Issy art improvement blog

[aa0dasgbnm1]

Hi everyone! I'm a self-taught, amateur artist who is looking to train myself up to a professional level for work in concept art. I will be practicing my painting of characters, portraits, environments, and product design, and updating on my progress teaching myself 3D character design.

Critiques are always very much appreciated!

A few of my recent studies:

[brohawx]

cool stuff! welcome to the blog slog!

[aa0dasgbnm1]

Thankyou

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9/9/22

Been doing a lot of studies yesterday and today, but my rendering looks so sloppy lately that it's a bit discouraging. I need to sort that out.

One of my studies from today, just a cast of an eye to practice edges It's pretty sloppy. .

And from yesterday, I did day 4 of Istebrak's 14 day portrait challenge.

Initial b

lock-in:

[creARTive_Paul]

welcome ... ur definitely on the right way, u just need to practise hard and soft edges a little bit more ... I recomend to watch some videos of Anthony Jones, he's a real expert on this ... keep up the studies

[aa0dasgbnm1]

Thanks I love his videos, they are so useful! Been studying away so hopefully things will click soon

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Day 5 of 14 day challenge. This took so long omg, things really weren't working but I learned a lot from this day that I can use for the next.

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Super quick photo study from today

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Two very sketchy and unfinished studies for rendering/ form practice. Been doing a lot of environments lately and oh my god I need practice haha.

Also for some reason my username doesn't match my forum name and I can't change it, hence the weird disparity.

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Quick faces

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Started doing a daily sketchbook for daily exercises, demos, classes to help track my progress because I usually just throw that stuff away.

Did NMA class 1 assignment, took notes for the Steve Huston head demo, head construction practice, quick figure studies, Rielly rhythms demo as I forgot how to do that, and been taking some more notes from the Figure Drawing Design and Invention book. Doesn't look that great but hopefully I'll get used to a sketchbook format 😅

Been doing a lot of practice in Blender and Zbrush lately, so I'll start posting my 3D studies soon. It has helped my anatomy knowledge a ton so far.

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Practice from today. More of the Steve Huston head demo, did NMA class 2 value assignments (traditional, so not here), some practice quick head sketches, a demo on light in perspective and some sphere practice.

Really wanting to improve my construction for drawing from imagination.

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Quick Zbrush head sculpt practice from yesterday

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More Steve Huston demo, then some super quick head studies. Also started working on a figurine design in Zbrush and more of the NMA class 2 assignment.

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Got to the end of class 1 of the beginner head construction course, did some quick head studies. Also some style studies taking notes on artists I like.

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Quick master studies and 1 minute head sketches. Notes from the Force livestream tonight. More style studies and then some very bad free sketching 😅.

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no updates from the last few days because my computer has been tempermental

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more head drawing assignments
and demos

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notes on eyes and perspective

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Notes and assignments from today. Also did a bit of sculpting and painting but I can't be bothered to photograph it tonight