Lucas’s 100 day challenge : all things portraiture :)

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

thanks everyone for the kind words 🙂

Lucero: for sure man. I find it super inspiring aswell seeing all the new posts here everyday.

Ramona: Nope i started by hatching straight in the background actually but then decided to go around the whole thing (thought it would look cool xD). also thanks for the tip 🙂

Paul: Thanks dude 🙂 yeah im on a bit of a mission man, really trying to push myself. and yes i’ve watched almost all the beginner head drawing series, love steve huston he seems like such a chill guy. i also really like glenn vilppu. its so awesome watching him draw.

Josseline: Thats what i’m hoping. and after i’m “comfortable” with the head its on to the figure xD

[Josseline Jeria]

Figure is so much fun. That the main thing I’m working on atm – Karl Gnass’ course. Loving it.

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

yeah its very fun alright, ive done a little bit in the past. but its hard in the beginning trying to get gesture right and foreshortening. but the challenge is fun. i just wanna learn it all xD

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

Day 5:

started this one last night. continued it today and will probably finish it tommorrow.

this one was inspired by Assasin’s creed odyssey, wich im playing at the moment. this is the main character “kassandra”. drawing from reference and taking my time with this one. i think ive spent about 3 hours so far. really trying to control my values by building them up through light hatching. really having fun with this one, i love the story in this game 😀

this is in my sketchbook using graphite

[Joshua Jacobo]

Nice. Eyes are getting wide. Remember there should be 5 eyes across, one eye in between

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

shit, they are too wide looking at it now actually. i must have lost the measurement somewhere along the way, cuz i spent sooo long on the lay in 🙁 ah well ill take more care in the next drawing 🙂

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Lucas a.k.a "Roams".

[Josseline Jeria]

Cool drawing. It’s important to have fun with our art! I like doing fantasy/scifi type drawings for that. I’ve not played any of the Assassin games. I use to play a lot many years back, hardly these days. I got Witcher the wild hunt a few months back. Have you played it?

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

thank you. the first three assassins creed games were good and then the quality definitely dropped abit but the latest two were really good again. oh yes ive played the witcher, amazing game, they were ahead of their time with that game. i did a painting of geralt actually for a friend whos a big witcher fan.

[Josseline Jeria]

Oooo, do share the painting, if you’re comfortable doing so.

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

Day 6:

finished off “kassandra” this morning. im pretty pleased with the result. found it good to slow down the shading and build it up in layers of hatching. also used a technique called indenting for the hair which ive never done before, gives an interesting result.

anyway on to the next 🙂

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

and here is the witcher painting (not part of challenge) used a grid system when i painted this one. background was done with spraypaint 🙂

[Josseline Jeria]

Dang this is good! I need to level up to paint like this. How long did this take you to paint? Is it acrylics? I think once you’ve got your portrait studies and techniques very down packed after this challenge or sometime after that, you maybe could go back into his face, make it feel even more dimensional. irises too a bit smaller. Just saying this because I love this. You should put this up on the open critique forum.

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

thank you 🙂 i think i spent about a week on it. few hours each day. dont really know exactly how long. it is acrylics yes which i found really hard to get nice even blends but dont have the money for oils right now. i wont be able to go back into it as i actually no longer have it its hanging in my friends place haha, and yeah ive looked back at it scince i started getting more into portraiture and already saw a couple flaws. i will definitely be doing more paintings in the future. this was the first and only portrait ive ever painted. using the grid definitely helped xD. I will start blocking in a skull painting tomorrow got the canvas ready today

[Josseline Jeria]

The drawing came out real nicely. You put in a lot of work for this. Well done. Great job on slowing down and experimenting. I haven’t used hatching for shading before, just mostly one directional. I want to do studies sometime soon, but I’m focusing on doing coursework at the moment. Her right eye reads a bit bigger and looks like it’s sitting less in the socket compared to her left eye, least to me.

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

Thank you 🙂 yeah i dont know what it is about eyes but i just cant get em spot on. hopefully ill get them someday 🙂

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