Term 1

playforwho89 · Apr '22

Man this looks insanely well, Lines so crisp you can hear them. I need to see your perspective assignments when you get there.

chonem · Apr '22

Thanks guys! As promised here are my assignments for the day...

Term 1

So starting off with some of these practice exercises, I can definitely see how my previous courses helped in identifying landmarks and drawing 3D forms freehand.
I'm pretty happy with how they turned out but my ribcage, pelvis, and joint placements weren't placed super precisely.

*note for myself: veronica ref #'s 008, 117, 159, 252, 417 | 044, 122, 128, 136, 175, 178, 182, 238, 422, 429 | 062, 160, 229, 326, 384

danilo_tedde · Apr '22

Hey Daniel, welcome.
Really impressive work and studies so far - you have a really strong foundation on line work and perspective from your DrawABox exercises. Cant wait to see more, keep it up!

Lockenheim · Apr '22

Hi Daniel! Welcome to the forums! Your work already is just .. WOW! Great work at drawabox and I look forward to seeing your progress!

chonem · Apr '22

Here is my 8-head proportions exercise from memory as well as my 30" and 60" gesture quick sketches from today's 30-min session.

Gesture definitely seems to be one of those things that you just gotta keep practicing forever .

Lockenheim · Apr '22

Awesome work Daniel! Keep it up!

balagteyscottbradley · Apr '22

oh wow thats really amazing! I am excited to see your work over time! ^^

balagteyscottbradley · Apr '22

your gesture drawing is amazing! very powerful, consistent and confident strokes! keep it up!

chonem · Apr '22

@Lockenheim @balagteyscottbradley Thank you guys for the encouraging words

Today I have some more gesture drawings (still using the same folder of poses as Marc recommended) and more poses with cylinders as limbs, this time from imagination.

playforwho89 · Apr '22

Those gestures look amazing, just what i would expect lines flow so nicely I can feel the energy of the pose clearly. I hope to see more soon.

Lockenheim · Apr '22

Dang love your work! These figures are fantastic, love your mannequin. These are so solid. I can't wait to see more! Keep it up!

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!