Kamil - Art School Journey

WholeMilk 2022-07-22 08:04:45 UTC #7

Thank you!

WholeMilk 2022-07-23 07:54:43 UTC #8

I made an attempt at the 30 second gesture drawings today and it wasn't fun -_-. It felt very stressful, so I'm probably going to try doing 1 minute ones from now on. Feedback is appreciated!

Lockenheim 2022-07-23 14:56:32 UTC #9

When I first started gestures I hated it so much. So so much. I still don't like it. But I do enjoy it more than I used to. I'm used to fixing most of my art mistakes by throwing time at it. Which you cant do for gesture. That being said you are identifying key landmarks and these look really good for 30 secs for sure. Capturing a lot of volume! Great work with these, keep it up the pain will go down pretty quickly.

WholeMilk 2022-07-24 06:31:10 UTC #10

Thank you, I wasn't entirely sure if I was doing these right!

WholeMilk 2022-07-24 06:32:29 UTC #11

I did some 1 minute gesture drawings for today. I'm probably going to start on perspective tomorrow. I've realized I'm moving at a pretty slow pace, so I'm going to try to step it up a bit.

WholeMilk 2022-07-26 03:14:18 UTC #12

I was feeling kind of lazy yesterday so I didn't post. Got some new 1 minute gestures for today (I did a lot more but I compiled the ones I thought were best). I approached these differently from my previous gesture drawings. I tried giving the poses a lot more structure. Please let me know if it's better this way or the way I was previously doing these gestures.

I started on my room perspective drawing today. I did a little bit and drew some crates in perspective (going for a sci-fi vibe for my room). If you see any of the perspective off, let me know.

WholeMilk 2022-07-27 02:32:16 UTC #13

Hello! Got some more progress on my "room" assignment. I'm slowly realizing that it's turning more into a science laboratory than a representation of my room, but oh well. I'll try to fix up the line quality when I'm finished drawing the room in entirety. Any feedback is appreciated!

I did some gesture drawing today as well, here is what I did in one of my sessions. Not really sure if I'm doing these properly or not. I feel like you can understand the pose in most of these, but they might be lacking something, I'm not sure.

WholeMilk 2022-07-28 04:26:50 UTC #14

More progress on the assignment today! It's pretty hard coming up with ideas of how to fill the room up, so I'm just going to shorten the size of it in order to not drive myself crazy.

More gestures...

Lockenheim 2022-07-28 22:29:00 UTC #15

Lovely work especially on the perspective! There are many different ways to do gestures, and Marc has said as you improve the gestures will change. So I would just say do whats natural to you and I think these are looking great! Nice job!

WholeMilk 2022-07-29 03:42:52 UTC #16

Thank you so much! I was getting worried that I wasn't doing the gestures properly.

WholeMilk 2022-07-29 03:47:41 UTC #17

Hello! I finally finished the "room" assignment. Again, it's not much of a representation of my room, but the moment I realized that, I was too far in to go back. The left side has a lot more detail than the right purely because I was pretty unmotivated to finish the project. I'll probably be moving onto term 2 after taking a break for a day or two.

WholeMilk 2022-07-30 06:25:52 UTC #18

Just did some gestures today in order to chill out. I'm planning to move onto term 2 sometime within the upcoming days.

Lockenheim 2022-07-30 17:16:54 UTC #19

This room came out so good! You did a really fantastic job with this! Keep up the good progress!

WholeMilk 2022-08-01 03:16:55 UTC #20

Did the first assignment for Anatomy I. I recognize that my ability to shade properly in digital medium is terrible, so that's something I'm definitely going to have to work on. I did these rather quick as I think I have a good understanding of these concepts already (apart from shading). Looking forward to drawing faces

WholeMilk 2022-08-02 05:08:51 UTC #21

Hello! I practiced doing some basic head drawings mostly from imagination. Some of them look a little weird to me, but I suppose I'll get better at it the more I practice! Feedback on these is appreciated!

Did some gesture drawings today too. These were roughly 1 minute each.

Lockenheim 2022-08-03 14:10:21 UTC #22

I really love your line confidence! Looking great! The head constructions are looking quite solid too! You might try putting some super simple features on them if you feel ready for it. Keep it up!

WholeMilk 2022-08-12 05:23:26 UTC #23

Hello! I haven't been posting anything for over a week, but that's because I've been trying to tackle shading. I have little to no experience with it on pencil and paper, so doing it digitally was definitely a challenge. I've had numerous failed attempts over the course of the last week before I arrived at this painting.
The middle nose is my 3 value block-in of the image and the one on the far right is the final result after doing some edge work.
I'm far from being good at this still, so any feedback is appreciated!

One more thing...
If you or anyone you know is struggling with shading, I recommend giving this video (particularly starting at 8:25) a watch. It really helped clarify to me the "process" of shading. Without this, I probably would have continued to be completely lost.

qdominois 2022-08-12 07:33:13 UTC #24

Well i dont know anything in shading but your nose drawing is really beautifull , keep it up you progress a lot !! Thanks for sharng the video too !

WholeMilk 2022-08-13 07:14:38 UTC #25

Got another nose drawing for today. I don't think this one turned out as well as my previous one did. There was a lot less contrast between values in the reference image for this painting which is why I think it looks more smooth.

I'll probably be moving onto eyes tomorrow because I've been on noses for quite some time.

Feedback is appreciated!

WholeMilk 2022-08-15 07:19:49 UTC #26

Hello! I said in my previous post that I was going to move onto eyes next, but apparently Marc goes over the mouth before he does the eyes, so I practiced drawing the mouth today. I did a 5 value block-in using a reference image of a nose and mouth. I probably won't be fully rendering this image because it'll take me many hours to do (and I'm also pretty sure that I'll make it worse if I try).

Feedback is appreciated!