Ryo - Art School Journey

ryooh 2022-09-19 18:15:08 UTC #58

this mondays 1 min and 30 sec gestures.

ryooh 2022-09-29 02:48:46 UTC #59

I forgot to upload this Monday but here is this Wednesdays. Todays didn't come out like I wanted and I couldn't really get much done even with an extra 30 seconds. But ill try and do better tomorrow. Have a good week everyone.

Lockenheim 2022-09-30 13:48:15 UTC #60

I had the same problem when I first started, I couldnt get anything down in 30 secs or 1 minute. Marc told me to go up to 2 and it helped a lot. If you arn't getting anything out of the exercise definitely increase the time. Keep it up!

ryooh 2022-10-04 01:49:23 UTC #61

yeah honestly i might do that, I'll up my time tomorrow and see how it feels in the long run

ryooh 2022-10-04 01:52:58 UTC #62

here is Mondays gestures. Will likely up time limit for a while as suggested.

ryooh 2022-10-11 00:18:20 UTC #63

here is this mondays gesture practice. i upped the time to 1 min and 30 seconds. still have a lot of work to do and will likely spend a lot of time on this portion of studies.

Lockenheim 2022-10-12 13:58:27 UTC #64

Keep it up! Definitely love the feeling of the volume on the one that has legs spread on bottom, those elipses looking good!

ryooh 2022-10-18 01:08:21 UTC #65

heres todays, went and tried some more expressive poses today. I enjoy these a lot more. Have a good week.

ryooh 2022-10-18 01:08:35 UTC #66

Thank you!

ryooh 2022-10-25 02:28:14 UTC #67

heres this mondays. had a lot of trouble focusing and making progress today. especially with the pose i have "5 min" written on. Was determined to get the pose looking recognizable so i spent more time on it. Have a good week.

matthewwemes 2022-10-25 06:28:23 UTC #68

I'm definitely noticing progress on your gestures! Your latest ones are a lot cleaner than your first ones.

ryooh 2022-11-01 20:52:55 UTC #69

thank you! it helps a lot to hear it

ryooh 2022-11-01 20:57:22 UTC #70

didn't post yesterday but I went back to 30 seconds to see how id perform and i think i did pretty alright. I rewatched the section of the video that was relevant and adjusted what i focused on according. hope everyone had a good Halloween and has a good week

ryooh 2022-11-15 03:04:40 UTC #71

here is this mondays. debating moving on to next lesson or taking up a personal project. Have a good week

ryooh 2022-11-22 05:34:47 UTC #73

I did move on to the next lesson about perspective but instead of posting the one point street views with event horizons and vanishing points. I decided to attempt to draw Rukia from "Bleach". Tite Kubo has an art style I really really like so I draw some characters from this manga a bit. For my level right now I believe it turned out well enough. I did use the reference from 2 different manga pages and tried to piece what I saw together. One panel was closer to her head but I still had room so I went to a full body shot and used what I saw there. I tried not to rely too heavily on the reference but I also wanted to look at the drawing and try to study it although now that I think about it I may have used the reference quite a bit lol. I am going to try to say diligent and try to stay in a positive mindset to improve. And push to become better so I can do more drawings in less time but of higher quality. If anyone has anything to point out here that could be improved upon, greatly or just a bit please say so! Every bit of critique gives me direction and some motivation. Hope everyone has a good week and a happy thanksgiving.

ryooh 2022-12-07 05:36:18 UTC #74

ive been doing a bit of these 1 and 2 point perspective practices. I think i have a mild understanding of it. Still going to continuously practicing it and give it appropriate time to try to get it down as best as i possibly can. If there is anything that jumps out as needing a fix or some more focus please point out! have a good week everyone.

snakker 2022-12-07 11:59:00 UTC #75

Hello there, I’m a little late tk the sketchbook but welcome! Nice to see al the practice, those cylinders and cubes and measured copies are super useful
I think you’re doing great, if there is one that that stands out to me at this point it would be the lines themselves. I would recommend to experiment a little but in the end you want longer, more flowy lines. To achieve that you just practice doing all the other stuff but try to make fewer lines and only draw what you mean- else you kind of caress the canvas and get fuzzy lines. Drawing from the shoulder and using alll the canvas helps
The other thing would be to do plenty of gestures, it definitely helps your linework be more expressive

Cheers and keep it up!

ksermione 2022-12-08 22:34:38 UTC #76

Welcome! Great stuff so far, i can really see the progress of the proportions and the gestures!

Lockenheim 2022-12-12 22:57:08 UTC #77

Nice work with these, I think the biggest thing to point out is the perspective on your cube work. It can be quite tricky to wrap your head around at first, but all of the lines should be pointing to one point (vanishing piont) for one point perspective, and one of two points on two point perspective. On your cube piece the lines are mostly all pointing to different areas, making it seem like they are many different perspectives.

I would recommend drawing your horizing, and drawing your vanishing points on the page. Then if you are having trouble drawing a straight line, use the ruler tool to make sure they are straight. If they are curved it makes it appear like a distorted lense. I have provided examples of how I would set up my scene for 1 point and 2 point perspective. Hopefully this is helpful! Keep it up.

ryooh 2022-12-13 01:19:31 UTC #78

@snakker Hey thanks for responding and thanks more for the feedback. The lines are something I've wanted to fix but never really knew where to start. I have a good bit of shakiness so it'd irritate me and I kept falling back into doing it when I would try whatever method to fix. But ill start implementing that in my works from now on Thank you for the advice!

@ksermione Hey, Thank you for checking it out! ill keep trying to improve.

@Lockenheim Ahh now that you point it out, Its really staring me in the face. I knew I had a general understanding of how this worked but I didn't know why I felt off about everything i was working on, even past this practice. I started to get a bit frustrated with it myself when I couldn't get the hang of making it look like I envision it, especially since I pushed to draw more than just the plain cubes in the following practices. I will take your advice and set it up for myself like you would and hopefully i can start making more progress. Thanks again as always!

Hope you all have a good week.