Wanted to nail it and I wasnt happy with the first result. My opinion was that it already has to feel vivid after the figure drawing phase. So I did it again. I think the second version already is better. But the oil brushes really make it hard to control the strokes. Lastly to keep control of the middletones is challenging! And greyscale should already make it simpler. I will continue doing my best. And I don't know why, but my pen rotation doesn't do anything. So I had to adjust pen rotation manually - which was time consuming. Going to google that one....

I browsed through art station and tried to find what I want to achieve with perspective. On the one hand I want to be able to use perspective for composition and mood setting of the painting. On the other hand I want to be able to draw complex forms: Space ships, jets, cars, hover vehicles and what not...and I want them to appear believable and appealing.

After I added lion studies to the ape and monkey studies I started again to make sketches for my lion/mandrill cross-over: The Mandrillion. :) So the first picture was trying out to find the right posture. It was a little tricky since on the one hand I wanted it to feel really dynamic - like you are being attacked. On the other hand when you face the mandrillion head-on you can't see much of his features (like his lion like legs). So I added a little explanatory sketch depicting the length of the arms and his lion legs. I hope this is showing some progress compared to the other sketch, where you said the mandrill and the lion are too close to each other. @David Colman are you planning to do more classes? I really enjoyed this one. Regards!

I made a mix of a mandrill and a lion. I made some shape breakdowns before.

I picked Cull Obsidian as the ape like fantasy figure and did some tracings. Was really fun!

First I was starting digital and I continued on traditional media. The dark one was my last sketch and I really think I am making progress. Next step: Life Drawing! Let's go!

I drew couple of skulls. I really enjoyed the process. I hope I will be able to memorize the basic shapes!

Here are my sketches :)

Combined an ape with a lion. I also tried not to use a hard round brush but keep everything loose. Done in 1h. Hyped for the course!

How can it be that the shadows are warmer colors than the highlights? I thought that it is characteristic that shadows have colder colors...