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Jerry
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1yr
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Two master studies. First is a panel from Hayao Miyazaki's manga Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. I'm not a big manga aficionado, but this was a favorite of mine when I was younger and I still go back and reread it occasionally. I live the sense of scale he fits into little panels that also convey a lot of emotion and action and the world design is great. I'll need to see if I can find an edition with larger pages because the lines are harder to analyze when shrunk down. I also did a study from a sketch by Fernanda Suarez who I found from a book I picked up in the Sketching from Imagination series which won't teach you how to sketch from imagination, but has a lot of artwork in a lot of different styles and the artists talk about their approach and the tools they use which makes it easier to do studies.
@pizzle
1yr
Nice work!
@pizzle
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1yr
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I studied J Scott Campbell and FRANK FRAZETTA doing a few studies of each. I am submitting 3 of each here. Some of the proportions are off. I was happy with the line work in the top of the hair of the girl in the bath tub. I had confidence pulling those strokes.
I'm having a real hard time doing faces, especially the eyes and mouth. May still be too early on to worry about it. But any advice would be appreciated.
Before tackling these I did a few pages of studying certain parts of some of their works and drawing eyes, mouth, body all separately. I think it helped some to look at smaller aspects before taking on a whole image.
@pizzle
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1yr
Here's my sketching from imagination. Recently I had been drawing Shere Khan from The Jungle Book, so I was heavily influenced by his design. Attached are some of the reference photos I looked from and the sketches based on those photos.
I did two final designs. I couldn't quite get the back leg of the young Snow Leopard and I didn't bother with a full body of the adult.
your exploratory sketches are amazing!! I feel like I would like to see a final sketch with some of those mouth, eyes or claws!
@pizzle
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1yr
I only did one additional drawing from the 3 after watching Stan's demo. I think there was improvement from my prior attempt.
Avi Liberman
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2yr
Dorian - I have a small confusion some things and I just wanted to make sure I got it.
First, why do needs to know about "diffuse reflection" in relation to shading? Isn't what makes the form 3d is where the light hits (reaches) its surface?
1. When you showed specular reflection, you used a mirror or chrome.
Does it mean that all the lights gets the same value on every point of the ball because of the surface material? Does specular depends on the material or surface angle?
2. About the highlight. Why do we see highlight on rough surfaces (not chrome like) like body? I understood that it relates to specular reflection.
I'm not sure if you are still wondering about this. I don't yet have this course so I don't know if some post are hidden to me or not. But as a professional photographer, I can answer this to some extent for you.
I think it is very important to learn about "diffused reflection" in relation to shading, because it's all light and has an affect on what we see. But to clarify, don't think of diffused and specular. There's direct light, which is often your main light source, and then there's bounced light, often used to fill in shadows (you can also use another direct light source to fill in shadows).
Both the mirror and skin (or any other surface) are both bounced light sources. The direct light would be (in this case) a laser, or to better understand, think of the sun or a light bulb in your home. I can create specular highlights without a mirror, so it isn't needed. But a mirror would give you a stronger bounced reflection and light source.
Just about everything will bounce light back off of it and create a secondary light source depending on how strong the main light source is. as a test, go outside, turn your hand flat and look at the underside at the shadow, then take a plane piece of paper and start to bring it close to your hand, you will see the shadow get brighter.
The lingo could be confusing for some. As a photographer, diffused light is related to the kind of light. The sun, a bare light bulb are both considered hard light sources. Put a cloud between the sun and object or a lamp shade on, and they both become diffused light sources.
Specular would be the considered the type of light reflecting on what we are looking at. And in a way, yes, it is the bounced light we see off that surface we are looking at.
Hope this helps clarify things a bit.
Julian Blake
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1yr
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My projects. I still struggle a lot with line quality and confidence. I tried to go loose, but when I do, the lines are too messy. Anyway. We must persevere!
I'm in the same boat as you. I think you did a great job, and the pigeon looks really good.
@pizzle
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1yr
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Here's my first few attempts before watching Stan's demo. Some lines at certain moments I feel confident in, but mostly it's a struggle. I feel a bit torn between keep it it simple and not putting in too much detail. I did go over them with a bit of a darker line to clean it up a little, but you can see the sketch below it.
I feel good about it overall, but I would love any insights anyone wants to share.
I struggle a lot with this as well. I think in later lessons you will improve. Check the lessons about warm ups, line quality, and the unit about structure. I've seen them and practiced them a bit, and I've noticed that my lines start to improve a little. Our problem is that we are still too focused on the contour lines instead of on the big shapes. Using a coloured pencil as Stan did in the demo also helped me.
@pizzle
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1yr
This was my attempt at both the camel and Captain Full prior to watching Stan's Demo. Though I'm afraid I misunderstood the assignment of "confident lines". I'm otherwise happy with the camel, especially in proportion. But, I definitely put too much detail in the camel's head and in the Skull.
Any other tips you want to send my way is more than welcomed.
Although I agree with the overall detail level, the lines themselves, especially on the camel, look great, awesome work!
@pizzle
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1yr
It's hard to tell, because it looks like you drew this from life rather than a photo. So the perspective seems off based on the photo you provided and your drawing, BUT that could have been the angle you drew it from seeing as how in your drawing I can see the top of the apple. Which also affects how I'm seeing the shadows.
If I remove your photo, I would say that your shading work is off to a good start and appears mostly consistent. I'm also just being thought. 😅
Keep it up.
Thank you! Yes, I realized I uploaded the wrong angle (oops). This one is more accurate.
Feeling called out on this episode as FRANK FRAZETTA is my favorite. And who is one of whom I want to adopt. Though I never really thought of it, I am influenced by Glen Keane, J. Scott Campbell, Michael Turner, to name a few.
