Patricia - Art School Journey

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh dat foreshortening is so fire!

looks amazing!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @daceronine!

Btw, I bumped into your FF7 piece in reddit looks great there as well. Left my own upvote.

Oh thank you

I feel like the hips/torso could use some adjustment... but to be honest I'm not sure what I would adjust.

I think it is because of the very bad shading I hope it looks better on render

Thank you @mitsuki-youko!

Some figure drawings for a change. I am trying to get cleaner lines. My sketches are usually messy because of my painterly approach and I tend to do lots of lines in one place while I think

That's the earlier sketch. it reads better and there is nice flow in the new one

Update before I get into fancy stuff. I struggled with face. I couldn't get it right but I can never get face right in a first try. I changed light and it looks better
Tried changing skin color at one point because I thought it was too green but it looked weird. I don't know why I am doing all these tiny details but it is relaxing.

have a good day!

[daceronine]

those are good exercices. My sketches are also fairly rough, but it's lineart where I try to put some extra attention and do more smooth lines. The end result usually works out so I think it's fine.

Shiva is coming along really great!

[phamster345]

The Lighting looks really solid and I think you did a great job on the figure work overall. Her face and hands are especially done well!

[mitsuki-youko]

I think the skin color looks great! and the face looks really nice!

Overall looks amazing! love the outstretched fingers and the contrast of the fingers to the bg! it reads so well!

the gold accessories look so good!! that is wlop lvl stuff!

[Pattu_w]

Soooo many great studies and pieces! good work on all of these!

[alejorey.1995]

Nice Figure Drawing exercises.
The painting looks amazing, I love the process of shading and the values.
If I had to say something is that I notice a detail that looked good, but it got lost in the last iteration and is the nodes from the mouth, It looked good but when you advance in the painting they disappeared.

...From marc course, advice

[gregorya]

I like the Shiva artwork. Her hand in the front looks good to me. The lighting and the pose are great. The figure drawings and the sketch look pretty good. What are the lights for?

[daceronine]

Dimond dust ultimate!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you very much @daceronine, @phamster345, @mitsuki-youko, @Pattu_w and @gregorya!

I am glad hands look good. It is often hard to them right.

If I had to say something is that I notice a detail that looked good, but it got lost in the last iteration and is the nodes from the mouth, It looked good but when you advance in the painting they disappeared.

I was trying different shadows and I haven't added it yet. But thank you! it can be overlooked

What are the lights for?

That's her magic and it works as a pretty nice lightsource

I started to think so I should call it done. Thinking always complicates everything. I also spent few hours just looking at it so it is finished

I cooled it down because she is ice based. And cold pink looks nice. Then all the details, fancy brushwork and effects. I liked the effects in original so I made the glow dark blue and added some blue reflections here and there because why not. I tried giving some warmth her face so we have more attention there opposed everything else being cold. But I don't know if it looks warmer or I am imagining it. Lights fade away as they are closer to face so light side of the face stands out on the darker background

I add some rough brushstrokes around, you can see it on the floating cloth, to add some realism to it. When we look at something the rest gets a bit blured. I keep the point of interest clean but make the rest a bit more rough.

I want to break down my process for you but I do most of it without really thinking

I really like how it looks in greyscale

Have a good day!

[daceronine]

Yo! this looks great!! That's some amazing lighting! probably one of your best works so far! (or at least one of my fav ones!)

I tried giving some warmth her face so we have more attention there opposed everything else being cold. But I don't know if it looks warmer or I am imagining it.

Looks like a bit of blushing, but in a good way. The light in the hand definetly calls the attention a lot more, but the face seems to be the second point.

I really like how it looks in greyscale

It looks really amazing like that.

[uggievang]

Oh wow I always love to see an artist progression Your rendering is very nice and that lighting is immaculate I also really love how you made all your lines focus to the face it flows very nice. If I where to critique one thing is her cloth gets a little lost with those brushstrokes I know its your intention to not draw focus to them but because they are in the very front of the image your eye does focus on them a bit before moving up. I think sharpening the closest cloth and defining some details would add to it then once you drawn it you could use a focus blur or something like that to blur it out kinda like a camera lens. Try it out and if you don't like it you can keep it as is.

[catsforsnacks]

This looks amazing! Your progress is impressive

[patrycja.lerch]

Yo! this looks great!! That's some amazing lighting! probably one of your best works so far! (or at least one of my fav ones!)

Ohh thank you very much!!

Looks like a bit of blushing, but in a good way. The light in the hand definetly calls the attention a lot more, but the face seems to be the second point.

Yes it is blushing but I also tried adjusting colors on face to be warmer but it turned out to be the same as the ones on legs and changing it more would be too much.

Thank you @catsforsnacks!

If I where to critique one thing is her cloth gets a little lost with those brushstrokes I know its your intention to not draw focus to them but because they are in the very front of the image your eye does focus on them a bit before moving up. I think sharpening the closest cloth and defining some details would add to it then once you drawn it you could use a focus blur or something like that to blur it out kinda like a camera lens. Try it out and if you don't like it you can keep it as is.

Thank you! I added some details but not too much. I think it does adds to it

[mitsuki-youko]

eyy lookin good so far! the darker part of the thumb is almost blending in with the dark parts of the hair imo but otherwise looks great!

[patrycja.lerch]

Thank you @mitsuki-youko! Fixed!

I tried animating some bouncing/flying balls. It was pretty fun to do but I can't see myself doing something more complex. Navigating layers is the biggest issue it's too much.

Studies

Portait for fun. I should do more simpler things from time to time. I push myself with each painting. I want every next piece to be better, to have something more. Again expecting too much

That's sun god. I finally painted him and I like how he came out. I could never get him how I wanted to. Something always seemed off. Maybe I will change some things in background or leave it as it is. I had a very nice effect but it only worked while it was unzoomed, slighty zoom and whole thing became white so I had to erase it.
And a sketch for moon to have them both. Yes I just flipped his sketch I wanted to put colors down. I wanted both to merge but I couldn't make it to work will see once I have other portrait done

And Comic. 'Short' side story keeps growing. I use Ayami Kojima work as inspiration. This story will have vampires and some vampire like creatures. Main comic has them too but doesn't focus as much

I am mostly doodling and gathering ideas, I want to make a nice portfolio with this

First guy is a very loud assassin. He carries lots of weapons and steals everything shiny in sight. Brings chaos
Other guy comes from an important noble house. Is a bit arrogant and wants to impress his father.
And Evangeline/Evie. She is a vampire mix of musketeer and wizard. She tries to appear powerful to avoid being hurt again. And hat gets bigger as I draw it but it gets the musketeer vibe and she has characteristic shape

Have a good day!

[mitsuki-youko]

Awesome work u got there!!!

I tried animating some bouncing/flying balls. It was pretty fun to do but I can't see myself doing something more complex. Navigating layers is the biggest issue it's too much.

Do you use CSP? (or Krita?) (or Photoshop? If you use photoshop I recommend you use Krita for animation as photoshop for animation is super limited)

If so did you know that you can have multiple layers within one animation group so that you can organize it more easily?

I can help make some demos for you as well if ur interested.

Just kind of lemmie k in more detail what ur having more trouble with

I'd love to see your ball bouncing animation!

What i'd recommend without context on any of the above is think in terms of layers - not as in raw direct layers but more like what object goes in front of what.

Characters go in front of the bg for example. say there's a car in the middle and one character is passing in front of it while another character passes the same car from BEHIND it and goes the other direction.

Your layer would be (from the back to the front):

BG - very bottom
Guy (lets call him Guy 1) passing BEHIND the car is 1 layer above the bg
The car is in the layer ABOVE Guy 1
Guy 2, passing in FRONT of the car, is one layer ABOVE the car.

Idk if that makes any sense.

Those will be your GROUPS. Within your groups you can have as layers as you need..

I think I have an example for you... will update this comment in a bit...

If you do compositing btw you'll probs need to figure out which layers you need to export separately so that you can better composite them but for now ill provide an example of just raw animation - no compositing...

@patrycja.lerch Here's what I have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHHxaONWtE

If that made no sense XD this is basically what im doing:

[daceronine]

Yo! nice works! Sun god looks really good! Your face details have improved significantly, and that earring has a very interesitng texture and color combo. As usual I really love that brushwork.

Doing a few simple works for fun is definetly a must, I kinda do that with my sketches to just try different things with no compromise. Helps keep creativity flowing.

I also love Ayami Kojima works, such gothic themes fit perfectly with Castlevania.

I'm really digging all the designs. Really looking forward to the comic product, seems like it's going to be very fun to go through.

As for animation, I still hope to also do a bit of it for fun, maybe some characters posing, dancing, nothing too drastic. Still, it takes a lot of time to do simple, stuff, so it'll have to be postponed for "whenever there's bandiwth", which is probably never.

[uggievang]

those are some fun character studies I feel like I need to do that because when it comes to character design I always suck at it haha

[gregorya]

Nice work on the studies. The character design sketches are pretty good. I like your Sun God picture.