It's been a week since I posted so I thought I might give an update. I had a lot of homework this week so I didn't really study much in terms of art. In my high school art class though, we're working on a packaging project (which I thought was the perfect opportunity to do fanart ). Here's a work-in-progress photo of what I've been working on all week!

This is one of the most detailed paintings I've ever done and I'm really pushing to reach a new level of finish I feel like I haven't achieved in a long time. We'll see how it turns out.

The next time I get to art studying, I think I'll start Term 2 and work on my Perspective 1 assignments at the same time. I'm not finding as much value in doing just the Nude Figure Drawing assignments anymore because I've done real-life figure drawing for the past three years. Excited to move on to anatomy!

Thanks for reading guys.

Thank you! The packaging project is usually supposed to be like box branding and more modern/sleek stuff, but I stretched the rules a bit haha. I figured that book covers are packaging too and squeezed in the chance to do some digital painting in class

[Term 1] Perspective 1
AHHHH I FINISHED MY ONE POINT PERSPECTIVE ASSIGNMENT!!

I learned so much doing this assignment, from workflow to design to having patience. So many hours of painstaking drawing and referencing later, this is definitely a piece that I'm proud of. Thank you guys for looking.

Michaela

Finished the Viscomm 2 lecture. I've been watching through the Term 2 Anatomy 1 and slowly taking notes, but recently I've finished two more pieces! I'm not studying as I'd like to, but that's not something I want to stress out about. No big deal, just keep making art

@HANDRO @mau.wamp
Yeah, I realized the pose is kind of hard/impossible to do in real life. It is possible to rotate your hands in that direction (and I often do when messing with my hair) but not as far as I have them drawn haha. I guess the only thing to do is get references next time .

[Term 2] Anatomy 1

It's been a while, but I'm back with another set of study pages! I'm officially on summer break now too! It took a long time but I finished taking notes for the facial features part of the lecture. I'm going to do studies of each facial feature in sets of 10 + 2-3 from imagination. Here are my lecture notes and ear studies

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20210516_anatomy1_p2_A.jpg2400x3600 1.96 MB

20210516_anatomy1_p2_B.jpg2400x3600 2.8 MB

For the ear studies, my basic method was:

1. Sketch
2. Base silhouette + shadow shapes
3. Overpaint focusing on:
   • Midtones
   • Occlusion shadow
   • Highlights
   • Accent color/color variation
4. Any final touches with a hard brush (no opacity).

I haven't done painting studies in a long, LONG time so it was really fun to do these. Usually people see their improvement in their personal pieces, but I'm seeing improvement in my studies instead because I don't do them as often hahaha.