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

[softfloof]

Self portrait, ☠️

( no ref because I used a mirror )
to be honest this was a more of a insecurity check rather than an art activity... Otherwise I didn't have too much difficulty with this, you can tell I don't really try to do realism but I tried. please comment if anything looks out of place.

[softfloof]

Thanks a lot! I'll try to tackle term 2 even better 😺

[uggievang]

I think your observation is pretty good you where able to point out the composition and focus of the piece. and its ok to to be able to not be able to critique a drawings sometimes. When you are trying to give a critique you want to be able to pinpoint something that can be improved upon, but sometimes the artist are above our art levels and that's ok too. In that case I would try to find a more novice artist where you are able to see and help them improve upon their art and also point out what you liked about it. Remember you always want to balance out praise and advice or you might come off as preachy. Ultimately tho it all depends if they want to take the critique or not so don't feel bad if they reject it. (lol I just realized this comment in itself is a critique)

[daceronine]

Lumine critique is pretty good! I think it's less about "making a good critique" and making an attempt to look at the drawing beyond the obvious, looking for the technical details you have learned so far. Which you did very well.

For works with characters I personally also pay close attention to their body language and expressions (since that's usually what I use for drawing), in this case her open and arms coupled with her happy/excited expression. The drawing would probably had a ver different feeling if she had her arms crossed or closed. Or if she had her arms completly open at her sides (like they do when they "fly" in the game). It's almost like she's a bit cautious but also excited.

Your self potrait is really nice too!

[softfloof]

This is really good advice, thank you! I never thought about critiquing a less experienced artist to be able to gauge what they did wrong or right. 😺

[softfloof]

To be honest, I kinda forgot that body language was even a thing and very easily impact a whole piece. I'll definitely keep that in mind for the next one. Thank you for the feedback! ^^

[softfloof]

photoshop assignment A 😺

[daceronine]

Ha ha, love the box as a board game. At least it looks like a board game to me xD

[softfloof]

Thanks! I got pretty lazy with the game cover and just reused my art from earlier but I think it came out alright ^^

[softfloof]

Sorry for the days off, anatomy 1 really took me a while to understand 😣
like I wasn't expecting it to be that hard...

anyways here's my daily gesture drawings, volumes and photoshop assignment B

[daceronine]

Never worry about the timeframe, we all got our own schedules. As long as you are moving along it's all good.

Blending is one of those things I'm still practicing to improve on since there seems to be different ways to do it. The above exercices are like the initial ones to learn the tools, but keep experimenting and see what you feel comfortable with. It helps to see what others around are doing and how they do it. For example, if you see a teammate in the forums where you like his blending or shadows, try asking him how he does it, and I'm sure they will be willing to help and share. I got great tips from many teammates in the forums like this.

[softfloof]

Appreciate it! To be honest I get a bit embarrassed asking people for help like that but it's definitely necessary to improve. 😅

[softfloof]

day 23 progress 👁👁

[softfloof]

I didn't post for a few days because of a personal project and wanted to come back stronger than ever so I completed all my head studies.😼

It's not the greatest but I think they'll do as studies, I wanted to challenge myself by using a very thing brush to make me more decisive with my lines. However, im still very reliant on liquify. I'm moderately satisfied with these, I think I could have made them more cleaner and appealing but I don't think that's the point of the study..

[daceronine]

Nice studies! You captured the essence pretty well. Now you got me curious on what that personal project is

[softfloof]

It's nothing big tbh 😭
I just did fanart of natsume from natsume book of friends

[softfloof]

LMAO you can tell I had a hard time with the 10 minute gesture drawings but got slightly better at the end. I tried stylizing it but they ended up goofy looking ☠️

I feel like the portrait study could be improved on a lot but I ended up getting pretty lazy with it and decided to submit what I had at the end of today. I tried greyscale for the first time and I think it translated decently? It was a lot easier to put color after getting the values down ( I'm not a big fan of color picking ☠️ )

[daceronine]

Oh never heard of natsume book of friends. But that piece is looking good! That last work head work based on the reference also turned out really nice!

[patrycja.lerch]

Natsume looks great! And good job on studies

[softfloof]

Sorry for not being active, I just got back to school and wasn't able to use my gadgets ☠️. I'll try to post more but I probably won't output as much art since I need to balance my studies.