• Gave myself 5 days to do something. This is what I managed to do. I'm trying to get better at illustrations, but I have patience to work on something for 3 days maximum :( Splash_Process.jpg5000x3140 2.21 MB Splash_Process-6.jpg3896x2429 2.83 MB concept list char copy.jpg5388x3000 1.7 MB
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  • Did a character concept for a course.https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P6gm3y - more:) list1.jpg3541x1920 2.82 MB
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  • Day 4: Star Wars May The 4th =] Queen Padmé Amidala in my art style! First time drawing her and I really enjoyed making this one! Used watercolours, ink pen, acrylic markers and gold paint for accents on my Canson mix media sketchbook. I hope you like it!
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  • A creature design from a while back
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  • Here is some more recent stuff, I need to make more body studies
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  • It's been a while and god, it is so cringe to go through all previous messages xDmy study.
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  • Thank you! I finally cleaned that up. Meanwhile started 3 more ..I have a habit of taking too long to finish a piece, then I lose interest in it and just start something else. I found 8 from recently i started and abandoned, that are decent enough to not delete, but not finished. There’s also been a number of drawings I felt I “outgrew” - became better before I finished them, and it would be easier to start from scratch than fix them. Anyone else thinking that?
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  • Lady Death Fanart Collectible: Part 6 Polypaint and base Hi, it’s time to share with you another part of the process to create this fanart piece. Polypaint As this is my first collectible fanart I didn’t have previous experience with polypaint so I tried my best and played a bit with it.I wanted to give a ghostly and eerie look to Lady Death, she is beautiful and deadly, but at the end of the day she is a woman that died and was reborn at hell as an avenging spirit, that’s why I gave her skin tone a bluish very cold tone.As you will see I gave myself some creative freedom to deviate from the traditional color scheme that this characater has in comics and illustrations.To add a bit of sensuality by painting some freckles on the face and the chest. The dark nature of this character was the perfect excuse to gave her a kind of goth make up, very dark shadows around the eyes, blue lips and fingernails. I know that the original character includes sexy red lips but I wanted this girl to have a sexy but at the same time creepy look, that’s why we can see some thin veins emanating from her eyes. The biggest chromatic change I did for this character is at the hair. Lady Death has a characteristic white weavy hair but in my fanart I decided to gave her a very saturated blue color.The reason behind this wasn’t only an aesthetic choice. I want that the face area strongly pulls the attention of the viewer so this area needed a stronger contrast. Another reason is that I want her to have a more modern look, as I mentioned before, I’m strongly attracted to women with goth/punk look. I gave myself half an hour or more to analyse the work of experienced sculptors that create collectibles and I discovered that the use of darker values on the skin is often applied to create a greater sense of volume and three-dimensionality. I found that areas with heavy ambient occlusion are the perfect places to paint with darker colors in order to increase the separation between different forms. Even though she has a bluish skin tone, I used a bit of warmer hues in areas that, in real life, tend to go towards red and pink, this is very obvious in the nose, cheeks, and knuckles. Thinking with a logical mind it’s completely absurd to have warmer tones on the body of a zombie like creature but I didn’t want to limit myself by using only blue tones, it looks boring and artificial. In real life these colors are created by blood vessels in areas where the skin is very thin. ** Scythe **for her weapon I applied a cool gray with some warmer variations, this color scheme is influenced by the work of H.R giger. Base I’d like to talk about the design for the base which, to be honest, I forgot to develop along with the character.My main idea with the base is to show that Lady Death inhabits a very sterile and arid land, at the end of the day she is at hell.You can see a that she walks over dirt and rocks, a sign that she’s surrounded by death and loneliness. As part of the landscape we can see some bones and skulls to reinforce the idea of lack of living creatures, yet we can see three hands that try to reach her legs.This hands represent that all creatures are subordinated to her power and seek an evil blessing with a simple touch of the princess of the damned.1- The hand with skin burns represents the souls of those who are newcomers to hell, tortured souls that suffer for the sins comitted on earth.2- The hand with greenish rotten skin and pustules is the reminder of the decay that has infected the souls of those who have been trapped and have forgotten their humanity3- Last but not least, the hand of a demon shows that even dark creatures and entities bow before her presence. The cherry on the top, at least in my vision, are the simese twins that emerge from the ground, this malevolent creatures remind us that in hell there’s only perversion and any trace of innocence is lost. Thanks for reading till this pointI’m really happy to be very close to finish this creative journey, last but not least it’s mandatory to talk about splitting the sculpture in several pieces to be printed, this will be my last entry before showing the final rendered images. See yaMay Zbrush be with you
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  • studies studies juri study imagination, how I feel before a speech imagination imagination study something I drew for my presentation also drew this for my presentation, didn't fix the one hand being bigger than the other imagination + study study studies study study, I need to fix the face a bit based on screenshot from anime but in my style study. except for the eye study studies studies study. changed some things tho imagination imagination imagination study studies, except top right samurai based on anime screenshot wolverine studies, changed some of the poses a lil, not very good at all, but first time i drew the character ever. semi study studies study imagination imagination imagination , for first time ever i tried to draw over 3d model for middle pose, I dont like the result tbh, but it makes it much easier than coming up with it from memory.imagination, except right figurestudies imagination + studies, coming up with action poses r hard, these are not dynamic enough, I will redraw better ones in future. imagination , imagination imagination study, except for eye imagination imagination imagination doodles except for the two chrollos imagination storyboard thumbnail, idk if i ever shared this. my storyboards end up being a little detailed since i usually just draw in one layer.
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Nov '20

Nude Figure Drawing
I enjoyed this subject a lot and spent the most time on it. Definitely saw some improvement but I think I still need to improve my sense of proportion and 3D space. Heres some of my exercises!

Exercise 3
I found it difficult to use boxes for this exercise whenever the model had a pose with perspective/foreshortening, definitely prefer the ovals but I guess that's compensating for a knowledge gap :sweat_smile:

Exercise 5

Exercise 6
Really loved the gesture drawing exercises, definitely my favourite way to warm up for a drawing session. I think my biggest problem is just keeping the proportions correct, especially when drawing under such a small time limit. Any tips on this one would be great!

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Exercise 7
Another fun exercise. These are the ones I did without overlaying to check for mistakes until the very end. Again I think its small miscalculations with proportions when I'm doing things by eye which creates variance compared to my reference. (Definitely want to get better with values too)

Nov '20

Perspective 1
Exercise 3
Found this pretty straightforward for 1 point perspective, just made up some rooms. I think there's some scale issues though which is something to work on. Maybe I'm completely missing something as well?

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Exercise 4
2 point was a lot harder and buildings are really complex, just focused on the main structures here. Might come back to this down the line and draw a building that interests me more!

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Nov '20

Hey @mmatias.mail!

We've got a similar backstory when it comes to art - I took a 6 year long art break in my 20s and have decided to really get back into it in 2020. Your artwork (pre-art school I mean) is very promising and your foundations are solid enough that you stand to gain the most from the Art School program.

As for your homework, it's fantastic! Your gesture drawings and perspective pieces are just sizzling with potential, and you rarely see that level of care put into them. I love your line quality and attention to cast shadows.

Keep doing (and sharing) the assignments, as you'll never stop learning things and they are one of the more valuable aspects of Art School. Once you get past the first few assignments, make up your own homework and keep striving for quality pieces like these ones.

Finally, to answer your question about scale, 1 point perspective is sort of flat-looking for any polished artwork and it's difficult to convey scale. However, as long as things are in proportions relative to each other, you can transform/stretch the image in any axis while maintaining the same "correct" perspective because the vanishing point remains unaffected.

Your bedroom picture could easily be stretched vertically by 20%, I tried it and it felt a touch better to me. Also (and I know this is outside of the scope of the homework), you can give it a spherical distortion and it looks SUPER COOL.

Anyway, I'm done ranting. I just wanna reiterate that I love your work so far. Keep it coming :smile:

Dec '20

Hey Vonschlippe!

Glad to see someone who's gone through something similar, I honestly felt like it was too late to get back into art but I'm so glad I made the decision to get back into it, definitely something I would regret not pursuing.

Thanks for your feedback and the tips! You've definitely helped with the scale issue, totally forgot that you could do that with digital pieces :sweat_smile:. Also the transform trick is AMESOME! Reminds me of a fisheye lens and makes it way more dynamic!

Can't wait to keep going through more of the subjects, seeing the work from some of you more experienced artists is way too inspiring!

Dec '20

Hi Miguel! Your homework assignments look incredible already! Looks like you understand all the fundamentals with ease and are applying an artistic touch to everything. I am really looking forward to seeing you at the streams and witnessing what you will come up with for the later terms.

Dec '20

Thanks WeirdOwl! I hope I can show something good for the streams!! I'll probably submit some assignments in the next week or two! :grin:

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Jan '21

Happy New Year everyone! Hope the holidays have been going well. I spent the last month or so working on perspective 2 as well as learning how to paint!

Perspective 2-1

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Kept it to some simple geometric shapes on this one just to get a feel for 3 point perspective. I think its a huge step up from 2 point in terms of wrapping my brain around it :joy:

Perspective 2-2

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Tried something more refined here, went for that imposing wall/gate prompt. The thumbnail for this was really good but I realised as I went that the vanishing point in the sky caused a tonne of distortion. Especially towards the edges of the artwork!

Jan '21

Thought I'd throw this Genshin fanart up as well as I feel like its a good representation of my skill right now. Spent ages on this with a lot of trial and error but it was a good experience learning how to render which I feel is definitely my weakest point right now. I also got to try out the polishing tips from Marc's new video, which definitely pushed the piece in terms of contrast. Probably a bunch of value/lighting issues in here that I can't see though, any feedback would be great!

Jan '21

Perspective 2-3
Went for a bridge scene on this one and tried to tilt the horizon line. Might have bitten off more than I can chew here, did my best to hash out any structural issues but I may have missed some things. I'm also having trouble with the lighting setup, I feel like its incorrect on the bridge in the middle. I'll probably submit this one to stream for feedback, happy drawing everyone!

Jan '21

Looking great! The concept is fantastic :smile:
About the lighting (I am an art newbie, so I guess it is more opinion than fact): The rock hovering in the middle seems to be lighted from the right side and from behind at the same time.

Jan '21

Thanks Julia! Good catch! I think I gotta rework the lighting on it. I want it to be like a transparent glowing crystal, so I think I'll need to study some reference on how the light will refract. Will repost over the week! :smile:

Jan '21

ahhh yeah knowing that it makes a lot more sense :smile:

13 days later

Jan '21

Some 3 point perspective practice. Just some simple blocks and tried to do different lighting setups

Jan '21

I really want to learn how to render better so I decided to do Part B of Photoshop 2 first!
Added some quick value practice as well :smile: Did some colour picking and it seems I'm a few shades off when picking values by eye. I also found the metal ball difficult to replicate compared to the cubes especially the highlight areas - maybe I needed to spend more time/effort on this one!

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Jan '21

Really like your last couple of perspective pieces, you really push that perspective to make for some really awesome angles and scenes. Keep at it!

Jan '21

Thank you! That means a lot to me! It's really satisfying when you get something dynamic :smiley: