Darkiste: thanks, maybe by the time i hit 800k and pass Sula Moonah, ill be gettin some pathfinder jobs :D
So workin the past two days in town, that is really great practice doing portraits under pressure, just really cut throat, gotta turn out good work, and often talk the persons ear off while im doing it. This journey has built me so much character its ridiculous...
Hogarthe hands from the dynamic hand book, very lovely designs of hands, im a fan of hogarthe i feel the haters tho. And some 20 minute studies from watts, fun to go through these again, theyre fantastic stuff to copy.
will be doing the mural this week, well one panel, then once we see how it fits ill power through the rest of em, awesome right? well see my kanji skills on full display here ;O
Wow all your hard work and grind has been paying off like crazy You've levelled up a ton even in just the last 3 months, as im flipping through these last few pages. Great work man, glad to see youre still going :)
Patrick: Thanks for the praise mayne, gonna keep goin till i make it and then some!
tryin out gaouche today, its tough, cant it it as luminous as the oil paintings im studying by meadow gist but the more i do it the more things make sense. start with darks, just tile things efficiently, mix things intelligently, and use the water to glaze things, i just gotta do more.
Tomorrow gonna block in the japan stuff for one sheet of fabric who knows how itll look :O
Gotta be aware of the paper it affect how the paper drink the water and how the gouach stick to the medium.What must be the hardest is controlling the amount of water and gouache .But also avoiding the color for mixing when it not intended.Learning to work on dry part far from the wet part.With alway a clean brush when changing color.
Darkiste: i might get a chance to practice it some more tomorrow
worked all day on this, its satisfying to see i can do something digital and transfer it succesfully. used mainly ink in a jar and brushes which have this interesting pool of liquid once it hits the fabric. even ironed this bitch up, was a cool experience, gonna add the kanji tomorrow once i get approval from my spell checker on the blank right side. Werk hard follow yer dreams baby
alright gonna post my horrifying gouache full pallette attempts i tried yesterday lol, not gonna hold back. Im going to after saturday go for a black and white gouache study (maybe pthalo as midtone) and try to just learn how to handle the edges and mapping better, its still not working in ways i entirely expect. Oil is more forgiving, its easier to build and mush things around for longer periods of time since it stays wet longer. Gouache dries quickly but can be reactivated, unless the paints thin, its interesting as hell i love it
also 5 minute quicksketch wattts studies gonna redo more of these as well, very helpful
some grello, hogarthe, masters of anatomy, and a watts gouache study, think i did a lot better on this one, and plus i got my timing down. i just clock on a timer each time idraw to make sure i stay focused, so if i can do this each time ill be much more productive
Nother gouache painting FAIL, try not to laugh challenge #2. It was going well for a little bit but then i added a little too much yellow to the white, and im not used to how it dries into the paper so i just gave up after about 2 hours fighting it cuz it seemed like it was just making it worse :O
Was fun despite being horribly frustrating. had this idea for a folio piece, wanna do more of an illustration, like a girl who is on top of speakers and shes hooked up to a music robot, and has cool laser guns, or maybe like, music guns :O you know just to break the standard thing, a little imaginative. i like the cliche girl with headphones, but like make it a full body experience, like music as sex or something
Might get to blocking it out in 3d soon, also might be MIA tomorrow and the next day got some family stuff coming up, so ill be booked more than likely so probably thursday ill have an update
You have done one of the sin of composition not 1 but 2 time in this sci-fi piece .You should not have object in a hand point toward a corner of the composition(the gun are consider to be pointing at something)(it something inconscious) this will cause the eye to go outside the composition on the image.The idea as potential but you seem to struggle when it come the time to slow down and problem solve before commiting.By commiting to soon you put yourself at risk of having to erase part of your work that doesn't work and sometime it can turn into hour of second guessing when it could have took you a few thumbnail to get it right.In short i think it would pay off if you would respect the thumbnailling phase.I think you under estimate the potential of good composition.
darktiste, have you ever seen a Rubens painting? Where are you getting these rules for composition? it sounds like you're just making it up as you go along. And trust me my nigga, nobody's eyes are going out of the frame in a symmetrical composition.
It as to do with the way is rythme flow from one line into the other.The detail inside the body attract the eye and they flow toward the breast and curve back toward the face and the eye is looking in the direction of the arm that ultimately lead to the gun and outside the composition.
I might be wrong not all critic are perfect but it important for me to be able to critic the work of someone else it help to learn why the artist made those choose and if it work or doesn't.
Darkiste: teach me your ways oh wise masterful darkiste <3
Roanna: ya i had saved a buncha workbooks before my subscription ran out, gouache is tough, but i like things that are excruciatingly hard its so exciting when you finally get the hang of it.
Sooo wow got like 50k views on this sb pretty quickly, which is cool :) heres onwards to 1 million SB hits lol
uuh worked on blocking out a pose, im not really feeling it, i may try a more pinuppey pose tomorrow, a little cuter, and plan out the surrounding shapes better i dont feel like they are that intelligently placed right now. im going for kind of a scene girl white hair with like guns that fire lasers that look like musical notes, so ill sketch around some more and look for some better pose ideas, that and make her less MILFey more cute and young
I think you could make it work but i feel like there a unbalance of visual weight on the right side of the image.It a really challenging thing to do a low angle composition like this.I feel like you need to use the background to renforce what you already have.Try to create story behind most of the element to renforce the composition and harmonize the piece.Also try to distribute your visual weight so that the element don't compete against one and other but instead create a rythme for the eye to follow using the principle of big, medium, small and alternace of value to to move the eye around while controlling the amount of detail to create the transition.
I think one of the thing that need clarification is she inside or outside.
I don't think it would hurt to watch again if you didn't already the ctrl paint video on composition
The section is 4)Composition basic sound basic but it harder when you have to combine multiple fundamental and remind to keep those principle in check since there much more abstract meaning that they don't directly affect the believablity of the piece but rather the effectiveness of the delivery.
If you wish you can probably learn how to apply the principle to study with the composition study i did a while back.I encourage you to do similar study with the work of an artist of your choose.It will help you solidify and than transfer those knowledge into your painting.
Darkiste: im going to abandon it but your paintover made it worse, and very cramped. You should take your own advice and learn about composition more in depth, i really enjoyed robert watts course on watts atelier and creative illustration by Andrew loomis. But for you in particular, i think youre wrapped up with a lot of theory and very little application, so, draw more, a lot more, and youll come to appreciate the concepts and actually understand them
Drew an assload today, gonna keep refining my character design skills for a while before i do another illustration. lot of studies from the female masters of anatomy book and brush pen john grello studies, and some imagination stuff, tried to keep it fun and was successful at that :) i want my next illustration to just naturally come from a sketch instead of having to block it out in a stiff and slow manner, kinda how the raven thing was done
Quote:i want my next illustration to just naturally come from a sketch
Odds are that a sketch will be good for idea generation, but once you find the idea that you like it will take a lot of reworking and studies to fill in the gaps, just like you did with that older illustration.
Long day again, i like to draw so much i dream about drawing, i think alex negrea mentioned that, i can be productive even while im sleeping! gonna hopefully dream some cool stuff tonight and try it out tomorrow to apply lots of things. these studies are helping me a lot with proportions and design language, it takes about 30 minutes per sheet of paper front and back total, and i clock it to make sure im working and not getting distracted. Plus is naked ladies so that helps me stay focused better than if it were say, cars or dudes, or frogs.
I notice i tend to fudge the head size often either too big or too small. I also am thinking of a logical mathematical way to approach gesture. The body has about 5 major limbs, arms, head and legs, and a connection point for both. Most dynamic poses can be broken into different letter shapes, like S, T, X, V, Y, more static poses are a C, L, I, and more extreme poses or contortion are like an M or a U shape, etc. So if you had a bot randomize those letters for the overall shape, you could add in like a radial component to the twist of the hips and torso, and it could generate a random pose idea. obviously most of them would be ridiculous but i could be wrong on that.
Also the portrait is of randy owens as a mothers day gift, arts a great cuz you can make gifts in a pinch
You've levelled up a ton even in just the last 3 months, as im flipping through these last few pages. Great work man, glad to see youre still going :)
