I completed @Lee-White’s light and shadow course, and I wanted to share the final assignment! It was hard choosing five favorite illustrators. There are so many who’s work I really enjoy, but these where the five that came into mind first!57412969-E248-442F-8F80-7B4445ECB670.jpeg

@theprairiefox Check out this link for a really helpful tutorial by Susan Harrison-Tustain on using Hot Press. It reacts very differently from coldpress.

https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101019

I've been practicing the assignments from the new perspective class by David Hohn (I know he's here in the forum but forgetting his forum name!) in the curriculum. Rather painful for me to learn, lol but I am bound and determined this is the year for me to nail this perspective stuff! Most of what I have practiced so far has just been on paper in my sketchbook but today I tried some in photoshop. I think I'm getting it but the cubes sometimes look a little off and I don't always know why. I tried filling in the lines for the far/hidden sides of the top cube and they weren't lining up too well. It may be that some of my orthagonals are off a little anyhow as it gets a bit hard to see exactly where the vanishing point is on the horizon line after a while (once I add a bunch of orthagonals the exact point gets lost/covered up if that makes sense).
Also learning how to make straight lines on the diagonal was a process lol. Getting it , will keep practicing as I want it to become second nature. I also have a tablet and not a graphic display (at least for now - that really has to change).
Going to practice 30-60 minutes each day for the next week (today was an hour to figure out how to set up my grid and do the diagonals and get the cubes done).
Going to rewatch the last few videos as well, 🙂
Learned some new stuff and only about half way through the course!Twopointpersppectivepracticejanuary10,2020.jpg

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I figured I'd go simple and start with a sphere. Here is an attempt at blue sphere in hard light. I tried to blow out the light area and darken the shadows. Might still be too blue. Some edges are a bit wonky but I need to move on to another lighting situation and trying to limit time and maximize learning!

@Nyrryl-Cadiz this was just a sketch of a young caveman lol

@Lee-White thanks for the feedback 🙂 I learned a lot! About light and shadow also using lasso etc. Cool trick on the robot cast shadow too!

Thanks for the comments. I've made some adjustments to see if I can help address some of the issues. I'm working on the horizontal homework now, so we'll see how much time I've got to dive back into this one.

Fancied the place up a bit with details around the room, so hopefully that helps, and I think adding everyone's feet really helped place where everything is. I didn't change the guy up too much - mainly just made him sloshing his wine to help sell that. This is kind of a riff on a situation with my wife's grandparents, who will snap at the waiters every where we go for literally everything lol.

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Bold POV! I like it!

@Random-Fluffers One of the things that I notice in this drawing is the attention you paid to how things are built. How one piece of wood in joined to another. Notably in the bed and side table and toy chest. That is so often overlooked! I always enjoy getting the reference needed to fill in these kinds of details, as it tell me more about the person who lives in this space.

Not to give more "homework" but if you are interested(and when you have a chance), try adding in the tonal information. It can be as simple as what you did in the first version of this assignment. The illusion of 3D space on a 2D plane will really start to pop!

Catching up and probably do some more - I quite enjoyed it and found it even relaxing. Getting the light touch on digital is tricky. I also like seeing the marks so I didn't go with the smudge tool. *I added 6 more.

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@Basil-Godevenos When starting out as you are -- place your vanishing points where you think they "should" be. And then drag one of them 3 -4 inches further out.

@Amanda-Bancroft I really like your suggestion of making a collage. I have just listened to the course and gathered some drawings of the artists I like their styles. I have started with the 1st master copy and am trying to analyze the style during the process. But, I was having hard time to understand what will be my style coming out of these different ones. I like the collage idea. Hopefully it works for me too 😃 Thanks a lot for sharing your experience.

@Braden-Hallett

Thank you for the feed back on the values. I’ll look back at them I’m thinking during the screen shot, saving and posting my values seem to darken than what I’m working on, it happened when I posted on my social media as well.

I do the arrow on every thing even when I working traditional, when working digitally I’ll place the arrow on a separate layer. It always seems to help keep me in line.

When I took the screen shot of the arrow one I think I forgot to turn off the layer.

Glad you are liking it! : )

I'm working on catching up! Got that long video watched. Gotta get some reference now. Just realized I already watched some of week two videos in week one. You could say I didn't pay enough attention in class to assigned work. But I'd say I'm a keener getting stuff done in advance before it's even assigned! HA 😅

Master Study of Ciaran Duffy's work in digital with my new process.
I found it time saving and still beneficial. Now I just focused on the overall composition and shape (sketch), and values (direct reference -changed work to black and white) and colour (and back to colour after black and white parts were done) but you could also focus on line or texture if that's what you like most about your study. I hope this helps you!

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What I learned:

I didn't use a gouache brush but enjoyed blending with a soft conte brush instead. I would have missed more than half the colours if I didn't take it straight from her work (love her colours). The sparkly yellows so I thought are actually a green -boggled my mind. The bottom right coloured area looks cut out. I think that was due to cleaner edges and darker shadows. Needed to clean up the edges above for the same effect.

But all in all, I enjoyed this process. 🙂 I will continue to do this.
Thank you.

First thread is up 😃

https://forum.svslearn.com/topic/8458/painting-colour-and-light-2-0-group-run-through-week-one

Go forth and collect reference!

@JoannaH Let me tell you what, I'm about to start in on the car and I'm terrified.

@Meta I’ve slowed down in forum writing. Your doing a wonderful job at these master copies!

AM@nkdrawings NI think 5 too. What if you drew the Wolf bigger behind her, like he is ready to pounce on her?