Hey gang! I'm checkin in lol I noticed that I tend to drop off the end of the earth and then pop back up after a while xD
Here's two of my character studies I did, the lady was the very first one I did. I forgot to read the assignment where it said linework only, so I guess I learnt extra by learning how to put noise over my art.
With the Chopper one I also forgot about linework only, so you do see a bit of that in his feet and hand lol but all my notes are my initial observations or things I noticed while replicating.

thanks! When I thought about characters I liked and doing studies on them, I thought it would be best to look at them without any colors distracting me at first since it was my first time doing a character/artist study.
plus, it's art directly from the artist themself.

I recently found some old kingdom hearts 1 concept art after playing through it again, so I think that'll be my new target. xD

lol Here's my cylinders studies I forgot to post

Hia guys! finally updating, I finished term 1!

I really struggled with free handing boxes and drawing boxes in perspective. lol they were really rough in the beginning. One of my problems when drawing in one point, I kept trying to draw boxes that would only work in 2 point xD once I figured out my problem It clicked pretty quickly.
as with drawing boxes free handed, I turned to "drawabox" to help, doing some of those first exercises really helped.
another struggle was when drawing boxes stacked, as soon as I got to the top ones, I suddenly didnt know how measure them and kept making them very tall. I just had to keep trying with that problem, I got it finally tho xD

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^I was practicing the table with the chunk carved out for my room assignment >:3
Here's my 2-point building, I didn't want to spend insane time on it, so I did enough to get the gist of it. I did more practice on it in my sketch book just to make sure lol.

As for the room assignment, I had done it once before back in 2022 as you can see here^^ LOOL uh don't mind the body pillow, I forgot all about drawing it until literally right now (at the time, I was playing tons of FFXIV and there was a big meme about y'shtola body pillows. So, I made one of ya boy G'raha)

That aside having done it once before I wanted to really push myself this time, decided to take a spin on my kitchen and put a twist on it. Merged it into something that could fit into the world I'm building.

I'm really happy with it, I was very excited to actually be done with it tho xD note to self, don't set up your base perspective lines when you're tired or sick. I did that and came back after a day or two after getting better and realized none of my lines made sense and had to redo everything I had just put down days before.

I did do it in black and white at first and all the color comes from some gradient maps that I figured I'd finally try to use hahaha plus all the color editing that we learnt in the first photoshop class.

I also want to mention, I dunno if this happened to anyone else but as soon as it was an assignment to study characters or things I like, I suddenly forgot literally everything that I've ever seen or enjoyed LOL

Exactly!!
For the past couple weeks, I have been trying to dive back into things I loved alot as a teen. Since that's when I started actually doing art constantly, I've very difficult to pinpoint more than like 2 things that super inspired me.
but since starting these classes I've been looking into everything and only a couple things have passed my criteria for studying, atleast it's something tho.

I will say when the lesson plan was to study environments, I panicked a bit bc it's like I've never looked at the background in my entire life. literally not a single thing came to mind.

Thanks!! it is very hard! xD it ties my brain up in knots. After actually studying it and practicing my knowledge, It's gotten easier, even tho after doing it my brain cogs get sludgey and I have 2 brain cells for the rest of the day.

I yam back and here to drop term 2 stuff, things during the start of term 2 were going very well. Unfortunately, during week 2 I got covid after going out once in the past months!! > so I was out of commission for about 3 weeks due to it and the aftereffects. x_x

this worksheet took me way longer due to me just staring at the colors while I was struggling with covid xD

I had to redo my simple creatures due to the creatures I drew at first not being simple xD

I have more to post but I gotta get it together lol
also, I need to stop trying to be so perfect when doing my face studies for anatomy bc I just be zooming in and focusing on details that you can't even see when it's zoomed out.

oh yeah! and I joined the discord the other day, it's a bit intimidating with so many people there lol