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Lafii's Sketchbook - Lafii - 08-05-2014

Hi everyone! I'm a 17 year old student going into my last year of high school, and I'm planning to apply to art schools next year. I found this forum about a month ago, and the progress here really inspired me to get better before school starts.

I've been unable to post anything because I was busy with classes, but now that that's over, I have a lot of free time to work my butt off.

What I really need to work on:
- building up visual library of anatomy
- variations in people (face, body)
- gesture study and body language
- perspective *cringe*
- atmosphere and composition
- environments

These are some of the turtle steps I've been taking in the past week:

Screencap study, trying to observe how environment affects skin, hair. Also, I love Isaac Wright's face.
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Face from imagination and skull studies
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Crazy how different perception is from the real photo; need to keep working on likeness in color and shape
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Another skin study
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Didn't use any reference for this, and it's pretty obvious, haha. Wanted to see how far I could go from imagination only - WIP of Katarina, from League of Legends.
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Brief summary of what I've learned:
- High point in saturation on edges of shadows
- Joints tend to have red-ish tint (especially noticeable in hands, feet, knees)
- The further away something is, the less contrast there is
- A bit on how light works on skin


RE: Lafii's Sketchbook - Lafii - 08-16-2014

Finished up Kat, although I think I'll go back later and fix the duster and plunger. Also, a lot of things look off about it like the length of Kat's arm and the pose of her legs but I figure to notice the mistakes and then move on to the next painting instead of trying to fix it.
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Studies to come!


RE: Lafii's Sketchbook - BenFlores - 08-16-2014

the katarina image looks great, looking forward to those studies!


RE: Lafii's Sketchbook - Lafii - 08-19-2014

@BenFlores: Thank you so much (your work is such an inspiration shadjkask)

Note to self: stop stockpiling work into a single post, split it up ok. So long.

Here's what I've been up to this past week; I started studying basic human anatomy like the landmarks and the major structures, along with the head. Below are a bunch of gestures, some with the head, ribs and pelvis and some without. Gotta do more.
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More of the same done digitally.
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Head and face feature studies and application. God, skin and aitbrush is hard.
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Some style and color practice.
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Varied up my process for this one; I usually do a very rough sketch and go straight into the painting, but this time i did lineart > base colors > shadows > highlights > fixing stuff. Not sure if I like this process, but it was much more time efficient than what I usually do. Turned out looking graphic, which I like.
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Some shape concepts done on 3 silhouettes, and later used in a WIP. Had this idea for this fantasy forest creature with antlers all over her costume.
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I'll be doing more skull studies and gestures with structure the following week. Also challenging myself to start on muscles - emphasizing on the male figure since I keep avoiding it.

Feedback is greatly appreciated, thank you for looking!