Anyways, I ordered some proper drawing materials and a drawing board that has a perfectly parallel ruler on it, so I can make perfect horizontals. So now I won't be messing up my perspective drafts and will actually go faster now. I'll make a post about them when I get them, and it will be full speed ahead in the battle of perspective.
Finally figured out how to make the gouache even out smoothly across the paper, although it's not that bright. Had too put some paint down near the shadow edges then move the watercolor brush in circles to smooth it out. Although it's not that bright, but layering paint made it look uneven, so I'll see if I can make that better.
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| Acryllic Designer Gouache (liquitex brand) w/ waterbrush pen on tanned sketchbook paper, inked with pigment liner and copic greyscale markers. |
The war on perspective is getting difficult, so I decided that I will now flex pick 2-4 videos a day depending on how much time I have already spent on the first two videos. The diagram in the second photo took almost an hour to setup, you can't see a lot of the soft lines with this camera shot but it took a lot of erasing, measuring, guessing, etc. And that was all covered in 1 video, not even finished with it yet...
Also, I moved on to week 5 of the VisCom class, and that's what the first photo is. I have to do 3 pages of organic forms and 3 pages of plants/leaves for homework by next week. The top right I did well on the edges, but not as well on reflected light in the shadows like the bottom right blob, gonna work on those in the next page.
More boring perspective, who could've guessed. Although I will say, I'm starting to see how ellipses can be useful in rendering objects in "perfect" 3D space. I can see it being used on a handheld telescope you see those sailors and pirates use in movies. Or looking down on a spear causing intense 3 point perspective, stuff along those lines. Don't see much use though in figure drawing or portraiture... but for compositions and structure building it seems pretty useful. I don't want to draw any more circles though, send help.
This is to show some progress on developing muscle memory for milipen sketching. I do a sheet every day and this is the progress, the top photo is today and bottom photo was 3 days ago, takes about 30 minutes to do a sheet. Every day I come back to this exercise it feels like my arm is doing the work and I'm just watching it do it's thing.
I ended up working on it a bit more, it's a miracle. Better start working on her face though shes starting to give alien vibes. I spend roughly an hour a day on this file so it's gonna take a week or two to finish this.
Blogger is not letting me post my image, so I'm going to post it tomorrow. I tried Chrome and Firefox, no dice. Edit: Ok, here's wha...
