Sara - Art School Journey

summertopso2 2022-08-28 14:53:50 UTC #1

Hi everybody! I just joined the first term, and it may take me a while to actually start because this next month will be busier than usual, but I'm looking forward to start soon and share my progress here. Nice to meet you all!

prinzmoana 2022-08-28 21:24:02 UTC #2

Hey 👋 Welcome to the Art School, hope you have fun 😄

summertopso2 2022-08-30 09:13:57 UTC #3

Thank you! I'm looking forward to starting soon

summertopso2 2022-09-06 15:17:34 UTC #4

Well, I decided to take it slowly. This is the first exercise for Photoshop. Those lines... Oh my, those lines and circles XD

summertopso2 2022-09-10 15:03:21 UTC #5

Another free time, another exercise. Or well, I wanted to repeat the same again. This time I think my lines look better. With circles, I don't know if I did it right: for the big circles, I would do it slowly, while for the smaller ones I would use my wrist instead of my shoulder to draw.

summertopso2 2022-09-10 15:54:23 UTC #6

I kinda went ahead and tried Photoshop exercise 2. Applying the tools individually went more or less well, but that final picture and trying to apply all things at the same time was harder (that's why there are some mistakes)

prinzmoana 2022-09-10 22:58:19 UTC #7

Of all the topics I've never saw one person who managed this last exercise with the beach xD It's always noticeable, so don't worry too much about this 😄

JosueAnesPaz 2022-09-11 12:27:31 UTC #8

Welcome to the forums! Great start and remember, we all start somewhere. I couldn't do the last photo of the image adjustments either (neither can a lot of people), so don't stress about it. I did learn that you can make the corrections in about 3 changes and if you go over 3, you might want to start from the beginning.

Either way, I hope you have fun on your art journey!

summertopso2 2022-09-11 13:59:17 UTC #9

Thank you both for your nice comments! The last one was kinda messy, and as Josue said, by making too many changes you end up with something strange.

summertopso2 2022-09-17 15:18:58 UTC #10

One more exercise. I tried the composition and it was fun. I don't know how Marc overlapped part of the boat in the video, so I just deleted the parts so they would fit the scenery. I tried to give them all a greenish look to match the prairie and the light.

EDIT: I just noticed that there were flowers that didn't match the proportion of the character, so I used healing to make them vanish.

summertopso2 2022-09-18 14:31:46 UTC #11

New day, new exercise. You can still see some black marks from the background (I'm not too accurate with the lasso tool), but I got to add more apples.

Lockenheim 2022-09-18 14:50:20 UTC #12

Welcome to the forums! You have done a really nice job with these assignments! I really like your apple manipulation. Keep it up!

summertopso2 2022-09-20 15:52:15 UTC #13

Every little step counts. I went with the healing exercise. I don't know if he looks that young, but at least I made some changes. The first one is the original, the second one is the exercise.

summertopso2 2022-10-04 10:52:07 UTC #14

Well, it's been some time! These last weeks have been crazy, preparing for a test. Today I got to relax and did the final photoshop exercise, the liquify one. For this one I took the pictures from the exercise, but I wanted to make the alien look like the human.

summertopso2 2022-10-06 15:25:54 UTC #15

I just started Nude Figure, but for now I just saw the line of action, so I still have a way before practicing.
However, I saw the 30 day plan on Marc's channel, and I decided to try it. For now I just have the first 3 days (yeah, I know, my circles are not good XD)

summertopso2 2022-10-08 15:01:29 UTC #16

Days 4 and 5 of the 30-day plan.

Gordon003 2022-10-09 01:36:28 UTC #17

Nice. Do you draw the cirlce in 1 strokes? If so and you struggling to make it a 'circle', recommend checking out dawabox to practice confident circle drawing.

Gl with your 30 days work.

summertopso2 2022-10-09 15:21:58 UTC #18

Thanks! Believe it or not, I do them in 1 stroke, but I know they look ugly.
Thank you for the video. A long time ago I tried drawabox, but I stopped doing it. Still, during my "daily exercises", I try drawing different circles, but I will try the video example to see if I improve.

summertopso2 2022-10-11 15:49:04 UTC #19

Days 6 to 8

summertopso2 2022-10-15 20:22:17 UTC #20

Days 9 to 11. Day 11 is a bit worse than the others, I skipped a day (for life events) and today I didn't practice as much as usual before doing it.