I was encouraged with how my sketch turned out on this exercise.

More perspective practice.

My name is Charlie Lyons-Pardue. I’ve been working in creative fields for a couple of decades but in jack-of-all trades artistic roles. I’d like to shift gears and focus in on one area - illustration - with the goal of working as an independent artist.

The dream would be to work on projects like what John Hendrix and Nate Powell have been putting out. Illustrating something like “Faithful Spy” or “March” would be the ultimate goal for me.

Right now I’m working on regaining some dormant skills and going back to the basics as I spend the next year building up a portfolio worthy of submitting to a good MFA program.

Here’s my vehicle using boxes in perspective to build up the shape, then line work, and tone.

Last week when I was watching the season finale of The Mandalorian I spotted a new droid I'd never seen before in Star Wars. An R2 type droid with legs. I'm calling it a Gondola Droid. Anyway, I took it as an opportunity to just do a quick sketch, but then I decided to develop it a bit further into a more complete image. Doing the color and lighting on it was a lot of fun. Any feedback is most welcome.

Here's my original sketch.

Then I did some line work. You can see some of my reference photos in this one.

Started come coloring.

Then redid the coloring on the droid to reflect the lighting from the lava river and fog.

Over the last year and a half I've been dreaming of going back to art school and going into art-making as my full time job (I'm currently in a creative job, but it's a very jack-of-all-trades kind of role). Leaving the stability and community of my current job to pursue this dream is one I've approached with a lot of discernment. So much time has gone into research and doing my best to learn what the road ahead may realistically look like.

The 3-Point Perspective podcast has been an INVALUABLE resource for me this past year, and this episode in particular. I desperately want to go into this transition with my eyes wide open to all the hurdles and pitfalls and not romanticize what's in store for me.

Laurie Santos's recent episode of The Happiness Lab (Ep 7: Don't Accentuate the Positive) reinforced to me how important these honest conversations about the negatives actually are to achieving success. https://www.happinesslab.fm/season-1-episodes/dont-accentuate-the-positive

Thanks for spending some time dealing with the downsides, we're better for it!

Posting my work for the basic perspective class here. I’m really enjoying it. These exercises are really helpful to doodle throughout the day.

@Coreyartus thanks for the welcome Corey, I work at just down the road from you. I’m at PLNU doing artsy stuff for chapel (stage design, graphic design, filmmaking, etc). I started bingeing on 3 Point Perspectives back in October (I’m caught up now) and started the curriculum here at SVS last month. I’m already learning a ton and looking forward to the artist community here in the forums. I’m looking for a thoughtful group to learn and grow with. Family & friends are great but they don’t say much in the way of helpful critique (which is fine - we all need a cheerleading section).

More perspective practice.

Posting my work for the basic perspective class here. I’m really enjoying it. These exercises are really helpful to doodle throughout the day.

Over the last year and a half I've been dreaming of going back to art school and going into art-making as my full time job (I'm currently in a creative job, but it's a very jack-of-all-trades kind of role). Leaving the stability and community of my current job to pursue this dream is one I've approached with a lot of discernment. So much time has gone into research and doing my best to learn what the road ahead may realistically look like.

The 3-Point Perspective podcast has been an INVALUABLE resource for me this past year, and this episode in particular. I desperately want to go into this transition with my eyes wide open to all the hurdles and pitfalls and not romanticize what's in store for me.

Laurie Santos's recent episode of The Happiness Lab (Ep 7: Don't Accentuate the Positive) reinforced to me how important these honest conversations about the negatives actually are to achieving success. https://www.happinesslab.fm/season-1-episodes/dont-accentuate-the-positive

Thanks for spending some time dealing with the downsides, we're better for it!

@aska I can't complain. San Diego is pretty idyllic! I do miss autumn, but apart from that it's pretty near perfect.

Rough sketch of my idea for the January contest. Would love feedback. Does it read clearly? Problems that you see?

@AjMitchel I’ve been using the OG paperlike for a year and just put the new Paperlike 2 on my iPad Pro. I’m soooooo in love with it. The texture is amazing.

https://paperlike.com/

I was encouraged with how my sketch turned out on this exercise.

Ended up with a tiny stubby seat!