Olly Musson - Art School Journey

I am super excited to get started with my Art School Journey!
As a student of Indie Game Development, I will be using these new skills to improve my games and create memorable characters and environments for my players.
I look forward to becoming part of the Art School community

Had a lot of fun with the pen control practice (though I'm currently doing this in traditional format because my digital supplies are at a different residence, oops). Making sure to take it lightly and leave some notes behind so I improve even just 1% each day.

I'm using Clip Studio instead of Photoshop, so it took a bit of extra work to understand all the tools and get the interface setup - but I already feel much more confident inside the software and have been amazed at the things it (or I) can achieve.

My main struggles with this task were:
- Oversaturating colours (I just like vibrant designs and can't help myself haha)
- Pulling out too much of the shadows and having overly strong highlights when doing tonal corrections

That said, I'm still really happy with the results, considering this was the first time I had used CSP in any capacity on my own. Looking forward to the more advanced homeworks coming up!

Progressed into Week 2 of Term 1 and started getting to grips with cylinders and forms
This was a big push out of my comfort zone. It took AAAAGGES to work out how to draw cylinders as though you are viewing them from different directions and how to make them look like they are far off in the distance versus close up.

Followed this up with some figure drawing, using the cylinder practice. I was trying really hard to take note of which limbs were closer to the camera and therefore how the cylinder forms would appear in a figure drawing, which planes would be visible etcetera. Super fun

Gonna be moving on to proportions, basic anatomy, and gesture drawing homeworks across the next couple of days!

I found this SUUUPER hard but really helpful for getting a deeper understanding of the software.
There were so many tools I used throughout this challenge that I had never even known existed beforehand - a big step forwards, even if the result is a little patchy!

I'm most excited for the upcoming Week 3 Gesture Drawing task(s)

Getting loooads of value out of Marc's recommended Top 10 Drawing Exercises! These are working miracles for my pen control and line confidence.
I'm looking forward to finishing Week 3 strong with the final two assignments: gestures and lineart copies - will hopefully get these up in the next couple of days

Today's practice was the gesture drawing homework - 30 seconds ONLY!
Really challenging stuff, some turned out better than others but honestly I expected wayyy worse for my first EVER session of gesture drawing - very happy

Here are my 3 favourite lineart copies from the end of Week 3!
Got a little carried away and I'm only managing to uploading these halfway through Week 4 but I'll get back on schedule soon enough.
Learnt a lot about line weight variation and line confidence - can't wait to bring that into Week 4