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chonem · Apr '22

@playforwho89 @Lockenheim Thank you once again

Was painting my room this weekend so didn't have as much time for practice.

I think I felt some improvement particularly in my 2-minute gestures this week. I'm still trying to figure how to best simplify the legs from a straight on front/back view though. For example, the model's left leg in the final pose. If anyone has any tips that'd be appreciated.

I also finally got around to doing the first assignments for the Perspective and Photoshop portions of the class and the perspective seemed relatively straightforward for me.

For the pen control one, though, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to sacrifice accuracy for line confidence or vice-versa so I just did a mix of both. I also seemed to have a hard time getting smooth gradients on my pen pressure.

chonem · May '22

Hey, so it's been much longer than I would have liked but here are the rest of my assignments for Photoshop for Digital Prod. 1:

If anyone was able to nail #4 for the image adjustments, I'd love to hear how you did it!

Not sure why the castle looks a bit off.

I don't think I used the color burn tool all that well here.

Some obvious stretching from liquifying but oh well.

Thanks to anyone checking these out and feedback would definitely be very appreciated! Next post should hopefully be much sooner.

Lockenheim · May '22

Glad to see your work! These turned out very well especially the beach scene. Nice work!

chonem · May '22

Starting to get on with the perspective exercises

chonem · May '22

Also, some more 2-minute gestures with charcoal on newsprint

danilo_tedde · May '22

Damn, those are really impressive!
I can immediately recognize the figures the moment I look at them and the lines are on point guiding my eyes throughout the flow of the line of action.
Good job, keep it going.

Lockenheim · May '22

I absolutely love your gesture drawings, they are beautiful and so fluid! So much character!

chonem · May '22

@danilo_tedde @Lockenheim

Thank you very much for the kind words

karlmarvin_pogi · May '22

awesome study there, question did you sketch those shapes or used shapes? those looks super clean

000_peanut · May '22

cuuuuuurrrrvveeeessssssssss!!!!!!!!!
really really nice curves

chonem · May '22

Thank you!
I'm not sure what you mean when asking if I "used shapes", are you talking about the gestures?

chonem · May '22

Thanks a lot!!

chonem · Jun '22

ah I see where you were replying to now. To answer your question: everything there was done freehand, but I did use the undo function if i didn't like how smt turned out

chonem · Jun '22

Realized I haven't posted in a while so here are some other drawings I've done.
I've really been enjoying doing animal studies from reference and with some of Aaron Blaise's courses.

I also drew this tiger portrait for my mom's birthday, which was on the year of the tiger.

I started on my other perspective assignment, but it's been kinda boring so I've been procrastinating finishing it. I might just skip the last two for now because I feel like my perspective skills are good enough to move on.

Lockenheim · Jun '22

Wonderful animal studies! Keep it up!