Snakker's sketchbook - My Art Journey

[prinzmoana]

I could recommend website like "Line-of-Action" or "Quickposes". There you can start 30sec / 60sec / .... sessions with reference poses and its free ^.^
I personally use my iPad as second screen, sometimes just my phone (not so comfy tho), for the poses so I could draw on my Computer.

Btw I love your newest gestures 😄👍

[snakker]

Thanks @mitsuki-youko and @prinzmoana for the remarks, glad you like the gestures I feel like I am starting to get the hang of it, also realizing just how important gesture drawing is and how much it can make your art evolve

I actually used the quickposes website, very nice. I don't have any interesting assignment work to share today but I do have a couple of doodles from when I just play around for fun (I wrote imagination so that I can refer back to it in the future and compare how I'm doing)

cheers

[CYP2C19]

Damy Snakker, you've REALLY been going at it recently, Very good stuff, and those gestures, maan I'm jealous.. So much form, so many details, and good volumes too. Keep going strong man, You've got this easily!.

[Lockenheim]

Nice practice Snakker! You have been killing it!

[mitsuki-youko]

daem these imagination pieces have great anatomy!

[jasminerosepowell]

nice gestures & very fluid linework!

[prinzmoana]

I like the movement and dramatic feel in some of these scenes.
I don't think I could do this from imagination 😲

Very well done ^.^

[snakker]

Hey everyone, I've been a bit under the weather yesterday so I was only looking at some of your art and taking a break. Feeling better today and started doing some gestures. Never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually enjoying doing gestures They're kinda fun, you get a nice feel for the movement even in poses that seem kinda stiff

Thanks for all the kind remarks, it's motivating me to keep at it!

Here are some gestures from today's practice. And believe it or not, I still haven't started the perspective class, so I'm going to be doing that next

cheers!

[CYP2C19]

Very nice Gestures as usual Snakker!, But the most important thing is that you take care of yourself, Don't worry about taking a break every now and then, just don't extend it for too long and you'll be all good.
Keep going at it when you feel like it, and I can't wait for your perspective studies!.

[prinzmoana]

You have some really cool fight poses there, they all look amazing! My favorite is number 5, looks so dynamic 😄

[ita.arquiteto]

Realy nice work.

[snakker]

Hey there, snakker here, still alive XD

First off, thanks for the kind remarks and yes @CYP2C19 health comes first. I am still recovering or going through some kind of flu-like illness so I haven't had a lot of energy these last days

Anyways, I checked out perspective 1, and trying to draw a room, I quickly realized that even though I can definitely draw some walls and a window, I have ZERO creativity or visual vocabulary to try to populate that room creatively Any tips are highly appreciated, I'll soon post whatever I manage to conjure XD

cheers

[prinzmoana]

Oh I know exactly what you mean with the room stuff 😵‍💫
What might help is thinking of a theme (sci-fi, magical, steampunk,...) and/or a purpose of the room (car-shop, hospital room, lab,...).

If you have a purpose you automatically can think of stuff you would NEED for that purpose. And it's always good to gather some reference ^^

Hope that helps and get well soon! 😄

[mitsuki-youko]

I am still recovering or going through some kind of flu-like illness so I haven't had a lot of energy these last days

Hope you feel better soon!

[duelisticnature]

I'm astonished by the amount of work you've already made Snakker! Hope you get well soon, because seeing you work so tirelessly is incredibly motivating.

Your gestures say so much with so few lines It's amazing.

I could recommend 3 things for the perspective 1 course.
- Like the assignment mentioned: pick a room in your own home and try to replicate that in 1 point perspective. This makes the creative part easier, because the desks/ cupboards/ closest/ book cases are all there already.
- this one might sound silly, but look up an IKEA catalog or other interior decorations website. Like you're shopping for new furniture, you often get provided a picture oh what it might look in a particular household. Seeing how things mix and match might give you inspirations how to fill up your room.
- Try imagine yourself moving to a new place, completely blank room. Where do you put your bed, your desk, your wardrobe closet? In your kitchen, where's the counter? where's the sink? where's the window? do you have overhanging compartments or do you use undercounter storage closets? Fridge, microwave, drawers for your cutlery, you name it.
This is like what @prinzmoana mentioned, what is the room built for? what would the room need?

Now if you want a more fantasy twist to the room; look up your favorite fantasy settings. Lord of the Rings is an incredible feast of architectural backgrounds. From elven archs with soaring curves and large windows. The Shire with the hobbits having round doorways and even the arches of the roof being round, but the house looks cozey. Buildings in mordor often looking sharp edged and filled with angular shapes. Dwarves using more straight lines, geometric shapes. The halls of Rohan taking a more viking/ traditional medieval longhouse approach to indoor architecture.

I am dragging on, but when looking at a room, what stands out? In Marc's example it looks something that came straight out of Overwatch or Doom 2016, with its sci-fi elements. Sheet metal, piping, curved glass, sliding electrical doors, etc etc.

Hope this helps! and get well soon!

[CYP2C19]

I personally can't give you any helpful tips sadly, I was in that same exact position of having a big ol thicc ZERO ideas on neither 1, 2 or 3 point perspective assignments which is why I used references for all except 3 point.
Also hope you feel better soon Snakker, take good care of yourself, and don't beat yourself up if you skip a day or 5!.

[snakker]

Yoo, snakker here, reporting in!

So still recovering from whatever evil virus hit me but feeling much better this evening so finally had some energy to hit it up.

I just want to take a moment to thank you all, this is quite the nice community here very good tips, I am definitely going to do a little bit of LOTR and IKEA studies soon

Experimented a bit with gestures with various brush sizes on photoshop, was quite fun. Also made a couple of concept sketches for the single point perspective room exercise (one of the rooms is quite large :P)

First a couple of my daily gestures

Next my first not so inspired attempt at one point perspective

My brain was like... NOPE. So I went ahead and started playing around,. Painted the entire room dark, and added the light from the window. I have no practical knowledge on how to shade this stuff but I think it came out alright anyways, it was just fun

And these are a couple of sketches for the one point perspective exercise

That's it for this evening so far

cheers!

[snakker]

Started out my room studies

Let me know if you guys think I should flesh out one of those environment concepts (1. my gaming room, 2 Sci Fi mess hall 3. sci fi hangar)

Hobbiton

[mitsuki-youko]

Ooh really like your scifi ones! very nice shading on that hella dark room XD

[CYP2C19]

Though my personal favorite of your perspective sketches is the hangar, I feel like the Sci-fi Mess hall would be good practice as it would challenge you with not only the hall being close to the "camera" but also the space station in the background being really far away. Regardless of which you choose to flesh out, that is if you do, they're all really nice sketches. Now your one point perspective is a little empty, though you put a nice twist on it with the added light, it's all in the right perspective, so you obviously understand the basics of 1 point, good stuff Snakker, keep at it!.