Vanthury - Art School Journey

hii welcome
ur art is really cool!

I really like this one: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cedc1oQKwzd/

Gave you a follow ^u^ (I use the same pen name on IG as i do here https://www.instagram.com/mitsuki_youko/

Salut !

Franchement j'espère que tu vas te plaire ici et que tu vas tout péter, si tu as déjà un bon niveau en dessin tu ne peux que consolider et t'améliorer !

J'ai hâte de voir ton travail

Welcome to the forums! I really liked your gallery on IG! Keep up the good work!

Welcome to the forums Vanthury!
I also checked out your art on insta, you're of to a wonderful start already!

• As for the ears, yeah there are really not that hard but keep in mind that you should still use reference for them (Doesn't matter how easy)
• Once you understand the basic structure try to experiment with a couple of variations: like really long ears, pointy elf ears and so on, gets you a lot more flexibility.

That said they still look really good for the first patch, look forward to the shading when you want a bit more challenge ;D

Interesting, a lot of people (mainly who don't draw themselves) are saying that using reference is cheating.

Well there is a clear answer to that:

If you want to draw something, you need to see it.

Doesn't matter if you use reference at the moment or used reference, you always need to see the subject beforehand.

When you use no reference, you still see the things you used to see with your eyes in your head which would be your Visual Library

Let's say you need to draw an apple, you have never seen an apple before, how are you supposed to draw it?

Either look at an apple in real life or use the internet, either way you used reference at that moment, when you decide to look at the reference for 10 seconds and then "free draw" the rest without looking, you still used reference for it.

Now if you have drawn apples for a long time now, your Visual Library is full of them, you can draw them without reference but you still used to use them (You can even argue that you still use reference because you see it in your Visual Library, but nobody goes that far ^^)

I hope this helps to not feel bad for using reference, not only for you but for other people who see this post!
It's important and shouldn't be discouraged!

Remember: You can only learn if you use reference!

Here Here!! @luke.buersgens

Any artist you admire that can work from imagination has done hours of observation and study to get to that point. Never feel like a cheat for using references. Learn to observe and SEE!

Much love.

Who doesn't love a good challenge? ;D
You can definitely integrate it and I know how:

• Back in DrawABox we had the 50/50 Rule meaning 50% of the time you would draw with the sole purpose of improving your skills and fundamentals!
  While the other 50% was to draw just for the sake of drawing!

• This was basically used to give your mind a break, give your brain time to think about the things you did in the study phase and absorb them better.
• Normally you would just throw yourself at the page and draw things that came randomly to your mind, not even minding the rules and fundamentals, just freedom and experiments!

But I see no reason why you can't do the same with not using reference at all while using fundamentals and rules!
Who knows? maybe you find new ways of doing things!

Have a great day ^^

Great point, also i think i heard Marc say somewhere to limit the amount of 'new' things you are doing with a piece. Try to keep like 80 percent comfort zone and really push for something new in that 20 percent.

I love her cap! 😄