09-28-2013, 03:07 PM
Here goes nothing...
As I've only started working with traditional art (with two art college classes) last year, and finally doing digital art since about a week ago (consistently), I'm going to be horribly sloppy. But I have to start somewhere, need to take baby steps, need to let the fundamentals sink in over many months/years. If I can stay consistent, I hope I can look back on these first couple pages in a few years time and notice major improvements.
All I've really learned at this point is how to observe objects from my art professor. Relationship lines - where and how things match up in space by constantly comparing, analyzing, and filling in the details with a strong focus. With relationship lines, I can see where and why certain things in my drawings are wrong. But even so, I'm still bound to make tons of mistakes, as the mistakes aren't always obvious to me :<
My ultimate goal is to be a manga artist. I get some artists would scoff at that, but I don't care. I fully respect the works of master artists of centuries past, and I keep an open mind about other people's work, so I'd hope people could do the same for me. I actually don't intend to do any "manga" style work until I'm fully confident in doing so. Can't do it until I have tons of essential fundamentals down anyway.
Right now I'm using CtrlPaint, Proko, Sycra, Loomis, Vilppu, Feng Zhu and some CGMA videos I have from attending classes there (of which I completely failed to do the work as I lacked skill/confidence).
Specific exercises I'm doing now: tablet warmups by drawing straight lines/arcs/waves/circles and ellipsis (basically what Peter Han explains here), observing boxes/cylinders and drawing them from imagination, digital still lifes and basic gestures.
Anyway! Huge blocks of text, I know. But I'd like for this sketchbook to have some text rather than just dumping artwork.
Oops, forgot to post work I did for CGMA. What little I actually could do, anyway. Movie composition studies, and making a spherical form of an object.
As I've only started working with traditional art (with two art college classes) last year, and finally doing digital art since about a week ago (consistently), I'm going to be horribly sloppy. But I have to start somewhere, need to take baby steps, need to let the fundamentals sink in over many months/years. If I can stay consistent, I hope I can look back on these first couple pages in a few years time and notice major improvements.
All I've really learned at this point is how to observe objects from my art professor. Relationship lines - where and how things match up in space by constantly comparing, analyzing, and filling in the details with a strong focus. With relationship lines, I can see where and why certain things in my drawings are wrong. But even so, I'm still bound to make tons of mistakes, as the mistakes aren't always obvious to me :<
My ultimate goal is to be a manga artist. I get some artists would scoff at that, but I don't care. I fully respect the works of master artists of centuries past, and I keep an open mind about other people's work, so I'd hope people could do the same for me. I actually don't intend to do any "manga" style work until I'm fully confident in doing so. Can't do it until I have tons of essential fundamentals down anyway.
Right now I'm using CtrlPaint, Proko, Sycra, Loomis, Vilppu, Feng Zhu and some CGMA videos I have from attending classes there (of which I completely failed to do the work as I lacked skill/confidence).
Specific exercises I'm doing now: tablet warmups by drawing straight lines/arcs/waves/circles and ellipsis (basically what Peter Han explains here), observing boxes/cylinders and drawing them from imagination, digital still lifes and basic gestures.
Anyway! Huge blocks of text, I know. But I'd like for this sketchbook to have some text rather than just dumping artwork.
Oops, forgot to post work I did for CGMA. What little I actually could do, anyway. Movie composition studies, and making a spherical form of an object.