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jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"

2015-11-28 12:08

On the still-frame studies, should we stick to using just 3 values, right? Dark, medium and light, to represent the proximity to the camera.

Then, on a picture like this, I would use the darkest for the foreground character on the right, medium for the ground and the characters on the left, and light for the rest.

But then, I would paint both the mountain and the sky using the light color, there would be no difference. Is that the idea, or should we use 4 levels here?

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"

2015-11-25 22:59

Hey, there's a repeated paragraph in lesson 14, Balance: "Looking back at our major masses..."

jaimeiniesta in the post "During December, critiques will be limited to Patreon supporters (again). Free critiques will resume in January"

2015-11-25 21:06

Gotta say, I feel so grateful for having found your courses! The lessons are great and your feedback is super helpful, I totally understand that you consider doing this only for a period of time and then go explore something else, and I'm happy that I found you early enough to receive your critiques - I hope to complete the whole course before you stop accepting more reviews :)

Thanks!

jaimeiniesta in the post "During December, critiques will be limited to Patreon supporters (again). Free critiques will resume in January"

2015-11-25 19:14

Good luck on finding your next home!

jaimeiniesta in the post "It's always important to seek out multiple avenues of learning - so check out Joe Collins' DRAW.academy"

2015-08-25 20:45

Thanks, it looks like a great resource, will follow it as well.

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"

2015-08-16 21:35

Thanks for the review, I will revisit some of the vehicles to practice this more.

I have started with lesson 8, as I saw that 3-7 were not a hard requirement. Is it OK if I continue with lesson 8?

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"

2015-08-15 20:09

Thanks for the review, I see what you mean. Here are some extra drawings, what do you think?

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 7: Drawing Vehicles"

2015-08-11 18:49

This has been a fun lesson!

Here's my homework, I struggled specially on the last car, maybe it's because it's my car?

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"

2015-08-01 17:54

Thank you!

Yes, I do need to work more on cylinders. Reviewing other comments in this thread I realized that I was not using that super useful tool that is making the minor axes of the ellipses align to the spine, I was just guessing where they were going to be.

I'll follow with the vehicles and remember to be less timid, thanks!

jaimeiniesta in the post "Show Us Your Progress!"

2015-08-01 10:23

Well, I didn't draw much before this course, so all I can show you by now is my current exercises. I'm collecting my favorites on my deviantArt gallery, I'm specially proud of this colored goldfish.

jaimeiniesta in the post "Announcement: Important news for those seeking critiques for their homework submissions during the month of August"

2015-08-01 10:19

Totally understand it, and I'd even understand that you took a month off for summer holidays instead of that crunch month - but you can't always choose. Take care! :)

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 6: Drawing Everyday Objects"

2015-08-01 09:15

Here are my objects

I found this much harder than drawing organic forms, I guess that's because with organic forms you have more room for improvisation/interpretation of the forms, but objects need to be accurate because of the sharp, straight edges.

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"

2015-07-25 21:51

Thanks a lot again for your review, will take care of these details.

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"

2015-07-25 17:08

Thanks for the review!

I see the point about making clear where the limbs connect to the body, in fact I thought something wasn't fine about the limbs on the drawings but I wasn't sure why. Thanks for pointing this out.

I've added 2 more drawings to the folder (animals-14.jpg and animals-15.jpg), what do you think?

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"

2015-07-24 14:40

I just read an interesting article about how people on the Middle Age managed to draw elephants, an animal that had not been around Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire. It's in Spanish but you might try Google Translate, or at least follow the links for some nice illustrations:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/21/ciencia/1437431062_030845.html

There, you'll find a link to this other web page that has a lot of elephant variations from those ages:

http://uliwestphal.de/ElephasAnthropogenus/

Enjoy!

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 5: Drawing Animals"

2015-07-24 09:48

Hello, here are my drawings of animals:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kcwb7p15x1cbv3g/AACcf8_egw4CtCgdcXZvG5hua?dl=0

jaimeiniesta in the post "Video: From Black and White to Colour"

2015-07-15 23:50

Yes, it's great. I found it easier to arrange several Chrome windows, zooming in and flipping the images as needed. As normally I do a search on Google for images, it was faster to just use the browser.

jaimeiniesta in the post "Video: From Black and White to Colour"

2015-07-14 18:23

Thanks for the lesson!

It sounds like there's a lot to learn about Photoshop, looking forward to it :)

When you flipped the drawing to have a fresh perspective of it, it reminded me of this Chrome extension that I use to flip reference images:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flip-this/donljlliiecjcagcenoeohjmabfegkph

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"

2015-07-07 20:49

Cool, thanks again :)

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"

2015-07-06 22:17

Thanks a lot for your review and comments!

That's exactly the case, I somehow feel timid and somewhat insecure to draw my forms, I need to get used to leave more footprint on the page.

Here's another insect, with its steps:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimeiniesta/sets/72157655480658096

Thanks!

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 4: Drawing Insects and Arachnids"

2015-07-05 12:45

Here are mine...

Lay-ins: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimeiniesta/sets/72157655066822520

Drawings: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimeiniesta/sets/72157655070807378

Thanks!

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"

2015-06-21 17:47

Thank you!

I see what you mean and will keep this in mind.

About not putting enough into the lay-ins you're totally right, I think that I was too worried about not being able to erase them later, so the lay-in for the dented leaves would be confusing. But I was forgetting the fact that all these are supposed to be exercises, not final drawings.

About the contour lines, I'm aware that I have to work more on them, only in that case the depicted plant has flat, thick leaves, not so rounded as the lay-in might suggest:

https://fotosdeaquiydealla.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/chumbera1.jpg

http://www.aragonfoto.es/FOTOS/Flora/Chumberas.jpg

But definitely, I could have suggested their form better with contour lines.

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"

2015-06-21 15:30

This lesson was very interesting, thanks!

Here's my homework:

Lay-ins

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimeiniesta/sets/72157654854558172

Final renditions

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimeiniesta/sets/72157652538736154

jaimeiniesta in the post "Lesson 14: Composition"

2015-06-12 20:57

I'm going to work on all the previous lessons using pen and paper by now, but it's good to have these lessons on digital painting, as I can take a peek :)

I have a Wacom Intuos Pen & Touch medium tablet, and for the software I'm really happy with Mischief -- it's a really simple interface. I'm also happy with SketchBook Pro, specially for their perspective tools.

Not sure if it would be worth getting into Photoshop as well, I guess it is as you use it :)

jaimeiniesta in the post "John Park starts an affordable online foundational art program, "Foundation Group""

2015-06-01 07:51

That's great news :)

I'm a backend web developer (ruby on rails, mostly). I'll be glad to help with the development or ideas on its process.

jaimeiniesta in the post "John Park starts an affordable online foundational art program, "Foundation Group""

2015-05-31 21:21

I agree with the rest: drawabox is awesome, and I think there's place for both. I might try the Foundation Group later on, but for now I'm pretty busy with the exercises you propose.

I'm so glad that I found drawabox, because until now I only had discovered some Instructables courses, but your course is so much better organized, and the community around here is excellent too.

Your honesty in announcing a course that you feel might end your own course is really appreciated, thanks for that. But count with me for a long time yet :)

jaimeiniesta in the post "OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: 250 Cylinders"

2015-05-30 21:39

Here are my 250 cylinders -- I found this harder to do than the cubes!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimeiniesta/sets/72157653313093410

jaimeiniesta in the post "250 Box Challenge (#2)"

2015-05-27 19:15

Thanks!

I've also just discovered that paper weight makes a difference. The boxes were done on poor paper - I'm now working on 120 grams paper for the 250 cylinder challenge, let's see how it goes.

jaimeiniesta in the post "250 Box Challenge (#2)"

2015-05-26 19:25

Hey, I completed the 250 box challenge, this was fun and helped me to gain confidence:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimeiniesta/sets/72157653376393106/

jaimeiniesta in the post "Video: Uncomfortable Does RGD 01"

2015-05-14 08:26

Thanks, it's the Pen & Touch Medium the one I feel more inclined to get. The Pros also look awesome, more pressure levels, resolution, inclination recognition, express keys etc.

jaimeiniesta in the post "Video: Uncomfortable Does RGD 01"

2015-05-13 21:57

That's very cool, Uncomfortable!

I'm considering trying a pen tablet -after I complete the course- but I'm not sure what model would be a good start. I've seen a couple of Wacom models, on varying prices. Can you recommend a model?