hushblessedchild in the post "LESSON 3: Drawing Plants"
2014-11-25 01:39
Okay, so page one and two are the lay-ins, I hope you can see them okay, I had to use flash because they're super faint but it didn't help much. Page 3 was a weird exotic plant that I don't think came out very good, and a bonsai tree which I think is the best thing. Page 4 I tried to do a banana tree from your friends flickr page, but I got frustrated and skipped to page 5 where I tried to do what you asked. The second drawing on page 5 is super badly done and not finished but I guess it works as an example. Anyway, struggling, fix me with your magic words.
hushblessedchild in the post "LESSON 3: Drawing Plants"
2014-11-25 00:09
Okay thanks, I'll avoid it from now on. I'll try and get some to you for tomorrow.
No worries on taking your time/being limited. I appreciate anything! This is free so I don't expect nearly as much as you give.
hushblessedchild in the post "LESSON 3: Drawing Plants"
2014-11-24 22:02
So, this one is taking a while... Only on page two of the actual plants. Anyway, do you have any tips for shading? I think I saw some in one of the threads but can't for the life of me find the post. I think my form is relatively bad, but the shading is even worse! (The struggle tho)
hushblessedchild in the post "Who Are You? Introduce Yourselves!"
2014-11-23 00:01
Yeah, I was really happy with it actually. Just remembered who I copied it from. Irene Koh. She does great illustrations. Taken from this particular set of faces, all of which I love http://www.kohwritten.com/?p=147
hushblessedchild in the post "Announcement: What would you want out of a dedicated ArtFundamentals website?"
2014-11-22 23:05
Ohh yeah, seeing you DO parts of the lessons would be amazing.
hushblessedchild in the post "LESSON 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2014-11-22 22:21
Okay, I don't think these are much better, maybe a little. These are hard.
hushblessedchild in the post "Announcement: What would you want out of a dedicated ArtFundamentals website?"
2014-11-22 18:28
You're a good teacher, if that's something you want to pursue, you definitely should. If I had the money I'd be happy to pay you for mentoring. There's no shame in that goal at all.
Communities are great, right now I'm looking to get involved with a community of artists, if this can turn into that I'm down to be one of the passionate people for sure. Apart from Twitter (and I rly use that to speak to devs and writers) I'm a lost soul floating around cyber space.
hushblessedchild in the post "LESSON 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2014-11-22 16:10
Lesson 2 time. Contours and dissections were fun, not sure if they're good or not, but I enjoyed it, intersections I found horrific. Some intersections seem to work, but idk.
Let me know if any of the images are too blurry. A couple of pictures are upside down as per usual, wouldn't want to make your job too easy.
hushblessedchild in the post "Announcement: What would you want out of a dedicated ArtFundamentals website?"
2014-11-22 12:39
Congratulations on the job Uncomfortable!
I think a site would be great, it would open up a lot of opportunities/possibilities.
First of all, I feel like actual forums lend themselves to this sort of thing better than reddit. We'd be able to share more of our work, ask more people more questions, build sticky threads full of useful information and excersises. The better illustrators can have tags or badges or whatever signifying that they are verified pro's, and they can offer critique when you aren't available.
You'd also be able to build libraries of resources submitted via forums or whatever.
You might even be able to have some monetary gains, which I think is totally fair and deserved.
All in all, a forum/seperate website would take some lessons, and turn them into a real community of artists who can learn from each other.
Of course, there are other possibilities separate from forums, but I know forums and I like them so, that's what I'd like to see!
hushblessedchild in the post "OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: 250 Boxes"
2014-11-21 19:22
Great, thanks, I'll get on with no. 2!
hushblessedchild in the post "OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: 250 Boxes"
2014-11-21 17:31
No worries about missing me! Yeah, early on I was still really rushing, which led to some really sloppy stuff. I tried to stick to one line with these, led to looking a little sloppier I think but still much better.
Here we go! http://imgur.com/iViwL9n
Tried to keep it simple for the first 3, tried to make 5 as interesting as possible, didn't go quite as planned. Also the shaded sides are wrong quite a bit but I wasn't paying too much attention to that.
edit: may have misunderstood, did you want half a page of organic, and half a page of the perspective boxes? if so, woops
hushblessedchild in the post "OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: 250 Boxes"
2014-11-19 21:00
Okay, so that took a while. After about 175, I think they get much better. I've also done a couple of perspectives after uploading the album, and think they look nicer too. The first 175 were shit, and I was still rushing (because I didn't like how they looked, perhaps). At 175 my pen started to run out, so I went over the line a couple of times and the box looked much nicer. Ideally I'd like to be able to do it with just 1 or 2 strokes instead of 3-4, but at least they look better, right?
Idk, let me know what you think (obv).
Edit: Some of the pics are upside down too... At least 1. Sorry about that. I'm taking the pictures totally normally, but it's still screwing up. I'll rotate them next time, I swear, haha. Or just let me know if u'd like me to do it now and I will.
Here's a page with 2 more attempts at perspective, I think they're better, too. Still a little curved. http://i.imgur.com/ymPVfmy.jpg
hushblessedchild in the post "LESSON 3: Drawing Plants"
2014-11-29 02:21
Hey, so I took a few days off the lessons to draw some of what I enjoy as I was feeling quite put off! Anyway, back now, think the couple of days definitely helped, although these are still very wonky. Anyway, let me know what you think.
http://imgur.com/a/6CEQ9