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Sketches

Head exaggeration exercise

Posted on by Lianne

I’ve been watching Stephen Silver’s Character Design lectures with my Schoolism subscription, and there is always a new personal revelation every lecture. There’s just something refreshing about learning something completely outside your scope of ability and slowly seeing what the teacher sees.

In this exercise, you’re supposed to draw as realistically as possible a person’s head and then stretch and mold that person’s head into different shapes. The goal isn’t to necessarily be true to the person’s likeness, but to experiment and see what new characters and ideas you get out of playing with that person’s face.

Naturally, I chose a Game of Thrones character since the season just started. 🙂

Learning · Sketches

“Painting with Light and Color” class

Posted on by Lianne

I signed up for another self-taught Schoolism class, Painting with Light and Color with Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo, and man, it’s kicking my butt! The 1st week covers painting still lives under neutral diffused lighting, which is overcast or cloudy weather. Seattle winters are perfect for this type of lighting scenario, but funnily enough, 2 of my still lives were taken from New Jersey in my parents’ backyard (the pumpkin and bag). 

The problem is not in the reference gathering, but in the painting. My lack of digital painting expertise caused me to simplify my still life setups. It’s a humongous change of mental gears for me, going from animating to lighting/rendering in Photoshop. My brain is exploding a bit. Hopefully, like most things, it’ll come more easily with practice.

Inktober · Sketches

Inktober 2015: Day 7 and 8

Posted on by Lianne

#Inktober Day 7 and 8: For the online drawing class I’m taking, Gesture Drawing with Alex Woo, I have to practice drawing an animal in preparation for next week’s lesson. I figured Newton would be the perfect subject! 

I’m really enjoying my online Schoolism subscription. They’re self-taught, learn-at-your-own-pace classes with really great lectures, and affordable to boot! I went to Schoolism’s live gesture drawing workshop in Vancouver a couple years back, and their online class version is more in-depth. Even though you can’t get personalized critiques with the Schoolism online class subscription, you can view other students’ critiques from previous classes. I highly recommend the online class subscription program if you’re a busy person, but want to learn new things that will help you improve on your art.