Elisa's scetchbook (nudity)

[ElisaClaes]

i am a nineteen year old first year illustration student i am only started drawing two years ago so i am not that good but i dont want to give up edit:and a recent portrait for better sb image

[ElisaClaes]

my portrait sketches from today and a character for college stuff i am not so good at digital painting hope that will change soon

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some concept sketches from school and portrait sketches trying to get things right morebut still pretty bad

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drawn while drunk so yay did something XD yay motivation

[ElisaClaes]

heads are a bit better i think look more like the ref and more constructive so yeah and a terrible chicken

[ElisaClaes]

loomis study and life drawing class

[Exhno]

Keep those studies goin'! Just take your time to really measure and angle to determine what lies where. Carefully observe what you're drawing. Understanding the form and its functionality is the priority, no? If you're unable to solve problems that you encounter, dig around in the resources that are available to you. Draw dozens of noses, eyes, ears, and everything. Practice drawing shapes in perspective and from varying angles (it'll help with foreshortening, and everything), and draw from life as much as you possibly can.

Keep it up, and improvement will inevitably come knocking on your door.

[Azsha]

Hey, nice start! Keep working hard and study alot. Cheers

[ElisaClaes]

selfportrait in acrylics not good -_-
Exhno: im already paying a lot of attention to get the pose correct thanks did the other stuff to but maybe i need more work on that

[ElisaClaes]

still life painting study in acrylics

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my drawings from today and sketches from yesterday

[ElisaClaes]

life dawings from today had a "bad drawing day" i think

[ElisaClaes]

cast study portrait studies and sargent study that went wrong edit :a few changes to make it a bit better

[ElisaClaes]

studies from today
i've been having some emotional instabilities the last days so i don't study enough -_-

[ElisaClaes]

uhrg another crappy drawing day

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life drawing from today

[ElisaClaes]

damn i really need to draw more

[Azsha]

I can see evolution in your drawings, pushing more your limits and you would see your full potential.

[ElisaClaes]

Azsha : thanks some days i draw better than other so i dont know if im improving :/
my studies from today i am goin to try to draw hands daily to now because they're really a problem still

[luthertaylor]

first year illustration...as long as you keep up drawing from life and go all chips in you'll exit a pro no stress! don't make the same mistake I did and frolick about thinking you'll land a job after you graduate. those 3 years in uni is the best opportunity to isolate yourself and go all out.
it gets harder to do so when you graduate.

anyway you're making progress. I see you are saying hands are giving you issues. alternate doing long detailed studies and quick 1-2 minute sketches of them, helps break down all that information into basic forms.
practice practice practice. I know all about having emotional instabilities interfering with your progress. Hard as it is, and on times when you don't want to do anything, will yourself to pick up a pencil and sketch from imagination. you'll soon find you ready to resume studies
ciao!

[ElisaClaes]

luthertaylor:yeah but in my college we also have to do a lot of stuff that doesn't have much to do with illustrating like this year i also had to choose a second option (advertisement in my case) and we have a lot of theoretical lessons and even a class called picture analysis where we have to do really weird things like making abstract sculptures with paper and garbage and doing an intervention in a public space and also typography ( and like really create your own font ) and our illustration teacher only has experience from colouring her husbands comics and is very much in "experimental" things and that is why i have things like on the page from yesterday someone told me the next year is going to be better and hope that is true

[ElisaClaes]

drawings from today

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todays life model drawings

[ElisaClaes]

i had a holiday at the shore so not much done past week and most of imagination

[ElisaClaes]

portraits from imagination today, they start to look like the image i have in my head and i couldn't achieve that before so thats good

[ElisaClaes]

after days struggeling with reports i can finally draw again

[ElisaClaes]

things since last post (again way less than it should be but the comic frames take like almost a full day per frame)

[ElisaClaes]

from yesterday and today the sketch with watercolor was an exercise on anatomy from memory and i forgot to explain that the comic frames are for school and are with text of a calvin and hobbes comic
the rest is just the usual excercises

[ElisaClaes]

from today's drawing classes

[ElisaClaes]

all drawings since the last post all from imagination except hands building (thats what in the really unclear picture :p )and the bike