Adjusted_Otaku - Art School Journey

[Lockenheim]

Welcome to the forums! I look forward to seeing your work!

[Adjusted_Otaku]

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!

[matthewwemes]

The last image adjustment looks just about spot on, that's one a lot of people have trouble with and you did it really well!

[Adjusted_Otaku]

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

[snakker]

Agreed, that last one is a bit of a pain, nice job

[Adjusted_Otaku]

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

[matthewwemes]

Very cool, I also really like industrial aesthetics.

[Adjusted_Otaku]

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.

[snakker]

Hey there, yeah it could be from the feathering. You can consider also cutting, placing apples behind others and apply a bit of shading (ambient occlusion) with the burn tool to make it look more realistic

[Adjusted_Otaku]

Second attempt, marginally better, went with using masks more this time around too. Could easily get more fixated on this but want to move ahead quicker so I can get to figure drawing before the end of the month lol

And I just realised the issue with the lines would have been from the original cutting the apples from the black background with the selection ever so slightly feathered leaving that outline!

[snakker]

Yeah, I wouldn’t sweat it too much. It’s definitely a useful tool to have for digital art, but at this point I think the most important thing is to know more or less how the tools work, not necessarily make perfect photomanips, unless that’s also a goal for you of course

[Adjusted_Otaku]

More of a compulsion than a goal lol, truth be told I really just want to get to the figure drawing, but promised myself I'd do the introduction to photoshop assignments properly as I skipped them last time.

[Adjusted_Otaku]

Hello! Been a bit of while, I am still here, but I'm having to take on some extra responsibilities at my day job at them moment, which frustratingly has been cutting into my free time, but its only for another month or two at most. But I'm back here now! and I've finished the last two exercises in the Photoshop for Digital Production at last! See below

I haven't used photoshop for photo editing outside of photobashing for a project a few years back so I was quite rusty but am looking forward to the next project, which I believe is Visual Communication?

[CYP2C19]

Very nice photo manipulation, and hope you get some more freetime soon!.
The visual communication doesn't have that much in terms of physically doing stuff, It's more or less just teaching you how the eye works, I don't fully remember, it's been like a month since last I watched it.
The main task you're given is to properly observe any objects in real life for like 5 minutes, and fully take it's information in, what color is it, which shape is it, or what simple shapes could you use to make that object, how does light move around that object, even look at it in different perspectives and such.
Good Luck onwards!.

[Adjusted_Otaku]

Hello! Just wanted to say I'm still here!

Work finally seems to have settled down, I also had a nice Christmas break and am looking forward to getting stuck into the New Year, although at time of writing that might seem a little late. But I took the time over the holiday to push myself back into my personal art and managed to start two paintings, where I have tried to apply what I have been learning on the course and outside of it Anyway next update should be some exercises from the Figure Drawing assignment, hooray I finally caught up to where I left off on my first attempt!

Have included the two paintings in the work in progress states for fun and in lieu of actual course work lol

[snakker]

these are sweet!

[Adjusted_Otaku]

Heya!

Thanks man! Happy to see you're still around too! I did actually when I started the course really consider if I should show my personal work or not, but I was pretty proud of just the fact that I managed to start something, I've had a lot of problems with creating anything for fun for sadly quite a long time now, so I was just happy I managed to do something, might be a bit TMI lol But again thanks!

[Adjusted_Otaku]

Okay, wow that didn't go according to plan, I'm still here and updating with line of action practices, I actually had gotten quite far in this assignment, but havn't been updating, but I also got stuck with a perceived lack of progress, it wasn't until last night I saw on the discord that the general advice was not to try and get this perfect, so just going to upload as it is and push forwards!

Although, do you think my lines of actions could stand to be a bit more expressive? I think I'm following the spine too closely

[Adjusted_Otaku]

Some more Lines of Action, I'm presently counting down the minutes till I need to start getting ready for work, time is presently just gone, 3am. Am getting quite into it, adding extra lines, definitely had more fun with those dynamic poses right at the end!

[Adjusted_Otaku]

Some bonus cylinder volumes practice, some odds and ends included from yesterday morning!