Nosnibor - Art School Journey

20/12/24
I feel like I didnt fully understand what I was doing and I was unhappy with the results from my first two attempts above. So, I watched this YouTube video and I took notes and practiced what was mentioned:

"HOW I DRAW CLOTHES + PAINTING GUIDE" by NIRO

Using what I learned from the video I tried to implement it in my next attempts:

Here I tried to combine the content from the lecture and the things I learned from the video but so far whenever I try and use the blend brush I hate the way it looks. I think I need a better understanding of what lines/values to keep a hard edge on and where to blend. I definitely want to practice this more.

21/12/24

This one was my favourite, not sure why

I spent about two seconds on the "human" part of this drawing but looking back at this I definitely need to experiment with blending more just like I mentioned above.

Painting clothes on a naked subject

For these I used no reference or used a reference at a different angle of the subject to stop myself mindlessly copying and force myself to learn. Definitely want to study this more as - similarly to the first part of this assignment - I stopped thinking about the folds/cloth in 3D and "blindly" put values down on the page which gave me results which I did not like.

I have lightly censored my ref images here, not sure if its necessary in these forums

23/12/24

Definitely found it more difficult drawing dresses and cloaks. Not sure if I am trying too much too soon here but my thinking was that trying something difficult/challenging fairly above my current skill level is a good way to learn quickly. If someone could let me know what they think about this I would be interested to hear.

Any feedback and critique on anything I have posted so far is appreciated

Anatomy 2 Assignment

I quite liked this "module" or whatever you want to call it. Found it easier to understand than drawing folds and clothes etc.
Since 02/01/25 I've managed to do some drawing everyday which is great. While I haven't done much - mainly due to inefficiency or procrastination I am looking to keep my streak going while increasing the amount I do each day (atleast 30mins would be nice).

Lecture 'notes'

These are the notes I drew/took while watching the Anatomy_2 lecture, thought I'd share them as I'm sharing basically everything I do. I do take a while to get through the lectures as sitting down in one 2/3 hour session and actually focusing/absorbing the information is quite difficult for me. If anyone has any tips for getting through the videos quick while retaining the information, that would be appreciated. Feel like I roadblock myself whenever I start a new lecture as I want to watch and absorb the whole video first before doing the related assignment but then I take a long time to get through the video itself.

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1 - Drawing the muscles on top of references

These were quite chill to do, was good to do with a video on in the background or something. The parts of the body I struggled the most with identifying were the serratus anterior/obliques and the rotator cuff when doing these exercises. The skeleton exercise after this one has helped me understand a little bit better but it still feels like my weakest point.

I started with lean muscular males for my references and moved onto female references afterwards as they were more difficult.

I got my references from pinterest, art station and plain old Google.

??/01/25

Overall I think I did a decent job at identifying the muscles here. Looking at them now a few of them are definitely a bit off but the activity itself did help me learn (i think). If anyone sees anything glaringly wrong or weird please let me know

2 - Drawing the muscles on top of skeletons

I enjoyed this part of the assignment the most. I tried to do this exercise at lots of different angles. I think I definitely should have got references in more varied poses but struggled to find good ones and gave up quite quickly and just used what I had.

Another thing is that I did add "shading" to these but it was thrown on quite haphazardly without lots of thought as when I had reached that point I was wanting to move onto the next pose or angle.

I don't have exact dates for these but they were drawn between 10/01/25 - 22/01/25

One of the main things I noticed when working through these was that I needed to work on my line work and primarily needed to work on my understanding on shapes in 3D space. Definitely looking forward to going back and trying some more of the perspective assignments again. Thinking I will also try draw some simple objects from reference, then - using that same reference - try to draw them from another angle.

Also I definitely need to do some more studying on the serratus anterior/obliques as I still found them the most difficult throughout the assignment.

Most of these I did with some sort of reference like Marc's 3D Male Anatomy Reference and my lecture notes and some I didnt look too much. When I come back to this I will try to do more with no reference at all.

Not sure if anyone reads all my large paragraphs full of rambling but I feel that it helps me to critique myself and learn when I look back at what I did whilst putting my thoughts down here. Anyway, any critique and feedback is greatly appreciated as I'm always looking to learn as much as I can. On to the next lecture