Shan - Art School Journey

[str3tch]

There are about 30 hands per page in the images above. Did these to fill up a portfolio so i could apply to one of the local art schools in my area. At first it was enticing as my country has a subsidy to reduce school fees by 90%. But after i found out the hard way that, since i already graduated from another school of the same educational level, I wouldn't be allowed for the subsidies hahaha.

I'll be posting more works that i did here.

[str3tch]

Made these "References" For the characters I made. I wanted to make an expression sheet at first but with my limited capabilities, i decided to put a "pose" to help fill in the negative space and show case the characters. I also struggled to do clean linework as i didn't have the dexterity i thought i had hahah. So i opted for the sketch-ish marker look that i was familiar with on traditional media. I am actually quite proud of these, but i also know i need to improve in quite a number of ways.

[str3tch]

As I was trying to make something Ghostbuster's themed. I was really placed out of my comfort zone when i had to make the technical props and equipment as they mainly focused on form and perspective. I'm pretty proud of the wands one. Most of these here are based of the "Ghostbusters: The Video Game" Models.

[str3tch]

As i was trying to enter an animations and illustrations course. I tried my hand at making a simple skid/keys scene.

As I was unfamiliar with how keys actually looked (after searching online and seeing way too many confusing/contradictory examples without explanation) I just tried my best to imitate the majority i found.

[Lockenheim]

Dang these hands are looking so freaking great! Lovely line weight. Really nice perspective on these neutrona wands, all of the blocky shapes look fantastic and the ghostbuster packs looking great too! Loving the different angles on all of these. Great studies makes for a great character! Really nice work!

[prinzmoana]

I love the expressions and different angles ^.^

[str3tch]

Thanks @Lockenheim @prinzmoana For the nice words
I'm currently going back to marc's course and finishing up the 1 point perspective sheet as well as some figure studies.

[str3tch]

Some works that i did immediately after completing the works made circa October 20th.

Made some refined drawings of Chester's face to my liking and ease of construction.

I've also realized something as i have noticed most of my cylindrical drawings tend to get muddy due to incorrect angles of the ellipses they produce. I tried looking online for a set of Ellipse angles to study how they distort in perspective as their angles reduce from 90 (A true circle) to 0 degrees (a line). Turns out i had to use a calculator and Sine in Trigonometry to find out. Thank god for my Engineering Diploma hahha.

Turns out they follow the sine curve based on my research. so at 75 degrees of tilt. The "Height" of the ellipse is 96% of the full circle. Whereas to achieve 50% height of the ellipse, your disc would have to be rotated 30 degrees. (Not 45 degrees some may have thought)

Which i found to be the cause when people look at an "intuitively designed cylinder" to be wrong since our eyes are so perceptive to the minute changes around our environment.

TLDR; Made some drawings and discovered something about ellipses.

Sorry if this text is so long. I posted this as my reference and its also a habit of mine to over analyze my work sometimes (In the wrong areas hahaha)

[str3tch]

Some drawings i did as practice and study.

The first images in each sets are me trying to recreate the reference to my ability.
The Second image is my attempt to recreate the image from memory. I then analyze my work to notice the differences between my memory's recreation as well as any other attribute i may want to remove or add to my knowledge.
The Third attempt is to re-create the image and play around with the sizes, shape and proportion to my liking.

I'm mainly doing this to increase the input to output ratio of my work while also getting some quality practice in. I think i will try to time my self between sessions as well as try to recreate some poses in different perspectives and camera angles to challenge myself.

[str3tch]

This was my first attempt after watching Marc's perspective video and following him through his demo. I soon decided to work on an environment that had been playing in my mind for a while even before starting the art course. While trying to flesh it out, i got stumped pretty quickly due to not having any prop knowledge in my visual library. Like the idea is in my mind (or the feeling of one) but once it came down to details to make it look reasonably well, it would all fall apart and i felt i wasn't really benefiting by struggling through intuitive creation at this stage.

I then moved onwards to working on the reference above to learn the environment and construction.

I think i will try to incorporate simple objects like books, lamps and stationery to fill up my visual library so images don't look so barren
Hahaha, it looks like renderings we'd used to make back in design class when i was in Secondary School (High school equivalent) Like just overly simple. Haiz hahaa

[str3tch]

First off, Happy new year everyone!

I really hate the fact that because of my job, i can only do art on weekends. But if all goes to plan this year, i should be able to study art full time some time this year C:

Since i had a slight perspective defecit in my education. I decided to incorporate some box drawings to improve myself. After listening to the Draftsmen podcast by proko, it brought up a useful website created by one of Marshall Vandruff's Students
https://eyes.training/

I used this to help myself understand perspective through cubes better and can say i have seen some improvement in my understanding after drawing 40 or so boxes from reference and analyzing them.

So below are my box drawings to help me through the perspective portion of term 1.

I do apologise that some of the cubes are notated up-side down, as i shifted the sketch book around to make my cubes.

[str3tch]

One thing that i also realized,painfully, is that without a given schedule to follow. Progress is depressingly slow and confusing. Honestly speaking, in the month of October and November 2022, i wasn't really sure what i was doing nor what i was improving in. Hence, i have created a schedule and weekly goals for myself in the time being until June 2023. (When i intend to study art full time)

Note: I have created my schedule in the 2nd week of December, my main goal was to complete 40 box drawings by End of Year.
I also understand that Marc has created a video developing an art schedule for the year. What i have made is quite similar but also personal, taking into account my working hrs from my job

[str3tch]

Above are a few pages of when i started to incorporate forms into my gesture drawings. I made the mistake of immediately trying to draw form gestures in under 30s haha.

I will continue trying to mannequinize my gestures slowly, but first i will continue by adding more time till i feel comfortable before moving up.

I feel like i need to improve my line quality and flow from form to form.

[str3tch]

I also applied in a "one-off" Art challenge at proko and won haha.
https://www.proko.com/s/XGXJ

[str3tch]

As per the previous post i made in this thread on
Post 31.

I have continued to draw figures using less "bulked" models hahahah

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After this, I also realised that the scale of the drawing is very important. Hence, moving forwards i will draw my models to atleast fit in a bounding box of A5 (Half A4 )

[str3tch]

To appease myself, I went ahead and drew my OC for my final attempt at this model drawing C:

Feed back on gesture, proportions and basic anatomy will be greatly appreciated. I will try to draw more final and complete pieces to actually see my overall progress.

I do see an urgent need to work on faces, hands legs and feet. Following suit, i will dedicate January to a more portrait focused study as i move along to Term 2 in the course.

[str3tch]

Some portrait drawings/studies i made with my main objective of familiarizing myself with the Loomis method on different heads and basic underlying structure. Apologies for the soulless eyes...

Pretty happy with A4,A5 and A8

I'm gonna familiarize myself with the features next while drawing alot more of these heads.