, goal is to preserve likeness)