Amy Price [46Kibahime] - Art School Journey

DAY 2 (after watching all of term 1's videos)

One of the things I always struggle with is stroke control, so I am totally adopting this as a daily warmup exercise.

I am still sourcing photos I like for the photomanipulation assignments - I use Clip Studio Paint as opposed to photoshop, and the majority of the photomanipulation work I've had to do as the graphics person of my dayjob has been extending backgrounds, cutting out models and products, and doing colour and lighting adjustments. I don't foresee myself spending time on photomanipulation on a regular basis, but I am still going to do the exercises.

I did however manage to do the basic proportion and figure drawing exercises today. Some things in the proportions drawing feel... off, and in the 'fancy stick figures' section I did a little bit of self critique to pay attention to, but if anything else stands out as something to be aware of, I would love to hear your thoughts. I chose a few more complicated references intentionally.

Didn't really have time the last two days, but spent this afternoon on my photomanipulation assignment. I could probably spend another six hours on this thing if I were making it for a client, getting more source images and making all the corrections on the tiny things that still bug me, but overall I'm satisfied with displaying my capacity to splice things passably believably together.

For anyone curious, this was done in Clip Studio Paint, and you can see a timelapse of my process here:

First attempt at the measurement exercise. As always, there are mistakes you only see on the upload phase. Ah well. Torso is a bit wide at the waist, back muscles a little too vertical, and legs are slightly misaligned.

Been a bit busy on IRL fronts so not getting the daily drawing time I crave, but working on making the time I do have count.

Started with the perspective exercises today. Photos were taken by me in Durban, South Africa, about five years ago.

ANNNND the big one for the day. Not going to colour it at this stage, but I'm happy that everything makes sense. I do feel the chair legs are a bit stumpy, I found that gauging their height was a bit of a challenge. I do think I put the entire table set a bit too close to the camera in relation to how deep I assume the room to be, and I think that contributed to it. Oh well.

Thanks for the feedback! I think looking back at my process video the height trouble with the table and chairs started by not mapping out where on the floor it is, and jumping into building the top before anything else. Furniture and relative height is definitely something I'll need to work on next time. Will attempt to adjust and repair this over the weekend.

So, in April last year some things happened, and I wasn't able to pick up the course again since.
Finally getting back into it, starting with a take 2 on the 1-point perspective exercise. This is just a WIP for now, still going to do refinements on the corkscrews on the pillars before planning the furniture placements.

I did make use of the Radial Ruler tool in Clip Studio to ensure consistency in my vanishing point, but at this point in time I have yet to learn what all the handles in the perspective ruler tool does, so I am going to be doing all my multiple-point perspective exercises without that technological aid... no danger of me cheating in that department
(off-course I am definitely going to need to spend the time learning that tool to save time later, though)