Crash_JJ (James) - Art School Journey

Hello, I forgot this was part of the course until I watched one of Marc's video's over Christmas and he mentioned the discord, I went looking in the files and found this link. I've been drawing on and off since high school but have only really started pursuing it properly the last couple of years, I want to get into 2D cartoon animation for tv and movies but after learning the basics, I realised my actual art skills weren't where they needed to be in order to be successful in that goal, which is what lead me to Marc and this course. I've gotten to the anatomy classes in term 4 so far, I won't back post all of it as apparently I can only put 5 images in a post so I'll just stick a few things in, I'll include 1 assignment from each Term I've completed and will try be more diligent going forward.

Gesture Drawings from Term 1: This is one of the few sets of this I did on the PC, I prefer doing it in a sketch book so I won't subject anyone to grainy 360p images

Perspective Assignment, Term 2:

Folds Assignment, Term 3:

Here's a couple of Free Drawing things I did across the first 3 terms, definitely wouldn't have been able to do them half as well before I started the course

Only realised when I was done how the skyline and angle draws your eye away from the character rather than towards, shame but still enjoyed making it

Many thanks if you scrolled through all this, I'll try be better about this side of the course from now as I know how essential constructive feedback is to improving.

James

Thanks for the welcome!
Here's the Term 4 Colour and Light exercises I've done the last couple of weeks.

Cast Shadow cube exercise (I forgot to turn off the Guidelines I drew)

Cast Shadow Shapes Exercise. (I need to redo this one a few times because I didn't do it correctly, especially the sphere. I was trying to do it from memory of what I watched before Christmas but, having re-watched the section, I need to try this again because I didn't do it right.)

Colour Scheme Exercise. (I have been reading a book about storyboarding that made me want to do some basic character drawings around displaying emotions, this one didn't quite come off the way I wanted because its not really displaying any emotion, its just sort of mildly aggressive, but I liked it enough that I shaded, coloured and lit it. I figured I'd use it as the base for this exercise because its not an overly complex character to colour. Fun exercise but I automatically made the complementary colour scheme offset as, for some reason, that part of the class stuck in my head more than the actual colour scheme)

Thanks again to everyone who had a look and replied!

Redid the cast shadow thing and followed the instructions properly this time. Don't think I was far off with whatever janky methodology I misremembered but it definitely works better the right way.

I also did a bunch of Line art for hands, I'm sure they look very familiar to anyone who has the same gesture drawing app as me. Left in the construction layer, know it makes it look like a mess but the construction was the thing that mattered with this one I think.

Finished most of the Term 4 stuff now, just gotta spend some time drawing muscles on skeletons and I'll have covered most of the stuff in the study companion and assignments.
Here's a few of the limb anatomy drawings on reference pictures

Also did one Environment Art Study, I'll do some more of these as they're probably the area I need to work on most (anything not woodland/meadowy and I struggle because perspective becomes more necessary to pay attention too, I can do it but its definitely a weakness). The piece I was working off was from Blue Eyed Samurai, very good show on Netflix, worth a watch if you like anime or revenge stories.
I chose it because its a painted background style, so was an interesting experiment as it was so detailed that line art copying didn't really make sense. I just tried to paint a copy picture in photoshop, I'll have the original 1st and then my attempt to copy it. I just used Mark's brushes rather than trying to create one's similar to what were actually used so there's definitely some major differences, I'm not happy with the foreground on the left and the colour palette is all over the place but it came out closer than I thought it would to be fair. Will be choosing something a bit simpler for the next one though I think.

ORIGINAL:

Study Copy Attempt:

Final bit is the free drawing I did. Mentioned previously that I was reading a book on storyboarding, it talked about how important capturing emotions is in animation, so I wanted to have a go at drawing what it described as the 4 Core emotions, Joy, Sadness, Fear and Rage, that all other feelings are a blend of. I think technically there's supposed to be 7, Surprise, Disgust and Contempt are usually also mentioned in the same breath as those 4 in other things I read but these were what I started with and I'll come back to the other 3 at a later date probably. Piece was more focused on the facial expression of each character so the character designs are just basic