04-28-2015, 08:51 PM
Late to update!
I got told that I had to move my butt to a different house last Tuesday while I was midway through writing this post (the people I lived with decided they were moving out, which meant I had to go too) so big old delay. The last week has been very minimal on the arts front too, more of the packing boxes/ moving to my mums/ trying to decide If I’d need a new job to afford to live on my own kind of week.
I don’t know how much time for drawing I’ll have over the next few week. Gonna keep up if I can.
First things first though, I gotta get this up, so long the rest of my day (I write so slowly)
Big thanks for all the comments people :)
Kimonas:
haha, thanks man. Yeah, I live down near Manchester
I hope I aint spreading myself too thin, most of what I do is more practice just to keep tabs on what ‘m doing, maybe sneak in a bit of improvement through mileage while nobody is looking. Hopefully it’s pretty low impact, like spending a bit of my day doodling faces and planes (trying to do a bit of what I want to do professionally, get comfortable with it, hash out work flows and what not) while the main focus is working through the how to Scott Robertson books.
I did plan on dedicating a few weeks here and there to take a break for the Robertson Two and lay some study on another area but maybs it’s probably better just scrap that and stick to the perspective/rendering books?
Martin:
Big ole coincidence: the person I mentioned have the Bargue facial feature studies is Kimonas ( above your last comment) AND Minksy has some really good Bargue studies too.
Study group sounds good, I read your post a while ago about art forums, I think specific groups could be a good idea for getting more people involved. What were you thinking? Personally I don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to it so maybe something like at the start of the week post a Bargue plate for everyone to study then the next week each person crit the accuracy of one other person attempt? Or just leave it open for peeps to post whatever?
Tsirides:
It’s a good scale to work out how lazy I was being, the more caricatured a face is the more lazy I was, distract away from accuracy issues with pointy cheeks and phat noses.
Minsky:
Hey! I was gonna bring up the wojtek example too, he had such a flexible study schedule, you probably need to be very analytical of your own work to know what to put you focus on, he must have really been on the ball to make that work.
I love john park. I bought a couple of his gumroads on environment design, the form language ones were next on my list. I remember in the Free Tutorial Friday SB tour (btw, have you watch the new Scott Roberson level up? I was looking forward to it so much, it was really informative, that man knows preparation) J Park mentioned he learnt a lot of basic mechanical joints and hinges (from doors and lamps, ect) and uses those basic forms to design mechs, the gumroads something similar?
I really miss his pew pew series.
I’ve tried silhouettes a little, a lot more in recent time. I’ve been trying out this workflow a bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rD-DwgqeQo it’s been fun but I’m still only drawing really boring stuff, hoping it’ll evolve over time. That form language G-road would be a perfect little boost forward.
Thanks everyone for the advice!
so, this is the stuff from two weeks ago :(
Perspective:
It has been my main focus but I have nothing to show, box after box afta box. that has become my warm up now so I'll be moving back the x,y,z form building soon
redering:
Still stuck in the shadows, I know now though that I need to get sorted with casting shadows from horizontal/ sloped surface onto sloped surfaces. I'll get that dont this week hopefully
Design:
played around with some more space junk... the rough perspective is looking better on them at least :)
Faces:
More focus on transitioning the perspective I've learn into practical face drawing know how, really happy with how it turned out. I only hope I remember what I did after a week of inactivity!
Composition:
Needs some serious work before a get anywhere with it. i'll keep it ticking away for now though
DONE
all being well I'll post again sunday, still have a bit of packing to and moving going on
I got told that I had to move my butt to a different house last Tuesday while I was midway through writing this post (the people I lived with decided they were moving out, which meant I had to go too) so big old delay. The last week has been very minimal on the arts front too, more of the packing boxes/ moving to my mums/ trying to decide If I’d need a new job to afford to live on my own kind of week.
I don’t know how much time for drawing I’ll have over the next few week. Gonna keep up if I can.
First things first though, I gotta get this up, so long the rest of my day (I write so slowly)
Big thanks for all the comments people :)
Kimonas:
haha, thanks man. Yeah, I live down near Manchester
I hope I aint spreading myself too thin, most of what I do is more practice just to keep tabs on what ‘m doing, maybe sneak in a bit of improvement through mileage while nobody is looking. Hopefully it’s pretty low impact, like spending a bit of my day doodling faces and planes (trying to do a bit of what I want to do professionally, get comfortable with it, hash out work flows and what not) while the main focus is working through the how to Scott Robertson books.
I did plan on dedicating a few weeks here and there to take a break for the Robertson Two and lay some study on another area but maybs it’s probably better just scrap that and stick to the perspective/rendering books?
Martin:
Big ole coincidence: the person I mentioned have the Bargue facial feature studies is Kimonas ( above your last comment) AND Minksy has some really good Bargue studies too.
Study group sounds good, I read your post a while ago about art forums, I think specific groups could be a good idea for getting more people involved. What were you thinking? Personally I don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to it so maybe something like at the start of the week post a Bargue plate for everyone to study then the next week each person crit the accuracy of one other person attempt? Or just leave it open for peeps to post whatever?
Tsirides:
It’s a good scale to work out how lazy I was being, the more caricatured a face is the more lazy I was, distract away from accuracy issues with pointy cheeks and phat noses.
Minsky:
Hey! I was gonna bring up the wojtek example too, he had such a flexible study schedule, you probably need to be very analytical of your own work to know what to put you focus on, he must have really been on the ball to make that work.
I love john park. I bought a couple of his gumroads on environment design, the form language ones were next on my list. I remember in the Free Tutorial Friday SB tour (btw, have you watch the new Scott Roberson level up? I was looking forward to it so much, it was really informative, that man knows preparation) J Park mentioned he learnt a lot of basic mechanical joints and hinges (from doors and lamps, ect) and uses those basic forms to design mechs, the gumroads something similar?
I really miss his pew pew series.
I’ve tried silhouettes a little, a lot more in recent time. I’ve been trying out this workflow a bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rD-DwgqeQo it’s been fun but I’m still only drawing really boring stuff, hoping it’ll evolve over time. That form language G-road would be a perfect little boost forward.
Thanks everyone for the advice!
so, this is the stuff from two weeks ago :(
Perspective:
It has been my main focus but I have nothing to show, box after box afta box. that has become my warm up now so I'll be moving back the x,y,z form building soon
redering:
Still stuck in the shadows, I know now though that I need to get sorted with casting shadows from horizontal/ sloped surface onto sloped surfaces. I'll get that dont this week hopefully
Design:
played around with some more space junk... the rough perspective is looking better on them at least :)
Faces:
More focus on transitioning the perspective I've learn into practical face drawing know how, really happy with how it turned out. I only hope I remember what I did after a week of inactivity!
Composition:
Needs some serious work before a get anywhere with it. i'll keep it ticking away for now though
DONE
all being well I'll post again sunday, still have a bit of packing to and moving going on