100 days of art

[Lensing]

Day 15 already.
It was a great idea from you to start this, I know exaclty what I improved on / what I learned.
Today on day 15 I only learned one tiny detail and that is how to put the top line of the nostril
construction, it´s always parallel to the wing of the nose.

Drawing noses is not easy, the nose is a main point people focus on when looking at a face and
judging if they find someone attractive or not. You can try that out by changing different facial features,
changes the nose can make all the difference

[Leyelle]

yeah, i have such a hard time drawing different nose shapes with my ocs in anything but a cartoony way, though I do a lot of different shape since my ocs are all different ethnicities. I still want to execute them well so people can know they're attractive lol

It was a great idea from you to start this, I know exaclty what I improved on / what I learned.

I'm glad you're finding it useful xd

[Leyelle]

Still practicing making my female leads features visible without compromising her intended complexion. At this point I can't tell whether they're becoming more visible at not, so i need some other opinions lol.

[KevinReijnders]

This kinda feels like a step back to me. You've gone back towards the pitch black it seems.

Colors of the clothes are a massive improvement though.

[Leyelle]

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[KevinReijnders]

I can tell it has a blue hue, but it is so low down the value scale that it reads almost as pitch black.
You just need to move up the value scale a bit to make it more readable.

Here, I made a minor adjustment to the value, see how big of a difference that makes in readability. Mine even lacks light/shadow in the face to show you can have a dark looking complexion, close to what you want and have it be more readable.

[Lensing]

It´s a good idea that the character doesn´t have dark colors.
I think you are on a good way. I recommend sending the characters
to Angel Ganev, I don´t know if you are familiar with him, he is a really
good portrait drawing teacher, the best imo. He does a different video
every day where he gives shading advice to artists

One thing that I tried was drawing the outlines of your characters white and
it looked pretty good imo, especially when you have background in the panels later.
It´s just the question if you want white outlines

[Lensing]

Day 16, the hands were fun, the nose sucked but I guess I have to do longer portraits again
to get the perspective right. I will probably continue with the shapes of the lips tomorrow

[Lensing]

Day 17, the hands gave me a hard time, especially the one which is facing to the front.

I´m continueing the planes of the mouth area / lips in small steps, this will take me a while.
I don´t draw much realistic portaits and in my comics and in the drawing courses I use
very cartoony looking lips.

I´m trying to use the 100 days of art to get back into figure quick sketches. I used the
Riley method to draw this. I forgot most of the steps to do the Riley method and I´m not
happy with it, but I´m never happy with figures

[Leyelle]

I recommend sending the characters to Angel Ganev, I don´t know if you are familiar with him, he is a reallygood portrait drawing teacher,

no I don't know him, how do you send characters to him?

[Lensing]

This is his page with the course, the course is expensive and challenging
but it is really good www.doodlewarriors.com

And this is his instagram where you can send him a picture and ask him
to improve it or what you have problems with. I´m pretty sure that he would
like the challenge

You can also look at some of the videos how he imrpoved the shading on other
people´s drawings. He doesn´t work on the drawings, just the shading and highlights

Angel Ganev (@angelganev) • Instagram photos and videos

[Leyelle]

thanks, i'll check this out!

[Leyelle]

I tried drawing a bust of my male lead, since I'm not great at drawing guys yet.

Also two pictures from a day or so ago of my female lead. Really not happy with the face on the aerobics outfit, BUT thanks to my dad being a comic book nerd, and my little sister having a super memory, I finally found a character I can use as a point of reference to try to draw her

[Lensing]

All 3 characters look good imo

I don´t find the nose of the guy attractive but I guess that´s just a matter of taste

[Leyelle]

Yeah, I don't like the way I drew the nose either lol, but I'm still working on it. I don't think it fits his face. Can you see the girl's faces though?

[Lensing]

I can see the faces and I see an improvement

[Leyelle]

Yay. Well I expect it to be a slow process, but I'm glad there's improvement.

[Lensing]

I´m the slowest learner ever, I just make it through being consistent and being stubborn.
That´s also something I´m trying to teach the kids that I´m teaching, they are all very impatient
and they want to give up after one try

[Leyelle]

Yeah, I know I'm impatient, but fortunately I'm also stubborn so I don't give up lol. I want to make myself improve faster so I just practice more. Doesn't work, but hey, at least I keep practicing xd

[Lensing]

It seems to work though, and to start topics like this or participate helps too.
Don´t be too hard on yourself