Reaching - Art School Journey

info430 2022-09-28 17:11:43 UTC #8

Couldn't get much done within the week so far, but I tried to draw at least half an hour a day.
I practiced gesture drawing a lot and today I tried to draw Gimli from lord of the rings.

Monday gesture drawing

Tuesday

And todays work

And here are some whole body practices without measurement, just by eye,. Tried a thicker brush too, just out of curiosity.

Lockenheim 2022-09-30 13:46:29 UTC #9

Nice practice sets! Keep up the good work!

info430 2022-09-30 20:18:53 UTC #10

Thanks Joshua

Here's some practice from today. Apple Pencil is empty, so here's what I have for the moment.
I wanted to try some faces, completely freehand without any guidelines, just eyeballing from reference.
Ok, they are a bit off, but hey, I did some faces

Gordon003 2022-10-02 11:24:51 UTC #11

Allo.

Love that you tried to tackle advanced topics from other terms (shading for example). I'm particularly impressed with your Gimli drawing. Keep it up with your face study. They may look off but at least you know where to tackle and have enough confidence to do it (I'm still doing the nose lmao)

Gesture-wise, I think you only focus on the contour body which i can see as the gesture lines doesn't flow/connect with each other to give us a solid idea/understanding. When I meant flow, I mean trying to represent the body movement with as few lines as possible without worrying about the anatomy and shape.

A good start could be watching Proko on gesture drawing basic. Remember, you are not worrying about the shape/accuracy; you are worry about getting the essence/idea of the pose in gesture drawing.

Keep it up and hope you continue your impressive facial practice.

info430 2022-10-02 12:20:15 UTC #12

Hey Gordon. Thanks a lot for your comment.

when I fail at gestures, I have to draw something else to not get disappointed, so I started to do faces and that seems a lot easier for me somehow. so yeah, will work on them as well.

For the gestures, I know I have to work on that. I tend to focus on the contours and try to copy what I see in the minimal amount of time I have ,1minute or 30seconds per picture, and I know that's not the right way. that lack of time is making me unconfident and I start to rush and things get worse.. I think I don't have this general understanding of the human body (yet) to get the right lines and flow.
So, yeah, will work on that. I know proko, have subscribed to his channel and I will check his videos out. Thanks for the tip.

Lockenheim 2022-10-02 12:58:49 UTC #13

When I first started I was the same way in terms of time, I was so new I couldn't get anything down in that time frame, Marc told me to increase my time and it helped a lot for gesture, then as you get more familiar you can go back down! Did you join the feedback group?

info430 2022-10-02 13:33:14 UTC #14

@Lockenheim
unfortunately not, I did only purchase term 1 by now. At first i wasn't sure about this art school thing, so I thought ill give it a try with term 1 and if it feels right I will purchase the whole thing, though not the feedback version.

Ok, so more gesture drawing practice and more time for it until I get the basics right?

I did some more gestures after watching some videos from proko, gesture drawing basics.
I think, these ones are a bit better. Still lacking any elegance though,

Lockenheim 2022-10-02 18:35:51 UTC #15

Yep yep I would def increase time then back down when you are more comfortable! Doing well keep it up!

Gordon003 2022-10-02 20:59:16 UTC #16

Looks much better, in particular the line stroke. I can still detect still contour drawing but nevertheless great improvement. If need help of finding the flow, have a look at FORCE.

info430 2022-10-04 10:57:03 UTC #17

These Videos are great. Thanks Gordon. This will help me a lot.

Here's some more face study to warmup. All freehand.
Next will be the 1 vanishing point perspective assignment, and some more gestures.

And another one. This one took way too long..

info430 2022-10-06 10:09:18 UTC #18

Ok, time for some perspective drawings.

I started simple with some basic blocky shapes.

And here's my first ever 2 point perspective drawing. Pretty simple, but it was a good exercise to learn this. Im pretty bad at perspective, lol.

info430 2022-10-07 20:05:27 UTC #19

Hey.

Today I did some more gestures. Im pretty happy with most of them. Lines are more fluid than before and no more sharp edges and straight lines. Im getting better at this I think, but they are still nothing more than voluminized stick figures. Still a long way to go..

info430 2022-10-09 17:53:43 UTC #20

Hey,

Today I drew some eyes from reference. Around 10 to 20 minutes per eye

prinzmoana 2022-10-14 00:22:36 UTC #21

I really like the textures you used. Especially the last one turned out amazing 🔥

info430 2022-10-15 13:12:51 UTC #22

Hey, thanks man! That means a lot.

Today I tried to render a shiny steel ball. Im pretty happy with it. I tried a few more but none got even close to this. Reflections and realistic surfaces are really hard.

Apple anyone ?

info430 2022-10-15 17:40:50 UTC #23

Im in the mood today and have plenty of time to draw.
So I tried something really hard. A glass of water. Im surprised how good this came out. I used the liquify tool in procreate to get the water and lens effect. I tried my best to copy the original reference on the right. Here's the result.

alexander.engel84 2022-10-16 10:29:33 UTC #24

That Glass of Water looks great.

prinzmoana 2022-10-17 14:16:39 UTC #25

My goodness 😳 I find sooo hard to draw water xD This looks amazing, seems like you have a talent for texture and material ^.^

CYP2C19 2022-10-17 20:22:16 UTC #26

These are all really good!, Honestly made my heart jump a bit with the apple, i barely noticed which one you drew, phenomenal work!.

info430 2022-10-18 13:27:53 UTC #27

Hey, thank you all @prinzmoana @alexander.engel84 @CYP2C19 . That really made my day

Didnt think that this drawing would get so much attention. That was the first time ever I painted water, so I thought "yeah, its pretty okish for the first try" I already see tons of mistakes I made and will do better in the future. The same goes for the apple picture. Thats pretty much my first "realistic" attempt on drawing an apple. It seems that im pretty good at copying what I see. I will definitely try to improve that skill as good as it gets.
Im unfortunately limited on term1 at the moment, but maybe I can afford the rest of the art school next month. it's totally worth it but still an expensive price tag just for hobby use

Hope you all have a nice day,