@elkad
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Long time art hobbyist finally learning the fundamentals :P
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6mo
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Finally done! Feedback is welcome :)
@elkad
4d
Back after watching the week 3 critiques, the main take aways for me were:
* first and foremost make the paintings read well, this may involve deviating from the reference or accentuating certain features
* make the light and shadow families obvious and readable, start by simplifying the big value groups and work your way to smaller ones
* be thoughtful using highlights and don't over do it
I did some paintovers of my assignment, I notice the chin area of the 5 min paintings were a little sloppy and not reading well. I upped the contrast on the cropped features to make them pop. I also tried painting a marble sculpture as an exercise for simplifying value groups, I found it pretty helpful
8mo
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I don't want to see another skull again lol
Looking back, I think the biggest improvement I made was the cranium and jaw proportion and positioning. I was also finding it easier to visualize the skull in more extreme angles. Still making mistakes (particularly with the face features), but I think I've gradually improved
To check against reference I used 3d skull (thanks Nio@): https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/male-skull-1e54622b84ab46fd9f4518c47fa60929
For anyone interested in seeing my notes and comparison to reference: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BP-_OFwXHfBikhXLyK_b-HNfNM8_WqYm?usp=sharing (google drive cause this site compresses images quite heavily and it might not be readable)
8d
Back after watching the week 2 critiques, I'm not doing new revisions cause the exercise itself involved self critiques and iteratively drawing. Its a bit tedious but this method is super useful self improvement
9mo
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Here's my skulls! I think I got decent at rendering the planes and overall forms but I still have a lot to learn with all the little anatomical details and the organic shapes
I also tried doing the hard mode challenge but I'm far too inefficient to do it under 5 minutes and struggled even doing it in 10. I think I'll come back to it when I'm a little more efficient/better at simplifying
8d
Doing revisions after watching the week 2 critiques. Main areas for improvement were:
* Having clearer light/shadow value groupings
* Increasing contrast for better readability
* For the invented skulls, the cranium tended to be too boxy, the jaw too small/squished and didn't extrude out far enough
I did some paint overs, and I think they're looking better now!
1mo
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Got way too carried away with rendering but I finally finished, fun exercise!
10mo
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That was hard! I'm usually quite slow painter so learning about brush economy and becoming more efficient was really challenging, but I managed to dramatically improve my time by building big to small. It's cool to see how much you can simplify but still convey form and also seeing how repeated painting helps with designing and simplifying
10mo
Doing some revisions after watching the critique video
In my assignment I was a little caught up with the timer and wasn't as thoughtful with how I painted. I didn't push the colours as far as I could've and generally didn't experiment enough.
As suggested in the critique, I did some studies Karen O'neil (awesome artist) and learnt a lot about not only colours but also brush work and values. Highly recommended giving it a try.
I also did one more iterative painting with a pear, about 10 minutes per painting. I still didn't push as far as I'd like but I think its still a noticeable improvement over the previous ones
10mo
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Colours are fun! I liked the tetris piece exercise quite a bit, imagining all the shadows and different colours of reflected light was a nice challenge
10mo
Doing some revisions after watching the critique video
* I accidentally coloured one of the tetris pieces blue instead of yellow lol
* Pushed the hue shifting in the shadows so things look more vibrant
* An exploded cube!
10mo
Doing some revisions after watching the critique videos for week 1. I touched up some issues on the main assignment:
* The forms felt a bit flat due to low contrast even after following the half way to black rule, so I deepened the core shadows
* Some coloured sections didn't wrap around the forms correctly
* Some of the forms and core shadows were a little sloppy
* I was too timid with the painterly style and pushed further this time
1yr
Draw along in digital! That was pretty exhausting to be honest but patience pays off.
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1yr
Follow along with the free videos from the course and decide if its worth it yourself!
$140 is a lot of money and I'd highly encourage you to try out free learning material (not only from Stan) before you consider a paid course. It will help you see if you're able to commit to a course which you seem unsure of. It'll also help decide if paying for a course is worth it for you, maybe you'll be content with the free materials, maybe you'll be looking for more.
In my experience, I've generally found that paid courses are better put together (not that free content is bad) because lets face it, being paid gives them dedicated time to design and create quality content. Creating a course is extremely time consuming and not many artists have the time to make one for free.
I've taken a couple of Stan's courses (figure drawing and portrait drawing) and have been really happy with the quality. The courses are planned out well and I think Stan's a great teacher who's clearly passionate about art, he distills important info well and communicate effectively. That said, no art course is going to teach you everything there is to know or magically make your art amazing, you still need to put in the work and there will still be a lot to learn by the end!
So yeah, start with some free material and go from there. There are a lot of great courses out there (both free and paid) and Stan's courses are some of those. Hope that helps :)
