Oksi - Art School Journey

ksermione 2022-11-04 15:53:39 UTC #1

Hello!
I'm Oksi, I've been drawing in bits most of my life, but never actually put enough effort into it to become good, or at least confident about it. I work as a software developer, secretly dreaming that one day i could incorporate something more creative into my work life.
I did start term one last year, but i didn't progress very far, and it has been on the back burner until now.
I'll start off with a picture of probably my most successful drawing, which still has many issues xD

And here are some of the things from term 1 I managed to do last year. (I'll revisit them again now)

ksermione 2022-11-04 16:17:10 UTC #2

Did the pen control assignment immediately. I struggle with circles quite a bit.

matthewwemes 2022-11-04 19:08:25 UTC #3

Welcome Oksi! Good work so far! and yeah the circles were surprisingly hard for me too. It's a good exercise to do over as a warm up though. looking forward to seeing your progress!

CYP2C19 2022-11-04 20:06:49 UTC #4

Welcome to the Forums Oksi!, If you find yourself struggling with circles in general then you could try the drawabox exercise for Ellipses and Circles. You can obviously tune it to whatever fits your need, but I'd recommend doing both Ellipses and Circles, You're going to really need Ellipses later on.
Best of luck onwards and I'm looking forward to seeing you progress!.

ksermione 2022-11-04 21:15:42 UTC #5

Body Proportions.
My first attempt was pretty horrible, so i looked up some anatomy body references, to understand the lines better. This seemed to help tremendously, but of course, i need to practice this quite a bit more.
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ksermione 2022-11-04 21:16:21 UTC #6

Thanks so much for the tip! <3

ksermione 2022-11-09 20:19:02 UTC #7

Here are some drawings of full figures from reference, in 3 stages: skeleton, sketch and linework. Interestingly, I found the last one, the almost straight standing figure the hardest to get right. I suppose more practice with proportions is required.

ksermione 2022-11-09 20:54:18 UTC #8

And some gesture drawings, 30 seconds and 1 minute.

Lockenheim 2022-11-11 15:06:51 UTC #9

Hi Oksi! Welcome to the forums! I really like your practice so far and look forward to seeing more!

ksermione 2022-11-13 21:40:15 UTC #10

Here are some 1/2/5/7/10/15 min drawings from a life drawing event. Quite happy with the last ones, but seeing clearly the insecurity of my lines in faster ones and proportions are where i struggle most.

snakker 2022-11-17 05:33:33 UTC #11

Hey there! Snakker here, local noob. just spotted your sketchbook and really liking your work, I like the traditional feel

cheers

ksermione 2022-11-18 10:30:20 UTC #12

Hey, thanks so much!

ksermione 2022-11-18 10:38:29 UTC #13

I've been doing quite a lot of figure drawings based on reference and I finally get some confidence to try some easier poses without any reference at all, and i must say, i'm quite happy with the results.
For the middle pose, i did get up and use the mirror to make sure i was getting the feet correctly, as in the orientation of the knees and feet.

snakker 2022-11-18 14:26:01 UTC #14

These are very nice, especially with no reference 👀

matthewwemes 2022-11-19 08:20:56 UTC #15

Those are very good for no references!

ksermione 2022-11-20 11:30:32 UTC #16

I used a reference of myself in a pose to sketch a character. I focused mostly on the figure, keeping clothes and shading simple to create a finished drawing. It's in no way perfect, I realised during how much knowledge I'm lacking about clothing and lighting. And I avoided drawing the face altogether by hiding it under the hood xD Looking forward to term 2 to fill those gaps!
Here is the initial figure construction, the sketch of the clothes and the final result, with the line work, shading and lighting.

ksermione 2022-11-20 14:11:25 UTC #17

And another character, same thing, reference pose, simple shading with one light source (my lighting is abismal so far but that's not a prio in this term :D)

matthewwemes 2022-11-21 10:04:18 UTC #18

Great work, especially the lighting and hair!

ksermione 2022-12-08 19:34:31 UTC #19

Before moving on to perspective assignments, I've put some character constructions in the same frame, trying to adjust the perspective of the references to work in the same piece. Quite happy with how it turned out, except for the girl on the far right - not sure what exactly is wrong with her pose but it feels off. It feels good to define a stopping point (lines for the body outline) and not try and work with color and lighting too much, that just takes too much time as I'm largely inexperienced with that.

ksermione 2022-12-08 19:36:48 UTC #20

And for the 1-point perspective, I've drawn a tavern room. I used a room design i found on google, not trying to invent anything, just put it in the perspective i wanted and added some details of my own. This proved harder than i initially thought.
In the end I added some simple colours to make the room feel real.