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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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Apr '24

Yo welcome back! For color studies I think these are fine, the only point that stands out is that though the palettes are fine and colors complement each other, there's not much distinction on the side of saturation or hue. Just like line weight draws the eye around the drawing and makes things easier to distinguish, so do values, tones and saturation for color. I personally do find these harder to manage, I don't remember how in depth Marc went over it.

Some of the exercices will ask to copy palettes from other artists, try to keep an eye not only for the color tone, but for some of the other values as well and how they affect your perception of the piece.

Apr '24

Hmmmm, I think I understand. So my range of greys/ saturation should be more diverse? For example in the last practice maybe upping the saturation on the corset piece and the gem as well as her hair? ( although I don’t know if i should have lowered saturation in any places for that practice ). Also if I had something with more presence I’d want to make it higher saturation and make it a bit brighter in order to bring some attention to it? Sorry if it seems like I’m not getting it. (potentially because im not) i had some more thoughts but i forgot them because my head is pounding currently and they’ve kinda been rolling in one after another. I’ll try fixing the variety issue here in this next practice and I’ll try to remember to post soon. Thanks for the help as always @daceronine sorry for all the questions. Hope you have a good day

Apr '24

That's right. You could change the hair or gem and eyes or both to get the attention

If you see your colors in greyscale they are in similar value and look pretty much the same. You want to have a focal point somewhere (usually the face but not always) because viewer doesn't know where to look at. Our eyes tend to go toward more saturated colors so want to use them on that focal point. You can use that one stronger color in other places but not so much so it doesn't take away from the main interest.

Marc probably explains it better

HOW TO DRAW CHARACTERS - 4 STEPS

HOW TO PICK COLORS FOR YOUR ART (easy)

Hope it helps

Apr '24

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ryooh

@patrycja.lerch provided good sources to check out. If I'm honest, even though I mentioned it, I'm also just barely learning it myself, so I think you would better benefit from the videos. Colors are definetly a complicated topic.

That said, saturation and highlights are fairly simple to grasp, simply raise the saturation and brightnes around the are of focus, and reduce it in areas of less focus. Highlights in particular should be handled also like big "letters" calling the attention and driving the eye, almost like lines (though not necessarily lines)

Here's a very quick and rough example using that last piece:

Immediately your eyes should be drawn to the hair where I increased the saturation, I also "darkkened" or lowered saturation gradually to the bottom. The moon is a clear focal point so I added further effect so it stands out even more. Finally I added some "moon glow" around as highlights to kinda drive the eyes from top down and around her (though I rushed it).

There's a whole lot more which I'm still trying to get a grasp on, like warm vs cold colors, what colors mean and what palettes to use and so on, but this should give you an idea.

Apr '24

@patrycja.lerch now that you mention I do think I watched a video not long ago on Marc’s YouTube talking about how the face is a common focal point so I see now. Your explanation was more than enough, I understand. And I’ll check out those videos right after this. Thank you a lot for the help and taking the time to link the videos:)

@daceronine yeah that example helps quite a bit, thank you for doing that. while I was typing my response last night I couldn’t think of what to do with the sky even though I knew it also needed to be tweaked. The gradient effect/blending makes sense since the moons light would impact the visual. (goes for any lighting of course) I tried to stay away from using the lighting and stuff but that was obviously a mistake since those of course (like previously stated) influence all the colors like you demonstrated with the clothes too. Like you said colors are complicated so I still have a lot to learn. But you and @patrycja.lerch both helped me with a hurdle. There’s still the part where I have to put it into practice but understanding is half the problem. So thank y’all very much, I really appreciate the help.

Hope y’all have a good day.

13 days later

May '24

Hello been a couple weeks since I last posted. Didn’t do a ton of practice across the last 2 weeks. I did go out of town for a few days and didn’t get the chance to draw on two days I normally would have done some small practices at least. I will say though that these recent practices do seem to take me a lot longer. I don’t have a ton of time after work to draw but I can usually get all that I need to do done. But it just seems like I’m taking a lot longer. Usually starting one night, finishing the next night while trying to start on the next idea for whatever character I plan to draw next. Maybe getting a pose and some ideas of clothes. There was one day this week I didn’t work and I managed to finish the whole practice in a day. But thats the only exception. I’m sure I’ll get faster as I get more comfortable but still just an observation.

Anyways so for the practices I did do. They’ll be below, I think overall I improved a little bit. I did try to keep in mind the advice from last time and I think I did better. I’ll let y’all be the judge though. Before posting I took another look and I Think the range could maybe be better for most of these still. Specifically the 2nd one. Also The backgrounds are obviously unfinished so sorry about that but for some reason I just can’t bring myself to spend the time on them.

The one I think I did the best in was the 4th one seems the most interesting to me. I did have one more practice but I don’t need to share here I don’t think because It was one of those practices where u just can’t get any of it right so I already took my learning experiences from it and will be moving on.




But I think that’s it for now. I can’t think of anything else to bring up and if I did have something, I forgot about it. As always thank you to anyone who spends their time in here. Any and all feedback is welcome and I hope y’all have a great week. Good luck with your studies.

May '24

Oh these look great! Good job on foreshortening!

Love this one! I like the concept and colors

May '24

What made you like the 4th one the most? Just intrigued.

May '24

Thanks for responding,
to answer mostly the design, it feels closer to complete to me i guess. that and the color choice. Purple and gold are used a lot together to show opulence. and this guy was meant to be royalty and come from a very lux kingdom. Then there's that crystal in the chest and the crystallization forming around his body. really there for the cool factor more than any type of storytelling but when i was thinking about it i thought of some type of curse placed on him. there's a lot of improvements to be made like the line art, folds in the clothes, and the materials actually looking like they're metal, cloth and crystal. Could probably do with a background for some context too. so i dont think its a complete character design by any means but like i said out of the bunch it just seems closer to completion as a good character than the rest of the bunch. at least to me.

16 days later

Jun '24
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Hello all. Been keeping up practices since last posted. I’ll share a small selection of the practices, a lot of them are figure/head practices so not much to look at. Although I think I’m trying to take the current assignment further than what is really asked now that I’m running back through the assignment folder. So I’m going to start doing the cast shadows exercise before I mob myself, down by biting more than I can chew.
Time is a huge killer still. Believe it or not the red shirt girl took like 4ish to 5 hours. And it’s pretty messy. I’m not very good at environments and trying to draw those windows was a huge pain and the buildings in front of her were killing my brain too. So I had decided to just stop it since the character was done and my colors were picked. My own nitpick is I think I needed some jewelry or an accessory near the head to bring some more attention there. Maybe make the eyes more vivid. The third one I’ll post is unfinished, very unfinished but I wanted to post since the colors are picked still. I just got lost in the sauce and my unorganized art process got fried by me not knowing what to work on next with it. Probably a good example of biting off more than I can chew.

Last thing, not about art but about forum. When I go to look at the forum topics to see/visit other people’s posts. I'm being signed out of cubebrush and I can’t login unless I go somewhere else (like marketplace). I have to jump through a lot of hoops for it to not to log me out and sometimes it still doesn’t work. Only reason I can post is because It doesn’t log me out when I click my icon then click forum profile then go to topic from there. So i was wondering if anyone had a similar issue.

Anyways that’s all this time, hope everyone is doing well. And continues to do well. Take care

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Personal critique in color choice: Would change hair to white or black.

Jun '24

Oh wow, the one with the girl with white hair is outstanding! The use of perspective is great and gives it a lot of life! You've come a long way already!

Kinda looks like you're telling a bit of a fight story, with the characters battling things out. It all looks really dynamic. Especially the last two.

The whole forums thing is unfortunatly something many of us have been facing. As you said, sometimes you get logged out and have to navigate somewhere to get "magically logged in again" It's a bit annoying but it kinda works. I've seen a couple fo tickets on the help forum, but no apparent solution so far. At least we know admins know about it, perhaps there's work happening in the back around it.

Jun '24

Oooh these looks great!
Love the perspective on white hair girl! First character looks cool

Jun '24

@daceronine @patrycja.lerch thank you both for the responses and compliments, they are very appreciated.

but dang @daceronine hope the issue gets resolved. a bummer that many others are dealing with it.

5 months later

Nov '24

Hello all it’s been quite a while. I haven’t quit or anything. Just put off posting for so long that I kinda forgot. I did halt going forward in studies though. I’ve barely scratched the surface of term 5 and have practice some skeletal structures of some lions a couple times but not much. Combination of a few things like not being super interested in the learning animal anatomy rn, I got into league of legends which takes up more time on the weekends than I care to admit. ( league splash art is on another level btw I’ve seen it before but seeing the sheer amount of work that good is both inspiring and threatening lol) but primarily I felt I wasn’t ready and focus on still drawing characters, lighting/shading, and getting a more comfortable process. I’ve gone through a lot of trial and error. And I’m still not where I want to be but that’s ok. As long as I’ve gotten better to some capacity. I have been looking at more art creators too to get some more insight on how they go about making their art and that’s helped a a good amount I’d say. Below are a small portion of what’s been done since I last posted. The bottom two are the most recent with the Silvar one not being finished. Anyways I was thinking it’s be cool to get everyone’s socials they use for their art. I’m going to try and post more on my instagram art account so I figured if you guys have any that y’all have been posting on Id be more than happy to follow and help grow your account. Especially since I know the work everyone puts in to hone their skills. So if that’s something anyone wants feel free to plug it in a reply. Hope everyone has been healthy in mind and body. Feel free to critique as always. Thank you for taking the time to read and/or reply.

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Nov '24

Hi! Welcome back ^^

League can take some time, but the art is amazing. But ye it can be as inspiring as it is threatening

These look great! You improved since the last post. I like your colors and how dynamic these are. Silvar is amazing

The only critic I have are tangents. Hand on the first one tangents with butt, slight rotation would help. Text on 2nd one creates some tangents too. And maybe different color for black; it's a bit hard to read. Other than that amazing work!

My instagram - @patrycjalerch

Hope you are doing good too! Have a good day