Snakker's sketchbook - My Art Journey

[Lockenheim]

Your dedication is impressive Snakker! Keep up the good work! Your anatomy recall is strong but don't neglect drawing from reference that is where you get the experience points. Drawing from imagination is like the test, where drawing from reference is the study. Great work Snakker love to see the progress!

[snakker]

Thanks for the kind words, you are right, today I'm starting from reference and gesture to try my hand at both measured drawing and feeling some forces and rythms.

For now I've been reading a bit, observing a bit and doodling a lot more XD

Here's today's attempt at remembering proportions, I know, still memory but I feel I'm getting more of a hang of it. Also hitting that stylus with much more finesse nice and gently to play with the line weight

cheers

[snakker]

Here's one from the reference with measuring assignment

[matthewwemes]

I love how detailed your anatomy drawings are. The proportions in that last one look just about spot on!

[snakker]

@matthewwemes thanks for the kind remarks

For now uploading the next exercise for the one month of art thing (cube with extrusions and cutouts), I decided to go for something more real this time, so I made a house in the desert and tried rendering it as best as I could

Another proportion guy from imagination to keep practicing and a study on anatomy of the face from profile based on Patrick Jones (artist)

cheers

"House in the Desert"

[snakker]

And a sketch based on what I learned from that study. I tried giving it a sci fi vibe

[snakker]

Couple of more reference studies

Hard to get any facial features

[prinzmoana]

Uhh I See you studied a lot since the last time I saw your blog 👍
I really like the shading and proportions of this ^.^

[snakker]

Hey there, yeah I’m definitely trying to hit that art gym whenever I can 😅

Heres a little study from today

Cheers

[snakker]

Oh that last one got flipped 90 degrees for some reason, she's supposed to be with her head toward the floor

Anyways, another go at the cube with extrusions exercise from the one month thing and a work in progress of the coffee mug, I kind of tried pushing myself with that one to play around with colors and try to match a picture, any tips suggestions or critique are welcome

cheers

[CYP2C19]

Daym Snakker, All these studies are freaking amazing!, and that is a great attempt at coloring!.
I also agree with what Lockenheim said about using references for studies, and from Imagination as a test, Only way to get input of anything is with references, and you're clearly really good at going off of references, great work!.

[snakker]

@CYP2C19 Thanks for the kind remarks I'm gonna keep at it, definitely gotta do more reference studies of the figure

here's a couple of late night experimental doodles, just directly placing blobs of paint and trying to get the silhouette right, then directly shading the imaginary structures

cheers and good night all, I gotta sleep

[snakker]

Hey everybody, so life was hitting hard today, hard to get much art done and had to get relegated to a late night session.

I managed to fix one of those torsos I tried rendering, redrew the skater girl and tried out some color rendering on her, also worked on that coffee study, I think I'm satisfied with it for now, based on my current abilities.

I also drew a couple of figures trying to imagine in what kind of perspective they are and figuring out what kind of box to place them in

cheers!

[snakker]

I was playing around in painter today to give it a go.. was actually impressed with the soft pencil

Tried drawing and shading my dog, I think the drawings went ok, but the shading somehow made him look very different

[snakker]

Snakker here, struggling a bit with the gestures, I feel they are terrible atm. Here are a few examples, any tips or critique is appreciated. Also note, some or most of these I took probably too long per picture as I was manually clicking towards the next pictures

Also, a question, even though I still haven't seen the perspective classes yet and definitely don't feel ready to move on from term 1, but when does one "finish" a term in digital art school?

cheers

[mitsuki-youko]

Hi @snakker!

I think your gestures are coming along alright
What i'd personally recommend is to first do a "stick figure gesture" and then once u get the pose down, add more muscle and mass on top of the stick figures - that way you will always get the gesture in at least:

here're ones i did in term one:

Also, a question, even though I still haven't seen the perspective classes yet and definitely don't feel ready to move on from term 1, but when does one "finish" a term in digital art school?

Personally what i do is - i ask myself - do i feel comfortable enough with this to not need any more practice with it? will i get worse at this topic if i move on to the next?

if the answer is yes for comfortability and no - i wont get worse at this from not practicing this topic anymore - then i would move on.

But remember - you keep these videos forever. if for some reason you move on but then feel not quite ready u can always go back to term one for more practice

[CYP2C19]

Really good answer there @mitsuki-youko , It really does comes down to whether you feel comfortable to move on or not, and if you forget something then the videos are always there for you.

@snakker Your gestures do not look terrible at all, far from it, you've got really nice form to them, and proportion wise they look correct.
About you spending "too much time" on each drawing, you could consider purchasing this Program that Marc used in his Term 1 Gesture Drawing Class.
https://cubebrush.co/marketplace?q=gesture%20drawing&product_id=d9q6yq

NOTE: I'd recommend you to have a fair few pose pictures to avoid repetition further, and to get an idea of how the human body works in loads of poses.
I use it personally and it's a BIG QOL to not have to click out of photoshop to get a new picture and then click back in. And the pictures it selects are also randomized to avoid repetition.
Best of luck Snakker!.

[snakker]

Thanks very much @mitsuki-youko and @CYP2C19 for the comments and those example gestures, definitely going to get that app, keep at it and apply your words of wisdom

[snakker]

Hey everyone, took a little break and bak at it, here are a couple of gestures, going to be working on some more figures from reference with simplified anatomy and going to start perspective class next

cheers

(used Painter 2023, trying out the charcoal loose brush and referenced a cool website called quickposes)

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh these gestures are so expressive!! nice work!