Zang - Art Journey

[vdgiang.9895]

Hi, I'm Giang, 29 years old from Vietnam. I just quit my job as a content editor to pursuit my art dream in the gaming industry, hope it's not too late. Nice to meet all of you!

I have been watching lots of Marc Brunet's videos on YouTube for the last few months, and I really enjoy his art and also his teaching skills. So, I decided to give his Art School program a try as it focuses heavily on figure drawing/character design, which I want to learn badly. I did practice some digital painting before, but I was a long time ago, and I never drew/painted characters.

Anyway, here are my attempt to the first couple of exercises - pen control & cylinder drawing.

I really struggled with the diagonals & the curves/circles. The thing is, I can do confident circles with smooth lines, but they might not line up with the models (you know, the dotted lines). I would have to redo it again & again (yeah, ctrl+Z repeatedly) until they somehow match the model. I feel like it's just pure luck as I have no control where the pen goes. But if I draw slowly, the lines will be shaky, and the circles are not really smooth even when I draw from my elbow/shoulder. Any advice?

Anyway, I will keep doing this pen control exercises daily for 2 weeks (based on the Weekly Companion Guide), and then once a week, maybe?

Cylinder drawing is also a good pen control exercise, so I decided to draw as many cylinders as I can.

I'm so sorry for my bad English, but I hope you get what I want to say. Have a good day you all!

[daceronine]

Welcome to the forums Giang! excercices look good so far!

[vdgiang.9895]

Thank you!

[patrycja.lerch]

Welcome Giang!

[p.o.l_creator]

Welcome

[uggievang]

Welcome cant wait to see more

[vdgiang.9895]

Day 2 & 3 on Pen Control exercises.

Figure Drawing practice, simple standing poses for now to get used to the proportions and the body forms. I will try more dynamic poses in the next practices. I also watched the Anatomy 1 video from term 2 to practice simple head construction as well. Really appreciate contructive criticism, thanks!

[daceronine]

These all look really well made! I guess if there was anything to note, is that for the manequins, it's probably a better idea to draw the "spine" going all the way from the back of the head to the back of the lower box instead of just adding the "tube" connecting the torso box and the hips box.

Pulling the cylinder all the way up will help keep the gesture a bit better, though it still looks good here.

[vdgiang.9895]

Thank you, I tried to draw the spine, but not sure if I did it correctly. Gotta read & watch more about it.

[vdgiang.9895]

Pen Control Day 4!

I also do 1 more figure drawing study above. I'll try to study at least 1 figure per day til I reach 100 figures! Wish me luck.

[vdgiang.9895]

More pen control exercises in the last 2 days!

Also, the "1+ figure per day" play is still on track. Really appreciate constructive criticism, thanks!

[daceronine]

Good work man. Doing some good progress there.

As for the tube/spine, a couple of points that might help:

• The tube is obviously emulating the spine, just like the torso box and hips box emulate those parts, and though technically the spine does curve a bit on the torso (more like, it's anatomical form has some pieces that stand out), for practical purposes, we should try to keep it as a single continuous line or tube that bends one way or another, but not middway (since you can't double bend your spine). It should be an "extension" of gesture practice, so just like in gesture the spine is represented by a single stroke, so should this "tube" represent a single "pole" that bends sligthly.

[vdgiang.9895]

Thank you so much! I'll keep the "bending tube" in mind from now on.

[vdgiang.9895]

Busy weekend so I couldn't draw much, just another pen control exercises.

Day 7 of pen controlling, it was frustrated at first, but the more I do it, the more comfortable and relaxing it gets, still need to work on circles & pen pressure though. From now on, I'm gonna try other pen control exercises as a warm-up routine, and do these exercises once or twice a week.

[vdgiang.9895]

More figure drawings, try to push the forms a little more with these.

Also, I did some head construction study with simple facial features following the Anatomy 1 video & the head drawing video on Marc's channel.

Really appreciate constructive criticism! Have a nice week guys!

[uggievang]

nice work so far I would like to add to not forget your other guidelines there should be one for every feature of the face ( even tho everyone's faces are a little different ) also dont forget about the sphere that makes up the mouth muscles that add more shape to the face and where to place the mouth and how it curves.

(these faces are a bit off cuz I drew them when I was taking notes on the video)

[vdgiang.9895]

Thank you so much!

[vdgiang.9895]

Some perspective practice, it was a nice chance to get away from figure drawing lol