Zandveerx - Art School Journey

[alexander.knotts.student]

Hey, just got this program a few days ago and did my first go at the pen pressure controls. I'm going to try and follow the new study guide that Marc put out so this is what I'll be practicing for the next week or so I believe.

Oh and am using Clip Studio Paint which doesn't seem to be too much of a backdraw so far with the lesson.

[mitsuki-youko]

heyo welcome to the forums

[danielwerede123]

Welcome aboard

[Norma]

Welcome! Enjoy your art school journey.

[Gibson]

Welcome glad to have you here! Can't wait to see your progress

[alexander.knotts.student]

So this is the image correction one and I feel like I did mostly okay until the final pic. I don't know what I'm missing or doing wrong, but I could not get the yellow color on the legs and the water looks greener than it needs to be. I am frustrated with it though and moving on.

[alexander.knotts.student]

Alright, been a little bit but I've been doing my best to keep up on the daily pen control practice and am starting on the simple mannequins. Currently watching through the first figure drawing video. For now this is my combined image project. This was done using CSP instead of photoshop because I don't have ps, nor do I want it.

[alexander.knotts.student]

Alright, here is the apples. This was..interesting to do in CSP since it doesn't have all the same tools. Ending up using a lot of quick masks and some soft brushes to get the right selection. Along with a lot of erasing to almost sculpt some of the apples.

[alexander.knotts.student]

Hey so I'm currently trying the "advanced" practices which the guide says to use Marc's Top ten drawing exercises and the one that's giving me issues is the fifth practice, with making a gradient between two colors. I'm trying to use a hard edged brush, the g-pen in csp specifically, and it just doesn't seem to be acting right? I got the below gradients after trial and error.

But neither of those were really done using the kind of technique I think was being shown? The color just sorta overwrites itself and doesn't blend naturally.

[mitsuki-youko]

I'm trying to use a hard edged brush, the g-pen in csp specifically, and it just doesn't seem to be acting right? I got the below gradients after trial and error.

I think you probs need to set opacity to pen pressure and if you already did that then lower the opacity to like 50% or less to get a better gradient.. then when u go over it multiple times, it builds up (i'm also a CSP user)

setting opacity to pen pressure should mainly do it tho. u just need to practice controlling the pen pressure

I made a thing for u

here's how i did it - apparently it took me about 12 mins but yea its all about the pen pressure - sometimes u need to build over each stroke and smooth things out

I probs could have made it smoother if i spent even more time on it

(its not showing a thumbnail cuz its unlisted but the vid should work.. also its for some reason taking forever to render in HD - says about 40 mins left but hope it helps!)

[alexander.knotts.student]

Hey thank you so much! I did manage to get it figured out better with some more experimenting and watching the vid. It does take a fair bit of patience. I found it was important to essentially not over do your strokes and cover your own work. The hard edge means you can't "mix" the colors like a soft brush can.

Not perfect but better than I was getting.

[mitsuki-youko]

noice! that is looking a lot better than ur initial one

i would encourage you to try to blend a bit more between the white and the greys but yeah that is some nice improvement

Glad the video was helpful!

not over do your strokes and cover your own work

yep and if you happen to do so, simply bring a bit more of the original color from both sides of the overpainted area back so they overlap then color pick the overlapped section

[alexander.knotts.student]

So right now I'm must in a stage of doing practices so nothing in terms of a project but thought I'd give an update on my most recent pen dex practice.

Have been trying to do some of the advanced practices and gesture drawing with this as well.

Still at just somewhat fancy stick figures for now on that end.

[mitsuki-youko]

noice your lines are straight and pretty neat nice figure drawings

[alexander.knotts.student]

Alright. I've mostly been doing the little daily practices and the like but just recently got the proportions hw done. This was my second attempt, the first attempt was a bit more "clunky" for lack of a better word.

[alexander.knotts.student]

Hey, had a busy few months but been trying to stay in the swing of things. Starting to get geared back up into things. I have this one point perspective room based on my room and honestly can prolly do a lot more with it but I've sank a lot of time into it, figuring things out and trying to get things to look right that I think I need to move on right now. I feel I have a decent understanding of 1 point perspective and need to move on to the next lessons.

I'm not sure how to ground it better cause most of the room lines are hidden behind things. And the curve on the bottom of the drawers was very difficult to figure out.

[Araita]

I think perspective-wise - it looks good! And yes the curvy elements in perspective are a bit "special" but it gets better. The only thing about the piece - it is a bit difficult to read - but this is absolutely not anything you've done badly - just worth in the future to try to draw elements that are obviously closer with thicker lines - makes it a lot easier to figure out what's where
All together great job!