Gregory - Art School Journey

patrycja.lerch 2025-01-24 16:59:58 UTC #525

Great work! Sketches and fairy look nice

gregorya 2025-01-27 17:03:59 UTC #526

Thank you @patrycja.lerch.
Here are some more 10-minute Gesture drawings. I might make some into other characters.
Cowgirl.

Crouching woman.

Man with Axe.

gregorya 2025-01-30 18:15:18 UTC #527

I did some more sketches of gesture drawings for about 10 minutes each. I'm thinking of making him into a Myan character. Critiques are welcome.

For this one, I'm thinking of drawings of some other people around him.

gregorya 2025-02-03 23:30:54 UTC #528

I finished one of the assignments involving making a simple character with a pen tool and some flat colors. The Cyclops was somewhat easy enough. But with the dryad was much more difficult to get the shapes with the pen tool. I wanted to simplify the designs, but they got more complicated. I may need more practice.

gregorya 2025-02-06 16:23:34 UTC #529

Here's another 10-minute gesture drawing of a pirate this time.

I started working on the background. I wanted a winter setting.

I finished my faerie and the background. the lighter one looked good, but I think the darker one works better.

gregorya 2025-02-11 16:56:43 UTC #530

Here are some thumbnail sketches for a Term 2 box art idea. A new king was given a crown, and I had an idea about him holding one, but that was challenging, so I drew him already wearing one. I liked that idea and drew two versions of it.

The sketch on the bottom right, I might use.

snakker 2025-02-11 17:25:34 UTC #531

Good job on all the ideation, you definitely have a creative spark

gregorya 2025-02-13 19:26:14 UTC #532

Thank you @snakker.
I made some logos from the term 2. I might add some details later. I wanted them to have the burnet look. If you have already done the Logo/ Title project, I'd like to know some more tips. Which one looks better?

For this one, I had an idea of a jester gunner. Maybe she works at a circus/cirque.

snakker 2025-02-14 03:23:00 UTC #533

Haven't really done the logo thing personally XD From the ones I see I'd probably go for the first or third one, but be wary of the background as the outline is different throughout the font, you may run into contrast issues. I think if the last one has shadows additionally to bevels with that up down gradient, it loses contrast near the bottom and becomes harder to read. And one thing that jumps into my head is why not add some fire? or make the text look like fire? given the name I mean

cheers!

gregorya 2025-02-18 16:50:48 UTC #534

Thank you @snakker. I thought you need to do all of the homework, so that's what I'm doing.

I see. I did have an idea about making the logo into fire in one of my sketches, and with another logo. I might try that again. The first and third one was a burned gothic font. the second was a plastic explosive font that had flames on it. So I thought it was helpful.

Here is my sketch of my flame king who has the crown. I liked this pose and wanted to draw this one.

Here's the gray tones so far. I wanted to get the pose and shading right before I continued. It looks okay so far. I may have to adjust the crown and face. Are there any critiques I should work on?

gregorya 2025-02-20 16:48:27 UTC #535

I have some ideas for some characters from gesture drawing references. Here are some of the sketches.

I added some flames to the logos. They're either blue or orange. Maybe orange text over blue flames or vice versa.

gregorya 2025-02-25 00:09:36 UTC #536

I have a sketch of Medusa. This was from a Draw This in Your Style challenge. I found it on Twitter by the artist Philtomato celebrating the Year of the Snake with Medusa. In my version, she was given a shirt and jewelry from her sons, Chrysaor and Pegasus. It's the #philtomatoartchallenge.

patrycja.lerch 2025-02-25 21:11:02 UTC #537

She looks great! Love her expression

gregorya 2025-02-27 23:00:44 UTC #538

thank you, @patrycja.lerch.

I've been busy this week. Here's what I have for the box art assignment. I've made some adjustments to my character and added a background and a light source. Now, I think I'll work on the colors. That's about it.

gregorya 2025-03-03 19:46:23 UTC #539

I've finished my flame king picture. The colors, I used gradient maps.

This was from the assignments. Using smart objects, create a game box or DVD box showing two sides, each being a separate smart object.
By two different sides, does that mean the front and the back?

gregorya 2025-03-10 22:24:49 UTC #540

I mostly did gesture drawings last week. I don't think it'll be interesting to show a week's worth of gesture drawings, so I posted this day because I started some 2-minute gesture drawings again.

patrycja.lerch 2025-03-13 19:04:24 UTC #541

It looks nice as a cover! Great work

gregorya 2025-03-13 22:02:55 UTC #542

Thank you, @patrycja.lerch.

I did some more 2 minute gesture drawings.

Some spheres and shapes

gregorya 2025-03-20 22:21:48 UTC #543

I've been a little busy this week, so there's not much to post this week. I wanted to redraw a piece I made 2 years ago based on Julius Caesar's assassination on the ides of March. I tried to get the perspective and poses right first before moving on. How is it so far?

Here's a 2-minute gesture drawing.

gregorya 2025-03-27 16:16:01 UTC #544

This is the last of the two-minute gesture drawings. Am I getting better at this or not?

I did some portrait studies. I focused on the faces and expressions. While looking for mouth studies on Pinterest I found these. They looked cool, so I drew them as well. The tounges were pretty fun to draw.

One of the assignments involved drawing studies of individual facial features, including human ears, Elf ears, wolf ears, noses, and eyes.