Runi - Art School Journey

Hia! I'm Runi :3
I started this art journey back in 2021, at the time, I didn't have a lot of time and would take the classes out of order or whenever I needed them. lol not the best idea.

but after years of moving around and being sick, I'm finally in a stable place. So, I have decided to restart all the classes and start from scratch. Tho I have been drawing for a long time now, I still have so much to learn.

I started off young as a traditional artist with lined notebook paper covered in as many cute Pokémon drawings as I saw fit and have now transitioned into digital art. Still working on using my tools better though.

For starters and introductions, here's a textured hair study I did. At first, I was pretty intimidated by it, but after I got into it I don't think it was so bad.
Then I drew a little Mimikyu to test out a different way of applying lights and shadows.

did this assignment for starters lol and I took the close lines part as a challenge

I fought for my life trying to get the Mei picture as close as I could xD

Here's my dream house assignment. I worked really hard on it, I added whatever my lil heart felt was dreamy. I added the bunnies, pond thing, house, bushes by the house, stream, 2 different hills, and a little stream.

Ty for the warm welcomes everyone! <3 I will do my best to be popping up on your threads lol so I hope to see you around. :3

Here's a couple of my gesture drawing sessions, I found that I do better if I work up to the longer sessions instead of just jumping into doing 5 min sessions. they are numbered and labeled on the side just to make things easier for me xD

-at first, I was just doing my best just to get the gestures down.
-On the 10th day, my gestures just didn't feel right to me. I tried maybe putting a little structure in and it slowed me down and just felt off still, I realized after talking at my partner about it. That now only was I not actually observing the models and seeing where things would land in comparison to the other body parts BUT I was also using models with clothes on, so it made things so much more difficult for me. I replaced all my clothed models and had to start anew with nude ones.
-on Day 18, things clicked from the previous days. after actually studying the models and being able to actually see their bodies fully, I felt things went really well and I even "finished" some of the 5 min drawings and I'm proud of them.
-lastly on day 23(the most recent day when I put this together), I went back to 2 mins after I had gotten ill and had to take a little art break. I was actually surprised with this day because I was actually feeling really good about the proportions, I also found myself caring less about perfections of my lines and went for a "messier" line as I was just quickly going with my own hands motion while still capturing the motion of the model. This was also the day that I decided to focus on drawing the top part of the body more because I realized in my past sessions, I would prioritize the bottom half first because it came quicker to me.

lol if you guys have any tips of tricks to gestures pls lemmie know! I've learnt a lot off my own mess up's but I am still learning

Hey gang! I'm checkin in lol I noticed that I tend to drop off the end of the earth and then pop back up after a while xD
Here's two of my character studies I did, the lady was the very first one I did. I forgot to read the assignment where it said linework only, so I guess I learnt extra by learning how to put noise over my art.
With the Chopper one I also forgot about linework only, so you do see a bit of that in his feet and hand lol but all my notes are my initial observations or things I noticed while replicating.

thanks! When I thought about characters I liked and doing studies on them, I thought it would be best to look at them without any colors distracting me at first since it was my first time doing a character/artist study.
plus, it's art directly from the artist themself.

I recently found some old kingdom hearts 1 concept art after playing through it again, so I think that'll be my new target. xD

lol Here's my cylinders studies I forgot to post

Hia guys! finally updating, I finished term 1!

I really struggled with free handing boxes and drawing boxes in perspective. lol they were really rough in the beginning. One of my problems when drawing in one point, I kept trying to draw boxes that would only work in 2 point xD once I figured out my problem It clicked pretty quickly.
as with drawing boxes free handed, I turned to "drawabox" to help, doing some of those first exercises really helped.
another struggle was when drawing boxes stacked, as soon as I got to the top ones, I suddenly didnt know how measure them and kept making them very tall. I just had to keep trying with that problem, I got it finally tho xD

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^I was practicing the table with the chunk carved out for my room assignment >:3
Here's my 2-point building, I didn't want to spend insane time on it, so I did enough to get the gist of it. I did more practice on it in my sketch book just to make sure lol.

As for the room assignment, I had done it once before back in 2022 as you can see here^^ LOOL uh don't mind the body pillow, I forgot all about drawing it until literally right now (at the time, I was playing tons of FFXIV and there was a big meme about y'shtola body pillows. So, I made one of ya boy G'raha)

That aside having done it once before I wanted to really push myself this time, decided to take a spin on my kitchen and put a twist on it. Merged it into something that could fit into the world I'm building.

I'm really happy with it, I was very excited to actually be done with it tho xD note to self, don't set up your base perspective lines when you're tired or sick. I did that and came back after a day or two after getting better and realized none of my lines made sense and had to redo everything I had just put down days before.

I did do it in black and white at first and all the color comes from some gradient maps that I figured I'd finally try to use hahaha plus all the color editing that we learnt in the first photoshop class.