Soft._.floof (Rafa) - Art School Journey

[softfloof]

60 gesture drawings (30 seconds)

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more line of action and anatomy cylinders ☠️

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STRUGGLE CITY 😭
to be honest I don't do lineart for my drawings since I always clean up my sketch instead so this felt like trying to punch a brick wall. I definitely struggle with thinner lines but I hope my strokes will become more confident to alleviate this...
3 more to go lineart examples to go 😸

[daceronine]

Yo! Good work! These lineart exercices look great! Good work all around!

[softfloof]

thanks a lot, I really appreciate it! I hope I my future outputs can become better than this 😸

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linework 3 & 4

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last linework!!!! I should also probably mention that these are traced and my main focus was trying to emulate the line strokes from the artist themselves but I looked on discord and found out that it was supposed to be referenced from sooooo... ☠️

[daceronine]

Overall great work!!

Haha, tracing has a really bad stigma in general, though I believe it has it's place when done with a proper focus and objective. Marc recently did a whole video about it:

There's also quite a bit of disclosure on it on the web.

What you mentioned makes sense though, to emulate line strokes to learn from it. I think going at it with a clear learning goal can actually be really helpful, though at some point I also think it's better to switch to "observation" with the reference at the side.

[softfloof]

yeah observation is definitely better, I'm a bit embarrassed to get the instructions confused with to be honest but at least I gained something out of it 😅

[faouzi-brazza]

You rock @softfloof a lot of nice exercices there. Keep up the good work cheers

[softfloof]

Thank you! Appreciate it 😸

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dailies day 5 🧚

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start of day 6 ( I remembered to blend the thing 😺👍 )

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my first take at 1 min gesture drawings, I think I did ok? idk

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Anatomy 😭
to be honest drawing this felt very awkward because people in my area do not look like this at all and are pretty small so it just felt weird to me
please give me comments on this because I don't have an eye for this type of stuff 🙏

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daily perspective practice/ perspective assignment pt. 2 ^^

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perspective 1 pt. 1

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perpective 1 pt. 3

this was super fun to do!! At the start I really struggled establishing the form but I think it worked out fine in the end. I still need to work on my measuring skills because that's my biggest weak point.

[faouzi-brazza]

You are a machine. Be careful to not burn out !

But all these exercices are super nice. I really like the layout you have to train your lines, boxes, circles and gesture drawing. If you don't mind, may I borrow the idea ?

Also very good idea to look for perspective and draw general lines / feeling on city / landscape photos. I'll do that to train my observation skills.

Your studies are super inspiring and stimulating. Very good job.

[faouzi-brazza]

Very good trial. Mines were to buff LoL. These really look like a woman and a man. And I find the proportion to be quite ok. Maybe not for the feet that go beyond the canvas but I don't think it is a real problem. Cheers