Nosnibor - Art School Journey

gregorya 2026-04-13 21:53:20 UTC #181

Nice work with the color harmonies. These colors look pretty complex.

Your environment studies look pretty good. The simple coloring works pretty well. The cube box is pretty interesting.

The muscle studies look pretty good. It looks like the side muscle is a challenge for you. You may have to work on that. Which part of the muscle is confusing to you? There might be some other references available.

You can slowly get back into the swing of things. No need to rush.

Nosnibor 2026-04-28 23:44:59 UTC #182

Yeah I really liked that piece, came across it on pinterest. Something captivating about it, hope that one day I can create pieces that evoke the same feeling.

Youre definitely right here. I think I understand them a bit more after doing my muscle over skeleton studies (which I will post shortly). But I defintiely find the Iliotibial tract difficult and basically and the side muscles in the Lower lateral and anteriror compartment. I am hoping they will just become more familiar over time as I study more lol.

Yeah this is good advice thank you. I think my break has helped a decent bit as I now feel that I am back with a good amount of motivation and discipline again : )

Nosnibor 2026-04-28 23:45:44 UTC #183

Term 4 - Block 5

Feels good to be back to drawing a lot more like I used too before I moved house etc. With this block I have finally finished Term 4 and I am looking forward to Term 5 : )

Here are the exercises/studies I completed this block:

I realised I forgot to post the hands I drew when drawing along to the Anatomy 3 - Upper lecture so here is the first hand I've drawn for this course with way too skinny fingers and some other 'notes':

Nosnibor 2026-04-28 23:46:27 UTC #184

Anatomy 3 assignment 1 - Draw the lower body muscles directly onto skeleton photos

The task was to do just the lower body but I thought I would do the entire body for all of these to help reinforce what I had learned so far. I found the perspective was very tricky on some of these and I found the forearm muscle attachments quite difficult. Leg muscles were just generally difficult especially the jower lateral and anteriror compartments but I think I can notice a general improvement from my first sheet to my last sheet : )

Nosnibor 2026-04-28 23:49:30 UTC #185

Study (copy) 20 feet from photo references (lineart only)

Here are my draw along notes from the Anatomy 3 - Lower lecture feet segment

And here are my feet studies, some are much better than others. I found the feet 'front on' much easier to draw than the side perspectives:

Big Sheet

Individual Sheets

Here are all the individual sheets. You can see the reference I used and the small drawings underneath each study is my construction. (Made them small and moved them down next to the reference when I was done.

Nosnibor 2026-04-28 23:54:31 UTC #186

Study (copy) the full body anatomy of 10 characters from professional artists/shows/games you like

As before I like to do a bit extra when I get this assignment. The page is split into 3 sections:

Section 1. Reference
Section 2. My study of the reference
Section 3. My attempt at applying the style of the reference onto a different
figure (Reference image included in a corner somewhere)

The smaller drawings at the bottom of each page is the construction I did for each drawing. I just shrunk them down as I think its nice to be able to see how I constructed each one.

Generally I am quite happy with all of these. Can't imagine myself being able to do any of this at the start of the course so I think I must be improving? Proportions are a bit off here and there, had an issue with a few of them where I made the torso and a few arms too wide.

I definitely enjoy doing section 3 the most.

I picked the same artist for most of these studies as I really like their style and the way they draw anatomy : )

Side note: I nearly lost all these studies as my clip studio file got corrupted. Luckily it was backed up somewhere. I realised it happens every time I put my pc to sleep with clip studio paint still open. So if youre going to put your pc to sleep make sure clip studio paint is fully shut down. Thought I would just mention it incase any of you are clip studio users.

gregorya 2026-04-29 16:52:44 UTC #187

The muscle studies look pretty good so far. You have some pretty good knowledge of the muscles. Muscle perspective looks pretty challenging though.

The foot studies look pretty good.
The full body anatomy is pretty interesting. Reinforcing the style with a reference study sounds like a good idea.
Ryan Otly's style looks pretty good to study from Invincible.

bach2017 2026-04-29 20:25:44 UTC #188

Your work is amazing! I’ve had a quick look at this thread, but I can tell you’re a dedicated, methodical and hard-working person – am I right? I’ll be following your progress closely

Nosnibor 2026-04-29 22:58:04 UTC #189

Thank you for the kind words : )

Its the most fun part of the exercise in my opinion. I would definitely recommend people to give it a try : )

Nosnibor 2026-04-29 23:08:47 UTC #190

You're too nice, thank you. It's always motivating to have someone come by and say things like this : )

Maybe just when it comes to art study, not so sure about the other aspects of my life haha. I would say I am more structured than anything else. I like to have a plan laid out in front of me that I can follow, so that all I have to do is show up and do the work, and hopefully results will follow. Although I think the most important thing is enjoying the process instead of the result and I am probably in the minority where I actually quite enjoy grinding out dull art exercises.

But if youre interested, all I am doing is following the Weekly Study Companion Guide pdf. I have broken each week down into blocks so I have to complete each block before moving on to the next and where an assignment says "Daily" e.g. Daily Nude Figure Drawing assignment 5. I take that as having to complete the Nude Figure Drawing assignment 7 times. Because for some of the weeks in the guide there are like 6 Daily assignment tasks and I dont have time for that so whilst it may take me longer I still get them all done eventually. This is just what works for me though : )

I will do my best : )

juromaru 2026-05-02 16:29:52 UTC #191

I am so impressed by your dedication and how easily you manage really difficult areas.

JimSt 2026-05-04 13:12:20 UTC #192

Solid work to finish up Term 4 with!
Your feet studies are perfect.
I noticed that you tend to thicken up thighs & booties and was curious if you were aware of that. Nothing wrong with thick booties, but it could make some of the characters read "denser" when the character might read more lithe in other places.
Again, killin it! Looking forward to see your work with animals!

Nosnibor 2026-05-09 19:23:35 UTC #193

Thanks : ) I am glad it looks like I manage it easily but it definitely does not feel that way when I am doing it haha

Nosnibor 2026-05-09 19:25:53 UTC #194

Very high praise lol, not sure about perfect but thanks : )

I was not aware of this, thank you for pointing it out, i dont think it is intentional. I will try keep it in mind in my future drawings so that I dont make everyone extra thicc.

Definitely a bit nervous about this but looking forward to it too

Nosnibor 2026-05-09 19:27:08 UTC #195

Term 5 - Block 1

Here are the exercises/studies I completed this block:

The character design lecture was very long but I recently started watching them on 2x speed which makes them easier to get through imo.

I have been using PureRef as my reference board for this block and this is what it looks like at the moment. I probably will have to swap to something else over time as this file will get way too big if I keep adding images into it.

All I did was just scroll ArtStation, Pinterest. I also found some on these sites for references which are decent:

https://same.energy/
https://dribbble.com/
https://www.cosmos.so/
https://www.designspiration.com/

Nosnibor 2026-05-09 19:32:45 UTC #196

Character Design assignments 2 & 3

Initially when watching the Character design lecture I thought the hero shape sounded silly and not very helpful but now that I have done it I can see why it can help with character design.

This is the first task I have done in this course which gives a little more freeform as opposed to something just like "Draw a page of cylinders" so I definitely found this more difficult.

In the lecture Marc talks about picking a theme for your character which I did not really do when making my hero shape so I really struggled when creating it. I just looked at some references I found interesting and slapped some shapes together if I am being honest.

Silhouette sheets

You can see the hero shape I made at the top of each page of silhouettes. I still did not have a concrete Idea of what kind of character I wanted to do for this assigment, and I still did not have a theme or story really. In my head I was just thinking of a priestess/cultist type character who is a part of some kind of organisation that is obsessed with artifacts. Anything deeper than that, I can't give you as I don't know. Creating stories and stuff like that is very out of my comfort zone to be honest.

On a side note - if anyone knows what brush Marc used in the Character design video to do his silhouttes please let me know : ) Seems like a fun brush to use for this task but I just used a hard round brush with no opacity.

I was surprised that I actually quite enjoyed making silhouttes even though I felt like I had no idea what i was doing. When I do this next I will be sure to have a more detailed theme etc before I start the process.

Character design

I picked one of the silhouttes I did on my last page. I definitely could have spent a lot more time on this but I wanted to move on with the course. I feel like my rendering is very weak, I cant remember if there is more content later in the course to do with rendering/shading but looking forward to it if there is.

This was the first time I have ever tried rendering with a lasso tool with a soft brush. I am not happy with the colour palette i went with as it feels dull. Next time I will think more about colour harmonies.

I really struggled with gradient maps in clip studio. I think this is because my value control in grayscale shading was inconsistent and i think my values tend to be "squished" avoiding darker shades of grey.

Anyway, I think I am sounding overly negative here. For my first character design ever, I am fairly happy with it. I have a lot to learn from it.

Character design Process

Here is my process for the character design:

This is the video I followed for the grayscale shading:

HOW TO SHADE YOUR DRAWINGS - Tutorial

JimSt 2026-05-11 03:45:10 UTC #197

Looks like you had fun! Even though you said you didn't really have any concepts, you still managed to create a bunch of intriguing possibilities. The one you developed has a bunch of hooks, which is potent worldbuilding sauce.
The biggest thing you could probably do is push your range of values further, but you are aware of that. How are you picking your colors? I use Adobe's palette tools and that seems to help me.

juromaru 2026-05-14 18:06:51 UTC #198

I feel like a broken record at this point, but I’m always really looking forward to checking out your progress. There’s something deeply satisfying about seeing your continuous, structured workflow.

Thank you as well for sharing your thoughts - I found it really interesting to read that you struggle with coming up with stories, especially since your portfolio will probably involve a lot of storytelling elements. I’m really curious to see how you’ll tackle that “issue” moving forward.

Personally, I liked the silhouette all the way on the right from the first sheet the most, mainly because the weapons looked really cool. But overall, the variety across the designs was great and felt very versatile.Color-wise, I think it really depends on what kind of person your priestess/cultist is supposed to be. To me, she gives off this “I seem suspicious, but act friendly” kind of vibe, so I probably would have gone with a more desaturated color palette.

Please keep going on this art journey, it’s genuinely a pleasure to follow along.

gregorya 2026-05-18 16:53:20 UTC #199

These character designs look pretty interesting. Now I would like to know your character's backstory from her design.

Nosnibor 2026-06-03 17:22:19 UTC #200

Thank you : )

i find picking colours a struggle to be honest. I do use adobes palette tools too and try find a harmony I like but feel like it always ends up a bit too muddy or way too saturated when picking a palette. Any advice appreciated : )