Andrea Rubbini
Italy
Learning art to draw Characters and Illustrations. Happy to talk about art with anyone.
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Charles Caroline
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2yr
added comment inAnatomy of the Human Body
Hey Stan. Hope all well with you. Got a question for you in the pic….
Andrea Rubbini
1yr
Hey! That little muscle is probably the coracobrachialis. It is long and thin and it is usually seen when the armpit is exposed.
Thank you for the detailed critique! I didn't spend enough time on the Ideation phase, doing small drawings and focusing on design, and now I'm trying to keep together a falling house. I think it's best if I go back and start the process all over again. It would be good practice.
Andrea Rubbini
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3yr
Asked for help
Looking at the assignments of other students I realized there was an opportunity to study their work and try to do better with mine.
I went ahead and redesigned the whole team, and I think I learned a lot from the amazing works posted here!
This is the Leader, with massive HP and immune to Ambush. I'll share the rest of the team in this post to avoid spamming the chat.
This is my fourth archetype, the pet of the family, specialized in Crowd Control. I'm glad I managed to get this far with the line-up. One more and it's complete.
Andrea Rubbini
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3yr
Asked for help
I've gone through another round of Ideation and I come up with a theme I'm fond of, a family of monsters running a horror farm. I have other two archetypes but they need more work, probably more Ideation time. If I can't make it for this assignment I'll add them to the line up during the next one!
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3yr
Awesome Andrea. That's a great theme. You should have time to get the other 2 ready. I will be recording the next critique video in 2 weeks I believe. We'll be announcing official submissions due date soon.
Hello Irshad! Do you still practice regularly some of the exercises taught in the DaB curriculum? And yeah, what are your opinions on the notion of a "dream job"? Thank you, you are a great teacher.
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3yr
Honestly? I don't practice them nearly as much as I should - but on the flipside of that, I think by teaching this material over the last few years, my actual fundamentals have developed *far* beyond where they were when I started sharing what I knew. It really goes to show you how much one can learn through teaching. While it's unfortunate that the time Drawabox demands has limited how much I could actually pursue the goals I had as an illustrator (I used to spend a huge chunk of my time drawing and practicing, but now it's mostly just doing critiques) it has definitely creased my confidence with the material. There are areas where my technical skills wax and wane (if you look at some of my demonstrations, I make mistakes all the time), but those aren't that hard to sure up, given a few hours to shake off some rust.
As to the matter of a dream job, I think that as much as the idea of one can spur us to achieve great things, it can also cause us to end up with an amount of tunnel vision. It's easy to forget what a job is - no matter what industry you work on, or how excited you are to go to work every day, a job is first and foremost an opportunity to trade the time and skills you have, for the means to pursue what you want with the time you have left over. To put it simply, we sell our time so we can have nice things, and be happy.
People get really caught up in the idea that we *have* to pursue a job that we love, a job that will ensure that we "never work a day in our lives". But that's a *really* high bar, not just for ourselves, but for jobs as a concept. No job is going to make you happy *all* the time - and there are plenty of jobs that are on paper pretty awful that we can learn to appreciate and enjoy.
It also means that by pursuing a dream job, you're also expecting that job to give you things that *other* aspects of your life should probably be doing. Even if you've got a dream job, you should probably still have hobbies - and what happens when you find that you'd rather be home doing those, rather than at the studio working on the next big game? Does that mean you *didn't* achieve your dream job? Should you now be miserable?
Of course not, and most people do ultimately realize that. But it takes time, and this endless pursuit of "being the best" so that we can achieve that supposed dream job has us shutting so many doors that could make us just as happy, and at much lower cost to our mental health in the long run.
crime index
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3yr
Asked for help
Hi everyone! I have returned to drawing recently and I have started digital drawing recently. I am still trying to get used to the tablet and the digital aspect of it, so I thought this exercise would be the perfect start!
Starting from the Concept of Cacti, then arrived at Cacti Killer as I did some doodles and then landed on the concept of Cacti Kaiju, since in June there is this challenge to draw one Kaiju monster for every day of the month (Kaijune).
I feel like I stayed too safe by keeping close to the shape of sea creatures and cacti in general and not going big enough!
The "sea of sand" concept is great, I'd love to fight an army of these monsters in a videogame.
Peter Richardson
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3yr
Asked for help
Here's my initial responses to the assignment. I tried to keep on message and just restricted myself to crops—I usually find that these initial ideas will prompt more ideas as I go along.
Crystal Blue (she/her)
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3yr
Asked for help
I followed the advice in the intro video for Character Design Monster Lab.
I ended up with Nash, the cowboy who was trampled to death by cows and then resurrected against his will by his demonic horse.
I'm mainly looking for advice on how I could make the design more interesting (shapes, elements I could add/change, etc).
While drawing this, I had some trouble getting the upper half of the leg to clearly look like there's just a pole in there and not an actual leg (it got taken out by the cows).
I also realized that I'd eventually have to add texture (denim, leather, cotton) and I don't really know how to do that so if anyone has any advice that'd be great.
Lastly, is it clear that the horse is a horse with a dog mouth and not a weird looking horse?
Those prothesis have a lot of potential, I'm also curious to see his relationship with the demonic horse.
Jean-Rene Losier
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3yr
Asked for help
Alright, 4 pages done of exploration. I'm going to have a hard time picking from these. SO MANY THAT I LIKE!
My three picks would be the nest-bird monster, the leafy giant at page 4 (what's hiding in all that grass?) and the scissor guy at page 5!
Will David
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3yr
Asked for help
Here's my homework for this weeks assignment. I found it good putting all my thoughts down on paper and practising my silhouettes and shadow shapes. However, I found myself rushing and not thinking about my designs for the last few thumbnails. Does anyone have tips or advice on how to avoid this, and any critique is welcome.
I think you approached this in the right way, generating a lot of ideas and variations. There will be plenty of opportunities later on to work on design and appeal.
