Hello, I just wanted to post some updates. This is some of my progress I have submitted for review last week to the stream and some of the new things I have been practicing since then. Any comments and criticism is welcome!

This was my second attempt at the one point perspective assignment. This took me so much time but I feel like I got a better understanding of perspective. Marc suggested that I add ambient occlusion to this piece to update it so I did that as well in the next picture.

I feel like it makes quite a bit of difference!

Here is my construction for this assignment.

Here are some examples of cylinders / constructions / measuring drawings I submitted last stream.

Those are the pieces I submitted for last weeks stream. Here is some of my newer work and some of the submissions for this upcoming stream.

Marc suggested I move to 2 minute gesture drawings so this was my first attempt, I sometimes take a little bit longer if I am struggling and mark down how much extra time I take next to each figure

I wanted to be able to quickly show the head direction so I did 30 sec head direction sessions and added more if I had extra time.

I feel like the head practice helped in this round of drawings.

Marc suggested for my measuring drawings that I take away the grid that I have used to help measure and use negative space to help position objects of the body, so I was very nervous to draw from reference without using a grid, so I did quite a few quick practice drawings before hand until I could get the figure down in 2 minutes.

I had almost completed my two point perspective assignment before last stream, and I put the final touches on it last Sunday I believe. I added an ambient occlusion pass to this as well and if anyone has any suggestions to enhance this please let me know. The circle in the top right is supposed to be a scrolling menu, but it turned out kind of unclear.

and here is the construction for the 2 point perspective assignment.

Thanks for looking through these assignments from last week and this week. If you have any advice or criticism please let me know! Especially about the Black Cat Cafe assignment. Thanks!

Hello, its me again! I just wanted to post some progress from this week. I moved into term 2 and had such a hard time warping shapes! But I keep practicing.

Blending Practice

Sphere practice, I wasn't happy with most of these and will keep practicing. In retrospect most of these arn't spheres lol.

The main thing I worked this week was warping. Oh I found this so very difficult. Here is some of my practice.

After many tears and sweat here are my submissions for the week. I attempted to shade the bottom one but am not really sure what I am doing yet lol!

Thanks for reading! Any feedback is always appreciated.

Thank you so much!

Here is some of my work for the week! Head constructs are so hard to understand! If anyone has any feedback its always welcome!

Some of my warping practice

and some constructions for the week. My first time trying to construct something living that isnt a human!

Thanks for reading! Any feedback is appreciated!

Thank you very much for the feedback! I have had quite some difficulty learning the head construction. Thank you for pointing out these issues. Truthfully I am not sure why a few of the heads are upside down lol, I probably had the canvas rotated and didn't think about it.

Thank you for pointing out that the front facing center line should be just a line and not an ellipse that makes sense! Cutting off the sides definitely makes sense now!

Thank you for letting me know about the hair line and nose ellipses when tilted. I thought I was curving them but now I realize I was not curving them enough. This will help me considerably as I continued to have the same issue this week.

Thanks you for pointing out that the center line is not quite right on the 3/4 views. I think I have a better understanding of that aspect now. What do you think about the last page? Do you think those center lines are more accurate?

For the cylinders and construction practice thanks so much for the advice! I will curve them more to convey that information better. I have been trying to get a good handle on this as I want to draw a giant serpent in my 3pt perspective assignment.

I appreciate the time you took to let me know the issues with my work and thank you so much!

Thank you so much for the kind words and the advice! I appreciate it! I will definitely start doing more of the free hand. Regarding the free hand, are you referring to the construction on the circles using the guides? Thanks so much for your help!

Thanks! I don't use any line smoothing. I'm just crazy. I had watched Marcs videos for quite a bit before starting the program and the one thing that kept coming back for advice was line quality and not to use smoothing to increase dexterity. So when I got my tablet I spent 2-3 hours each day for the first month just working on my lines and am quite meticulous when working on most practice. I am getting better but I do use control Z a lot! I did use the line tool on the perspective assignments for the fish room and cat room and for the center lines on the head construction. I will have to work on doing those freehand but I'm not quite that confident yet!

This is my work for the week! I worked just as hard even though I don't have quite as much content. Many hours were spent watching the head construction video lol. This was my first time drawing with values! I worked very hard on them. Criticism always welcome! I have not quite weened myself from using circles to help me draw the base yet, I will focus on that once I feel I have the construction down.

Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words! I spend a lot of time practicing and studying!

Thank you so much! Prospective is intimidating to learn, but once you understand the basics and practice / play with it a lot of it starts clicking. I spent many, many hours on the perspective assignments lol. The alchemy shop had to take me over 50 hours but I learned a ton lol.