Nick_Haight_Art - Art School Journey

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

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

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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