PlayForWho's - Art School Journey

[playforwho89]

Hello!
My name is Adam I also go by PlayForWho.
I have started my journey with the Art school early February 2022. Im here becouse since I was small I dreamed of being able to make comic books. I have doodled on and off since childhood but never with an intent to improve my abillities. I tried self learning for a while but lack of struckture and inability to share my art with others kept my going in circles.
I hope that while in this program both my Art skills and my English will level up drasticly.

[playforwho89]

First lesson helped greatly with getting used to the software.

[playforwho89]

[c.johnny4531]

Welcome to Art School! These figure drawings are looking good

[playforwho89]

Even after two weeks of daily practice gesture drawing keeps being dificult.

Proportions asingment.

1 Point perspective felt really uninspired becous i basiclly redrew Marc's Example

So i tried my best with the 2 point perspective

Although drawing shapes in space is pretty comfortable shading complex parts still brings me a lot of difficulty

I tried the face from refrence but both the construction and shading volumes still neds a lot of work
To help the learning proces I kept drawing for fun and i can see some progress is being made

[Lockenheim]

Very nice job! Welcome to the forums! These are very well done. I look forward to seeing your progress!

[playforwho89]

Recently I practiced mainly portreits as well as 3 and 4 point perspective

But im afraid that was holding me back is not the lack of knowledge but the lack of ability. I need to practice pen controll and hand eye cordination and the damn cylinders in perspective.

[Lockenheim]

These are looking really good! I feel like I have seen this first portrait before. Is it a gwent card? I highly recommend doing the pen control exercise each day until you feel confident with your lines. I feel like it helps a lot. Keep up the good work!

[playforwho89]

Thank you very much both portraits are of the characters from the witcher so definitely are also cards in gwent. Although the second one maybe lesser known. Ill try repeating pen control exercise dayly, thanks for the advice

[playforwho89]

I tried tackling the 4 point perspective assignment but it came out looking all kinds of wrong, so i decided to start working on anatomy to help me improve in this kind of exercises.

[playforwho89]

I have spent last couple of days doing quick gestures and some construction practice. After going through the anatomy lesson I realized how much is still need to learn. I also atempted the cloathing folds asingment but i did not come out as intended, but colour theory is still ahead of me (:

I dont know if this is normal at this point but whenever i sit down to draw something my proportions are usually way of. I know that gestures should help with this but I'm not sure on what should i focus while gesture drawing to effectively improve.

[Lockenheim]

I still struggle with proportions at times. As you said I think gesture helps. I think the measuring exercise helps the most. Measuring helps train observation and when your observation is better the proportions come more easily for me anyway. Observing the different relationships between body parts and the negative space I find helpful.

[playforwho89]

Thanks for the feedback, i guess what i was trying to say is that gesture drawing feels mechanical to me. It's a thing to be done according to the formula. I'll try to spend some more time reviewing them when i finish and next time i sit down to study i'll try my hand at the mesuring exercises. Cheers

[playforwho89]

Yoooo I have spent the whole weekend practicing construction and trying to apply some anatomy to it. I stugle a fair bit with parts like forearms, calves or thighs becouse they are often rotated slightly from pose to pose.

However the cloathed figure drawing practice lead me to a realization, a beakthrough.

And i know it might sound barbaricly stupid but hear me out.
Spending MORE time an a drawing makes it look BETTER. I know i know genius man it is me. But using the drawing bellow as a examle. most of the time i would draw something like the left dress spend 10 mins on it decide that it looks bad and start over and even after spending whole day on it never acctually produce anythig. While if I instead spend an hour working continuosly i can acctually make something that looks halfdecent.
And i know that it sounds super obvious but it's bizarre that it did not occurred to me sooner.
Thank you for your attention and i hope that you'll have an awesome day.

[chonem]

Very nice drapery study!

Lol I'm glad you came to the realization that some things simply need more time. Though I do think that there are also some situations where just creating lots of drawings leads to faster improvement in the long run than spending lots of time rendering one single thing.

But in this case, that extra time spent payed off

[playforwho89]

Yooo!
Today i finished a painting of a dude in armour. It is an important milestone to me given the fact that drawing cool dudes in armour was one of my motivations to begin my art education. Bellow i include three of the four main stepps i followed t ocreate the finnal painting Line>Colur>Shading
(the missing step, constuction sketch was destroid do to the accident on my side)
as well as ofcourse the final piece.

The cloth elements as well as helmet came out less than ideal, i'll have to spend more time trying to improve my understanding fabric fold basics. If you have any criticism id love to hear it. I hope all of you had a wonderfull day.

[balagteyscottbradley]

seeing all your progress is such an amazing sight! a great inspiration!

[Lockenheim]

Nice job on this study! Great work!

[playforwho89]

@Lockenheim @balagteyscottbradley Thank you very much for the kind words.
I took a short breake and now tried making some quick (5min) gesture/ anatomy sketches, the idea behind this exercise was to allow my self enough time to add things like hands and feet. But the execution fell through, they came out really scratchy and the proportions are still off, but i guess this gives my something to work on. Hope you all had a wonderfull day and a lot of progress. Bye bye.

[balagteyscottbradley]

ayyeee for 5 minutes youve done really well!