Reaching Term 5 was really exciting since character design is my focus, so I went all out hoping to make something good for my portfolio. Looking back on it I'm still pretty satisfied with it, it's just frustraiting that so much work goes into something that is ultimately so barebones.

I wish I could do these so much more easily and faster, but the process itself is still a struggle, not just the designing, specially the technical side of rendering or really just fast sketching to a decent finish without having to go all out. Oh well, learning slowly is still learning.

Obviously I learned a lot from this and got some feedback from Marc on this one, started out with greyscale and then added color.

On Term 6 I wanted to work on more character stuff for my portfolio so I made this. The class on Mech design is one of the few things I haven't really done an assignment on, I just really want to focus on the human figure and more organic forms for now.

Anyways Marc helped me with this one and I think it turned out pretty well overall. Hopefully I can make these faster as I improve.

Oh and this term also had a lighting exercise so I went back to this room from term 1 and lit it up.

@Julia_J thank you :9

I went back to Term 5 to work on this project with creatures in mind and Marc's class on creature design. I also wanted to try out a particular style with the characters. Overall it's not a very good project, it's a mess really, but a decent learning experience I suppose.

Also thought me or reminded me that I really need to stop trying to "wing it" with big projects, I should've spent more time on the planning and designing of the creatures, because they came out really bland and boring.

Thanks @HANDRO, not sure about style though, for that last project I was imitating the style of Justine Thibault that I liked.

Ever since I finished these projects on Terms 5 and 6 I haven't continued with ArtSchool at all since what comes next is the big final project and I don't feel ready to tackle that, because I would really love to come up with something good, althought overthinking it is not good in the long run.

Anways, in the mean time I have participated in all kinds of challenges and these are some pieces I have done and received feedback from Marc.

This was for Art War 5, I have yet to correct it based on Marc's feedback to add it to my portfolio.

From this point on I'll keep updating with new stuff I come up with.

@LesleyCarol thank you! I really appreciate it, as I really struggle with not having a style I can call my own.

Jeez, I haven't posted anything in a while, I have been working on a few things, but it ain't much. When I began ArtSchool I was unemployed so I had plenty of time, I then move on to a part-time job and that worked well enough, but right now working full time the struggle to get anyhting done is awful. I feel like I have improved, but it feels very slow.

Anyways, I went ahead and polished up that Art War 5 warrior piece if anyone's curious, think it turned out much better now. Better lighting overall.

heya, just wanted to post some of the concept work behind the last piece and share on the struggle of spending like 3 hours or more just setting this stuff up to be presented nicely x.x
It's so time consuming!

some doodles/sketches from the last couple of months:)