Alex's Digital Sketchbook - Art School (Term 2)

chomper2010 2023-06-22 04:53:22 UTC #81

Alright so here's some more work. Been getting back into the swing of things again. Working away on the perspective studies, having to revisit some things again to make sense of everything but, yea, still trucking through things.

I'm not super crazy about the 5 min gestures, but today, they felt a lot better than they have in the past. I did try some on the 20th, but just ended up scrapping the whole exercise and going to bed rather than continuing. Just wasn't feeling it that night.

Also, for those possibly interested, It's likely that I will have permission to post one of the T-shirt Designs up following the event. They said they didn't care if I posted the process images up but just didn't want their shop name in it. They said they would give me a definite answer for the final version after the event, and one of the owners is okay with it, just have to see what the other one says now. So hopefully I'll be able to post up an edited version of the final to show you guys. but I Figured I would save them all for one post, rather than having them in pieces.

Anyways, thats all I got right now. Will post more when I can

snakker 2023-06-23 14:35:08 UTC #82

Yo, really good studies here!

cheers

chomper2010 2023-06-24 23:24:21 UTC #83

So here's some more stuff. Have been having trouble with perspective, just not making a lot of sense, but to be fair to myself, I've never really done a perspective piece past the really basic forms, so it has been an adjustment for me to say the least.

So, one of the biggest hang ups for me right now has been furniture and just understanding how it exists in space, so I went through and drew a couple in space and did some basic angles with them just to try and build up a visual library and get some simple structures down that I can hopefully implement into my compositions. I went harder on this one than the other one, but I was frustrated haha.

Did some basic ones of these but honestly was pretty excited to get back to a perspective study to see if things improved or not.

I felt really good about these, was just in the zone and think they turned out pretty well. Had good luck with the Gesture Drawing Software's choices, cause they gave me a lot of them with clear rhythms that I could easily Identify and just follow along with.

Today's were okay, didn't feel it as much as I had felt yesterdays though. Oh well things happen.

As I said earlier, I am really uncomfortable with perspective and had a hard time finding good references. I wanted to start with something REAAAALLY simple, so I decide to just do a Bluey study, cause I was watching my nieces and thought it might be a good way to dip my toes in so to speak. Didn't turn out great, but got the ball rolling.

Prior to these, I tried about three others and just found myself getting overwhelmed with everything and so this was when I decided to start doing some furniture studies.

Did A bunch of simple sketches of the rooms in my house in my sketchbook and came back and decided to try a few more but be looser and just simplify the references for now while I'm getting my basics under control and figuring out a workflow.

Took forever to find references too, but just ended up saying that I would use my imagination and convert them to the correct perspective just to get to work. Is what it is, some turned out okay, others, not so much.

This one was more in depth and I don't think I did too bad with it. Really proud of the chair, as they have been the bane of my existence here lately. Again, really really simple, but feeling like I'm getting better and making progress so its a good start.

Anyways, that's all I got for now. Thanks everyone for looking as always!

mitsuki-youko 2023-06-25 01:06:10 UTC #84

oooh your studies are looking great!! I like how they all have a sense of depth!

chomper2010 2023-06-26 20:05:01 UTC #85

Thanks Mitsuki, means a lot. I've been stressing about these studies haha.

Marc's new video came at a perfect time, he explained things differently in it and it was easier to reference than the whole Demo was so it was a lot of help. things clicked a bit more for me so that was a plus. Gonna do some more perspective studies this coming week to get more comfortable with everything. Anyways, here's what I've got.

Did some basic form construction in this one. Just wanted to practice sculpting forms in perspective after watching the video. Really just made it waaaay too hard on myself.

This one, I wanted to do some practice with a bit more in depth forms. In no way perfect but served its purpose for me. Following this, I started in on the Perspective Assignment 3.

This was my basic construction (cleaned up quite bit). Essentially I laid everything out and got things cleaned up yesterday, then did the final line work today so took 2 days on this one.

This is basic line work. Still don't like chairs, they really don't work for me. Need to do some studies on these.

Wanted to play around with some basic rendering (quickly found that I was a bit out of my depth with how many light sources I made in the image, but, oh well. Did get sucked into the rabbit hole for a bit, but reeled myself back in and just focused on having some fun and laying down VERY basic shades and tints.

Eventually, I Just stopped caring too much about accuracy and just had some fun with it. A LOT here to be fixed and corrected, but again, it really wasn't part of the assignment per se, so I'm not gonna worry about it too much at this point. Just a fine exercise to do at the of the inking stage.

It's not perfect, but this is my first REAL Perspective piece, so that is pretty cool. I can at least say that. Will be exploring more 1 and 2 pt Perspective this week and will be trying to do a bunch of smaller studies with them to get more comfortable with these.

Anyways, thank you for looking and for any feedback. Hope you all are doing well.

mitsuki-youko 2023-06-27 00:07:59 UTC #86

ooh lovely! this looks so professional!

patrycja.lerch 2023-06-27 16:49:25 UTC #87

Looks great! I like that you have consistent shapes in the whole piece
I would only move the chair a bit. Edge lines up with doorframe

chomper2010 2023-06-27 23:23:57 UTC #88

Thanks! I appreciate it, especially coming from you with some of your perspective pieces!

Ah, yes I see that now. Should've positioned that somewhere else. I went back and forth with whether or not I was going to include the chair in the first place, so I guess that's what I get for adding it in at the end. Will keep that in mind in the future, thank you for the feedback!

queeniemp 2023-06-28 14:20:19 UTC #89

I love the lighting in this piece

chomper2010 2023-06-30 01:52:21 UTC #90

Well, I'm moving onto week 7. Going to be alternating between figure drawing focused days and Perspective days. Initially, I was going to revisit ALL of the exercises but after going into some of them again, I just thought that my time would be better spent doing the more important exercises that have helped me the most over the course of Term 1.

So that's what I'm doing, going to be doing more studies this week and really going to try to push my perspective before the final week so wish me luck.

Anyways, the first day is Figure Drawing focused so here's what I did today.

Started with gesture drawings, didn't really feel them today so really just had to truck through today's work. Got in the groove towards the end of my study but took a while to get there.

Chose to do a study on Rorschach. Used a combination of references to create my version. Really have trouble drawing clothing and with folds, so that took a while to get it to a decent place.

Decided to have some fun and put some rough shadows on it.

Then decided to do a rough grayscale on it. Not great, but was fun.

As I said in the beginning, was going to revisit all of the exercises, but I started quite a few of them and just felt like I could practice all of those things with other exercises, so it lead to a small upload today, but still working out the kinks with this Free week's assignments, so basically just winging it and seeing what I can do with it.

Anyways, thanks for looking! Hope you are all doing well

chomper2010 2023-07-03 22:39:28 UTC #91

Alright so been a couple days, but still been trucking a long as I can. Here's what I've got since last time.

I did decide to redo this exercise, debated it and it should have been uploaded with the last one. Still not my favorite but oh well. did better in some areas and worse in others so it is what it is.

Did Link's house for a study to get used to working with homes, to prepare for the street view study I did. They turned out okay, learning a lot and getting better slowly.

Had some fun with this one, did another room study, this time went with an older look, or tried too hahah. I still struggle with things but it is getting better slowly but surely. Then did a quick house study to round out today's studies.

Been working on Perspective A LOT. Will be doing 2 pt Perspective Studies next after another round of Figure Drawing exercises. Just trying to get to a better place with perspective before I go into the final week's work.

Anyways, thanks for looking! Hope you all are doing good and happy 4th to those who celebrate it. Stay safe and have fun!

mitsuki-youko 2023-07-04 00:10:09 UTC #92

oooh yes your perspective is really good! and your lineart is super neat way to go! can't wait to see more

chomper2010 2023-07-16 01:52:46 UTC #93

Life got busy again and then I got sick and was out for almost a week but I am back with what I've been able to do since. Still been trucking along, getting ready to wrap things up, but just want to get more reps in and make sure I'm comfortable with the basics before I move forward. Anyways, here's what I've got for you all.

Alot of gesture's, wanted to try to get back into a comfortable place with it again and it was something I could do while getting over illness and when I didn't have a lot of time so that way I could at least tell myself I was still on track and still trying to practice.

Got interrupted with this one and then got really sick. Finished it when I was a bit better.

This one went a lot faster and it felt good. Think it turned out alright, it was an easier pose though too so that was probably part of it.

Just messed around to try to get my understanding of 2pt a bit better. Still a bit overwhelmed.

Did this one today, and felt pretty overwhelmed at times. Spent too long trying to find a reference. Eventually, just said screw it and did something from imagination. Took a bit longer, because of that but practiced doing more freehand and texturing. Really was mostly focused on just getting a 2 pt piece done and trying to get comfortable with the interior scene. Definitely need to do some more of this to get comfortable with them.

But anyways, I think that's everything. In other news, got a commission to build a webpage so that's been eating up a lot of my time. Just wanted to share that, don't have many people to share things with so figured I'd put it here. Anyways, I'm hoping tomorrow I'll have some time to get around to seeing what everyone has been up to again.

Apologies for not being around but still trying to do this and really stoked to see what you guys have been up to. Hope all is well

mitsuki-youko 2023-07-16 03:00:31 UTC #94

Oh noes hate it when that happens.. glad you are feeling better now!

ooh yes! love the way you convey the anatomy in your gestures!

woahh congrats!!

eyy thanks for sharing!! always happy to read your updates

I'm laggin' XD

patrycja.lerch 2023-07-16 09:09:43 UTC #95

Good that you are feeling better now!
Lots of good work here. Your gestures are so clean

I always waste so much time looking for reference... and then it's like 'oh I can do it without it'

I have a tangent paranoia now I guess. Walk away from your piece for a while and check if everything looks good. What I see - Table and carpet, mug and desk, square shape on wall with frame (you can just widen frame a bit) Other than that it looks great, a very cosy room

Congratulations on comission!

Pattu_w 2023-07-16 12:23:28 UTC #96

Those are some nice looking studies, good stuff!
Congrats on the commission!

catsforsnacks 2023-07-16 16:21:36 UTC #97

All those pen control exercises really paid off! Your line work is incredible.

chomper2010 2023-07-17 01:27:24 UTC #98

@mitsuki-youko Thanks! and with as much as work as you do and everything that you're working on, I don't think you're ever laggin, I think its more just resting at that point hahaha. Nonetheless, looking forward to seeing what you do next, as always!

@patrycja.lerch Thank you and Yea, I really hate looking for references some days, especially for perspective work. It's a real pain.

Yea, the tangents are not good. I generally try to be mindful of them (Not very effective at it quite yet), but this one I really threw a lot out the window and just focused on getting things on the page and making a room that made some semblance of sense.

But I do really appreciate you pointing them out when you see them. The more you point out areas like that, the more likely it'll start sticking with me and even when I'm kind of just trucking through things, it'll start to make me stop and think about them more so than I do now.

I don't know, perspective kind of just kicks my butt. One day I think I've got it, the next day I feel like I'm back at square one. Definitely need to do some more studies and practice to get more used to all of this.

@Pattu_w Thank you! Means a lot! You've been making some really cool stuff here lately too!

@catsforsnacks Thanks! Definitely feeling a difference after doing so many. Really made it an effort at the beginning to focus on that, as my pen control has always been pretty rough so it's been nice to see some improvement over time on that

mitsuki-youko 2023-07-17 03:52:00 UTC #99

Thanks so much @chomper2010
hehe i always look forward to seeing you around the forum and esp love seeing ur (and everyone elses') lovely comments on my forum ^u^

chomper2010 2023-07-26 01:04:54 UTC #100

@mitsuki-youko I feel the same way, always good to hear from you and see your comments/what you're working on

I don't have much to show this time around, I really only have my perspective study to share with you guys. I've been pretty busy here lately. Where I work is getting ready to move our shops, so we've been painting, laying carpeting, finding furniture, and getting the old shop packed to start the move. Then I've been working on the webpage and making all the assets for that, then trying to find time for studying and taking care of my other job.

I've been sketching in the good ol' sketch book a LOT. Been doing a lot of perspective sketches and watching videos to help further my understanding of these concepts.

Then, I got a bit distracted from everything, because BREAK's beta came out and I've been making characters and writing some back stories and drawing them for fun. Never really done the whole DnD thing, so its been fun to mess around with it and make some characters with it.

Anyways, thats been my life here lately. Here's the study

With doing the characters and writing backstories, one of them I had envisioned like an ancient warrior who was imprisoned for heresy, and that basically inspired me to do a prison/hold type deal. Found a small image and then just used it for the inspiration and made tweaks where I wanted to and then got this out of it.

Had a few different versions of it, but the others got out of hand really fast and I just didn't like them at all so, this is what I landed on. I think if I color it in the future, I'd be able to do a bit more with it and be able to reduce some of the tangents just by creating more organic shapes in places and having more of a plan of what I wanted the flooring to be rather than making those decisions on the fly.

That's usually where I run into trouble is not thinking through things, but I keep reminding myself that I've really never done environment design or drawing so I'm still learning, and the more I do it and the more studies I do, the more information I'll be able to quickly call on to help with things like this.

Anyways, thats basically all I got to show at the moment, this is basically a glorified update post but thanks as always for looking and for any feedback. I am trying to take it in, just hard to remember everything. But I hope things are going well for you guys and I'm gonna try to get around here in a bit to see what people have been up to.

Thanks again!