Voidknight96 (Ricardo) - Art school Journey

[ricardodelcol]

Hi everyone I'm excited to to participate in this art school! I've been drawing for a few years but felt I've been lacking in a few concepts so I'm going over a fresh start with this course. New to photoshop so looking to using it.

I'll post one of my recent works then mainly focus on assignment work with some other works i do along the way, looking forward to your criticism and the journey ahead!

[leeireo]

Hi! Welcome to the ART School forums! Love all the rigid-like textures going on in the artwork! Very interesting. I look forward to seeing your improvement and growing along side you

[ricardodelcol]

January 3rd 2022: Pen control and Image adjustment

I wanted to focus on all the assignments I'm given though I was mainly after improving myu drawing skills I've been fascinated with the editing functions on Photoshop and aim to tackle all subjects given.

Liking the vidoes so far and this assignment was a good way to judge my current level of pen control.

Still not great with circles or pen pressure but now I have a good base to keep practicing with photoshop brushes are interesting gonna need a bit of time to learn how to tweak them.

-Image adjustment-

Image Adjustment was a lot of fun though this took me a while to work on the pictures (40 min) as I reworked many of the adjustments when they were off, I really enjoyed this one and would like any tips to getting a better result for the last image as it really threw me for a loop.

Looking forward to the next assignment!

[_Sasha_]

Nice, I'm not focusing on the photoshop part of the course myself so I don't think I can give a lot of feedback on that part.

On the pen control bit though you're very accurate which is good, but I think trying to be more confident with your lines will benefit you (mainly on the circles) as they look a little wobbly. Just making sure you use your whole arm and try not to go too slowly. ^-^

[ricardodelcol]

Combining and Liquefy

Combining images was defintly interesting but very difficult for me to get done, gave me some insight on layers and image tweaking but I found this one to be the most challenging exercise so far.

Liquefy/heal/Stamp:

This exercise was fun learning how to blend and shape images was very entertaining to me though not something I found easy to do, does anyone have a tip for making the source image line up when adjusting it's size? that was the main issue that i faced doing this exercise.

Looking forward to doing the drawing exercises!

[Gordon003]

I love the Combine image you created. I can see that the colour atmosphere works for the boat, human and the lighthouse (I'm assuming that you added it to the original background).

However, I do feel that boat looks like it's floating; maybe the boat shape is suggesting that.

[ricardodelcol]

Yeah I couldn't figure out a way to make it seem more flat without standing out too much.

[ricardodelcol]

Nude and Figure Drawing exercises first day:

Finally got the time to start out the drawing assignments, I'm having a fresh start with anatomy and the practices have been very helpful in developing my understading of anatomy and creating a believable form.

I still have a long way to go but I'm confident with these assignment and daily practice I have a strong base to improve.

Gesture drawing is defintly the hardest part of the assignments but I had fun in reminding my self to be loose with the constructions blocks of a drawing, I have a bad habit in making the first draft of a piece to be the final base this exercise is helping me let go of the perfectionism and just enjoy capturing a figure in raw lines than perfect forms.

[ricardodelcol]

Just some more practice through the drawing exercises, been busy lately but I trying to arrange more time to do the studies. I've been enjoying focusing on developing my understanding of the human form. If you have any adivce for tackling these drawing exercises a little better I'm all ears.

[Lukiesartventure]

When it comes to proportions and figures taking photos of yourself for reference can really help you see where you are going wrong

[Lockenheim]

Nice work! I am still new to gesture drawing and I really, really struggled at first. I still struggle quite a bit. One thing that seems to help me quite a bit is instead of chain drawing poses back to back to back is that I spend the same amount of time observing after I complete a drawing. So for a 1 minute pose I would study for 1 minute. I do my gesture, then after its complete I pause the session, and look at my drawing and the reference, study what I thought was successful and add that to my memory to use again and then study what I could have done differently. I'm not sure if this is how others do the process but it seems to be working for me! Keep up the good work!

[ricardodelcol]

Been to long life just got busy as it does but made time to wrap up the Nude Drawing assignments.

The final part of the nude drawing exercise is the one I've struggled the most with since making points to note limbs and joints are just a weakness of mine. Any tips to getting a better result are welcome since I found this one frustating.

[Lockenheim]

Nice work so far! In terms of the joints Marc gave some feedback the other week to someone to just use large spheres for the joints for now. I think the point of these exercises is to train your eye to measure distance and space and proportions more than getting the joints exactly correct at this point. You are doing well keep it up!

[ricardodelcol]

Been a long time since I posted here, I've begun following the new Term 1 study schedule at my own pace.

Up to week 3 tasks and wanted to share my line art studies so far

This has been very challenging but also an interesting study.

[ricardodelcol]

Second lineart study done, not perfect but I'm happy with the results

[ricardodelcol]

Daily drawing/Gesture practice and My third lineart study of a character from the upcoming game Silk Song.

Decided to try a less instense lineart study for my thrid and I love the desgins from Ari Gibbson characters.

[ricardodelcol]

Lineart study 4 is complete wanted to try working on one of Marc's sketches, his line art style is interesting, and I had a lot of fun trying to copy it. Any feedback is appreciated!

[ricardodelcol]

My last lineart study #5, wanted to do a knight since I love armour and want to get better at drawing it. This one was diffcult so any tips or recommendations to approach drawing armour would be appreciated.

[ricardodelcol]

Drawing practice today and my first attempt at the second assignment of Perspective, It need a lot of work but it's interesting to learn how to apply perspective like this.

If anyone has any tips to pratice Perspective let me know!

[ricardodelcol]

Haven't had a lot of time for study but here is some more perspective practice, doing the bottom view perspective boxes is proving to be challenging but I'm getting there.