Lindsey Harrington (Linverse)- Art School Journey

[hojoflow]

Welcome, may it be a wonderful ride.

[lindseyharrington000]

Thank you so much!

[lindseyharrington000]

July 14th, 2022. Completed the first two assignments!

Drawing digitally isn't new to me, and I've been doing it for about 4 years now. But I was shocked that none of my professors from college ever taught us something like hand dexterity or pen control! I had difficulty with the circles lol.

For the second assignment, I think everything went pretty smoothly except for the last part. I had trouble adjusting the blue but being able to keep the orange at the same time.

[hojoflow]

Have seen a lot of people's attempts in the last couple of weeks, and everyone struggles to get the blue hues completely right. You've done an excellent job. Keep having fun!

[lindseyharrington000]

Thank you! I'll try!

[lindseyharrington000]

July 14th, 2022.

Just completed my Combining Images assignment! I'm pretty happy with how it came out! I forgot to include a river though!

And here (below) are the images used.

[hojoflow]

This is great. I’ll take one wherever this is 🥰

[Norma]

Wonderfull composite
One suggestion?:
The two trees in the front are really sharp cutted. They don't match with the other trees.

[lindseyharrington000]

Thank you!!!

[lindseyharrington000]

Aw thank you! Yeah, I noticed that too. How would you suggest I fix the sharp cutted trees, for future reference?

[Norma]

I'm not sure. Maybe feather the selection a bit before masking or cutting?
(Selection -> modify -> feather)
Or you can reach this effect in the "select and mask" modus. But I work rarely with this tool. I use mostly "add mask".

[lindseyharrington000]

Okay, thank you! Totally forgot about being able to feather selections!

[lindseyharrington000]

July 21st, 2022.

Next assignment finished!

[lindseyharrington000]

Day 1 of Gesture Sketches! 30 seconds, done traditionally. Forces me to not the hot keys for edit->undo lol.
EDIT: I have no idea why they uploaded sideways, or how to fix it lol

[lindseyharrington000]

Completed this one a while ago, but forgot to post it.

Been also trying to work on gesture sketches, and finished a portrait/fan art a few weeks ago as well! I realized that I should push myself to do the gestures everyday (like Marc said!) and continue with more lessons. I thought to myself "I wanna get really good at anatomy and gestures before I tackle the dreaded perspective section of the course!" But I think that mentality is holding me back from actually continuing. Onwards!

[lindseyharrington000]

And here's the portrait I mentioned before! Took me about 5 hours.

[Xybb]

Looks great! I'd recommend reducing the detail of the hair a bit. The amount of detail compared to the amount of detail in the rest of the painting feels a bit distracting.

[lindseyharrington000]

Thank you! Yeah, the hair is definitely more detailed than the rest of it. I think it's because my rendering skills of the hair aren't as up to par as rendering everything else. Do you think the portrait would look bad if the hair wasn't as rendered? I'm now wondering if this portrait only looks good because of how detailed the hair is.

[Xybb]

Nah, I think if anything the high amount of details on the hair takes aways from the portrait. I think it would work just as well or even better if you reduced the rendering of the hair to bigger shapes and strokes.

[lindseyharrington000]

I'll keep that in mind for next time! Thank you so much!