Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Cracked: thanks man! :) Definitely added more buildings, and I'll fix the contrast at the end (soonish). The reason I didnt make them yellowish hue is a) I was trying to go for a triadic colour scheme (blue, magenta and green) and b) I did an enviro a couple of months ago with similar looking architecture and it had the golden-ish roofs so I didn't want to do that again.

Tygerson: Thanks a lot :)

Samszym: Thank you :) Feels good to be done with it. Good spot with the composition, I think I will add some plants maybe to weigh down the bottom.

Pnate: Now that you have pointed out the clouds mirroring the hills I can't stop seeing it. I will definitely change some of that up and vary my shapes.

Kaffer: I added more definition, and made them larger. Did that help in your opinion? The reason I want more buildings there is because it would be a little too simple otherwise and I need practice doing larger towns.

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Went to see the lion King musical yesterday. It was fantastic. I looked at it with a designers eye and noticed things I wouldnt have noticed otherwise. Things like the costume design and how each character was represented. The use of coloured lights and strictly contolling the mood with the hues. Also spot lighting, the use of fog. It would be fascinating to be able to have a video of it and study it.. but there are no videos allowed :(

Alright, I have started doing these anatomy revision things as warm ups. Just to solidify the knowledge in my head as a 3D form and make sure that I don't miss anything. This isnt finished because I want to do a 3/4 front and rear but I will do that over the week this week.

Just a quick reflection on the anatomy studies, while they were really useful and I can see myself applying them all the time in life drawing and in my own studies/personal pieces. I don't think that such an in depth study has given me a good ROI considering the time it took. As I go through with these warm ups, I realise that not everything is cemented in my memory (I can still name all the muscles and say where they originate and terminate but I can't translate it as well as I should into say a rear 3/4 view of the forearm) I guess what I am saying is to keep in mind that your theoretical knowledge can quickly out pace your practical knowledge if you enjoy learning for learnings sake too much.
Regardless of what you learn, learning is good, but maybe the way I did it was not as efficient as it could have been.


On to portrait studies!! This was fun. After doing anatomy for so long moving on to something like this was great. Each of these varied between 2hrs to a max of maybe 3.








I took my laptop and tablet to life drawing for the long pose (2.3hrs) but the colours are all messed up because my screen is WAYYYYYY off on my laptop. This is after heavily editing levels and colour balance on my desktop and I still couldnt get it to the way my laptop looks. Sigh. Time to calibrate that again..


Update on enviro


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