William- Art School Journey

[snakker]

Welcome aboard! looking good so far!

I like your use of cubes for these exercises, I feel you are nailing the directions the masses are facing quite well and that can be hard sometimes to get right

cheers

[malcom]

Nice work. I definitely recommend entering our current art challenge this week. This week is a focus on gesture drawing. Link here for more info on it. Next week will be about construction. So the things you are doing right now will basically be what the weeklies are covering.

[williamclemens8]

cool, how do I upload pieces of gesture drawing to the competition?

[malcom]

You will post your gestures here. We are even providing free professional reference's for the month. These were donated by CB sellers. You'll find to the link to that set on the topic post.

April Weekly Challenge Week #2

[image] It's the start of a new week and we all know what that means - New challenge! Link to the Event Info here!! Topic "Gesture" [image] Week 2 will be a focus on Gesture Drawing - In this week, your daily goal should be to do a minimum of 10 gesture drawings per day. - On the final day, post your 5 favorite gesture drawings and your 5 least favorite. Professional reference packs provided by Mels Mneyan, Grafit Studio and Obscura_29 Please give them your thanks for providing fr…

[williamclemens8]

ah ok thanks, I will post what I make here. Just let me know if I am doing anything wrong

[williamclemens8]

speaking of, tonight's work on the daily figure assignment. The main thing I am worried about is the placement of the hip joints, and the shape of the torso. Should I try and follow the contour, or just go for the overall shape of the ribcage?

[williamclemens8]

another go of figure practice, I think I need to work on the placement of the hip joints.

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My first attempt of the combining images assignment. I think it went ok? I had some trouble with trying to mask things like colour on the layers, even though I was able to use the filter mask pretty alright.

[williamclemens8]

Today's round of figure studies, I am looking forward to moving on. I am going to try and polish off the figure drawing video this weekend, as I have been busy lately.

[williamclemens8]

ok so, finishing up assignments in the selections/liquify/healstamp group. I did the apples and alien assignment because as far as I know Krita doesn't have the sort of healing brush needed to do the assignment where you make the young man look old. I think I did alright on the apples assignment, though the selections were a little choppy if you look closer. The alien one took a while because I didn't know where to find it on Krita until Eegan (thank you!) on the discord showed me.

[williamclemens8]

first day of gesture drawing, 30 minutes, 1 minute each. It felt a bit choppy as I have never done gesture on digital before, and having 2 tabs open was a bit awkward.

[williamclemens8]

So the first attempt of copying character line art was of The Goon, by Eric Powell. The Goon is one of my favorite comic book characters, so I felt I should try and give it a go. It was harder than I anticipated though, as getting the shapes and proportions and details was a lot harder than just using a reference for something else. I will try and do better on the next one.

[williamclemens8]

Today's gesture drawing, I'll also start working on the lineart copy #2 tonight.

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character copy #2, I am not as happy with this one because the shadows look off. I'll try and use a more structured approach for the next one.

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Character copy #3, this one was Door from the youtube series "Hunter: The Parenting". He is my favourite character from the series, and I like how this one came out. I used a more structured approach to it, and I think the reference was simple enough for my skill level that it came out looking half ok.

[olashamala]

Nice foreshortening work!

[williamclemens8]

thanks man

[williamclemens8]

copy number 4, the Bounty Hunter from Darkest Dungeon. Though I like the character, he was a lot harder than the last one and I had a tougher time trying to make it look accurate. For the last one I will try and choose something a bit more simple.

[williamclemens8]

today and last nights gesture drawings (30 minutes, 30 seconds each), I think the ones in red came out pretty ok

[williamclemens8]

Lineart copy number 5, of Dismas from Darkest Dungeon. Though I'm not super happy with the way it turned out, I am still glad that I was able to make it through week 3, and look forward to going into week 4.