Mmmm yep! Fantastic value studies. That face looks so good. Great work!
Thank you! It's nice to be able to dive back in and experiment a lot. About the face - extra thanks. That's the first planar face I've completely constructed with any success. It's still a little borked and stylized, but it was close enough for me to know I've made progress.
I did a bunch of posed references studies. am seriously out of practice in this area, my goodness:
after that practice I wanted to play around some so I made some silhouette stuffs...
im in love with silhouettes. how could I have forgotten lmao
These are super cool! I'm still in term 2, very excited to get to these parts of the course and make some awesome concept art ;__;
Wow, these silhouettes are really outstanding! Very unique and interesting! My favorite is the top right. It reminds me of a zergling, but wearing a shaman costume.
@yazziixx Thank you 
Silhouettes are the best for practicing shape design. It's also super stress free cuz there are no expectations. I highly recommend busting out the lasso and filling in some shapes. If you have clip studio, there's a tool called the lasso fill that makes the process so fast. I love it
@lockenheim Thank you too! My fav is the lower left hehe. You kinda nailed what I was thinking about though for the top right fella. Kind of a zergling/hydra/mech shaman idea.
I've done some more stuffs in the meanwhile:
this one has stalled out but ima go back to it for sure
next is a landscape painting where im really trying to get the atmosphere and lighting down. the lighting is far far from correct but Im just exploring pushing the highlights and colour
and here's the value output
and finally some more silhouette shape design stuffs
I've been putting some time into basic, simplified anatomy studies in my physical sketchbook recently as well. The time spent is actually showing progress for once and that feels great. Makes all the frustration of not being as good as I'd like more bearable to know that the practice generates returns.
Cheers, lovelies!
Just wanna follow up with a minor correction and my thinking about composition. In the image posted above, there are four repeating elements:
Since I know that odd numbers are more pleasing to the eye, I need to get rid of one of the elements of the pattern, or alter it in some complementary way. I'm opting to get rid of the bottom right one, since this area should, I think, be in shadow.
so it becomes this:
which I think has a better balance. I'm also trying to use my edges and contrast to direct the viewers eye to the person in the image. I know, I know, it needs more contrast behind the person to really draw the eye there - and why the heck is the person the focal point anyway - but again, I'm giving myself a pass on these for now because I'm just exploring. Here are the existing direction lines:
Ima keep working on this piece for a while. It has been super instructive and also challenging. Which is very fun 
10 months later
Hello everyone, hope you are all doing well. It's been a hot minute since my last post - architecture degrees are evil things - but I am on my last 7 weeks of this degree. I figured I'd share what little I've managed to squeak out over the last few weeks. Starting with some (imperfectly executed) technical perspective construction:
Then some ship silhouettes for playing around with forms:
Some prop design for kicks:
A little environment value sketch:
Some face and character practice:
And finally revisiting an old, very squashed perspective drawing and trying to flesh it out:
Thus concludes this art dump. I am so excited to be done this degree and can't wait to dig back into drawing and painting.
Cheers, lovelies!
Nice! Snakker here, local noob who came aboard while you were away
Loving these!
What would people eat in that kiosk concept piece? It looks like a mix of a chinese restaurant but maybe, beetles?
Cheers!
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