Jordan W - Art School Journey

[jordancodywerner]

Here is my image adjustment assignment. I really struggled with the last one, but I think I finally got it to an acceptable place.

[jordancodywerner]

Heres my photo manipulation assignment. I'm not super happy with how it turned out, but I think I got what I needed to learn out of it.

[jordancodywerner]

Apples. Again, not great, but I believe I understand the core concept.

[jordancodywerner]

Face swap. This one was fun!

[jordancodywerner]

Aaaand my horrible alien

[jordancodywerner]

Good morning friends. Here is my warmup pen practice. Getting slightly better every day! Some of those lines are nearly pixel-perfect straight.

[jordancodywerner]

First time with my gesture practice. I would greatly appreciate feedback! I took it nice and slow. I think tomorrow I will try 1-minute poses so I'm a little less careful.

[jordancodywerner]

Here is my 12.11.23 pen practice/warmup. Today I plan to try 1 minute gestures instead of going slowly like I did yesterday. Fingers crossed that they dont look horrible. Im weirdly intimidated to try it.

[jordancodywerner]

Here is what ive been working on today. Go easy on me! My first time doing this, but I would love some feedback.

[jordancodywerner]

Got in 9 more spooky skele practice before bed.

[Pattu_w]

For the first time i would say those look great tho
Once you do those enough times and start of being more aware of vanishing lines and all of that perspective shenanigans, things start to click.
One thing i will say is to watch out for the line quality, the sooner you create a habit of make them "clean" the easier will be for you on the future. The basic gist of it is to use the entire arm, big/long strokes and a bunch of Ctrl + Z when you mess them up, Marc's has some tips on his youtube channel for this.

But hey, you're on the right track, great work overall!

[garrok.dev]

I don't have much to say since I'm also pretty new (we're basically classmates)

For the gesture drawing that scares you, you can practice directly on your reference pictures as a warm up for the nude figure drawing assignment. It helped me at least !

[jordancodywerner]

Thanks for the tip!

[jordancodywerner]

Thank you for the tip! I really wish I had some kind of tablet stand like Marc does that allows me to use my whole arm better. Right now it just lays flat on my desk. Hopefully my line quality will improve with time. Its hard!

[jordancodywerner]

This was my first time trying the extended pen practice. This was definitely great practice! I didnt want to spend too much time on the rectangle splitting, though.

[jordancodywerner]

My first time trying some freehand gesture practice. Turned out a little rough. Id appreciate some feedback!

[Pattu_w]

Good stuff! Not much of a tip but i will share a resource that helped me to approach gesture drawing. I actually just post it on @garrok.dev tread, but i think it will be helpful for you as well.

Beginner Gesture Drawing step by step

[jordancodywerner]

These videos are excellent. Thank you so much.

[jordancodywerner]

I tried again after watching those videos. Im not sure the quality is much better, but i was much faster at producing what i think is the same quality.

[jordancodywerner]

Another extended practice. Im trying to use faster strokes and put more weight on the pen instead of my hand, which I think im supposed to do. Can anyone confirm if thats kind of the goal? This brought my line quality down, but I think I just need to get used to a new technique.