Grant Sauer - Art School Journey

[catsforsnacks]

Thank you!
Is there a particular channel or podcast that you're listening to or is it more random stuff that you find?

I need to listen to something because there is too many distracting voices around me

I hope they aren't in your head

[patrycja.lerch]

Adam Duff has great stuff. He talks about art industry and mental problems. I like the way he explain everything and he is not afraid to show emotional said of himself. He really motivates me

Sometimes Draftsmen. Everything else is more random

I hope they aren't in your head

I think they are not ...or maybe?

[catsforsnacks]

Nice - I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

[catsforsnacks]

Its time to dump again.

Gesture (2 min)

Gesture (5 min)

Primitive Drawing

Darren Bartley "TRIBAL"

Daniel Dociu "Cresent Streets"

Michael Donze "Forest Concept"

Sebastian Luca "Daily Draw"

Noah Bradley "A Moment of Rest"

Perspective Assignment 4

The tall grass looks really weird next to the rest of the piece but ah well. I might fix it if I get around to coloring it...but that would be down the road after we cover all that fun stuff.

That's it for term 1! The schedule says to "review" the term...is there anything I need to do for that? haha

Thanks for stopping by! See you all in term 2!

[patrycja.lerch]

Great environment studies!
Last piece looks nice

[mitsuki-youko]

these are really nice studies!!

That's it for term 1! The schedule says to "review" the term...is there anything I need to do for that? haha

I think everyone reviews differently haha perhaps think about the hw and see if you can think of anything that was kind of hard and then practice that a little more or rewatch parts of the vid?

[catsforsnacks]

Thank you patrycja.lerch and mitsuki-youko!

I think everyone reviews differently haha perhaps think about the hw and see if you can think of anything that was kind of hard and then practice that a little more or rewatch parts of the vid?

Ah, ok. Just sort of a self reflection. I wasn't sure if I needed to submit anything to a different forum.

[catsforsnacks]

Side note, how do you link people's names when mentioning them? Seems that I am slow at learning this forum haha.

[Pattu_w]

Man, i really loved those environmental studies, you killed it.

To link peoples names just put @ followed by the person nick like @mitsuki-youko now he will receive a notification and everything, it will also be summoned to reply to this post

[catsforsnacks]

Oh sweet, thanks @Pattu_w!

[mitsuki-youko]

To link peoples names just put @ followed by the person nick like @mitsuki-youko now he will receive a notification and everything, it will also be summoned to reply to this post

Im a girl tho hahah but yep thats how u do it

[catsforsnacks]

I just realized I left the perspective guide layer visible in the file that I posted. Ooops!
Here is the clean version.

[catsforsnacks]

Term 2 - Week 1
Not much to show, not too many assignments this week.

I gotta be honest. The pen tool was incredibly frustrating for me haha. I understand it can be a powerful tool to use but thankfully I don't see me needing to use it too much in the future. Also, it looks like a child made this.

I wasn't sure how much time we should spend on the self portrait so this was done fairly quickly. I wanna say less than an hour? Not too into the shading but I'll try a different method on the 2nd one at the end of the term.

Anynoodle, that's it for the first week!

[catsforsnacks]

Week 2 of Term 2 is almost done. I just need to de a few more of the daily studies to finish the sheets up, I'll post them when they are all complete. For now, here are the head copies.

I tried to pay extra attention to the artist's brushwork. Switched a lot between opacity and size jitter for the pen pressure on some of them. It was good practice for line hierarchy. There are some discrepancies in proportions but I usually noticed them too late (too lazy) to do much about it haha. As long at they don't look wonky I guess its fine, right?

Unrelated but ahhh...how do you change your username on this forum?

Hope everyone is doing well!

[catsforsnacks]

Oops, might need to open the image in a separate window to not see the microscopic version. I thought it would automatically prompt to enlarge the view but I guess it was just below the cutoff.

[Pattu_w]

Holy shit, those look awesome! Good stuff.

how do you change your username

I have no idea, sry.

[ZekeDraws]

I had the same problem with my username; you can ask for help with it in this thread: Help with changing username

[NosferatuJr]

Greeeeeeaat work Grant! Amazing stuff, love to see it! Keep it up

[catsforsnacks]

Thanks @Pattu_w and @lucretia.vastea! I appreciate the encouragement.
Sweet, I'll check it out. Thanks @ZekeDraws!

[catsforsnacks]

Here's the rest of week 2!

2 Min gestures

It took me awhile to realize I was making the linework WAY too chonky. Not very satisfied with them but luckily I get another go at them next week.

Some head studies.
I took Esben Lash's "How to Draw the Head From Imagination" course right before this one so I got relatively comfortable with them. I noticed he and Marc have slightly different proportion mapping for the head though. I'm going to have to do a bunch of side-by-sides with the same poses to see how much it ends up effecting the final image.

That's it - thanks for stopping by!