Sergei T. - Art School Journey

[jasminerosepowell]

These studies are immaculate!!

[indifference_mask]

Thanks

[indifference_mask]

More torso studies. Finally i can practise whole body.

Plus some hands and feets.

[prinzmoana]

Wooooah +.+
These look sooo accurate man xD Especially hands and feet, like a pro 👌

[jasminerosepowell]

such clean lines!

[AlexZoinks]

Those are neat figure studies - I haven't gotten to that assignment yet.

Are you doing anything specific to get clean lines?

[Pattu_w]

Man, your progress is astonishing, great stuff

[indifference_mask]

Hello there! It's been a while...
These two months have been difficult. I graduated from the university, finish Term 4, then have some health problems and after all this I completely “burn out”. Especially for drawing.
Only a month later I again had the desire to continue drawing.
I start again and immediately notice a HUGE drop in my skills. So, the goal at the moment is to restore the skill that I had back then.

Right now I am working on quick figure drawing (about 10+- min on each).

[indifference_mask]

Thank you!
I just trying avoid "hairy lines" (all beginners problem) and , of course, cleaning line with eraser after. These exercises take a lot of time.

[indifference_mask]

New figure drawing

[snakker]

Hey there, these are looking very good!
I think your hands tend to be a little small compared to the the rest of the figures

Cheers

[indifference_mask]

Thanks!
You right, especially on male figure.

[indifference_mask]

More practice

[dismyrkva]

This is really cool! You have made so much progress, that's motivating (makes me want to spend more time on those anatomy courses but it's such a struggle for me)

[indifference_mask]

Thank you!
Yeah, I know what you mean. But my goal is to draw characters, so I concentrate on anatomy/figure almost all the time.

[indifference_mask]

Term 5

I decided to start with character design. I really want to create my first character and at the same time see how I progressed in my skills. So it will be "my 1 year art progress" in Art School. (if i manage to complete character, of course )

So, here what i have at this point:

1) Character pose

2) Сlothes sketch, silhouette and final line art

Not satisfied with feet pose, maybe gonna change it.

Next part - hardest part. Shading and coloring.

[gregorya]

You are doing very well. keep it up.

[kainoa.knief]

This looks amazing! Can't wait to see the final product.

[indifference_mask]

Have some updates to post.

1) Flat colors
2) Shading
3) Flat colors + shading (without correction)

This is the first time I'm trying to shade a character (before that I've only shaded simple shapes), so I'll be glad to see some critique on this. How it looks? Should it be lighter or darker?

Next step - make corrections and add lighting.

[kainoa.knief]

Looks great! Now I am not as far as you in class so you can take this with a grain of salt if you'd like. From what i noticed from my experience, the left arm has darker shading than the opposite side, which doesn't correlate with the rest of the image, since it seems the right side is mostly shaded. I would say the legs are a great area shaded due to the depth of shading with a dark background from clothing and lighter upfront on the skin. The last thing is the inner edge of the cape seems to be a little light on shading in comparison to other pieces. Hope that helps to start some small corrections. If not, listen to more experienced people. Looks awesome though, keep up the great work!