Patricia - Art School Journey

[alejorey.1995]

It's a good decision to start over if the piece doesn't work, it happens to me a lot

For the face study, it looks good, maybe the rendering value transitions are still a bit hard, maybe with a softer brush with the color picking method. In addition, I feel that from the reference, some middle chick fat is missing on the right side.

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The body types are pretty good and I love the variety

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @gregorya!

Ahh thank you very much @daceronine!!! You just gave me an idea for illustration! I kept it that way to show the concept in simple view and I am not comfy with manipulating perspective yet, but it will be a nice opportunity to practice it. Your sketches look cool! I like that skull staff

Thank you @alejorey.1995! This was just a quickish no zooming in study with big brush so I don't spend to much time on one. But I could make transistions softer in some areas I missed that chick thank you

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Took a break from design today

Now I can't help it but draw dwarves... I automatically make legs shorter. Pinterest decided to show me ballet with duck and it took over the rest of my studies. Sometimes I wonder how this algorithm works

I made a habit of drawing more guidelines so it is a good thing and I am drawing volumes on everything small thing but helpful

And a sketch for Lohse fanart I will hopefully make. I don't know why but I can't finish any bard/music related character piece. So many unfinished ones...
I was arranging studies and this sketch layer was also picked and then I opened it and see it in pieces scaterred around whole layer... please look what layer you have picked when moving things. Or don't draw everything in one file like I do. It is saved at least and it is only a sketch but still it got me

Have a great day!

[patrycja.lerch]

Some studies from Taran Fiddler I messed up deltoids on first one

I would love to start making bigger pieces. Some epic high fantasy stuff. I got blessed with inspiration not for my characters of course. I am thinking whether to go with the flow and make them or to do composition class first. I used the basic knowledge I have but probably it would look better after this one

Some thumbnails for Lae'zel from Baldur's Gate. I just want to give her a dragon. Yes that weird things are dragons. I really like the one with wings in the back but I can only see Dragon Age cover. There is something calming in top right scene after battle just standing there with some dragons flying. I feel like I could use top left for a different character but I am not sure yet.

Some more sketches which look almost identical for Lohse. I want try an actual background, some mountains and grass If this won't work my beloved painterly mess is available

Have a good day!

[patrycja.lerch]

Cleaned up this one. I was fighting with color scheme a bit. I wanted to have background similar to her original art but those mountains just overheated my head. Tried some other colors palettes I like the one I included here but it doesn't click. I decided to use the one I know and I am comfortable with. Once I filled it with blue everything works

[daceronine]

You're right, the extended wings do remind me a lot of Dragon Age's cover.

I think doing pieces based on other IPs is perfectly fine, and if you find a good composition course, let us know. I think I could also improve on that xD (though getting time to refine on it is another problem. Never enough time)

I'm not familiar with Baldur's gate, had to look up Lohse. Piece is coming along nicely.

Interesting how you play around with values and colors before moving ahead. I usually wing it a bit on that... or try to look for a BG that fits the piece and work from there.

Is the Instrument supposed to be made of light? or are those just color tests?

[patrycja.lerch]

Interesting how you play around with values and colors before moving ahead.

It works well for me. I can see how piece will look like in advance. That's where you can make mistakes and explore

In game it looks like this when she plays. At first I thought of making a normal lute but I like it shining.

[patrycja.lerch]

Got new achievement - First commision scam! It sounded fake from the start and then offers huge amount of money. Nothing suspicious about it. I hate using social media. Most conversations are just scam, nft or other mess. I even got a job offer from AAA studio the other day. It is really sad because I just assume that any message I get will be like this and well it is like that...

Some progress I really like how vest and sleeve came out. I don't feel the face yet. I am constantly redrawing, resizing, changing angles just to go back to initial sketch. I don't have an idea for the lute yet

[mads.blinkilde]

Sounds stressful to have to be on guard for fake messages such as those - good that you noticed it was a scam.

I like how your painting is progressing. Her outfit looks cool, you rendered that nicely

[mitsuki-youko]

RIP sorry to hear that it was a scam but good on you for not falling for it!

[gregorya]

Nice work on the thumbnails for Baulder's Gate. I like the middle one on the right.
I've never heard of Taran Fiddler. I do like the monster designs.
I like the rendering of the female bard
Glad you saw through the scam.

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @mads.blinkilde, @mitsuki-youko and @gregorya!
You have to stay vigilant. it can be pretty tiring and disheartening to constantly watch out for scam. I feel like when I will reach the point when someone wants to pay for my art I will go for prints

Another Lohse progress. I don't know if it is finished yet. For a while I wasn't really adding much to it. I wanna try redoing face once more it looks better than earlier ones but I just don't feel it. Maybe think about the lute too I really don't have any idea how to approach it and it occupies a lot of space. Or maybe I should just leave it as it is and work on another one. I always struggle with calling work finished

So I wanted to add jewelry and stuff from her concept art. And there is quite a lot of it. I didn't want to spend too much time figuring this out and it wouldn't be even seen unzoomed. I tried doing it as WLOP does jewelry I think it looks nice I like how the floating things from the belt look

Later I gave shadow more purplish tone and it changed it a lot also added some yellow

And at last a tone of effects and bledning modes. I haven't done a lot of these fancy light lines and effect stuff so I was trying to imitate some from League splash art

Other than that I really like this piece. It was a nice change of pace to work on something warm and happier

Have a great day!

[mads.blinkilde]

It looks so warm and vibrant! Makes me recall good memories from playing through the game with my brother.

I don't think the lute is distracting, and it is a storytelling element - perhaps making it slightly translucent might work, if you want it to occupy less space

The additional effects really adds to the composition and atmosphere

[daceronine]

Sad hearing about scams, though yea, they're everywhere. Gota stay on your toes.

That piece is looking really nice! I particularly like the gold pieces and ethereal effects. You can also see how the face has more detail, wether that was on purpose (my guess is it was), that detail really draws you in into the face. Great colors as usual too.

For me, I'll usually call a piece done if I find myself staring at it too long wondering what else to change.

[mitsuki-youko]

this is looking great so far! love seeing the progress!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @mads.blinkilde!

It looks so warm and vibrant! Makes me recall good memories from playing through the game with my brother.

That's something I wanted to achieve with this one!

Ahh I wish I thought about making the lute translucent earlier. I would render stuff underneath it so it would be easier to make the lute this way.

Thank you @daceronine!

You can also see how the face has more detail, wether that was on purpose (my guess is it was), that detail really draws you in into the face.

Yes that was on purpose. I am finally past phase of zooming in and working on every detail. There is a clear focal point and it leads the viewer where to look.

For me, I'll usually call a piece done if I find myself staring at it too long wondering what else to change.

I sometimes have to drag myself by force from a piece. Yes it was probably done 2 sessions ago but I don't want to leave it. I will leave it for a while to 'dry' and see after few days if it needs something more

Thank you @mitsuki-youko!

[snakker]

I like it!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @snakker!

More sketches for Lae'zel. I really like the dragon behind her and found a way to make it look less like Dragon Age cover. It just looks really nice. I am only afraid that I will mess the dragon. I will explore it a bit more before moving on

And something that was supposed to be a quick study. Forgot about ref early because it looked like the next character I will be working on. His story is related to witch/shaman lady. I think I will experiment more with this sketch style it was fun to do

Have a good day!

[Sthingz]

Good work with your Lohse piece. I think it looks finished but if you want to add more detail, maybe considering going back to the guitar. Also, I love the creative spin you added to your latest portrait!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @Sthingz! Yes that lute was bothering me I worked a bit more on it

I can call it finished now. Unless I find an error again...

Changes - I noticed random unerased hair over head and had to fix it. Put texture on it. And some minor fixes here and there. Because of yellow overlays and other things her face turned unhealthy yellowish so I had to bring back red blush. Mouth had some weird light. And the lute. Added reds/pinks to make transition between purplish tones and some simple details. And made hair on the left fading into background

I thought about making her right hand less blended with lute but I kind of like it.

I don't think the changes are that visible except for lute. But it made me feel better. And I can focus on next thing

Previous version

Final version

[mitsuki-youko]

looks wonderful!