LongJh - 2D Practice Thread
Hi all, Junhong here (Long is actually my surname) - aspiring concept artist. Thought I'd start a new practice thread here, focusing on 2D. Anatomy, painting, design, all that good stuff.
I've got a bunch of older studies archived in my study blog as well, about a year and a half worth of stuff since I started doing regular practice. Still a long way to go, but hey - no pain, no gain right?
So, here we go -
Head studies and practice.
Studies from Linda Bergvist's tutorials
Sketchbook stuff.
I've got a bunch of older studies archived in my study blog as well, about a year and a half worth of stuff since I started doing regular practice. Still a long way to go, but hey - no pain, no gain right?
So, here we go -
Head studies and practice.
Studies from Linda Bergvist's tutorials
Sketchbook stuff.
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Big dump ahoy!
More dynamic sketching. Working on dissections and texturing. The part I'm having trouble with now is trying to show the form of the shape using only the texture and also trying to stay as clean as possible. Patience is really the key here.
Aaand more sketchbook sillies.
Head studies from photos. Still having trouble with initial proportions and rendering. Trying to avoid lifeless rendering and "plastic" skin. Having trouble whenever I paint the eyes, nose and lips (ok, so that sounds like the whole damn face).
And more dynamic sketching. Starting on some simple plants and fruits. I think fruits are good to start with because their simple in their forms, plus they have some interesting texture and look cool when "dissected". Plants are a bit trickier, especially when they have many overlapping leaves - the key is to really think simple shapes, and resisting the urge to redraw unnecessary lines.
Some head practice fails. Tried to draw some heads from imagination - proportions still look... ugh. Also need much more practice on facial forms and skin tones.
More dynamic sketching. Starting to really enjoy drawing this way. Practicing building objects with simple forms and sketching trees.
And one silly sketchbook page. Not really doing my best here... but it was lying around so I thought I'll just post it up. Bad works are still works.
And lastly, something I've been working on - a wip for the New Worlds challenge - Treetop Highway!
Finished my Treetop Highway! Or at least, finished to as far as I'm willing to go. Hopefully I learned a thing or two from this.
Going to start doing more life paintings now, studying forms and colour mainly. I finally found a great use for my figure mannequin!
And lastly some more dyamic sketching. Gonna wrap up my plant sketching. Moving on to insects next!
But I can tell you that I like what I see and you are doing a great job with doing all those studies
Ahhh really didn't study much recently. Working on other stuff now and it's really taking over my time (and my mind!) Slow and steady!
Just some drawings from life. I really wanted to improve my drawing and rendering ability with a pencil, plus, also a good way to study form and lighting.
Kind of took a break from doing studies, mainly because my drawing arm's been pretty bad lately, and I wanted to take it easy for awhile. But here's what I've been working on for the past month or so. It's a little portfolio project of mine.
Oh, oh! And I also updated my blog! Check it out! > www.longjh.blogspot.com (that URL used to be my portfolio site, but it's my blog now!)
Big image dump ahoy!
Here's something I've been working on. Ran into like 10000 problems painting this - definitely something out of my comfort zone, heads are still a nightmare for me. But it was fun! Gonna call this one done.
Some sketchbook sillies.
And portrait studies! Second ones are actually done from life at a portrait session I attended. Was definitely fun drawing some real people for a change, you know, instead of from a computer screen.
A quick little spaceship.
And two environments to test out some natural and smudge brushes in Photoshop.
WIP!
Aaand a sketchbook page.