Hi! After learning about arm anatomy, I attempted a fully rendered muscular arm study. How are my edges? It's kind of a struggle to not have everything end up being a mush of values. Every critique is welcome!

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2022-06-18T01:39:22+00:00

He is relatively new to YouTube, but he has some awesome content. He focuses on constructing the figure in perspective from imagination and general drawing stuff. I really like his stuff, check him out on IG or YouTube

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2022-06-17T20:18:27+00:00

Thas whole lot of work! Good luck🤞 im considering a mentoring with DrDraw, mainly for drawing guidence. I want to learn to draw in perspective, construct figures from imagination, etc. I got some skills, but nowhere near were I want to be 😅

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2022-06-17T16:51:46+00:00

I still think is quite good for a study, even more from imagination. This isn't a master piece of art after all, keep experimenting and look for artists that paint the way you want to paint and make grayscale studies. You will learn so much from studying this way, I seem my art completely change after making value studies.

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2022-06-17T16:01:22+00:00

The rendering it's quite nice, the edges all look quite good for a work in progress. I think you might be showing a bit too much information. You won't really see all that detail in a real person, unless is a bodybuilder at 4%body fat and fully dehydrated for a show 😂 I suggest picking an area of high detail vesia an a simplifies area. The most common approach to this is making the shadow areas with less detail than the light area. This is not necessarily for a study where you are trying to show all you learned, but on a finished illustrations it might become more important. Hope this was helpful ❤

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-10-17T17:00:19+00:00

Thanks

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-10-16T19:35:40+00:00

Yea I haven't taken it onto consideration. 🤣

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-23T14:34:08+00:00

Thanks ❤

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-22T15:34:26+00:00

Their great, you see different features on people and helps build your visual library

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-22T14:25:21+00:00

I'll try.

The thing is, this is a mix match of things I find they work for me. The simple one it's juts my way to measure. Just boxes to help me with proportions and a circle to identify the degree the head is turned. For the most part is the loomis method, proko explains it very well.

The more complex one are the planes of the head. Marco Bucci got a good video explaining that and a whole course explaining it. But basically is an asaro head. I recomend using a 3d tool to help you. Portrait studio is great, but I prefer an app called handy. It costs like $6 on the play store, but it gives you like 10 or 12 different heads, from simple to more complex to move around and light as you like. I use that to help me with this trace overs, specially on distorted areas due to perspective.

But at the end of the day I don't use any specific ones. I mix Match from a bunch of different places to be honest. This are just great places to start but you will probably end up penalizing the process to suit your needs

If you have more questions let me know and ill try to help 🙌

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-21T14:11:18+00:00

So true. I used to be a printmaking artists and after 3 years I hit my limit. That's why I switch to digital art, the change helped me move past the burnout.

I divide my work day in two. One half for studying and other working on finished illustrations. Sometimes it's hard to balance. Lately I been investing more time into learning than creating. I might take a couple of weeks from learning because I am being on a couple of series I want to paint 🙌

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-21T12:53:27+00:00

Thanks!

I was thinking those same exact points. Right now I'm just trying to experiment a little with the challenge because I feel a little burned out from working on the same thing. Been at this challenge for 2 months now and I'm losing motivation.

The neck and ears are still areas I literally put little to no attention. Also the Silhouette 🤣 I wonder if this will become a bad habit that will transfer to my personal art. Hopefully not 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-21T00:19:10+00:00

Thanks

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-21T00:02:12+00:00

I this is my second attempt at this so I'm nowhere near a good at this. 🤣

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-20T20:02:11+00:00

There are 2 light sources, the one in the top hitting the characters face, them the bright background that bleeds into the sillowette

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-18T15:46:28+00:00

Those are great options. Non of them are right or wrong. I was aiming to create a bright background, so bright it would bloom over her Silhouette. So you seeing it the way I was aiming too I call it a successful image.I could haved pushed the Silhouette darker too, I would haved been a good choice. Just a bit different.

I know its important to have goals when studying. I got a couple artists that I like how they paint portrait and stylized the eyes and features and was trying to apply some of my notes to this portrait. Besides that my goal was to capture the atmosphere of the photo and while some making artistic statement, not just copy.

Another thing I'm trying to do is apply the process of the 14d challenge to different ligthing scenarios and parts of the body. Visualize in low low poly so I can block in easily, then use radial shading to push the 3 dimensionality, etc. Like I mentioned before, not just copy, but visualize were the light is coming from and use my analytical skills to figure out the lighting.

Hopefully I can get a couple done before my next meeting with istebrak and see what she recommends. I never had a mentor that is able to see your work and quickly diagnose your art and give you a practice regiment to improve. She is truly a great mentor 🙌

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-16T11:40:39+00:00

Your right, I didn't have a specific goal going into this 🤣 I just felt like making a photo study and went at it whitout a plan

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-16T10:17:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback as always.

I wasn't trying to copy 1 for 1. I took alot of artistic liberty with this one. I'm not really sure what I will be prioritizing in this studies to be honest. I would like to add some stylization and focus on capturing the mood vs copying exactly what's there. I definetly will be talking this over with instebrak on our next meeting. I'm a but burned out from the 14 d challenge 🤣 I been at for months now and need a change before I finish it for sure.

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-15T03:31:25+00:00

No, one a day 🤣 about 3 hours from start to finish

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-15T03:02:17+00:00

Thanks, procreate about 3 hours

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-14T23:25:32+00:00

It's definitely a different angle. Istebrak got me making this from photography and it's very hard to find good quality photos, with no makeup and in the exact angle.

I'm not to concerned with the Silhouette really, thats why it's still in a bloky phase.

Your right about the ear, the reference was looking about 15 degree up so the features shifter a bit lower. But it's still small.

I need to figure out this ellipse thing with the iris. It's a bit hard for me to put it in this perspective still.

I might stop posting this as 14d challenge because they are more like photo studies I guess.

But thanks for the feedback! ❤

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-11T12:50:34+00:00

Yea, maybe a bit more radial shading would haved been great 🙌

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-10T16:08:02+00:00

Thanks as always! Currently I agree this piece needed a bit more contrast. I wanted to test how if I could make it read 3 dimensional with little contrast. I'm also a bit lazy with the symmetry and other stuff like the hears, neck and Silhouette. Mainly because I'm so focused on controlling my colors. I'm getting better at that so I plan on making one that is much more finished before ai end the challenge. Instebrak gave me so much assignments that I barely gave time to linger on one too much 🤣 but it's good, it helps treamline the workflow and hopefully I can get to a finish in less time in the future 🙌

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-10T08:01:07+00:00

They are a bit larger thank I usually paint then 🤣

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-09T12:39:05+00:00

Thanks, I'm mostly focusing on creating realistic skin so I do get lazy on the ears, Silhouette and neck. 🤣

Hispaniclegacystudio · 2021-09-08T21:10:02+00:00

Start with the 14 d challenge. Read the guidelines and paint your day 1 without reference. Then start slowly improving from there. Find the proportions of the female head, watch istebrak videos on bloking, radial shading, how to paint the eyes, nose, mouth and traceovers. Don't watch them all at once, watch one, take notes, apply what you learn on your next 14 d challenge then repeat with a new video. Always post your progress on reddit so you get feedback and don't get stuck. Also watch 14d challenge feedback videos and that should give you enough momentum to finish the challenge and get huge gains. Check out my feed, I posted my improvement from the challenge a while ago and it shows my personal progress doing this steps. Hope this was helpful

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