Jaydon - Creative Art Journey

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-24 19:35:24 UTC #1

Greetings fellow creative journeymen!

I started pursuing art seriously about 2 years ago, and have since gone through Drawabox and Proko’s Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. I still have much learning and practice to do, but I am confident that if I put in the work to study this program that I will improve and grow along side you, my fellow artists.

Alright, let’s get started! As I do not possess Photoshop, I am using Procreate and Affinity Photo for my assignments. Here is my first completed pen control assignment:

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-24 21:08:59 UTC #2

Image Adjustments assignments. I found the color balance to be particularly difficult mainly because there are a lot more small adjustments you can make. And that last one, oof, man that one was hard. I got closer, but still pretty far away from the source image.

Julia_J 2021-05-25 05:44:50 UTC #3

Welcome And the last one was killing most of us here

mau.wamp 2021-05-25 12:03:03 UTC #4

Welcome on the forums, Jaydon!
Its always great to see a new motivated face on the forums!
I am excited to see your progress over the coming weeks and months
Cheers,
Mau

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-25 21:23:42 UTC #5

Thanks for the warm welcomes!

Here is the "Dream Home" assignment. The composition was hard with the varying perspectives of each image. I think I made the dragon much too dark... 🤔

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-26 21:19:08 UTC #6

The photo manipulation assignments. These tools can really create some interesting and horrific images I think I could have dealt better with the alien as I think I rashly used the liquify tools, and it resulted in a lot of obvious manipulation.

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-27 21:16:02 UTC #7

I wanted to really solidify what I've learned so far and made this delicious Oranana.

Aw_Ralex 2021-05-27 23:58:26 UTC #8

This is disconcerting. Well done.

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-28 20:58:08 UTC #9

I've started the gestures video, and have practiced the basics of the line of action and simple shapes for the ribcage and pelvis. I present some evidence here to the court:

Since I have gone through Proko's figure drawing course, this was not very difficult for me. But i'ts a good and humbling thing to go back to the basics. My pride has already caused me enough pain in drawing, why allow it to grow? Dash it against the rocks of the fundamentals!

Haha ok, enough of my ranting...

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-30 21:30:10 UTC #10

Gestures with the cylinders for limbs:

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-30 21:31:17 UTC #11

First (somewhat messy) attempt at the average proportions assignment.

jaydon.kerr 2021-05-31 22:05:08 UTC #12

I've finally finished watching all of the Nude Figure Drawing video. Here is my first full practice session. Thanks for reading this, I really appreciate the GESTURE, ahahaha! get it cause the gesture.. and, you know drawing? and.. yeah ok I'll see myself out...
30 second gestures:

1 minuet gestures:

The other stuff :

LesleyCarol 2021-06-01 01:01:19 UTC #13

Those gesture lines look yummy!

mau.wamp 2021-06-01 05:42:42 UTC #14

I really like the flow of your lines in what i assume are 30sec gestures! They express those poses really well!

jaydon.kerr 2021-06-04 21:32:48 UTC #15

Just an update with a small portion of my practice of few gestures to prove I am alive and still practicing... or am I? Vsauce music plays

jaydon.kerr 2021-06-09 20:26:20 UTC #16

Here is the one point perspective assignment:

LesleyCarol 2021-06-09 23:38:58 UTC #17

This look nice! I think using thinner lines would be a good ides so we could see more of the chairs, but the perspective looks really solid.

jaydon.kerr 2021-06-09 23:41:38 UTC #18

Oh my gosh, thinner lines, that’s a brilliant idea! I can’t believe I didn’t even think to do that 😆. Thank you for pointing that out, I’ll be sure to use thinner lines in the next one.

jaydon.kerr 2021-07-20 02:11:33 UTC #19

Alright, good grief! after about a month I am finally back up and running. I recently moved so there has been a lot of sorting things out. But I am finally back now! Here is the second part of the perspective term using two vanishing points:

Something janky went on with the tower on the left, I am not quite sure how I messed it up, but it just seems off.

mau.wamp 2021-07-20 03:48:17 UTC #20

Great to see you back, Jaydon!
Hmm I think the tower is too far in the frond in order to connect to the wall on its right. (I assume thats what you were going for...)
Second, I think the lower part of the towers cylinder is too curved in order to match the ground plane. mabe a little less curvature will fix the problem
Good mate, keep it up!