Ryo - Art School Journey

[ryooh]

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

[ryooh]

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]

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

[ryooh]

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

[ryooh]

Thank you!

[ryooh]

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]

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

[ryooh]

thank you! it helps a lot to hear it

[ryooh]

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]

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

[ryooh]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Lockenheim]

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]

@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.

[ryooh]

so i implemented both tips I received today and I feel more confident with my practices today. I really focused and tried to gain a better understanding. I can't say if it turned out 100 percent better than my previous practices but if anyone has any critiques or things to point out. They are more than welcome to point them out. I also have a question about the 2 point perspective and making a very tall building closer to the vanishing point and how that would look. I tried to draw it but it looked funky to me and I thought id ask. If anyone needs me to specify then i will attempt again to give a better idea of what I mean. Thank you for the critiques and advice all. Have a good week.

[snakker]

Hey there, this is definitely an improvement, you’re getting those art gains 💪🏼

As for things getting closer to you. Do notice that in two point perspective, as you move the vps closer together, everything kind of fits more and more within a small frame. And as you move the vps farther away from each other they make things occupy a larger space. Same thing with compression, things in the middle get smaller as you move the vps closer, and things in the margins expand - until a point where our minds see them as deformed

This is very similar to what happens when you use wide angle lenses in photography and the visual effect only works of it affects all or most of the features in the canvas - since everything in art is like little lies that we tell people’s brains to fool them into thinking it’s real, you can always play with the rules you learn and use them in creative ways that help you convey what you ultimately want

Life is our best teacher, so reference is where it’s at, look up some photos in wide angle lenses vs “standard” and “telephoto”, try finding ones that would work as 2 point perspective and compare where the vps would be. This has helped me understand it much better. In the end, we want to emulate those things with these rules and other tricks (line weight, color fade, value fade etc) so it always helps to see where it comes from

Cheers

[ryooh]

Ill start spending some time studying references! The lens comparison seems like its going to help me out so hopefully I can make good use of it. Thank you for the help!

[ksermione]

Hey, that's amazing progress on the perspective!
@snakker's advice is great, and looking up references is always the best way to figure things out, i highly recommend it.