Uggie - Art School Journey

[uggievang]

started the 1 point perspective assessment

[alix28]

Your art is really awesome, I love your style! and your perspective looks great!

[uggievang]

Still a WIP i used that picture as a red for the window

[daceronine]

Nice room! the bottom of the door had me do a double take, then I realized the lower part of the door kinda got mixed up with the edge of the table. We usually call those "tangent" lines, where one line kinda flows into another that it's not intended to, giving a bit of a weird effect to the viewer.

Also worth looking into working with the line weight. Something simple, like making things closer have a stronger line weight, things in the distance have a lighter line.

[uggievang]

Finished with the assignment . I'm pretty happy with it.
@daceronine Ah yea i see what you mean I could have prob moved the desk a bit further to the left to make it clearer. As for the line art I wasn't sure on how to make it thinner while using the line tool so if you have any tips i would love to know

[daceronine]

No worries at all! it's just feedback to keep in mind for the next works, you did a good job here.

As for line weight, it usually comes to "redrawing" over the lines, or erasing them slightly as needed. So it will usually go like this:

It's all about practicing your brushstrokes, have the undo at your finger, and a bit of practice.

[snakker]

Welcome aboard mate, youre off to a great start, definitely not a beginner. You saved up for education on your skills I respect that 👍

As for gesture practice, while there are great artists that scribbled their entire life (look at david finch videos on youtube), using big ass canvas size and your shoulder to make sweeping flowing lines that cover most of the pose action with least strokes possible is actually a great exercise, so don’t discard @uraniumpuppy ‘s advice, its definitely worth it. Instead of doing them fast, when making the switch take your time and analyze each line at first. Try summarizing everything in either C S or I lines

Cheers!

[uggievang]

I also havnt been neglecting the gestures just not posting them

I'm not disregarding what hes saying I do need to work on my line quality just with 30 seconds its kinda hard for me atm to not scribble and try to find the line that works. I will try to fit in more gestures with longer timers but i wanna work on the shorter times for now so I can figure out the flow of a gesture first and not focus to much the the details.

[uggievang]

Just got started with the 2 point perspective assignment didn't have much time to draw today

[uggievang]

I know this one sucks but i really dont have any idea how to design a street view that looks interesting from imagination so I'm going to call it for this one and move on instead of spending days on a piece of work that I wont be enjoying making

[daceronine]

That's all fine and good, no need to force it if you don't feel it.

If you can't seem to think of something, I'd recommend doing a quick search and looking at some works or streets to get some ideas. You don't need to copy it, but looking at, for example, the doors, structures, corners and such should help to combine them in your head.

[uggievang]

@daceronine Yea I'll have to do some studies and just sketch some

Just a couple of sketchbook drawings because I wanted to do something unrelated to the art course and just for fun.

[alix28]

Your sketches look really cool! I can tell you're thinking about gesture (something I struggle a lot with haha).

[uggievang]

term 2 assessment b

[uggievang]

watch the first 2 lessons of the anatomy video and did a draw along in my sketchbook

[daceronine]

Yo good work man!
I do wonder though, are you using the companion guide? seems like you jumped quickly through some of the material. The companion guide has a whole lot of exercises which not only stretches out the content, but it really helps refine the skills from the terms.

[uggievang]

I actually didn't see that till now so I'll have to start following it. I was just watching the videos and doing the assignments listed in the videos. Term 1 is basically an intro to drawing and I have taken drawing and painting classes in high school and collage. So right now I was using it as a refresher. Right now tho I think I've hit the right spot because I was just starting to teach myself term 2 stuff before buying the class (I also didn't see part 1 assignments till like just a couple mins ago so i gotta go back and do those) I do gotta go back and do some stuff mentioned in the guide tomorrow.

[uggievang]

they do look a little off

[uggievang]

Notes from the vid with some old gestures

[uggievang]