I did a timer on myself for this to keep myself loose and not focus so much on accuracy as much as intent. 1 minute (the small one), 10 minutes (medium), and the grid one with 2 hours (most of that time was spent going back and forth with my ortho and finding I'm still not capturing that side of the helmet correctly). I knew Kim Jung Gi had the secret/not-so-secret sauce of just keeping it loose. I thought those were more successful in the end. The grids just took me too long, but I can definitely see the benefits if one is looking to do some seriously detailed stuff. In summary? Blobs with contour lines are so fast. Grids are for accuracy. (I feel like a certain internet teacher said something like this once 🤔)

Played with the font "groovy cheese" to do the perspective. (Method 1) I measured the crap out of it and then painted it because I wanted it to be cheesy looking and lost all the work underneath haha. I don't regret it, that foundation made it seem more than worth it. Going to practice more words for method 2. (Also the heart shaped cheeseburger, which is my tattoo, and the font/word was in honor of my fat cat who passed, Cheeseburger)

This was surprisingly more difficult (for me) when the angles of my name didn't want to disappear correctly haha! That was unexpected problem solving I had to do. Onto the next assignment!

I wasn't able to set aside nearly enough time to really explore rock types and shapes, so I went for a more "sandy" approach. Very melted and layered instead of structured. Like a well worn bay. Included my previous assignment piece to show where I pulled and which direction.

Arteries, teeth, steak, and eggs. That's what it felt like I was drawing. Honestly I had a blast with this and spent more time than I thought I would on this assignment. I played a little with foreground and background and squeezed shapes or tried to exaggerate them a bit. I really want to take this further and further but had to stop myself for time limits, but this instantly inspired me for more. Maybe push and pull a whole forest? A gaping maw with rows of teeth? Magic School Bus through the ventricle system?! The possibilities and the speed at which they can be done!!

I think I picked something I thought would be relatively easy, but making something still look squishy was challenging! (Honestly I kept thinking I was just drawing a weird foot) Gave it a little color to translate better. Added some convex and concave to maintain that squish. Should grabbed a cat toy instead of the infamous nip naner.

Consider me inspired AND extremely intimidated. (Definitely not intimated by the speed at which he drew that train 👀)

I feel like you've mentioned this in previous videos, but are you going to do a class over airbrushing? If so, I have money for you!!!

I did some tests first at a smaller rate and all in pen so I commit to my lines and see if push or pull made me more accurate. The big test was to see how close I was in my guessing. Some were darn close! I may later on this paper to train my eyes with overlapping lines.

I couldn't make the critique video (holidays are hard to plan around), but here's my submission: I chose two from my album to gander through, first is by Mat Rockeffeller: Diminution: 2/5 Convergence: 0/5 Foreshortening: 3/5 (This one is a little harder because this image is almost fish eyed to represent the situation) Overlap: 4/5 Atmosphere: 5/5 A bit about this one from my perspective as stated in the foreshortened score, this image is fish eyed as if the viewer is a fish in the environment. The little hidden fish here and there while distracting from the clearly massive being holding the house up is very atmospheric! (Or...maybe i'm wrong?) Second piece is from Donato Giancola: Diminution: 0/5 (This one was difficult to sus out) Convergence: 0/5 (Also hard to sus, the buildings are stock straight) Foreshortening: 4/5 (We are the bird!) Overlap: 5/5 Atmosphere: 5/5 This one seemed poignant on the environment to be atmospheric! It almost feels heavy in the mountains and strong lines. This one is all space babyyyyyy. I could very well be wrong on all of these haha!