Pauline - Art School Journey

[Pauline_art]

Thank you so much Patricia! It was fun to draw those ghosts!

[Pauline_art]

Alright time for some weekly postin'!

I spent a couple of hours this week developing a plan to do the most important homework from the course! I see that gesture drawing and geometry drawing are repeated exercises from start to finish so I'll do those as daily warm ups.

I think I'll make bigger drawings for 5 minute poses moving forward! This will push me to draw more details I think...

This is the commission I was talking about last week! I really like how it turned out!

I ran a raffle as well and the winner requested Midnight from My Hero Academia! Head angles are tough- next week I'll study that subject in more detail.

A WIP of Peach because I loved the Mario movie!! I think I'll reconstruct some things in this drawing on Monday...

Aaand last but not least:

A round boi...

The stories for my personal project are almost done. Then I'll move to the characters and then I'll make a list of everything I need to start drawing!! I'm very excited!!

Have a nice weekend, friends!

[patrycja.lerch]

I like your lineart with colored lines inside. Commission looks nice; colors work well with lineart and everything is soft; I would only push head a bit so that face doesn't line up with sternomastoid.
and That angle on Midnight it suits her. Can't wait to see finished Peach
Fish is looking straight into my soul

Great job!

[Norma]

Will you present the personal project story in this forum? I'll keep an eye out for it.

[leo.glt95]

Your art is so clean !! great job Loved C-18 and Peach !!
Also great job on rendering, is the course from Steven zappata worth it?
Don't have the money rn but I hesitate to get it in the future cause rendering isn't my strong point lmao

Anyway good job keep up the work !

[Pauline_art]

@patrycja.lerch Thank you Patricia! I'll watch out for the alignment of the anatomy moving forward in that area! The fish knows everything.... everything!

@Norma My plan is to release snippets of the story as I post the visual development images! Which I'm sure will be really soon!

@leo.glt95 Thanks a lot Leo!! :DD It's a great course imo- the lessons are valuable and Steven is active in the community for feedback! Personally, I find rendering easier to understand now and I've noticed improvements! So to me, it's worth it.

[leo.glt95]

Just to be sure, it's the one on proko right?

[Pauline_art]

Ohhh no, I don't think so I'm talking about Form From Imagination (which is hosted in its own site)- but my opinion stays the same! Steven is a good teacher and he explains things very carefully- FFI was an eye opener for me in many ways so I'm sure he's got some awesome secrets in his Proko courses or in Gumroad!

[leo.glt95]

thx for the precision shit i just realised his course on proko is 25 dollars lmao, well i guess he goes way more into detail on his website

[Pauline_art]

@leo.glt95 Yw! There are more lessons and assignments in FFI, that's true! I have no idea what sort of secrets are in the Secrets of Shading course tho :0

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Another week another update!

Some warm ups! I am considering to do something else on fridays, like observation exercises based on shapes. I clearly need those!

A Sphere Group for FFI!

And some portrait exercises. Damn, these are the reason I'll do something else on fridays lol
My takeaway from these is that blocking and value groups are the most important things. I got lost in details in some portraits and that kinda ruined them lol some faces may even look a bit cartooney... so I'll definitely work on my observation skills moving forward. Any advice to improve stuff like this?

Aaand my story and the characters are written! Now I'll make a list of everything I need to draw and hopefully I'll start the production stage next week!

Anyway thanks for reading! :)) have a lovely week!

[Gordon003]

Man your gesture drawing looks so fluid and expressive. I do recommend to try exaggerate the pose a bit more (e.g. push the hips further if you feel that's what the character want to do) to further define the pose.

And your portrait studies look so damn good. Just me asking but how you determine which style you want to do for each portrait as I notice a mix of different art styles.

[Pauline_art]

Thanks a lot for the kind words Gordon! I'll play around with those action lines some more to convey more energy, I'll do this starting tomorrow.
The thing with the styles is that it all happened by accident I drew 2-3 heads a day and some days I was more focused at the beginning of the session and some others I started off pretty weak and gained confidence as I drew more. I'm having a hard time with proportions, which is why the styles are different. My intention with this exercise was to sharpen my observation skills, it worked in a few of these and failed in most. But I still learned a lot!

[Pauline_art]

Warm ups for this week! Today I tried to exaggerate my gesture lines! I think I'll research some more into this topic!

Some head / face studies! I don't think I remember all the parts now but at least I memorized the structures which counts as progress maybe!

A picture of Ashe from Fire Emblem 3 Houses... my favorite game ever! The neck - sternum area is still a zone of conflict

Anyway! That's all I've got for this week! Next week will have more updates, I assure you! I drew other things but they're not finished atm

Have a nice weekend!

[patrycja.lerch]

Great piece! I like his expression. I would tilt his hand a bit so he holds the whole grip

And there is a fish which operates machine thing with a scheming face

Have a nice weekend too!

[Pauline_art]

Omg you're right! I'm currently drawing another character holding a weapon so I'll put special attention to how the hand is placed
That fish is an engineering mastermind!!!
Thank you so much Patricia :DD you too have a great week!

[Pattu_w]

Holy forum page, your's studies look hella dope, awesome stuff.

[Pauline_art]

Thank you so much Patrick! :DD

[Pauline_art]

Heya!!

After doing some exploration, I think the key for gesture is turning everything into curves so Imma do that!!

This week's assignment was to draw some character heads from imagination! This was so much fun!!

Have a nice day!

[patrycja.lerch]

That's a lot of heads! All of them look interesting and colors suit them.
I like how some of them interact with each other

Great job!

[Pauline_art]

Thank you Patricia! :^D
That was unintentional but I guess it's part of the charm!!
Have a nice day!