Patricia - Art School Journey

[Pauline_art]

I like the variation in shapes and colors with the eyes! And these figure drawings have tons of personality!
The only thing that comes to mind is to deform the pupil according to the direction of the eye (the green eye in the 2nd row follows this principle), especially when eyes are turning to the side- just making them look more elliptical! Hope this helps!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you Pauline! I will observe some eyes to see how pupil behaves in different positions.

[gregorya]

These are great eye studies. I like character designs as well.

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @gregorya I am glad you like them!

I am a bit lost in time lately. I have exams in 2 weeks and I cannot focus on anything. I try to make 'clean' studies for portfolio and it drains my energy.

Hand studies - I tried to make little changes like elongating fingers and grouping them

Figure drawing - I picked A3 format for this and I don't know why I chose to do it with pencils. Well at least it is not messy as with charcoal. I think I made legs to long. Composition - it should be more to the right but I didn't want to erase everything the moment I realised it.

Have a nice day!

[gregorya]

These are pretty good so far. You may need to focus on the upper torso. Specifically the shoulders.

[patrycja.lerch]

thank you @gregorya! I forgot about trapezius and his left deltoid looks weird. Also his upper torso should be more curved

[patrycja.lerch]

Pencil sketch: I try to rely less on references so I just build a skeleton from a couple of photos and tried doing rest on my own. I checked ref only to see if I am doing it right. Her left arm and left leg look weird also hips. Apart from anatomy I think she should be blinking the other eye so it is where head is tilted

Note: I need to work on arms and feet

I watched some David Finch videos and I unndestand line weight a bit better I am still workinn on it. Also I turned off line stabilization and my lines looks much better and it feels easier to do as well

Don't have a good day, have a Great day!

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh i rly like how you color and shade

your anatomy looks pretty good but i think your hands are just a tiny bit on the smol side

[patrycja.lerch]

I am glad you like it @mitsuki-youko!
I see problem with hands I will try to make sure they are proper size next time

[Norma]

You may think about putting the thumbs on the back side of the bar for more leverage. The sexy blue lady will then not slip off of it so quickly and will be able to develop more strength.

[gregorya]

I see that in the third picture, her arms don't look even.
I like the poses on the second picture. But the hands are a bit too small. Good work so far. Keep it up.

[Gordon003]

Nice anatomical work. I notice that in your paper sketch, your character isn't balanced as she's putting quite a lot of attention on her left leg which is fully straight. The best way to check if she's balanced or not is to check the character centre of gravity which I did here.

Perhaps you want to move her right leg further away from the red line to give her a better balance. But still, great work you done!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you!

@Norma that makes sense. I haven't done many pull ups so I just ignored technical stuff. Now when I think about it I would do it this way. I will note that down for future

@gregorya I see size difference in arms. One arm was much bigger earlier and I thought they looked good. I am taking care of tiny hands

@Gordon003 I see it is lacking balance. I wanted to do this leg differently but didn't know how so I just put it this way. I will be more aware of balance now

[patrycja.lerch]

Figure study - it was a quicker one so i didn't want to spend whole time thinking about hands but I made sure they are not too small. I had problem with feet size I made them too big. I am not sure if right guy feet is still too big.

Painting I did for fun but I am not sure If it is finished. I wanted his face to be the only detailed thing and the rest to be just big brush strokes. I thought about making it like an oil painting but I think it got lost in the process. I played around colors and decided to go with purple for dark spirits. I think eye is more contrasted than in my previous piece (which I am still going to fix...)

Have a good day!

[Pauline_art]

I think the foot is in good territory, if anything I'd reduce it a bit just in case! I always measure feet by comparing them to the lower leg. Since his leg is in perspective it's kinda hard for me to make the comparison
Great studies! The hands are looking good in size and in expression! Also your choices in color are always on point, I really like the highlights and what you did with the background!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @Pauline_art! I am glad you like it! I will study legs and feet in perspective more,

Bruno Redondo Nightwing study I did.
I had to trace a bit around arms since I weren't sure what ends where. His right hand is still mistery to me. I messed his face a bit I struggle a lot with this angle. Nose is too big. I went too much my way with coloring it

[olashamala]

Really like your style of shadow work

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @olashamala!

[gregorya]

I like your night wing study. I also see that the torso is a little smaller on the right side.

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @gregorya torso is a bit smaller on that side and right arm is too big

I pushed myself out of comfort zone and tried combining poses into one hoping it will look 'natural'. 4/5 references each. I don't know why I kept avoiding this. Still I need to study
less muscular people as I keep adding muscles to every drawing

Note: need to study foreshortening, first sketch arm is wrong.

I also try to do more construction in early stages to prevent later problems. I wanted to recreate my shading I used to do with traditional sketches (toned paper + white pencil + ink/charcoal with water)

Have a good day!