Rodrigo - Art School Journey

[daceronine]

Grats man! That's a great job so far. It's a really neat idea to put everything together like this, hadn't really thought about it. I might steal the idea and start doing it too xD It's a great way to review, recap, and remember what you did, along with thoughts about it.

I don't think you need to add the pen control exercices, since that's mostly a benefit for your dexterity and probably not much to look at other than lines. Though if you framed it in a way that it showed your improvement, maybe a before and after, that would be interesting to see. You've already gone above and beyond with the summary though.

Should be fun to watch how term 2 evolves! cheers!

[Rodo]

That's a great job so far. It's a really neat idea to put everything together like this, hadn't really thought about it. I might steal the idea and start doing it too xD It's a great way to review, recap, and remember what you did, along with thoughts about it.

Feel free man, it's anyone's idea

[Rodo]

WEEK 1
Day 1
Daily #1
Visual Comunication 2
I decided to start with a piece of my own making I did last year and try to find any points and lines, to say the least I found some.
I also wrote observations along side the exercise.

[Rodo]

Day 2
Daily #1
Visual Comunication 2
Now lets see how I went by locating points and lines on this one xD.

It's amazing how a simple light source can create such a focal point to the piece, incredible job from the artist.

Weekly Assignment
Weekly #1
Digital Production 2 (work in Progress)
Here I'll share my progress of how things are going with my assignment so far.

I still have to vectorize the little characters so I can create the smart object out of them.
P.S: Yes he's holding a broom xD, that's why is called Imperial Cleaners.

[daceronine]

Good work man. Understanding focal points is really key moving forward, seems you're getting a good grasp on it. It'll be fun to see those characters in their vector forms!

[Rodo]

Day 3
Daily #1
Visual Comunication 2
I don't know why but I just love doing this studies out of the League of Legends splash arts for various skins and characters.

This one in specific has a lot more dynamism in its lines and therefor were a lot more easier to find.

Weekly Assignments
Weekly #1
Digital Production 2
Hey guys........ It's Finished.

Looks more like a board game box rather than a video game case, but i liked how it looks.

Weekly #2
Anatomy
I made a vague self portrait with what I think is enough detail regarding I had to look at my self in a mirror for an hour and a half xD.

It was interesting doing myself, (I hadn't done it in a long time now that I remember).

[Pattu_w]

Good work all around, damn nice observations btw

[Rodo]

Day 4
Daily #1
Visual Comunication 2
I definitely love League of Legends art, I've always loved and admired how the final piece looks like.

BTW, I hope you can understand my skribles as notes, I don't have the best handwriting on the world xD.

[Rodo]

Day 5
Daily #1
Visual Comunication 2
Now i wen with a diferent aproach by doing the study out of a poster of a song I really like listening to.

(I'm sorry for the quality of the image but i couldn't find a better one)
The song's name is called The Wolf from Siames if you want to look for it.

[Rodo]

Day 6
Daily #1
Visual Comunication 2
I got comfortable doing only League of Legends characters that I forgot about other games, so I decided to change it a bit.

This is a Hanzo skin from Overwatch 2 season 7, a skin wich I totaly mised because I stopped playing it for a short time (even tho I don't play Hanzo hehe).
Hope is a better image than yesterday's one xD.

[Rodo]

Final Day
Daily #1
Visual Comunication 2
For the last study I chose Dead by Daylight, another game I'm currently playing and as of right now the lobby is Iron Maiden themed so here it is.

See you tomorrow on Week 2 of the second term.

[Rodo]

WEEK 2
Day 1
Daily #1
2 Minute Gesture Drawing
Back at it again with gesture drawing with a new face and full steam ahead.

Daily #2
Anatomy
Shapes and Head practices.
This is a new approach to how I normally draw the head, but I must say that I really like the way Marc explained to how tu build the head.

Weekly Assignments

Weekly assignment #1
Digital Production 2 Assignment B
(Work in progress)
So far I'm done with most part of the assignment, the only thing that is missing is for me to create my own custom Chain/Fence brush.

[daceronine]

Good work all around! Seems like you have a good headstart with forms!

[Rodo]

No pun intended xD

[Rodo]

DAY 2
Daily #1
2 Minute Gesture Drawing
I think that my minimum amount of poses for gesture drawing are going to be at least 8 poses, it all depends of how I'm feeling in the day.

Daily #2
Anatomy
Shapes and Head Practices
I totaly have something by drawing any caracters that have horns or any horn like appearance.

I skipped shading for today on the shapes hehe.

Weekly Assignments

Weekly Assignment #2
Character Head Study
Here are two of the head studies I drew, both of them are from Legue of Legends (shocker xD), I think it went alright.

[daceronine]

It all looks good man.

If there's any feedback that comes to mind, is that when looking at your work from the LOL referencs, I can see you constrcuted the basics of the head using the looms methos (sphere, lines, jaw, etc), but it seems other aspects of the character where done by just looking at the lines, since the head itself has volume, but some of the other features seem like they don't follow much volume form. For example, the horns, fur or hair.

I'd recommend to try to create those components as "objects with volume" as well, similar to how you constrcuted the head, and use the reference as a guide to "sculp it" so to speak. It takes a bit more time, but even if you don't match the reference, it usually looks more consistent.

[Rodo]

I always had that kind of a problem while drawing hair or any fur like texture and maybe it's noticible because the lack of shading on it, but i'll try imagining it as a piece of clay and I have to sculpt it as you said.
Tanks man.

[Rodo]

DAY 3
Daily #1
Shapes and Head Practices
I tried shading but today I felt a bit lazy and didn't finished it xD.

And that was it for today's dailys, I wasn't feling like doing gesture but i'll do it tomorrow.

Weekly Assignments
Weekly Assignment #1
Digital Production 2 Assignment B
I made my custom Chain Brush and I got to say that it is interesting how i can make my own brushes, so here it is.

To be honest it doesn't look like a chain now that I put more attention to it.
P.S: It's very late in the night and I'm sleeping while writing this post xD.

[Rodo]

DAY 4
Daily #1
Shapes and Head Practices
I'm really enjoying this exercise a lot, I get that feeling of satisfaction while drawing the heads and I have that urge to draw characters, but that's for another day.

Weekly Assignments
Weekly Assignment #2
Character Head Study
I took one of my daily exercise head for this one and liked how it turned out, also I took a different approach with the lineart (I think it looks a bit messier).

I really love drawing demon characters.

And this is Viper from Valorant.

[daceronine]

They all look really well formed. Seems you are already well adjusted to the construction of the head.