Jun '22
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Hi everyone! I'm Matt. (I already introduced myself in the discord if anyone gets deja-vu from this!) I am 35 years old and I've been doing art off and on all my life, with some classes in traditional art. I went to architecture school thinking architecture would be a great creative outlet for me, but since I've worked in that field, so far it has been mostly just the type of normal office work that I wanted to try to avoid. So I am looking to finally get serious about my art studies and explore a career in art.

I've been trying to learn digital art on my own for the past few months but kept feeling like I was getting lost and stuck and needed some direction and motivation, so that's when I decided to sign up for art school. I'm very much looking forward to learning and getting to know you all!

I just started Term 1 so I don't have any assignments to post yet, so I thought I'd share a few sketches I did recently as a starting point. Some studies of Sugi from The Clone Wars and a landscape.


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Jun '22

Welcome to the forums Matt! I look forward to seeing your progress!

16 days later

Jun '22
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Hi Matt, nice to meet you! I just saw your reply and to be honest I found amusing that the first person to reply to my topic had a similar life experience as mine. In any case, I'm looking forward to more of your art. I got a tribalistic vibe from your teasers, the green plains, the tattoos, the horns distribution... or maybe I'm just overthinking.
See ya soon.

Jun '22

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Phantoms_Pen

That's not my original character (I should have said that) It's Sugi from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I guess as a Star Wars fan I tend to assume everyone else is too heh. Thanks for the feedback though!

Jun '22

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matthewwemes

Ah that's explains why I felt a sci-fi tribalistic vibe, thank you for the explanation. My knowledge of star wars start and end with the first 2 trilogies, and even then is not that good since the last time I watched it was when the prequel trilogy was on theaters...

10 days later

Jul '22

I realized I've been doing assignments and not posting them... here are the ones I've finished so far!

The circles were probably the hardest part for me. This assignment made me notice there is a slight offset between were my pen tip touches my tablet screen and where the line actually appears. Is that normal? I'm using a Wacom One.

I realized about halfway through the liquify assignment that you could change the size of the liquify brush just like a paint brush lol.

I had fun with this one :smile:

Jul '22

Nice work with these assignments! I really like your photo castle bash! Keep it up!

17 days later

Jul '22

I've been doing the perspective exercises. I decided to draw some cubes freehand to get more pen control practice.

I was wondering how you might draw things in perspective at different angles. This is my first try. I did it by shifting the vanishing points along the horizon, while keeping them the same distance apart, to avoid distortion. I'm not 100% sure about how it turned out. Has anyone else tried this? Feedback is welcome! (hopefully the sketchy lines don't make it too hard to see what I was trying to do)

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Jul '22

When rotating an object the vanishing points would indeed move accordingly, but the space between them would shrink or grow, depending on how you rotate it. The space between a set of vanishing points is smallest, when the object you are rotating is facing you at a 45° angle.

This becomes clear when you are trying to imagine an object in one point perspective, so an object at a 90° angle. One vanishing point is directly in front of you and the other infinitely far of to the side.

Keeping this in mind you'll want to move the vanishing points further apart, the more it is rotated from a 45° angle. If you don't want to guess, here's how to get it accurately:

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You'll have to chose a station point which I marked as SP. Usually, the horizontal position of the SP aligns with the centre of the image plan, but I chose to align it with the frontal edge of your black cube in this example. Then, you'll move it down to the point, where the lines between the vanishing points and the station point would describe a 90° angle (green in the picture). From there on rotating the vanishing points is as simple as drawing a new set of two lines connected to the station point that are still at an angle of 90° (here in turquoise). The new vanishing points are where these lines cross the hoirzon line.

I you now wanted to know the accurate lengths of the edges of the object you'd need to have a perfect circle in perspective as a point of reference (which is basically any ellipse with the minor axis perpendicular to the horizon line that is sitting on the ground plane. Just make sure there aren't multiple different ones). I recommend just eyeballing the length of the sides.