Strifer - Art School Journey

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Term 1 - Week 2

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Some of the work done this week + spiderbro

[jannis.fiedler]

omg Spiderbro looks so good

[vstriferv]

Term 1 - Week 2

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Today I learned that the Latin word for bumblebee is bombus. Anyway... Last day of T1 W2 complete. Next up is W3 with some gesture drawing addition.

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Term 1 - Week 3

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Todays haul, day one of week 3. Gesture drawing is intense stuff huh, I think I got somewhat better towards the end of the 1m ones. Hoping next time goes smother.. Anway, first character study goes to Marcille as I just finished watching Dungeon Meshi. Had a lot of fun drawing up her stuff!

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Term 1 - Week 3

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Character Study 2/5 - Melina from Elden Ring

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No time for a character study today, Christmas dinner and all that. Did study ants though.

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Term 1 - Week 3 Character Study 3 and 4

Today's character/line study. I need to work on my line quality and just in general take more confident strokes. A lot of my lines are just cobbled together, drawn over and erased bit by bit until it look decent-ish. Problem is then that the linework is just not very tight and there are artifacts everywhere.

Just gotta keep practicing. <3

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Term 1 - Week 3 Character Study 5

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DrawAlong with LinesSensei

After todays daily tasks I decided to do a draw-along with LinesSensei, going with the process gave some cool insight into how to do cleaner lines, non-destructive shading and other bits and bobs like post-processing.

Probably wont retain much of what was done as most of it went over my head. Not really the level I'm at myself, but it was cool to have a peak at what can be with the right knowledge.

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Term 1 - Week 4 Proportion Daily Assignment

First one was with a guide, second with reference and third with no reference. Struggling with the knee area mostly, can never really line up the U shape for the knee properly, have to resize it after I've placed the leg.

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Term 1 - Week 4 : 1m Gestures

Trying to focus on finding the 3 major masses; having a lot of issues with finding the contour / rhythm for the limbs.

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Term 1 - Week 4 - Gestures and Perspective

Some more of the work done this week. I'm so tired of plotting 1p and 2p perspective cubes that I wanted to challenge myself with some cube rotation. Tomorrow I start week 5.

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[RailgunRabbit]

Dang, I'm impressed by the sheer number of gesture drawings here! You're really grinding those things out.

[vstriferv]

Hey thanks! I'm trying to teach myself that they're not supposed to be very precious, and hopefully in the process get more loose and well, gestural with them.

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Term 1 - Week 5 - Nude Figure Drawing Assigment 4

Mannequins done with reference on the side rather than drawing ontop of them. Overall they're OK I think. The pose is there but some of the underlying structures have issues. Mainly the oval for the rib-cage is way to short and the neck is too long.

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Term 1 - Week 5 Lineart Study

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Term 1 - Week 5 Gesture Drawings

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Term 1 - Week 5 Character Study

[snakker]

Really fine work mate

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Term 1 - Week 6

Starting to get not-so-frustrated at the gestures now. But my lack of anatomy knowledge is starting to show, especially in the longer 5m studies where I run out of things to add it feels like sometime. Not because there's nothing too add, I just don't know what.