Bryce Verket
Bryce Verket
Manhattan Beach, CA
Learning digital art independently since 2020, focusing on character design, 2D animation, and visual storytelling
Bryce Verket
2-to-5-minute studies with wax pencil I like how this set of poses had a lot of pushed muscles, I liked exaggerating those angles in my drawings!
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Bryce Verket
Still working on drawing more lightly towards the start of a pose
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Bryce Verket
I'm still unfamiliar with drawing clothed figures, so adding this extra while preserving pose and energy was an exciting challenge!
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Bryce Verket
As I shortened the drawing time, I noticed that I focused less on blending and more on the hard-edged shape design
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Bryce Verket
The group I chose was the officers of the Animation Club I'm in (I'm furthest on the right in the image). Coming back from distance learning, I loved how many little interactions I got to see play out in person whenever the club met up, so I wanted to capture some of those antics here. For the composition, I tried out a method I learned from Andrew Loomis, where I based every figure, either standing or sitting, off of the horizon line. For the standing figures, the horizon line cuts through the hips, while for the sitting figures, it cuts through the middle of the face. I still struggle with lighting indoor scenes, but I enjoy the color contrast caused by the projector.
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@levictus
Here's my attempt for this month's challenge. I studied a picture I took of a pigeon a while ago. Work time was around 50 minutes.
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Bryce Verket
I love the subtle subsurface scattering on the wood towards the bottom, the warm vs. cool shadows really make the painting pop!
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Bryce Verket
For my submission, I studied a photo of Coconino National Forest. I wanted to highlight the brightness of the rocks in the midground against the darkness at the bottom of the trees, but my first draft felt like it lacked a unifying element. I added a canoe in the second image to provide scale, introduce more contrast, and convey a sense of movement through the piece.
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Sebastian Szmyd
Hi! Here's my comic submission for the storytelling challenge. The short scene will hopefully speak for itself, but here's a brief overview of the backdrop I had in mind:  In early Christian Poland the tension between the old pagan faith and Christianity is mounting and feelings are running high not only between people but also between the spirits of old, folk saints and devils. A new dawn is rising, a war is afoot and those who want to take part the least will come to suffer the most. And that's that :) BTW, the title, "Zorza", means "aurora". Cheers!
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Bryce Verket
I enjoy how you drew the various effects in the comic! It helps make the actions flow into one another.
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Bryce Verket
(2 of 2) One thing I enjoyed doing this challenge was refining my art pipeline to get these drawings done more quickly. Not only did I have to streamline how I stylized the characters, shading, and environments, but I also had to change the order and the process with which I went about making the artwork. This challenge helped me unlock a new skill, in a sense.
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Bryce Verket
(1 of 2) For my submission, I went back to Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. The game's story is about Nathan Drake, a witty treasure-hunter, searching for the lost pirate city of Libertalia with his brother Sam. It was an interesting challenge to adapt both cutscenes and gameplay moments into cinematic compositions. I experimented quite a bit with the color in these drawings, more than I ever have before.
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Delfina Armanasco
Hello everyone! I leave here my final cover. It's from the classic story the princess and the pea, my inner girl would be very happy! 🥰
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Bryce Verket
Very warm color palette!
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Bryce Verket
I based my submission for Lord of the Flies off of Mondo-style movie posters, with the merging elements blending into a single shape.
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Bryce Verket
A rhino-mermaid-nuclear-submarine mech. I had as much fun composing the splash art for this as I did coming up with the central idea. I want to get better at setting a tone with my art.
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Miguel Nieto
These are my submissions and the references. I´ve tried to go change the colors and the technique every 3 thubmnails
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Bryce Verket
I like the way you textured the mountains on the second row
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Johnathan
Hi Tiffanie, I am very sorry I didn't follow your instructions to use only circle/square brushes. I tried my best to keep it simple though. It would still be cool if you could critique my work, since I am self taught and have never had a professional critique my work before. Thanks for this cool challenge!
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Bryce Verket
I like the way you create texture in these pieces. A few that stood out to me were the sun's reflection on the water, the grass under the hay, and the trees on the distant hills.
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Bryce Verket
I found myself in an interesting position where I had to create square thumbnails out of portrait-formatted pictures. I enjoyed using the polygonal lasso tool, I like the angular energy it gives to these pieces. I also forbade myself from using the color picker on the references, since I want to get better at eyeballing vivid colors.
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