Adjusted_Otaku - Art School Journey

Hello everyone!

Finally starting Art School!

A bit about me,

I'm a UK based digital artist looking to improve my skills through the program, this will actually be my second attempt at the course, but I thought actually engaging with the community this time around would help me stick to it!

I already have some experience with digital art but admittedly there are some gaps in my fundamentals that have started to undermine my confidence in my ability in recent years, so here's to going forward and mastering them!

Spent way much time fine tuning my stylus, figured out I had actually been adjusting the wrong setting for years, using tip firmness when really I need to up my tilt sensitivity. Anyway I think this was my 3rd attempt on the Digital Pen Control Assignment, likely will keep redoing it till I can get my circles more consistent, but there was improvement on each attempt.

Heya,

Thanks for the feedback snakker! I will definitely try what you said about it flowing from the shoulder, I'm having to untrain myself out of over depending on my wrist for most of the time I've been drawing, so it is really helpful to have that advice I will be uploading again later today!

Okay, opening up todays studies with more pen control! Although ran out of room for the final part of the pen pressure section

So a little more about my present progress on the course, I'm running this course alongside a gamedev course which I do Mondays and Thursdays, Art School I do the remainder, apart from Wednesdays when I practice airbrushing or am building model kits, I count this as reference studies Why am I explaining this? Just so if you shoot me a comment and I don't get back to you right away I'm still here! promise and still committed!

Anyway, today I will be moving onto the Image adjustments assignments! Looking forward to updating you all in a few hours!

Also, still got work to do on those circles, but indeed Snakker's advice made the process a lot more fluid and my wrist aches significantly less than last time, so I thank you!

Okay, bit late, but finished the Image Adjustment Assignment, although did struggle with part 2, still re-treading old ground, but can safely say this is much better than my first attempt earlier in the year, so that's nice although struggled with part 2, think the colour image lost of its saturation in the final result. Hoping to complete and upload the next assignment Friday!

Thanks, I have seen that people have struggled with the last one too, in fairness its not easy, I can still see the saturation in the umbrella is off showing the paint strokes, I think the trick is adjusting the colours individual through the various tools instead of trying to change the overall balance of the painting, it requires a lot more fine tuning, but overall was a fun challenge

Combining Images assignment.

So not quite my dream house or castle, but I like industrial zones for some reason.

All reference photos from Textures.com

Part 2 of the Combining Images assignment, not so pleased with this one, was hoping maybe I could get some feedback, I am getting this dark/cut outlines where I use the lasso tool, not sure if its something to do with the feather amount on the tool itself.