I’d be curious to know which project levels I should try to stick to based on these drawings :). I am always flipping back and forth between thinking I’m using specific skills to cover for weaknesses in my fundamentals and thinking I don’t push myself to apply the fundamentals in new ways. I’m Mostly fine with how the portrait turned out but the pear is not my best by far. Both of them I got a little carried away with and just starting shading with more values than I was supposed to which is unfortunate but I definitely benefitted from making myself start with just a few before I got carried away. I often lose track of where my hand is resting when using the tripod grip, hence the smudged paper, which I’m slowly working on.

here are two more attempts, I only have the reference for one of them, unfortunately. I feel much better at choosing colors and adjusting local hues to light now. Obviously, I cropped the mountainous reference differently for my piece, but I'm not sure if I should've.

Hello everyone! this is my go at the reference he used in the video. I used the same reference so that I could basically start by copying what he was doing (to get a feel for it) before branching out. The perspective, relative scale, and other things were warped after my initial sketch, which is no biggie in my opinion. I'm more concerned about the clouds. I started by trying to depict the depth and many layers of this sort of 'cloudscape' but I really struggle with them. The flat forms and fudged lighting quickly began to break the image, so I decided to focus on going with two larger, appealing cloud shapes, eventually becoming whatever those big pluming clouds are (sorta inspired by jocelincarmes on Instagram, and the way he does clouds). I feel somewhat disappointed that I couldn't capture the vastness of the clouds and their arrangement in my painting. The bushes are also a bit much which is somewhat minor but feels related somehow. Overall, I'm happy with it as a first try at color painting, but I am terrified of doing anything with slightly more complex forms like the new assignment D:

Here's my submission for the First Grayscale painting lesson, using a reference photo from the free Proko figure drawing model pack. Don't be too polite; I'm not afraid of some harsh criticism, I don't get enough right now.

I tries using a pretty gritty brush for the face at first, but it definitely turned out looking a little off and I ended up revising it with the bristle brush, and the folds are always a struggle for me so i nearly had an aneurysm working on the collar but, here we are! The likeness also faded pretty quickly but im alright with that for the most part.