phizzle12 - Art Journey

[phamster345]

Thank you! I hope to finish up the perspective section!

[Gordon003]

Looks good so far! I must say, the bed looks extremely long! Maybe it's my eye not trained on perspective enough,

[phamster345]

Thanks! You are right about the bed. It looks too long for a normal bed.

[phamster345]

Here is the building assignment for the perspective section. I don't show it on my drawing, but my grid was getting very hectic for me.

[phamster345]

I'm back to it. I took a break last weekend because I really needed to relax haha. Anyways, here is some stuff for the figure drawing portion. I've been doing gesture drawings as a warm-up before each of the assignments that I was doing (like the color adjustments, perspective, etc.). And I've done a lot since then. I included just a select few. The first drawings at the top are the beginning and the last drawings at the bottom are more recent.

Also, I don't if it's just me, but I tend to jump straight into details too quickly when I draw people. So it was really relaxing just to focus on circles and cylinders for these drawings. It also really forced me to simplify everything in the human body.

[snakker]

Nice work! Simplifying is the best

Cheers

[Norma]

The composite with the cat it's cute. Properly cropping an animal with fur in Photoshop is difficult. (Or were you just impatient?)

[Norma]

Cool! Good work with the idea and the composite.

[phamster345]

Thanks! Looking back on it now, I think I was impatient when I lassoed the cat. It looks more obvious to me that I didn't do enough to make the cat's edges look more natural.

[phamster345]

It's been a while since I drew a figure without altering my drawing for my own purposes, so this was definitely a wake-up call to watch out for proportions, shape language, etc. in the figure. And I also need to work on my line art. I avoided practicing line art for too long, and now I need to confront it. And I need to work on feet as well.

[snakker]

Looking good! pretty much as spot on and with nice clear structure
There can always be more improvement, but if you struggle getting the proportions to point I would focus more on that and keep details like feet as placeholders until the bigger picture is easier to accomplish

cheers!

[phamster345]

Thank you for your advice! I definitely have to work on proportions and, in general, the big picture. It's very tempting to jump right into the details for me.

[phamster345]

I combined all of the Photoshop Graphic Design assignments into the box assignment. I had a difficult time coming up with details and designs for this, but the Smart objects are very useful. And I got more used to the pen tool when I created the character on the front. The title is a story I'm working on my spare time. Though, my more recent ideas might make me change this title.

[phamster345]

Here is another photoshop digital exercise. Definitely need more practice. I'm still not used to blending in photoshop (or blending in any media in general haha). Creating custom brushes is pretty fun.

[phamster345]

Here is my work-in-progress for the three-point perspective assignment. I always avoided drawing backgrounds/settings before because I hated measuring stuff, but doing this assignment made me change my mind on it. It's quite fun, and, in a weird way, it really unlocked another creative side of me. I do plan to add lighting to it as a challenge. I may or may not erase more details from the bottom half. It actually had more detail than it does now. I erased the details because it looked too distracting to me.

[olashamala]

Awesome work! yeah, I know what you mean. I usually dread perspective but when I start working on it, It's quite fun. it's like creative problem-solving, you lose your sense of time which is a great feeling!

[phamster345]

Thank you! I forgot to reply when I liked your comment haha I definitely got into a flow zone and lost my sense of time on this one haha

[phamster345]

Here is the assignment with lighting. This was quite a challenge. I had to go into my sketchbook to figure out how the angle of the light for this would look like in this setting. There's a section on how to figure out the angle of lighting in Andrew Loomis' Successful Drawing. It has a wealth of resources, and I think it's well worth a look. It helped me reverse-engineer/decipher how the lighting would be placed by using other perspective techniques. The bridge's shadow was difficult, in particular, so I guessed and messed around it until it looks right. I'm not sure if I nailed it, but at least my lighting seems to direct it near my point of interest (hopefully).

[olashamala]

Always had a problem with figuring out lighting and shadow work, so I'm the last person to comment but to my eyes it makes sense.

On a different note, people on the forum keep mentioning Loomis, and just lately I learned that he's behind the face drawing construction from the anatomy term 2 lessons. Do I need to check out his books?

[phamster345]

Thanks. I am glad to know the lighting makes sense to you

Regarding Andrew Loomis, he has books on figure drawing, illustration, face drawing, and a regular drawing book (Successful Drawing). His book seems to be written for artists back then (for example, he talks about drawing for advertisements, and this field at the time seems more contextualized for back then, to me, at least), but his books are still very good because he talks about foundations very in-depth in terms of perspective, anatomy, faces, hands, values, shading, lighting, etc. Particularly, his illustration book has a very good section on composition.

I still reference his books from time to time (along with others, like Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing book). His books are well-worth your time.