Joe - Art School Journey

joseph_k 2020-08-04 00:59:42 UTC #1

Hello! I'm Joe, and have recently begun Art School. I have been creating art since I was a kid, and now want to really get deep into improvement. I had a social media for 3+ years, but it didn't go anywhere so I decided to just delete it and start over. I hope to create some connections with other artists here and get to a high level of skill. I am on Term 1, and will add more of the assignments as I go along. Feel free to provide feedback / critique.

WeirdOwl 2020-08-04 01:36:15 UTC #2

Welcome Joe! Seems you are already quite good with the gesture drawing. Looking forward to seeing more of your art.
Did you join Art School Facebook yet? There is a post there where everyone is exchanging their social media. You are just on time for the party!

joseph_k 2020-08-04 02:04:02 UTC #3

Hey WeirdOwl, thanks for telling me about the group. I'll join soon. Getting excited!

WeirdOwl 2020-08-04 02:59:14 UTC #4

Also every Saturday there is an art review by Marc. So if you have a piece you want him to look at, make sure to post it before the stream starts.

joseph_k 2020-08-11 05:55:03 UTC #5

I have worked a lot on gesture drawings. I have completed the cylinders / 'boxes' ( the skeletons ), and will show them here. I feel I am becoming much better at seeing the human form and capturing it in general. I will now focus on the figure drawing assignment, as well as the proportions. I'm not sure if self-promotion is allowed on here, but I have also created an actual YouTube channel for my art. I feel like giving my art process to other artists and inspiring them to keep creating in these tough times ( For anyone interested, this is the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCesps3wEqTTOtawnTRpayxg?view_as=subscriber ).

joseph_k 2020-08-14 02:59:10 UTC #6

I wanted to share my gesture drawings today. I am definitely getting better ( and faster ), but I feel I still need to properly look at the forms themselves. Any advice / critique would be much appreciated

joseph_k 2020-08-15 19:30:29 UTC #7

So, here is my first attempt at drawing the full figure. I feel there is a lot to learn still. I'd like to learn enough to be able to draw the human body accurately. Perhaps I just need some more patience and time. If anyone has got some suggestions, I would much appreciate the help. Now, the last part of the nude figure drawing is the proportions. I'll be on to perspective next.

joseph_k 2020-08-15 20:42:21 UTC #8

I have started to learn about human proportions. I feel like I have at least a bit of a good grasp on this, though feedback is spprectiated. I want to learn to do this quite well.

joseph_k 2020-08-18 18:47:27 UTC #9

I just wanted to do a quick post here to provide an update as to my gesture drawings. I have been improving quite a bit ( for my pace at least ), and am starting to love the art process now. I'm slowly gaining more confidence through endless practice!

joseph_k 2020-08-23 20:42:51 UTC #10

I got some brand new references for the gesture drawings, since the references I was using were getting stale. It also let me quickly learn and adjust to new gestures / angles which weren't in the old references.

I have also begun the assignments for digital production ( photoshop ).

I am working through the lecture on perspective and will begin practicing and learning as I go.

joseph_k 2020-09-17 23:56:44 UTC #11

Been through a lot since the last post..I'll post more in a bit

joseph_k 2020-09-27 01:41:04 UTC #12

Alright...it's been a while. I simply couldn't figure out how to do the last one for the 'image adjustments' task, so I decided to just post what I have now and move on. At this point, all I have left is the perspective assignment of the room, and then I'll shortly be onto Term 2 ( which is quite exciting! )

For this one, I went for the castle ( and ALL images were my own! - I didn't want to search the internet for hours and hours looking for good photos )

joseph_k 2020-10-27 19:49:20 UTC #13

..Well. Okay, this year has been quite hard to get through. Again, I had to go through a lot to get to this point. I just wanted to quickly do the perspective assignment so I could get it done and get back into my groove with TERM 2

joseph_k 2020-11-04 04:47:22 UTC #14

Alright. I have gone through one of the classes, I'll try to do the rest by the end of the month. Here is a quick update on my progress with the gesture drawings

teddyousr 2020-11-04 12:14:31 UTC #15

Hello joe, u have a good grasp of "overall" gesture, i'm sure u will improve if u trace confident line on top of ur itchy lines . u will find patterns and how some curves well placed will definied the gesture and it will make sens with anatomy. After identified thoses lines u will start to replace ur itchy by those confident line u have grasped who definied the gesture. Keep it up

joseph_k 2020-11-29 06:57:22 UTC #17

I have begun studying facial anatomy, and here are my initial sketches for each ( including the full head itself - from my imagination ).

Julia_J 2020-11-29 09:21:37 UTC #18

Great studies! Especially your noses, they are so hard... Also, the style of the full face is really interesting.
Two small things though: the lashes on the left eye look kind of unnatural (they should "bundle up" some more). The mandible of the full face is way too long, but would work perfectly for a caricature.

joseph_k 2020-11-29 20:50:00 UTC #19

Thanks Julia, your comments really helped. In the photo reference for the left eye the lashes were quite long, so in the photo they were natural. Perhaps there's a 'threshold' of the length of the lashes which if crossed make them appear fake ( or maybe that threshold changes for each individual character's eyes )

Yes, the mandible is quite long.. . For me, I wanted to let go a bit of making things super accurate and stylized since it was from my own imagination ( for photo references though accuracy is key )

joseph_k 2020-12-24 05:52:46 UTC #20

I have begun learning 3-Point perspective, and this is my first real attempt at sketching out a simple drawing with basic shapes, forms, and lighting. I'm sure I've done a lot of mistakes which I can't see with my own eyes, so I'd be happy to learn how to improve. Also, happy holidays!

joseph_k 2020-12-25 23:42:02 UTC #21

I took the feedback of creating thicker lines on my gesture drawings to add some depth, and I feel it worked out quite well. I also took more time in this session, and that certainly made it a lot easier to actually look at each reference image and force myself to learn to break each figure down into the most basic forms, shapes, and lines I could imagine.

As always, I appreciate feedback. Happy holidays