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Tsotne Shonia
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10mo
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I focused on doing simple studies of trying to get as close to the reference while trying to understand how light affect each plane.
The Lego blocks were a little confusing, but eventually I think I figured out where the light was coming from. It's a point light source that shines from the top left, and it's located between both ends of the left side of the Lego. That explained the cast shadow "fanning out" from it, the cast shadow of the block on itself, and why the left plane of the bottom left block is in shadow.
The whole exercise helped me in getting a better grasp of occlusion shadows and ambient light.
The biggest discoveries I made this lesson :
- Ambient light can still have an overall direction, and is not some random light floating from everywhere. For instance, even in pure sky light, there's still a sense that bottom planes are darker and top planes are lighter.
- Just because a plane isn't "round" doesn't mean it cannot have a gradient. Flat planes have subtle value shifts caused by ambient light being either stronger or occluded at some parts, and that it isn't necessarily interpreted by our mind as being round. It also looks quite pretty at times.
Nicole Drews
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11mo
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Here's my intermediate assignment, still life of a lil planter pot
Tsotne Shonia
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1yr
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Thanks for the lesson Boss :D
I'm finally back too! I haven't drawn/painted in almost a full year, doing those simples studies was a really nice way to get back into it.
The face was above the abilities I could salvage after such a hiatus, but I still gave it a shot.
I had a strong desire to copy the reference, but that's not the point of the assignment. Also, I don't know how to "translate" the information from an asaro head to a photo reference of a real person.
I loved it when you pulled the value of the background sky down on my assignment
It made a drastic shift and made it look so much better
I was experimenting and trying to half stick it to a reference but with the step back, it feels like I was trying to "force" some parts of it to match a reference without "listening" to my piece itself and what it needed
Thanks !
Matthew K
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1yr
When I watch this, I'm experiencing lots of backwards skips of about 1.5 to 2 seconds where the video acts like a scratched record. Is anyone else having this happen? Previous videos have had a slipping and video distortion that needed to be reloaded to correct. I know this isn't a huge issue, but it is distracting as it keeps happening.
Tsotne Shonia
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1yr
Man, watching you work is a treat for the eyes
I feel like I unlock truths of the universe everytime I learn things from you hahahaha
Thanks Jon :-)
Tsotne Shonia
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2yr
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I'm still experimenting with the shading, there's still a lot to do.
I think I'm not varying my core shadows enough and need to be more willing to "erase" my lines, but I'm making slow progress 😊
Most of these are really good. One tip I can lend you is that you don't typically need a core shadow for every muscle. Shading each muscle individually will generally look terrible. Bigger shadow shapes and maybe a pinch of reflective light here and there will look artistically better. Anatomy is about subtlety.
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2yr
Hi @Tsotne Shonia, nice studies! Your tracings of the anatomy look pretty accurate💪
- I think I would give you the same advice I gave you on the foot bones assignment: to practice drawing from imagination. Drawing from imagination reveals what you don't know and helps you get to know the anatomy even better.
In some of these I'm lacking a sence of a bone beneath, and the muscles being layered on top. In drawing 1, 2 and 5 I feel like we're lacking some of the arm's volume; maybe because the unvisibile anatomy hasn't been clearly considered. I like to treat my anatomy studies, kinda like écorché sculptures; you build from skeleton up to the surface.
- I think the drawings would look even more appealing if you balance the round forms with some hard planes. Try to be a bit more boxy in you mass conceptions. In image 6 for example, you have a wonderful opportuniy to draw an almost box like biceps.
- Try to consider the gesture more when adding the structure and anatomy. If you study this drawing by Michelangeo https://i.pinimg.com/originals/21/86/5f/21865fe4ea3811d6cdad9a961d5d5ce3.jpg, you might notice how every single line is contributing to the gesture.
It might help to think about a river flowing through the body; the forms are like rocks that the water flow across, around, smashes into, splashes over and the lines you draw is the water interacting with them. One of the difficulties with figure drawing is to keep on adding to the gesture, while adding the forms and details, and this river analogy might help with that.
Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
Hey, everyone! I hope you've all had a fantastic start to the new year and are excited to dig into the next segment of this course. I wanted to give a quick update on our plans for this year as there's been a slight change to our production schedule. I've accepted a new job on Hearthstone which is very exciting but also means I have to move across the entire country, which has been consuming every waking moment of the past month or so. As such, there will be a bit of a delay in the release of the next episodes until I can get settled into my new place and re-establish my recording setup.
We have a LOT of great content coming for the course this year that I'm super excited to share, and I want to be sure I give it 110% effort rather than squeezing it in between a million other things. I do apologize for the delay, but I can promise the next section is gonna be awesome and well worth the wait. Thank you so much for your patience, and I can't wait to continue painting with you in 2023! <3
Oooh so that's what you teased when you announced that you were leaving HiRez, I was quite curious 👀
That's awesome 😊 wish you the best at your new job
And I second what Nicole Drews said, pretty much sums up my thoughts
