Voidknight96 (Ricardo) - Art school Journey

[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.

[ricardodelcol]

Finished Perspective assignment 3, and getting into regular 5min gesture practice.

[mitsuki-youko]

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!

heyo welcome to the forums!!

I like your usage of colors! they're so pretty XD esp the gradients!

these latest gestures look rly good!

[ricardodelcol]

Did this assignment again, big improvement from my last attempt but still got a long way to go, hoping to knock off the last Perspective assignment and get ready to move to term 2 finally.

[ricardodelcol]

Finally got around to completing the Perspective 4 assignment, not perfect but I'm happy with how it turned out.

[ricardodelcol]

Term 1 overview: took me a long time but happy to finally have completed term 1 much was learned, and it has helped me improve alot. Here are some of my practices assignments and a recent personal drawing to show how my work has grown thanks to what I've learned so far. /

[ricardodelcol]

Getting started in Term 2 with the Anatomy and Volumes exercises

[ricardodelcol]

Back again after a while, keeping up my practices.