Pnate's Almost Daily Sketchbook

[pnate]

Sadly for Kim Jung Gi's demo, I wasn't around for the Q and A part, but watching him do his thing live was pretty awesome. As far as I know, he didn't really give any kind of organized lesson over the course of the weekend, aside from blowing everyone's mind. It was cool to see all the MB guys watching him and talking about how incredible he is. He was pretty much the rockstar of the event :)

Some main points I got from Wes's demo were:

• He sees the face as a whole, and not by feature, to nail an expression
  
• He likes to visualize pockets of shadow on the face as the base areas for construction and in helping show expression
  
• Also mentioned that he adds a tilt to the head and spine to mix it up sometimes
  
• He finds good reference to capture mood, expression, state of action (he often uses pictures of singers' faces at live shows)
  
• He plans his values when he is adding color later according to the color (ie, something that will be red is slightly darker, yellow brighter, etc)
  
• Finish your pieces 2 days early so you can look at it with fresh eyes before it's due
  
• For that green elf MTG card, he showed an initial rough sketch where he carefully planned the facial expression and location of the facial features before getting more complex
  

I think what he painted is up on his fb page (the tribal lady's face that's underlit).

chain lightning - with about 20 min extra after