Nosnibor - Art School Journey

Nosnibor 2025-12-04 23:20:30 UTC #121

Anatomy 2 assignment 1: Draw muscles over ref

The torso anatomy I still struggle with the most is serratus anterior and rotator cuffs although I can feel myself understanding them more, the more studies I do.

Nosnibor 2025-12-04 23:24:51 UTC #122

Clothed Figure Drawing assignment 1: painting clothed ref

I am not overly happy with this one although I did spend very little time on it. I think one of my main issues with rendering is that I do get bored quickly and rush through it as I find myself getting lost a lot (especially on the front of the coat in this drawing) and not having a proper process that I like to follow.

If anyone has any good videos or guides on the rendering process that they like to use I would greatly appreciate it. So far I have only watched Marc's videos/lectures on it but would like to expand the resources I am looking at for this topic.

Nosnibor 2025-12-04 23:26:01 UTC #123

Draw or paint a character/creature bust

I probably only spent about 10 minutes on this sheet, next time I do this exercise I will give a go at rendering it properly

Nosnibor 2025-12-08 12:16:32 UTC #124

Term 3 - Block 4

These are the tasks I completed this block. Skipped out on the ZBrush assignment as I am not overly interested in completing the 3D tasks at the moment. I will possibly revist them in the future.

Nosnibor 2025-12-08 12:18:20 UTC #125

Anatomy 2 assignment 1: Draw muscles over ref

I am still struggling with the obliques and serratus but I think I am understanding them better now. I think the upcoming assignment - Drawing muscles over skeletons - will help a lot.

Nosnibor 2025-12-08 12:18:45 UTC #126

Draw a stylized barrel in perspective

juromaru 2025-12-11 11:07:34 UTC #127

Looks like I know who to ask if I ever have questions on anatomy!

gregorya 2025-12-11 17:32:52 UTC #128

The line art clothes studies look pretty good. The grayscale does help with the shading and clothing folds. The references, combined with the other figures, do look okay. One thing I can think of is adding more shading to the clothes.

Okay, I found this one. It might help.

And this one at the 3-minute mark could help. Both are from Pikat:

Another one that comes to mind is Draw Like A Sir:

Hello, you're doing pretty well with the primitive studies, especially with Mr Frog.
Your anatomy studies are pretty accurate.

Nosnibor 2025-12-15 12:54:27 UTC #129

Haha youre too kind, we will see how much info from the studies stays in my head. But I am always happy to try and help anyone wherever I can : )

Nosnibor 2025-12-15 12:58:51 UTC #130

Thanks! Yeah I've been binge watching smiling friends so it weasled its way into my studies.

Thank you for all the linked videos too : )

I have just watched them and I am especially keen to try the exercise from "How to draw any pose from any angle" where she looks at a pose and tries to draw it from another angle. I feel like I would learn a lot doing this. I will try it once I have done the anatomy studies/exercises for the arms, legs, hands and feet from Marcs course as so far I have only studies the torso.

I have just finished a batch of gesture drawings, so in my next batch I will try and implement some of the things from these videos and we will see how I get on : )

I definitely agree here, I have an issue where I get to a certain point and it feels like I dont actually know how to add more shading to the clothes which is why I stopped at those points.

Nosnibor 2025-12-15 12:59:26 UTC #131

Term 3 - Block 5

These are the tasks I completed this block. Skipped out on the ZBrush assignment again.

Nosnibor 2025-12-15 13:01:23 UTC #132

Clothed Figure Drawing assignment 2: Draw clothes over ref

I feel like the rendering on this batch is better than the last batch I did. I am still not overly happy with it but am happy with the progress I have made. I think going forward I need to stop and think more about the shape of each fold in 3D space before adding values to the drawing.

Nosnibor 2025-12-15 13:03:29 UTC #133

Draw 5 character heads from imagination in simple perspective (facing the camera, lineart only)

I did these all quite quickly. Proportions are all over the place, with very big features. I pushed shapes a bit here and there. At the moment when I draw from imagination, all the faces look very similar and look almost soulesss but that is fine for now : )

Task said to do them all facing the camera but thought I would try two looking off to the side.

Nosnibor 2025-12-15 13:06:05 UTC #134

Gesture drawing - 2 minutes

For the last 5 sheets here I used https://www.posemaniacs.com/ for reference. I quite liked using it. It is very useful seeing all the muscles clearly laid out. However the obvious downside is that the models are "posed" and not real people. So you can tell that the poses dont have real movement and momentum which makes it harder to draw fluidly. Moving forward I will probably use a combination of posemaniacs and real people for studies.

I am still constantly battling proportion by giving everyone tiny heads but I am getting better with it slowly : )

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JimSt 2025-12-17 22:24:30 UTC #135

Good progress on your clothing studies (love the Superman!) and figure drawings! Even if these are poses, they still have an energy that feel captured. I think the muscle positions in these studies will transfer to the life drawing ones too, so it's probably a great idea to mix it up! Kind of like optimal physical exercise, you gotta change it up for "muscle confusion."

gregorya 2025-12-18 23:43:11 UTC #136

I like the rendering of the clothes. The lighting and shading are getting better. The gesture drawings look good, too.

Nosnibor 2025-12-31 23:28:40 UTC #137

Thank you @JimSt and @gregorya for the kind words : ) I am looking forward to learning the muscles for the arms and legs as I feel it would help me improve a lot

Nosnibor 2025-12-31 23:28:50 UTC #138

Term 3 - Block 6

Had a few gaps of drawing in this block as I was away for Christmas for several days etc.

Here are the tasks I completed in this block:

Nosnibor 2025-12-31 23:30:04 UTC #139

Anatomy 2 assignment 2: Drawing muscles over skeletons

I enjoyed doing these studies, I mainly did them from memory. I think I initially was making the delts too small. The main think that I continue to find the most difficult is the serratus and the obliques although I think I am getting the hang of it over time.

Nosnibor 2025-12-31 23:30:29 UTC #140

Character in a standing pose

I am very unhappy with this, i even debated not posting it here but I post everything I do for the course. Although I know why this is bad, it feels flat in a lot of places and the folds in the clothes are not believable etc. To be honest I spent like 10 minutes on this with little to no construction as I was pretty worn down from doing the character painting study (next post) and wanted to move onto term 4.

Next time I do this task I will be sure to spend more time on it if i want a better result.