Strifer - Art School Journey

vstriferv 2024-12-14 20:16:57 UTC #1

Hello! I'm Strifer, I joined the program after seeing some of Marc's Youtube Vids. His teaching style seems to work for me, and the community he has created seems to be chill! That's you by the way, hi! I'm here to go through my fundamentals, expand my visual library, and hopefully down the line, draw from imagination.

I've drawn on and off before, but never really with focus and intent on practicing. Certainly not on the level of this course at least. Before this I was mainly just drawing mine or my friend's OCs. Always happy to receive, or give, critique at the best of my ability. Let's do this!

Hope you have a fantastic day.

- Strifer

vstriferv 2024-12-14 20:31:11 UTC #2

Week 1

First week was mainly about getting to know CSP, and practice using the tools at my disposal, line weight, pressure sensitivity, levels, curves, color balancing etc. As well as starting to build my visual library by deliberate observation of the things around us.

The statement of "We can't draw what we don't know." sent me down a rabbit-hole of how to best study from reference, ran in to a bunch of other tutorials on the subject that way. It was Feng Zhu (From FZD) and Salem Shanouha (from Youtube channel with same name) that stood out however, can really reccomend their talks on visual libraries and how to build them.

- Strifer

Assignments
I'll only post one of the Pen Control Assignments, you've probably seen 100s of these by now, you get the idea.

kalienator 2024-12-14 21:38:49 UTC #3

Welcome and great start on the homework! That last image is really hard to color match exactly.

vstriferv 2024-12-15 09:17:18 UTC #4

Thank you!
And yeah, I agree. I struggled a lot with both the last image and the 2nd under section 2. After going through the pins under term1 on Discord I found the video on curves though, so now they don't seem like such black magic anymore.

vstriferv 2024-12-15 09:22:07 UTC #5

Week 2 - Combining Images

I was dreading this one because the tonal curves didn't make sense too me in the previous assignment, but after reading the pins on Discord I found the video on Curves which helped a lot to clear out the mystery on how they work.

So the assignment was actually pretty fun in the end. If I had to give myself critique; I could probably have pushed the shadows further on the side of the building and the fox.

patrycja.lerch 2024-12-15 11:38:14 UTC #6

Welcome! Nice work on assignments

vstriferv 2024-12-15 17:44:36 UTC #7

Mannequinization Assignment

vstriferv 2024-12-16 21:18:41 UTC #8

Assignment 4 - Selections, Stamp, Liquify

Not much to say about this one, good way to introduce the tools. Made me set up some different keybinds for things like flip and rotate canvas.

vstriferv 2024-12-20 21:25:57 UTC #9

Term 1 - Week 2

Some of the work done this week + spiderbro

jannis.fiedler 2024-12-21 14:37:27 UTC #10

omg Spiderbro looks so good

vstriferv 2024-12-21 21:02:44 UTC #11

Term 1 - Week 2

Today I learned that the Latin word for bumblebee is bombus. Anyway... Last day of T1 W2 complete. Next up is W3 with some gesture drawing addition.

vstriferv 2024-12-22 20:29:09 UTC #12

Term 1 - Week 3

Todays haul, day one of week 3. Gesture drawing is intense stuff huh, I think I got somewhat better towards the end of the 1m ones. Hoping next time goes smother.. Anway, first character study goes to Marcille as I just finished watching Dungeon Meshi. Had a lot of fun drawing up her stuff!

vstriferv 2024-12-23 21:52:47 UTC #13

Term 1 - Week 3

Character Study 2/5 - Melina from Elden Ring

vstriferv 2024-12-24 09:40:18 UTC #14

No time for a character study today, Christmas dinner and all that. Did study ants though.

vstriferv 2024-12-25 18:12:33 UTC #15

Term 1 - Week 3 Character Study 3 and 4

Today's character/line study. I need to work on my line quality and just in general take more confident strokes. A lot of my lines are just cobbled together, drawn over and erased bit by bit until it look decent-ish. Problem is then that the linework is just not very tight and there are artifacts everywhere.

Just gotta keep practicing. <3

vstriferv 2024-12-26 21:31:39 UTC #16

Term 1 - Week 3 Character Study 5

vstriferv 2024-12-27 15:34:57 UTC #17

DrawAlong with LinesSensei

After todays daily tasks I decided to do a draw-along with LinesSensei, going with the process gave some cool insight into how to do cleaner lines, non-destructive shading and other bits and bobs like post-processing.

Probably wont retain much of what was done as most of it went over my head. Not really the level I'm at myself, but it was cool to have a peak at what can be with the right knowledge.

vstriferv 2024-12-29 10:49:07 UTC #18

Term 1 - Week 4 Proportion Daily Assignment

First one was with a guide, second with reference and third with no reference. Struggling with the knee area mostly, can never really line up the U shape for the knee properly, have to resize it after I've placed the leg.

vstriferv 2024-12-31 09:56:17 UTC #19

Term 1 - Week 4 : 1m Gestures

Trying to focus on finding the 3 major masses; having a lot of issues with finding the contour / rhythm for the limbs.

vstriferv 2025-01-03 08:37:17 UTC #20

Term 1 - Week 4 - Gestures and Perspective

Some more of the work done this week. I'm so tired of plotting 1p and 2p perspective cubes that I wanted to challenge myself with some cube rotation. Tomorrow I start week 5.