Patricia - Art School Journey

daceronine 2024-02-15 01:07:37 UTC #681

Gotcha, makes sense. If I learned anything so far, is that lore and story is part of almost any art medium. I think Marc said it at some point, and I think there's even a Term that talks about it? So it's only natural to have some story telling go along with art, since it's a way of communication.

Comic creation can be tough, but I also find it very rewarding. Looking forward to seeing some more works!

Cool gestures btw. Interesting way of doing it, seems you try to capture the overall form more so than the extremeties action lines.

gregorya 2024-02-15 16:42:50 UTC #682

Those inspirations are pretty interesting. It's best to write it down or sketch it.
Your warden designs are pretty good.
I never heard of Line of Action. I found a website called Sketch Daily from someone at the Cube Brush forums.
How long are the second gesture drawings?

patrycja.lerch 2024-02-16 15:25:23 UTC #683

Thank you @daceronine! Storytelling is pretty important in art and it is art itself written, visual or any other way. And if you want to communicate through your art it is even more important. Yes Marc also has a class on it.

Art in general can be tough but is is satisfying and rewarding

Thank you @gregorya! Everything written down and sketched
Thank you for reminding me of another website; I should note everything

I made action lines gestures as a warm up but it got a bit rusty. I had some as undersketches but I can't quite translate the flow from it to figure drawing

The second set I did without measuring. Time just makes it harder for me. I would say around 5 minutes each, ones on the right 3 minutes and sitting lady 15

gregorya 2024-02-16 16:34:51 UTC #684

Usually, as you refine a sketch, the flow loses its energy.
There's another website called Quick Poses for gesture drawings as well.
The second drawing took 5 minutes each. impressive.

patrycja.lerch 2024-02-19 18:00:29 UTC #685

https://www.adorkastock.com/sketch/ here is another site for gestures because it gets boring if you keep drawing the same thing over and over

Some may have taken a bit more + time for quick shading. It depends heavily on state of mind and I had clear head that time so it went pretty smoothly

Another set; I was not at my best today and took it easy.

If I have a bad day I will usually sketch animals. I don't know why but it always helps
Seals are weird unidentified mass

Used some of these for characters sketches. it is pretty fun I will try to do it more often as design excercise

Have a good day!

alix28 2024-02-19 19:14:12 UTC #686

Your gesture studies are so amazing! They all look so clean and intentional, I feel like when I do timed gesture studies I panic and lines just end up everywhere haha. You seem very confident with the line of action, and your gestures all look very natural. And I love your character designs!

daceronine 2024-02-20 01:56:42 UTC #687

Nice excercices! Interesting take on the humanizing the animals. Reminds me of Ghibili for some reason.

snakker 2024-02-20 03:02:19 UTC #688

So many cool studies! I absolutely love the use of hook like curves you used on your animal studies canvas. The way the curves interact on the cat face on the top right, the way they balance and play out up the the top of the big bird on the bottom etc. I think you're on to some great shape language/use of line in your art

Comics stuff is very cool, I'd love to see lore stuff

cheers!

patrycja.lerch 2024-02-20 18:17:57 UTC #689

Thank you very much @alix28 @daceronine and @snakker!

It is like that I rarely did timed gestures because of that. I stopped worrying about time and it goes better. And learned that it dooes not need to look pretty

Started working on the last card. I wanted to do it later but I cannot focus when I have something unfinished
He (no name yet) is a mage and represents moon. At first he holded a book but he is more of a sorcerer. He was born in family of powerful wizards with a talent for magic. I gave him a staff only because the previous ones hold swords. Flame kind of looks like phoenix I think I will use it. Fire would usually go with sun but I just feel this one bringing warmth wherever he goes.

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Have a good day!

daceronine 2024-02-20 19:00:59 UTC #690

Nice sketch! love the colors. Very wizzardy with the purple, orange and blues.

I couldn't help see a happy face on the phoenix creature. looks kinda cute.

gregorya 2024-02-20 23:00:17 UTC #691

Good to know another site for gesture drawings.
The gesture drawings look good. That's a pretty good idea of creating characters based on animals.
Nice work on the sketch. The pose and colors look pretty good.

patrycja.lerch 2024-02-23 20:08:08 UTC #692

Thank you @daceronine! It is indeed a very happy creature
Thank you @gregorya!

It was another smooth painting. I blinked and it was done. Apart from the hand that completely broke me. Need some hand studies... probably rendering hands rather than just sketching.

Decided to give him a sword. Staves just didn't feel right. Just copied Nathaniel's sword and altered it slightly. Phoenix was standing out too much so I put some purple in it. Compared to other companions his outfit felt a bit empty not being an armor. But bird makes it more interesting so it is fine. Made the cape so it looks as if it was mirrored to Nate Also tried to make his face look different to show that he is from different place. Alioth and Nathaniel came out pretty similar on accident

As usually will leave it to dry before I call it done. Maybe will come up with a name for him

Changed few things about Alioth. It was bothering me since the 2nd card. I didn't have idea how to aproach cape when I started it. Now it looks like the other two. Changed sun in the back but I am not sure about it yet. And copied frame so it is the same size and in the same place as the other ones

And my pretty bois lined up
I flipped the order because I like that they are facing each other instead of looking away. Alioth and Nathaniel capes merge in one part. If I thought about it sooner I would make it merging together but now I would have to change too many things

Have a beautiful day!

mitsuki-youko 2024-02-24 01:34:39 UTC #693

yooo these look SO epic all lined up!!!

alix28 2024-02-24 03:59:42 UTC #694

These are sick! Your style is way cool!

daceronine 2024-02-24 05:11:52 UTC #695

These all look great!! I do like this new sun in the back, it has a "Saint" aura to it. The mage turned out great too. The moon in particular has a very soft shine to it. Is the phoenix a familiar or a creature he has? and have you thought of the mage's name?

His nose seems to be a little lower compared to the other too though.

Seeing the three lined up makes it feel like there's an unspoken lore behind them. They're all really nice pieces.

Pattu_w 2024-02-24 22:37:54 UTC #696

All of those have such a cool vibe to them! Great work!

patrycja.lerch 2024-02-25 19:59:18 UTC #697

Thank you very much @mitsuki-youko, @alix28, @daceronine and @Pattu_w!

I am not sure yet. Normally she will accompany him in a smol bird form and in fights she will get bigger. Her name is Lariel or just Lari. Inspired by Al'ar from wow.
He does not want to reveal his name for now. Will find something

gregorya 2024-02-26 23:02:37 UTC #698

Nice work on the tarot cards. The colors work so well.
If you want, you can work on the cape on the left to merge with the others.

patrycja.lerch 2024-02-28 18:23:17 UTC #699

Thank you @gregorya!

Mage name troubles me... everything I come up with just means 'evil' and he is not. Or is he? Some ideas Nadeem (friend) it is too close to Nazeem and I don't want that. Cael, Calore. The one I liked most was Malure i just merged random words from LoTR but it translates to evil... or a french for a small pretty bird. So for now he is Malure al'Qamar (moon) and it probably will stay like that

Working on designs I have lots of fun with it. Characters seem to evolve from the initial ideas and become something more

That's the warden from before. She is more of a barbarian. Name is Ayris. It doesn't have any deeper meaning or anything it just poped when I saw her.

That's Fenn or Fennec. He wasn't planned. He was just a background character but I decided to give him a face. And he became too cute
Youngest from the cast. Ayris watches over him and helps with training. He is a scout. Innocent, curious kid who spends lots of time in the woods (lets ignore the fact that everything is in the woods) He is an archer and has a spirit fox companion. He was a bit shy but gets more energy as I draw him.

From design side I want to make him fox shaped. Hair shape resembling fox head and the black boots and gloves like fox legs. I want to keep the young boy appearance so I put this big t-shirt like thing over armor. He also has glowing fox ears and tail while using magic because why not. More characters have spirit animals or creatures. Ayris probably will get a big cat.

Have a good day!

daceronine 2024-02-28 20:16:59 UTC #700

heh, love all of it. The names work well, and what you said is how it usually goes, sometimes you think hard about something that fits, sometimes they just pop and stick. I think that as long as they are easy to remember and clearly distinct from each other (and lore friendly), that works. For example, it can get confusing if a character was named Arthas and another one Arthar. Which I guess would be fine if they are twins and there's a joke in there, but otherwise it can be hard for the viewer to follow.

I really like Ayris design. Personally I like the lower right one the best.

Interesting concept for Fenn with the glow elements. I can see that evolving into much more, like extended limbs, taking the form of different fox type legends (nine tails? xD) or so on.