Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Cyprinus: Haha yeah, I figured it would be kind of cool if Link aged with each successive game (kind of like he did between OoT and MM in child form) but kept all the battle scars from the 10+ times he has saved Zelda in the past. I know its not all supposed to be the same Link, but meh xP

Thanks Archreux :)

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So this week was better from a mentality point of view. I have now run every morning and I actually am enjoying it. I have kept my coffee intake to 4 cups a day and the headaches aren't as bad as they were in the beginning of the week and I feel like I have more energy. Diet is still a toss up, I have been eating a bit better, but thats probably because I ran out of chocolate in the pantry and was too lazy to go to the shops to get more... But I'll say its because of my iron will :D

I spent a lot of time on 3D this week. Having a lot of fun. I joined digital tutors and am following along with a couple of the tutorials. None of them quite hit the mark with the direction I want to go. I really want to try and apply this to my environment painting but there don't seem to be any tutorials that focus on how to even begin this, atleast for C4D
I think I will have to learn how to model (which digital tutors is great for) then teach myself and it will probably end up becoming a combination of matte painting and 3D.

Noses bugged me in my paintings so I studied them. These are the results. The notes are in my skecthbook, might upload them another time. I then applied them to another painting that I screwed up the face for -_-


Values bugged me on my environment paintings, so I studied values. During this I also investigated what was the best way to desaturate an image, because all gave slightly different results.

• Hue/Saturation/Color Layer: This seems to make saturated colours lighter than the next one down.
  
• Black and White Adjustment Layer: Makes saturated colours darker whereas desaturated colours lighter
  
• Adjusment -> Greyscale: Probably the best option to go with. But the most difficult to use. I think that it uses the LAB algorithm to take the colour out of the picture, which is by far the most accurate way of portraying value in photoshop (compare the 10 jumps of greyscale in the B of the HSB vs. the B of the LAB and you will see what I mean). Only problem is that this isnt exactly an efficient way to work since you have to go through extra steps just to do a value step....
  

NEED HALP! What do?


Applying what I learnt in the study (or copying the stair case, what ever) just a sketch, might work on it later.


Life drawing, 3hr pose, took my laptop. Worked on it a little after the time. Probably about 3.5hrs all up.



Applying what I learnt on noses. But now its kind of obvious that I studies noses since everything is very anatomical and the rest of the face is meh.


3Dizzle, first attempt was a space ship (fail), monster was applying a tutorial (not so fail)


Another 3D tutorial