Synthia Lillendandie
2D Artist | Illustrator | Characters. Loves fantasy, horror & magic
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Synthia Lillendandie
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3mo
#plantober2024 is happening over at Cara. Prompt: Rose
1 hr speedpaint / study from photo ref
Nicely done. I see in the second example you have a few stray marks. Do you know how to clip your shading layers to your base object, so you don't have to worry about going outside the lines? I'm not too familiar with Krita but good news they have official documentation on the subject. https://docs.krita.org/en/tutorials/clipping_masks_and_alpha_inheritance.html
Synthia Lillendandie
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3yr
Asked for help
New to YouTube and looking for honest thoughts on my videos. I want to start doing voice-overs soon, but I'm not sure if my actual video work is boring? My goal is to create a very relaxing space to talk about art things. Similar to draftsman but more towards my personal experiences with various topics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpK-VMqBS6w
Synthia Lillendandie
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3yr
You can actually test out a simple value scheme of darks - midtone - lights in the thumbnail stage. If it reads well small, it will read well at full size. Try to simplify your scene, both in terms of shape and lighting, and it becomes a lot easier to figure out. Some artists also choose to do an under painting in gray or one color. Personally, I work in grayscale, rendering out all my values + edges and then use gradient maps to color.
As for the hand, I think it's probably an anatomy / perspective / foreshortening issue? I'm not really sure what she's doing with the arm, so it's hard for me to give any advice. What might help is a reference. You can take a picture of yourself, use a 3d app or buy a ref pack. That's what helps me when I get stuck with a pose.
aaaa i never really thought of making thumbnails, ill add thumbnail drawings to my process it seems super helpful ! and for the hand im not too sure either ill look up some references thankyou so much!
Yiming Wu
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3yr
Cool! I like how you actually painted the picture with a correct white balance in mind as the reference is certainly too yellow. And the glow is very nicely handled :D If I must say some critiques I would think the edges are a bit too similar. You could bring some softer and lost edges to them, also some real hard edges in the sharp shapes around the eye and some hair strands. Otherwise the image feels just a little bit "stitched" together. This hard edge makes the figure pop against the background but it could use some blending especially around the neck and hair areas so it's more like those parts are connected rather than pasted?
I had the figure on separate layers from the background. I did go back and attempted to blend some of them, but I see what you mean. There is something a bit off and unnatural about it. Thanks!
Sometimes it is easier to focus on one thing at a time. When I practiced gesture drawing, it helped to focus more on pushing the post and the gestural quality, while worrying about the anatomy less. Other times I would focus more on the anatomy and construction. It's tough for beginners to do both of these things well at the same time. That's why I recommend breaking things down and setting one intention at a time until you feel you're getting a grasp on things. Also, have you tried 'the bean' and 'robo bean' lessons from Proko on YouTube? That's another way you can build structure in the body. If you're learning something new, give yourself time. :) Pushing yourself always feels uncomfortable at first, but you can grow.
This. Mike Mattesi approach about force is good aswell.
One more thing, if it gets frustrating, stop. Take few A4 papers and just do few gestures without expectations. In whatever weird way or shape you can imagine as you get mental image.
Allow your arm to flow, like quick sketching, bit faster and relaxed pencil movements.
Again, ZERO EXPECTATIONS.
Whatever you see on paper is ok as it is. Take 2-3 min per sketch then move on.
Getting frustrated as you try to learn something is very counter productive and longer you stay in that mindset more it affects you.
Learning isn't just what to focus on, it's also acknowledging distractions and slowly taking them out of picture.
In your case is you getting frustrated due to not making progress as fast as you'd expect.
And find different artists with different approach when drawing bodies and gestures. Take a bit from one and another bit from another and apply to your existing style. Just like what Bruce Lee did with his Jet Kune Do. In your case you can take few bits from Proko, few from Mattesi, other few from Brunet and so on.
I don't know how many people use this method, but create a quick story in your head as you try to imagine male/female figure in different poses. Like if you try to draw figure laying on couch with her core twisted a bit and as one of her hands support her head. For example, she's posing to a photographer in a studio, room of X size, light coming from certain direction, couch being medium or large size,... etc.. Take that image and strip it down to blueprint layout, imagine space filled with lines.
With practice you'll be able to do this super fast, i mean just a thought about a pose or landscape or animal or , or... and you'll have a story about it. You'll have mental image of what you are drawing.
Later on this helps big time as you do imagination drawing. If your observation is good, you'll be able to draw literally anything you've seen many times, down to every detail and also change it in whatever way you desire.
Think of it this way, you want to draw certain pose and all you can see with mind's eye are lines, which then connect into shape. Add value on shape and you get form. Put that form into perspective,.. and so on.
That's construction.
With story telling you help your mind with deconstruction part. Some people have easier time looking at whole picture and breaking it down rather than constructing it up from scratch.
Life is yin and yang, art is too. But many people mostly learn about yin and forget about yang part, that's why it takes them so long and once they realize it, oh well, years go by. XD
Hi everyone. I just finished this recent photo study. I'm very proud how it turned out, and I would appreciate any critique. My goal in the future is to make a living from my art, so I'm always pushing my skills. Photo Ref is attached below. Thanks!
