Well life happened. I took a break (not entirely by choice but oh well is what it is). I've spent the last few weeks contemplating a lot of things, haven't really found any answers yet but found a lot of paths to try and make some changes so that's good. During the break, I did re-evaluated where I am with my art.
I know I'm not entirely happy with where I am with all of my fundamentals, however, I feel like there are areas where I am ready for more. I spent a lot of time thinking on this and I've decided that I am moving onto Term 2. I can always take a step back and revisit Term 1, but I feel like I need a bit of a mix of learning new things and practicing the old stuff to really keep me balanced and happy on this journey.
I don't know, I might be making a mistake but I feel like a change is necessary so I am trying it and seeing where it goes. Again, If nothing else, I can just take a step away and go back to practicing fundamentals (I'm not sure we ever really stop practicing these as it is).
With that being said, I have watched through the photoshop lecture and I did make a version of the box art deal, but I am not happy with it so I am reworking it. I also did line art for the self portrait (I know that I was supposed to use a mirror, but I don't have one that isn't screwed into a wall and I can't really move my set up to the bathroom for a day so...). I have the line art mostly completed but the shading is difficult for me.
It is definitely a good challenge though, and hopefully by the end of term 2, I'll be finding all of this a lot easier.
Anyways, here is some of the things I've been able to do. It isn't much by any means, especially since its almost been a month since my last post but it's what I have at this moment.
This is the current photoshop assignment, I made the characters with the pen tool but wanted to practice some shading so I did and it really didn't turn out how I wanted it too. It was a good practice attempt I guess, but I was really disappointed with it.
The idea was to give kind of a portfolio cover to my Term 1 journey with the little skeleton representing anatomy and the box representing perspective, and then the cubes representing the elements of art but I don't quite have the skill to pull it off yet nor do I really know how I truly want it to look.
I will revisit this idea at a later date, but for now, I'd like to just find something that isn't relating to me and have a bit more fun with it than I did with this one.
After watching through some of the term 2 stuff, I'm going to try and do some quick form studies during my warm ups, where I'm not trying to be perfect but just trying to build up muscle memory of these forms to get better at quickly recalling them as I work on things. We'll see if it helps or not but I figure it is worth a shot, considering how vital they are.
This was tough, this is my first portrait that I've attempted in probably about 5 years now. I did do better than I thought I would but its still pretty rough.
