i was excited for this lesson on blending modes. although i can't seem to make peace with that double edged brush, it ends up making "dirty light" for me, not sure why (i have the opacity ~70%). i started with that double-edged brush for the shadows but then had to go back in with the round shader and airbrush... lots of soft erasing shaping, eesh. i'm still trying to figure out light on form. i used a reference from gokurakugai (in black & white).

coming back to your old work after you learned new/better ways of doing stuff is tough. this one has 99 problems and most of them are value-related. Had to end it because my computer was choking on the file.

If this is a fundamentals course, I can't imagine what an advanced course would look like! There's a lot to learn here.

my man is wearing a coffee filter, but his feather looks nice.

i finally finished this one. (╥﹏╥) had to change the subject for reasons. tons of tips in here, i tried to do them all at least once. still need to practice shading

Instead of complaining, I made this little egg tutorial. While I can pencil-shade an egg in real life, it's still a bit awkward for me in photoshop. The rationale being, if I couldn't make a satisfactory egg, then anything more complex was going to be an awful experience. I hope this helps anyone else out there that's finding the tablet an awkward transition from other media.

2h 15min later, i realized my resolution is making all my brush strokes look like crap. don't make this same mistake of just rolling with the default settings. couldn't even finish this one, it was so dissatisfying.

i'm realizing i don't think i know how to shade an egg. Jon added so much stuff I didn't see and made it look so sexy. in contrast, i felt i could spend an eternity on this drawing and it would just get more bizarre and geometric. ::sobs::