Here's my attempt, I think I was a bit confused and put the sketch and the painting on two different layers but then decided it would be easier to just merge those two layers. I usually stick to traditional inks and pencils so I'm finding this pretty helpful for learning painting in general. I think I won't use such a textured brush for the subject next time, although I do think it gives it some charm, I just feel like it makes the shadows look lighter, despite using just straight up black. I guess I need to experiment with the brush settings.

Took me around 2h I think, it's a bit too dark, I realise now that my drawing tablet and my monitor have way different brightness !

Here is my painting. I feel like my rendering needs a lot of work. I mostly do concepts so I'm not used to taking things to a finished state

Phew... Might have been about 10 hours I think? I've done a bit of digital painting over the years but never down to the fundamentals where I can do it without someone guiding me. Hopefully through this course I'll gain a bit of confidence and hopefully some speed as well. Being slow is my biggest crutch. Also need to figure out how to effectively do those small details. I wracked my brain trying to find that gritty brush you were using because I really liked it. Ended up just locking a grass texture on everything. I just want to be good with value and colour finally... TToTT, what good is drawing a figure if you can't make it look nice, y'know? Proud of myself for doing it though! I always feel like I'm running out of time, so doing this feels good, just gotta... speed up.

As a beginner on digital painting, i'm happy how it ended up but i stopped this one here because i was getting frustrated with the brush, rather than the picture. I am using clip studio and sometimes the brush would make the color darker than the one i picked if i was painting over shadow or midtones (i think the brush was smearing the color i selected with the one under it when i painted?) Any advice on that would be greatly appreciated, should i try to paint simple objects, like apples os boxes under real light to try to get to grips with the brushes?

Yoni reference first ever digital painting!

Hi! I recently got into digital drawing after being on a traditional drawing hiatus for 12 years (back when I was 21). I'm happy with how this one turned out but I'm looking for some constructive feedback, so please fire away! I think what I'm struggling with the most is finding a style. I'd love to be able to do less strokes in general and keep things simple/stylized. I love how Jon's drawing's muscles are so nicely defined too, it feels like mine are missing a bit of volume!

Hi guys, this is my attempt at this one. I think it started out great, but I ran into too many problems later on. I had trouble with the face and thought there would be no point in trying to finish the rest of the painting (spent ~2.5 hours on this). I will do the second one next week maybe that one will be better, any feedback on this one would be much appreciated.

These are my grayscale works for the assignment

Finally done with these assignments! Here are my attempts.

I feel like i'm too foused on similarity, and details, I would like to make simpler images but with more character, get away from academicism

Hi Jon, really loving this course, I have a question regarding what brush you are using in the 'Grey scale Painting process tutorial? I downloaded the brushes just trying to find the name.

My attempt at the second lesson, used the flat thick brush for block in and flat thin brush for details.

Made an attempt at the first demo

Here is my assignment submission. I am not sure if I hit the right balance of simplified yet detailed. As far as values, it was hard for me to decide what I wanted the focus to be on. I wanted the shiny bits to be shiny and subtly lead the eye from the shiny crown down along the shiny trim. And I wanted the far ends of her dress to be less in focus so they’re a bit lower contrast. I did get a bit lost as to what values to make the background. I wasn’t sure how to keep the suggestion of a background without going into more detail

I tried to be quick with this and treat it like a study or a practice. I usually spend way too long on details and end up with too much information everywhere. This was my attempt to focus my details and direct the viewers gaze. Does this balance ambiguity v. information? Does it read clearly? Is it okay? Thank you!

first attempt, the neck is long and maybe i did go a bit to hard on the shadows but overwall pretty good I think

Here are my two attempts so far!

Had to use a little color but I'm happy

I’ve been following Prokos Draftsman and remembered that I can buy courses with my adult money. I’ve been grinding my nose into digital painting so I would love to see how I can improve.