Jason Slater - Art School Journey

[Lockenheim]

Keep up that gesture you are starting with a good eye for sure! This measuring exercise came out really well also!

[jasonslater]

The section on perspective has been a real learning curve for me. I almost never draw environments, I usually just do characters. Time to broaden the horizons: literally!

[jasonslater]

Nothing will make you realize how awkwardly you’ve furnished your room quite like drawing it in 1 point perspective lol.

[Lockenheim]

Beautiful work with this! Spot on!

[jasonslater]

Haven’t had the chance to go through the class lately, but here’s something I whipped up for an oc of mine. I’m still a newbie when it comes to colouring, which is one of the things I’m looking forward to improving on. Let me know if you have any thoughts or critiques.

[prinzmoana]

This looks so clean 😲 Love your line weight and overall linework.
Well done, I hope we'll see more soon 😜✌️

[Lockenheim]

This is a really cute design! I like it!

[jasonslater]

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Here’s something a bit different from what I usually draw. I tried to challenge myself and only use three layers: the background, the branch, and the bird itself.

I couldn’t decide if I should go full photo realistic, or more stylized, and ended up somewhere in the middle and failed at both lol 😅. But the process was so soothing and relaxing I still had lots of fun with it.

[snakker]

Nice job, it looks very pretty. That’s a kingfisher?

Cheers

[Pattu_w]

Wow, i feel like it's more towards stylization, but a goddamn good looking one at that, good stuff

[jasonslater]

It is! I looked at a few other birds, but the blue, orange and white colour palette was too attractive to resist.

[Gordon003]

Love the seamless colour flow. Sometime stylised is much better to see than realism.

[jasonslater]

A quick little study on light and colour. It’s easily what I’m the least comfortable with. I need to practice more, and find a consistent method of doing it.

[leeireo]

Hey, welcome back to the forums! This is looking pretty nice!
One thing I'd like to mention though, and I could be wrong here, but it looks to me like you used some sort of glow layer to add lighting on the study. Using different kinds of layers and effects on an artwork is always welcome, but when doing studies, I personally recommend only the basic brushes with nothing fancy on top. Training your eyes that way will be a lot more useful later down the line.
But either way, it's just what I think will help most so feel free to disregard what I say!

[jasonslater]

That’s great advice, thank you so much! You’re spot on with the glow layer too. I’ll definitely take that into consideration and stick to brushes the next time I try this.

[jasonslater]

I tried Marc’s “Learn to draw faces in 7 days” exercise, and here’s the results! It was really fun and I learned a lot. My biggest takeaway is that there’s a LOT more I need to learn lol, but this was a good start.

[jasonslater]

Here’s a few more colour studies! They’re lots of fun and very therapeutic. I would like to be able to do these faster though. I feel like I end up chasing after details that don’t really matter, and it eats up most of the time.

Feedback welcome as always!

[patrycja.lerch]

These look great! I like how you did transitions between colors

[jasonslater]

Loomis head practice!

[jasonslater]

Here’s a sentimental exercise I tried: revisiting old drawings. This is the same character drawn three times, each roughly 10 years apart. Looking at it now I can’t say I’ve improved THAT much (I suppose that’s what the art school is for lol), but at least I started colouring!