Pretzel's - Art School Journey

[snakker]

Real cool, I am yet to make my first animation

Cheers

[pretzel]

Hello everyone, Pretty busy week for me but I did some exercises.

Started trying 5 minute gesture drawings


I continued from last week with rotating a head.
I felt like I rushed with this one so I am not so happy about it. I think I could do better boxes since the heads dont fit. Although I was just experimenting I am not so happy with the result.
Also for one more time I saw how hard perceptive is. I couldn't keep the size of the boxes the same while rotating them. Need more practice on that area.

I tried it again but with a reference. No boxes this time just eyeballing it.

I will try and add facial features to the latest image tomorrow.

[pretzel]

Added the faces to the heads. The side view was a bit hard. Its an angle I haven't practiced much.

[snakker]

Yo! Couple of things that might help, on side view place the small circle or ellipse in the middle instead of all the way back (jaw is too long and ear is too far back) and in front view, do note you wouldn’t see the side circle as it’s just a construction that denotes the part of the skull that is flat or “cut” from the sphere

Cheers and keep up the good work!

[pretzel]

Thank you! this is really amazing feedback!
When drawing I get that something doesn't feel right but sometimes I cant figure it out so this really helps!

[pretzel]

Hello everyone! This week Marc updated the courses with schedules and I will try to follow them. I will probably not meet the deadlines but I will try my best. First I will try to do the exercises I missed from Term 1 and 2. and I will start from 3 after that.
I did some more gestures.


Also I started a full body one. Will add clothes later.

[snakker]

Good job on the pose, foreshortening can be hard
I would suggest only to enlarge her head and tone down the traps

Cheers

[pretzel]

Hello all! more gestures and added clothes on the girl with the gun

Finished sketch and line art. Also started with the shading.
@snakker Thank you once again for your help! Yes foreshortening is really hard. it took me 2-3 hours to get it to make it look okay.


Clothes are so hard to draw. There are so many details.

[pretzel]

I will probably leave it like this. I am kinda happy with the skirt but not so happy with the shirt.
Also the socks where even harder than I thought. I couldn't get them right and even now there still still not that good.

[pretzel]

Hello everyone!
I tried clip studio paint! I had bought it a while ago and I tried it this weekend. It seems really good will probably use it more in the future.
Continuing with more clothes exercises. I am having a bit of trouble with soft edges. They look a bit messy. I am trying to make them look a bit better but not sure how to.
Will do the rest of these. I feel like they have good complexity.

[pretzel]

More gestures and more clothing exercises!

[pretzel]

Hello everyone! for these I noticed some bad habits I had and tried to get rid of them. Basically I noticed that I was zooming in way too much and I was drawing with my wrist rather than my elbow/shoulder. I tried to remind myself be zoomed out for this. I also I tried to make it look a bit more "3D". although not extremely successful I think it is a bit better that my previous tries.

[pretzel]

I moved to the exercises of the second week.I re watched the lesson and tried adding some clothes on a model.

[pretzel]

Hey everyone! I got an iPad so I can draw away from my office.
I did a quick portrait to test out Procreate.

[snakker]

Hey congrats on the ipad! It’s a game changer
And nice job on the portrait

Cheers

[pretzel]

Thank you @snakker. Yes I am really exited for the iPad. I work an office job and my back was hurting many times while drawing. Now I can be more comfortable.
I watched a video about about lips and tried to replicate it.

[snakker]

Yo these lips are looking nice!

[pretzel]

Hello everyone! Made another simple portrait sketch and some gestures trying to get used to the iPad. I like it a lot so far.

[matthewwemes]

was that Sam Does Arts lip video? These look really good! (and also a lot like his style, why I was wondering, I was feeling too lazy to follow along when I watched his video, but now I want to re-watch it so I can!)

[pretzel]

Thank you @matthewwemes ! Yes that was Sam's video. His way of working is really simple so it was easy to follow. It helped me understand shading a bit more. Definitely check it out!