Jai - Art School Log

G'day, I'm Jai.

I've done Some art and art training before having graduated from a game dev course at university. I have also worked in architectural visualisations for some time using the software blender and more recently I have been looking into character art.

So I guess what I am saying is that I am not completely new to all this, however most of
my experience up till now has been with 3D software (blender mostly) so there is a stark contrast between my 3D ability and my more traditional drawing skills, maybe I skipped over a few of the fundamentals and let the software handle that for me

Let me show you what I mean about the skill difference.

This is the best 3D character portrait I have ever done:

And this is a drawing of the main character from Kaiju no.8 I did as a kind of skill test before starting this course :

I hope to follow the weekly guide to give me some structure and accountability so that I can maybe complete the entire course and improve my more traditional art skills and fundamentals.

@patrycja.lerch Thanks for the welcome!

@daceronine Thanks, I have bounced of some traditional art training in the past so hopefully it'll all help me to advance quickly

@bigpicturekid Thanks I'm glad you like my work!

@mitsuki-youko Thanks I appreciate the encouragement. That drawing turn out better then I thought it might, been a while since I drew properly.

Thanks @leeireo I'll be happy to improve alongside you also.

Ok here are The results of Week 1 Assignments. I have been following along in Krita and so far it seems to have most of the important Photoshop tools down except for maybe some of the more advanced healing brushes.

Hardest part is getting the colours right on the last. it's still slightly off especially noticeable in the sky.

Alright week 2 assignments:

I decided to finish up with the "Photoshop" exercises that I am doing in Krita

Here are the source images I used:

And the end product:

The bridge that I sourced from the blue lighthouse image didn't quite fit but I wanted to push myself a bit especially since two of the castle images are of the same castle just different angles and time of day. I also didn't want to spend too much time on it seem I think this exercise is just to get used to the tools.

Next up was the age exercise, to save time here I just used the supplied images.

happy enough with this exercise again didn't spend tooooo much time on it. One of these days Kiefer Sutherland is going to stumble onto all these aged up photos of him online and wonder why people are trying to make him look older

Next up are the many apples assignment:

This one was not too difficult, could have spent more time on it to get a bit better result but layers in Krita seems pretty much the same as Photoshop. The burn and dodge brushes are handled like any other brush and work slightly different to Photoshops and might take a little bit more practice to get use too.

And lastly for the face morph, again I used the provided images. Here I had some trouble with Krita and it's liquify brush. sometimes it would go wrong and make sort of tears in it and was just less reliable then I would like. Could be an issue with my setup that I'll have to look into later.

Now on to the drawing assignments.
just the line of action

A page of cylinders

And finally skeletons
I experimented a little between the suggested box or circle versions here

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