Nosnibor - Art School Journey

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 16:56:35 UTC #41

Nude figure drawing Assignment 5: 8-head proportion grid

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 16:56:49 UTC #42

Perspective 1 assignment 2: Practice drawing cubes and then simple sculpted shapes in 1 and 2 point perspectives - 1

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 16:58:33 UTC #43

Perspective 1 assignment 1 - Finding convergence lines

I am not a massive fan of this exercise as it feels like a waste of time but I did it anyway. If anyone could explain to me why the convergence lines dont always line up precisely that would help a lot. Is it because the structures I am drawing lines on have slightly different rotations?

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 16:58:43 UTC #44

Gesture Drawing - 2 minutes

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Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:01:07 UTC #45

Nude Figure Drawing assignment 7: Full figure using measuring tools

The first time I did this I spent very little time on it as I find the process of measuring stuff out very tedious and it takes me out of a "flow state" or takes the joy out of it for me - not sure how to explain it. Anyway, I think I can see a clear improvement through these five drawings below which is nice. However, I am still terrible at measuring as when I block something out i think I have nailed it and then when I overlay it on the original image I could not be father off, guess that is something that just improves with time?

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:01:19 UTC #46

Perspective 1 assignment 2: Practice drawing cubes and then simple sculpted shapes in 1 and 2 point perspectives - 2

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:01:27 UTC #47

Nude Figure Drawing assignment 4: Draw 5 skeletons with cylinders from imagination

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:04:58 UTC #48

Sinix Design studies

I took a bit of time out to study some videos by Sinix Design on youtube as the for the next assignment "Study (copy) characters from professional artists/shows/games" i wanted to do 5 studies of real people and realised I had no idea how to draw hair.

How to draw Hair

This is the video I watched:

Shape appeal

This is the video I watched:

Shape appeal

This is the video I watched:

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:10:01 UTC #49

Study (copy) characters from professional artists/shows/games you like (lineart only)

So I watched the video from Proko or Stephen Bauman on how they do their block ins, which was suggested to me by @snakker . This helped me a lot but I think but I still struggle to capture peoples likeness properly, looking forward to improving at this though.

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:10:13 UTC #50

Primitive drawings first exercise

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:10:22 UTC #51

Gesture drawing - 5 minutes

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Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:13:50 UTC #52

Study (copy) 3 environment drawings from professional artists/shows/games you like (lineart only)

So I am not sure if I picked references which were too detailed here but I found this very tedious. On the latter two I definitely gave up and just skipped a lot of details. I think trying to copy each part of the reference very precisely was quite dull. I could tell in my second study here that the lines on the roof were all in the wrong direction but I just wanted to be finished when I was doing it so I didn't care. On a more positive not I think these turned out alright overall though.

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:14:49 UTC #53

Perspective 1 assignment 3: 1 point perspective draw a room of your choice

After doing the 3 previous environment studies I really didnt want to do more perspective drawings so I picked the easiest room in my flat. Behold. My toilet:

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:15:03 UTC #54

Gesture drawing - 2 minutes

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Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:16:10 UTC #55

Perspective 1 assignment 4: using 2-point perspective, draw a street corner

I once again did not try very hard here and gave up halfway through, I don't know what it is about perspective studies but I find them super dull, I dont like having to measure everything out. If anyone has any advice about this I would appreciate the help.

Nosnibor 2025-04-27 17:17:52 UTC #56

Study (copy) 3 environment drawings from professional artists/shows/games you like (lineart only)

I am not happy with this shack study as it looks nothing like the reference and I kind of just slapped lines down randomly.

Ihalom 2025-05-06 18:49:27 UTC #57

Wow, such a ton of hard work, you did an amazing job here and well organized :).
I truly admire your resolve, especially for those pen control exercises as I often get bored with those pretty quickly :P.

The one and only thing I've noticed (and maybe this could be useful to you) is that your gestures often has way too small heads. I know those exercises are more about flow than proportions, but it's a good habit to make the measures as accurately as possible from the very beginning. Maybe it would help you to start from the torso instead and put the head a bit later, when you're more confident about its size. Starting from a bigger mass can help with adding proportions for everything else.

Nosnibor 2025-05-23 13:38:33 UTC #58

Thank you @Ihalom ! Yeah, I enjoy some of the pen exercises as they're easy to do with a video up in the background or something but the straight line one is especially dull.

I do struggle with keeping the head in proportion in gestures haha, I have been taking your advice on and trying some gesture drawings starting with the torso first and it helped with my proportions a lot, thanks : )

Nosnibor 2025-05-23 13:39:29 UTC #59

Term 2 - Revisited

Time for my rerun through Term 2 following the Study companion guide. Just like Term 1
I broke down the study guide below, so for each task that was listed as "Daily 'something' ", I listed that as doing the task 7 times - as doing it daily for a week is the same thing - and for the gesture drawing tasks I took one session as 30 minutes.

So below are all the tasks I will be doing for Term 2 "Revisited". Unlike when I redid term 1 though I will probably post the work as I complete each 'block' instead of posting the whole terms work at the end.

Term 2 (0/25):

Gesture drawing 2 mins - 30 mins (0/7)
Anatomy 1 assignments 1: Practice drawing volumes in perspective, then adding deformation and connections. For added difficulty, add overlapping of volumes + basic or interactive shading (0/7)
Anatomy 1 assignments 2: Practice drawing the main head sphere with its correct horizontal and vertical guidelines, then move on to drawing the full head volume without the facial features in different angles (0/7)
[Study (copy) 10 character head drawings in simple perspective (facing the camera) from professional artists/shows/games you like (lineart only) (0/10)

Gesture drawing 10 mins - 30 mins (0/7)
Anatomy 1 assignments 1: Practice drawing volumes in perspective, then adding deformation and connections. For added difficulty, add overlapping of volumes + basic or interactive shading (0/7)
Anatomy 1 assignments 2: Practice drawing the main head sphere with its correct horizontal and vertical guidelines, then move on to drawing the full head volume without the facial features in different angles (0/7)
Anatomy 1 assignments 3: Practice drawing the different facial features separately, seen from different angles (0/7)
Portrait study (from reference with good lighting, using shading) (0/1)
Draw 5 character heads from imagination in simple perspective (facing the camera, lineart only) (0/5)

Primitive drawings (first exercise) from 3 Life-changing Drawing Exercises (0/7)
Perspective 2 assignment 1: Using 3-point perspective, draw an imposing wall+gate or a bridge over a deep canyon. Try adding repeating elements at equal distance along with shading and colors for an added challenge. (0/1)
Anatomy 1 assignment 4: Practice drawing the full head with all facial features and introduce shading (draw the head from memory) (0/1)

Gesture drawing 5 mins - 30 mins (0/7)
Perspective 2 assignment 2: Practice drawing cylinders and boxes in 3 and 4-point perspective. Once you're done drawing a number of them on the same canvas for each perspective type, turn the simple geometric volumes into man-made structures of your choice (city block, sci-fi machine, space station, etc). (0/1)
Study (copy) 10 heads from photo references (lineart only) (0/10)

Gesture drawing 1 mins - 30 mins (0/7)
Hair practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMuhbF-ZJ0 (0/7)
Perspective 2 assignment 3: Using 4-point perspective, draw a character using correct proportions. Start with the naked body, then dress it up as a second step. add a simple background using the same perspective (0/1)
Portrait study (from reference with good lighting, using shading) (0/1)

Gesture drawing 1-5mins - 30 mins (0/7)
Primitive drawings (all 3 exercises) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUcYTAiCQyQ (0/7)
Draw or paint a self portrait (traditionally or digitally) using good lighting and a mirror (not a photo) (0/1)
Draw or paint a fantasy creature/monster portrait from imagination (but don’t hesitate to use various photo references to help if needed) (0/1)

Nosnibor 2025-05-23 13:43:35 UTC #60

Term 2 - Block 1

Gesture Drawing 2 minutes

So I followed @Ihalom 's advice above with these lot of gesture drawings and started with the torso first and added the head on later and it helped with my proportions. However for some reason it did throw me off a little and I found it a lot harder to capture the gesture - or that's how i felt at the time of doing these anyway. I was having a pretty bad time doing this batch but looking back I think they turned out okay, much better than when I first started gesture. I can still see a lot of way too small head around the place but I think I am getting there with proper proportions slowly : ) .