Lucas - Art School Journey

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-02 08:01:36 UTC #41

First go at the wall assignment for Perspective 2. I really struggled to think of ideas, didn't really know how to design a wall.

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-02 08:03:05 UTC #42

Will be doing some daily sketching of architecture/environments to build up a visual library (Hopefully studies like this will help me become a great concept artist)

leeireo 2022-01-02 08:16:42 UTC #43

Whoa nice! This looks super solid. I love the one pillar that's super close to the viewer. I can really feel the immense scale of the wall.

LesleyCarol 2022-01-02 09:23:07 UTC #44

I really like this one, it looks like a place I want to visit

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-03 12:04:42 UTC #45

Thanks! Didn't get much time in today, anniversary is in 2 days! Managed to get a quick hour sketch of a library.

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-04 11:59:00 UTC #46

Finished off another sketch for the visual library, this time a french restaurant. Decided to change the angle and rebuild the front from the reference and then design my own side using elements from the reference.

Then I made some progress on the second wall design. This one is for a more militarised city, they are very industrial and use a lot of metal and stone in their architecture.

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-07 11:48:54 UTC #47

Another visual library sketch

and some more progress on the wall perspective!

Grateful for any critique!

xdarts 2022-01-07 19:37:37 UTC #48

You're looking solid Lucas!
In the first image, i think that the tree looks a little tilted. It's not a big deal and i'm nitpicking, but i think it would sell the perspective a little bit better by making it straight hehe.
You make me want to work more on scenes and buildings too, it's really inspiring to see your progress, keep it up!

LesleyCarol 2022-01-07 23:59:20 UTC #49

Your lines and overall designs have gotten so much better in the past few months, these are looking good so far.

hikarisunlight 2022-01-08 04:54:56 UTC #50

the building studies look incredible!

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-08 12:34:49 UTC #51

@xdarts you are right about the tree! I'll focus on that next time. Thank you for the kind words, makes it much easier to keep working!! @LesleyCarol Thank you so much, can't want to keep improving alongside you @hikarisunlight You are too kind, I'll try make them more incredible in the future!

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-08 12:36:08 UTC #52

Didn't have all too much time today. Just finished off a building sketch that I started in the last post.

leeireo 2022-01-08 12:50:35 UTC #53

Wow... this is so good. You're very good with structures!

If I were to nitpick something, the back part of the building is slightly tilted. The lines go to a different vanishing point compared to the front part of the building. Other than that I think this is a solid sketch! Really good stuff

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-11 11:40:31 UTC #54

Thank you!

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-11 11:43:57 UTC #55

Had time to fit in some quick facade sketches and then finish off the perspective 2 assignment! Still need to shade it a bit, but I'm pretty happy with it for now so I think I'll move on to some personal projects for my portfolio now!

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-12 11:37:10 UTC #56

Found some really good advice for building up your visual library whilst reading Scott Robertsons "How to Draw" - Long story short, observe a specific subject e.g. Nose for a week, sketching from reference, then in the second week move onto sketching it from imagination with the aid of reference. Then move onto the next piece of the puzzle e.g. Mouth.

If you had enough time to practice, you'd be able to get a pretty thorough understanding of the whole body in around 12 ish weeks. Anyway, just thought it would was good to share! I'll be using it for my environment dev. focusing on a new style of architecture every 2 weeks!

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-12 11:43:16 UTC #57

Work wise - Here's a 1 hour ish study of a medieval house for my current project. The project is to design a series of buildings for a civilisation that has evolved to live elevated from the ground to avoid dangers in their local environment. Their civilisation highly regards water so I'll have to design that into the buildings as well. Going to be designing some houses to begin the project, and then move into larger structures. The goal is a series of portfolio pieces to be used by 3D artists to be placed in game. (Sorry for long text)

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-12 12:01:40 UTC #58

And the final wall

LesleyCarol 2022-01-13 12:07:23 UTC #59

I'm loving your architecture work!
One thing I'd say just for presentation, either go bold with your shadows or leave them out of the image. Kind of like what you did for your previous wall where the shadows were solid. The structure is really nice but the shadows are a little distracting and takes away the effort you put into the perspective.

Lukiesartventure 2022-01-17 11:35:45 UTC #60

Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep that in mind