Term 1 - Magz

Hello, I'm Magnolia (or well, Magz) and I'm finally starting the art school assignments, I've had some serious problems with my personal laptop ( really slow, touchpad doesn't work, keyboard doesn't work) for really long and I bought this course some months ago, I'm starting anyways though after i got better peripherals.

Photoshop often lags really hard : (

After doing the pen control assignment I realized that "connect the dots" wasn't some kind of puzzle. I started while watching the digital production video before getting to the assignment instructions, so i actually made it harder for myself.

It just so happens I have problems with dexterity, i need to practice

I have perhaps been neglecting the image editing aspects of this, but I am trying at least

tried a few methods, ended up going the simple route for the apples, selection, layers, shadows.

liquify and clone stamp, it looks a bit uncanny, the middle one is the edit to make the girl on the right have a similar face to the one on the left

had to change the clone stamp skin color with layers but i got to add wrinkles wel enough i think?

oh yeah, i remembered some art videos and advice i'd hear a lot from others about that with "don't use your wrists so much because it'll strain your wrists" (I had a wrist injury for a long time and after it healed, a doctor suspected i might be showing signs of early rheumatoid arthritis, so i was feeling really cautious while doing this)

i tried those methods, zooming in and out a lot, and using my elbow and arm instead of my wrist so the result is actually better than what it originally looked like in the first hour of ctrl+z -ing so it does help

I'm somewhat getting used to editing photos, i'm pretty sure the perspective is off but i don't know enough about perspective to know what it is in the technical aspect. I spent a couple hours on this, my laptop couldn't handle editing this without lagging super hard for some reason?

(edit: i forgot one image)

I really had a big hiatus there, but I'm back on track once again.
I'm in a much better place now, my injury doesn't hurt anymore for the most part and I have a much better computer that can handle photoshop. So let's begin:

The next section was "Nude Figure Drawing 1"

Find the line of action in 10 figures:

Here I'm practicing putting cylinders in different positions:

Here's putting "skeletons" above the same photo reference. I put red on "surfaces" of the skeleton facing the camera to distinguish what I was doing better. The next photo is practice from imagination:

Here I practiced proportion drawing a couple times to get it in my memory. Female and male proportions are pretty similar, just more or less curved depending on which. :

30 minutes of "30 second" gesture drawing:

I think I'm getting the "flow" of it but I lack "structure" and skill with it.

I ended up doing gesture drawing every day since then for a while:
These are day 2 to day 5 of gesture drawing afterwards

Below here are attempts at using what I learned to draw full figures, but something feels... off.

Next Section: "Perspective 1"

Firstly, here's some attempts at lining up the horizon line and vanishing points of some street photos:

Clearly I was having some trouble imagining it spatially, I always have trouble with perspective. But I was starting to finally understand the more I payed attention to the lesson!

While the video was still going I practiced some of the concepts in it. I practiced simple shapes and 1 to 2 point perspective like I was supposed to as well.

Photoshop kept glitching so the lines are wore than they should be. But hopefully it makes sense, it was all starting to "click" for me personally.

Here's the room and buildings in perspective! I was testing out a perspective brush as the line tool kept glitching and it was starting to irritate me. I kept trying to use "shift" and brush but it kept messing up? Anyways, my room is small and a lot more messy irl, but this is how I want my room to look like.