Apr '22

Reply to

nieszka.ko

Your comment makes me so happy and glad @nieszka.ko! I will continue these type of studies for as long as I’m enrolled and be able to share them. It truly helps me to focus and process the information clearly. And sharing is caring. :blush:

I would love to see you progress and grow as an artist. Please be free to share and use the images in your studies as well. Have a wonderful weekend!

¡Pura vida!

Apr '22

Thanks @chonem. That is a very kind comment!
I love How to train your dragon BTW.

Apr '22

To help with size consistency of objects, one thing you can do is to create a measured grid on the floor and think of it as a certain size, one meter or whatever size. To make the grid draw a diagonal from the corner of your wall to the other corner to make an X. Then draw a horizontal line through the center so you get 2 rectangles. Then repeat this process as many times as you want. I used this to help me get a good feel for how big things are on my one point and two point projects. Here are my layer files showing this. Hopefully that makes sense if not let me know.

For this one its the orange grid at the bottom.

Alch Shop Clean Lines.png3840x2160 1.66 MB

I used the grid on my cafe picture here as well. Though this one gets a bit thin

Black Cat all Layers.png10681x6000 2.25 MB

Apr '22

@Lockenheim that is a life saver. It took me a minute to process it but it makes total sense. Where the X crosses each converging line you divided it into rectangles as unit measurements with a horizontal line, right? Let me know if I got it. I will start implementing the advice in future studies for sure. Thanks again Locke!

Apr '22

yep yep! That's right this way you can split anything into equal parts. Took me quite a while to learn this at first and it is time consuming. But it is accurate! You can use it on horizontal planes as well to measure things like this. Any questions let me know, also if you think the PSD for this would be helpful let me know also I can send it to you thought be warned I was still learning photoshop at this point and the PSD is kind of a nightmare lol

Apr '22

Another study from Term 1: Nude Drawing - Female proportions. Along with some notes and facts from the video. Not perfect by any means, but slowly getting into the habit of better practice. Guess I’ll go and repeat the process a couple of times to really memorize the front view.

Any feedback is always welcome. Have fun everyone!

Apr '22

Hey Charlie, just wanted to say that I really like looking at your stuff! I really love the notes you're doing! keep up the good work!

Apr '22

@Apath I really appreciate your kind words! Makes me want to share more content and keep it up. Your progress is impressive and very inspiring. Thanks Ivan, it means a lot.

Apr '22
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Well, it’s been a busy week but finally got time to experiment with the Combining Images assignment. Here’s a quick overview of the images I used, some notes on the tools and practices, and the final result. I would like to get more into incorporating photo-bashing for other quick projects and this was a fun experiment. Even though it’s definitely not the prettiest of results.

And yes, it’s not my dream house or castle, but some post apocalyptic scene I wanted to experiment with. :sweat_smile:

And for the usual final sentence: any feedback and comments are very helpful! I’m trying to keep the notes comming since some students and users find them very refreshing and I’m all about sharing. It helps me a lot to accompany the assignments with notes to really study those principles. Thanks for all the encouraging replies.

¡Pura vida!

Apr '22

Here’s Assignment #2 Photoshop for Digital Production: Image adjustments. For this assignment there are no notes because I think the exercise already has the necessary shortcuts and techniques. And yes, just like everyone else in the forums that las image was haaaard. :sweat_smile: I probably had to restart the 3 attempts like a hundred times. But hey, you live you learn. Funny enough I had never used curves to adjust an image and this was by far one of the greatest takeaways.

The adjustments are not perfect, but awesome practice. Any feedback is more than welcome.

¡Pura vida!

Apr '22

Fantastic work so far Charlie! You are really off to a great start. These all look really fantastic and your line quality is really nice so far! My only suggestion is to consider bringing in the shoulders on the female proportions a bit, it will make her look a bit more feminine. Everyone is built differently, but I do think that will help. For quick proportions I usually try to make the hips and the shoulders the same width on a female to get a feminine look. I don't know if that is right but it seems to work. Take it all with a grain of salt I am still somewhat new! Fantastic progress Charlie I look forward to seeing more. :relaxed:

Apr '22

As always @Lockenheim thanks for the awesome advice. I did try to bring the shoulders in a little, in contrast to the male body, but definitely needs more of a feminine look and that would make it so much better. Thanks for the kind words and your visits.

Apr '22

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Lockenheim

No I agree @lockenheim about the shoulders on a female character, wide shoulders should be used more for a male character, even wider if you want to illustrate a strong male character.

Awesome work on the last colour mix @charlieodow I and a lot of others struggled with that one but you did amazingly! Keep it up.

May '22

Thanks @alwaysneedsleep I totally agree, it’s amazing how much a little feedback can give amazing insight. I’m more than grateful for the replies and advice, keep em’ coming. You too @Lockenheim.

May '22

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charlieodow

I love the post apocalyptic scene your going with here @charlieodow, you did really well, I especially love the added foreground touch with the trees. If I had to change anything I would try and blur the trees in the foreground a little bit as well as the background. When you look at the background grass, it doesn’t match how in focus the trees are. I’d also add shadow to the the right side of the car and the ground next to it. Great work otherwise keep it up.