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2:22 PM, Friday November 19th 2021
Much improved, but neither quite where we want them, just yet. The ellipses have confidence issues, still (they’re wobbly), an indication that you’re too concerned with whether they’re snug against the frame, not enough with whether they’re smooth, and rounded. You’ve also not drawn through them a full 2 times, but often settled for 1 and change. Essentially, you’ve gone too far in the other direction. You’ll want to strike a balance between confidence, and accuracy. The rough perspective exercise tells a similar story. Though it’s not all of them (be sure to take a break, if you feel yourself getting distracted), a lot more than in your prior attempt make an effort to converge. Linework is lacking, however. It’s important to remember that there’s no difference between these lines, and the ones in the ghosted lines exercise – the process of drawing them is the same. As such, there’s no need to get overwhelmed by the big picture; simply take things one line at a time, ghosting each one for as long as it needs. I’ll request a bit more, before having you move on.
Next Steps:
This time I’d like you to do the same thing, but using only 1 page. So you’d split it into two parts: one for ellipses, one for boxes.
7:08 AM, Saturday December 4th 2021
11:55 AM, Sunday December 5th 2021
Good on all accounts. You'll want to continue pushing, of course, and I still see a lot of automatic reinforcing, but this is enough improvement that I feel comfortable letting you move on.
Next Steps:
Onto the box challenge!
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The Art of Blizzard Entertainment
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.