Nick_Haight_Art - Art School Journey

haight_nicholas 2020-09-03 17:23:05 UTC #1

Well this is my first post on here so I hope I'm doing this right. I finished the first term, and was pretty much able to skim through it (because of previous experience) and in my effort to draw the Sci-Fi bedroom I ended up working on a much larger scale room than I had originally planned. I was also experimenting with Voxels for my first time and got a little carried away and built a bunch of stuff that wasn't even visible the drawing I had in mind.

Ultimately, the drawing is not nearly as loose as I had hoped, that's something I'm struggling with, but I think it turned out pretty cool overall.

If you'd like to follow my work on Instagram my name is Nick_Haight_Art
-Nick Haight

Paulda 2020-09-04 08:37:11 UTC #2

Hi Nick, nice work on the Sci-Fi sleeping quarters, really digging the layout. Looking forward to seeing your future pieces

lip3chi 2020-09-04 21:04:05 UTC #3

Welcome Nick, looking forward to see your progress ;D

haight_nicholas 2020-09-06 17:30:56 UTC #4

Thank you both, unfortunately my college classes are slowing down my ART School work, but I will hopefully have more soon

lip3chi 2020-09-06 20:14:25 UTC #5

That happens to me as well, np ;D

haight_nicholas 2020-09-07 22:23:42 UTC #7

Question about posting further work in my journey, should I just reply like this, or is there a better way to do it that I'm not seeing?

This is just a fan art drawing I did for fun and to test out using gradient maps for coloring. The inspiration behind it is the Whitest Kids U Know's ongoing D&D campaign (which you can find on the OfficialWKUK youtube page).

I enjoyed playing around with the gradient maps and I think it worked especially well on the Owlbear there (that creature that looks like an Owl-Bear hybrid). I didn't put a lot of effort into anything but the guy and the Owlbear, mostly I just made this drawing for fun.

haight_nicholas 2020-09-07 23:48:28 UTC #8

I just wanted to add some drawings I did before I started ART School, from this Spring while I was in a figure drawing class in college.

I drew the next three during that same time period, but not for the figure drawing class, the one with the molotov cocktail was my first time using Tombow Brush Pens.

haight_nicholas 2020-09-07 23:52:33 UTC #9

Last post for today, here are some traditional figure drawing studies I did a few weeks ago. Looking forward to starting the lessons on drawing the face, that has always been a struggle for me.

As always any critiques or input would be greatly appreciated.

boscoheron 2020-09-08 03:43:10 UTC #10

This is super cool. What programme are you using for the voxel art? I just read a really great article about painting over 3D environments in an old issue of ImagineFX (checking it now, it was August 2018) so it's pretty cool to see some of the same vibes in action!

haight_nicholas 2020-09-08 03:48:31 UTC #11

For the voxels I used MagicaVoxel, its free and surprisingly capable of creating things FAR FAR more advanced than what I built. That was the first time I had ever used it, and at first it was just so that I could get the spacing on the beds accurate in proportion because I know how to make repeating objects of the same size, but getting the beds and the gap between them right was driving me insane haha. I think voxels can definitely be a relatively quick and easy way to get a basic 3d model to paint on top of, and its probably less time consuming than Blender, but also a lot less capable. If you want to see some insane Voxel work check out Madmaraca on Instagram, her work is ridiculously cool. Oh, and ImagineFX is amazing, I have all the issues from the last few years haha.

boscoheron 2020-09-08 04:26:38 UTC #12

I use Magicavoxel too! Well, I have it on my computer. Not actually fired it up for a few months since I botched some Control fanart...

haight_nicholas 2020-09-08 20:10:12 UTC #13

Tried the face anatomy lesson (Term 2) last night, I've always struggled with faces and this method was very different from what I'm used to so it felt really weird, but I think it turned out alright. I think the nose (not including the nostrils) is the best part. I know it's far from perfect but I didn't want to put in a bunch of extra time just fixing small details, I figured my skills would improve faster by drawing more/different heads and faces.

haight_nicholas 2020-09-14 18:36:10 UTC #14

This one is even worse than the last, but I tried using anatomy video (the same one as from my last post) to draw a woman's face, it's not pretty haha

haight_nicholas 2020-09-15 02:55:06 UTC #15

Decided to give this one another shot, I think this one turned out better than the last two. The eyes are still jacked, along with some other things, but it's a little bit better.

haight_nicholas 2020-09-15 18:52:27 UTC #16

Stayed up all night working on my castle for the 3 point perspective assignment. Its shape is not as well-defined as I wanted it to be, but I always get WAY too sucked into it trying to finesse unimportant details and obsess over making everything technically lined-up and clean instead of moving onto something else to continue building my skills. I'm also really trying to learn how to keep my drawings a lot more loose/"sketchy" because I tend to overly-polish most of my drawings, and that level of polish is never warranted because they're solely for personal practice and most of them would actually be a lot better if they were a lot looser. Anyway, here's my castle.

chiara.arcidiaco 2020-09-16 16:41:44 UTC #17

I think that this is the thoughtest assignement in the whole art school, and you nailed it!! congratulation hahah

haight_nicholas 2020-09-16 16:47:26 UTC #18

Hahaha thank you

MattD 2020-09-16 17:45:37 UTC #19

I did a quick draw over of this face to point out a few things that might be helpful. The eye on the far side looks like its placed higher on the head than the one the near side. And from the angle we're looking the bottom of the eyelid should flatten out. The mouth and nose are in the right place but they look a bit too flat, making the far sides on both shorter or more obscured will help create a rounded feeling to the face.

All that being said your proportions look good and that's a very solid start. Your perspective and figures are also off to a solid start, I look forward to seeing what you do in future assignments

haight_nicholas 2020-09-16 17:54:10 UTC #20

Awesome thanks man I really appreciate it! For years, prior to starting to work actively to become an artist a couple years ago I avoided drawing people or living things in general because I always struggled with it (which is why my perspective drawings are a lot less flawed haha), during the last couple years I've done almost nothing -in life- besides figure drawing, but I had still largely avoided the face. Now that I've started this art school I've been making a lot more of an effort to focus on faces, unfortunately I am also working on finishing my degree in English (that I'm not planning on using) so that has been slowing me down.

I sincerely appreciate your input and support, thank you!

haight_nicholas 2020-09-29 09:54:32 UTC #21

I was finally able to make time for my first clothing/fabric study, I know the checker pattern on the pants is far from perfect, but I didn't feel like finessing that pattern was all that important, I also skipped the stripes on the shoulders. Any input would be greatly appreciated!
The model is Phoebe Combes, the picture is not mine.