Some random studies I did~

For some reason I've been on this random African tribe binge. No tribe in particular, just random ones. P: I lost the link to the original photo... =___= But here is a small practice I did based off of a photo. I wish I had the photo - he looked SO cool!

I realized from my group studies of landscapes/cityscapes with Atelo , that I SUCK hard at them. So I did a lot of extra ones. They're kind of sucking... =__= This one is of somewhere in South Africa (I kept NONE of the photos I reffed. ;___; )

This landscape is COMPLETELY made up. I just did it, using fictional colors to see if I could make it look half-convincing. Not even, but it's better than the first ones I tried, so I'll go with it!

This one is of a canyon photo because I realized I suck suuuper hard at canyons. I think I got an inkling of how to do it, but not yet.

I hope I reach a jump soon in my scapes - because they are KILLING me.

Another amazing session with Atelo~! This group stuff sure makes me much more productive! :D

Anyways, today's theme was "landscapes". I think I got better at drawing cityscapes, but it is so painfully obvious I still have NO idea how to do these landscapes. Need to do MOAR. >_< all of them except for a veeery obvious one were from photographs.

this is the last thing we did before calling it a night on our session. It's a painting of this girl that I found in a google search. I was SO compelled by the patterns in her shawl thing and then I have high regrets because it was SUCH a pain to figure that thing out. So it's been reduced to blobs. I felt like I ended up ignoring the face a lot to focus on the shawl, hehe. P: At least I tried, though.

Art study buddy time with Atelo~

~ yayyy~ :D

These were from imagination and some of them were fixed - it's probably which ones were fixed and which ones weren't. From the beginning compared to the end, I have found that I had a lot of misconceptions of feet.

These were from life, I used my own feet as refs. the one in the corner was the last one I did and I did that sooo sloppily and rushedly that it came out looking all strange. O_O; It's like a clubbed foot.

I traced a few pictures of photos of feet that I found in order to try to get an idea of the planes of feet, since I obviously had no idea how it really worked. Again, feet are weeeiirddd..

I did a skeleton gesture thing under the feet. It was hard because the skeletons were not necessarily posed in the same way as the original ref, so I had to mix refs around to try and figure it out.

WIP of the actual graphite rendering specimen project. As you can see, I decided to change the shape of the head - I wanted to draw the horsie's legit head and not just it's profile. >__>; Yes, I DO have another photo ref for that, one, so lucky me that I could actualy attempt that.

As for the thing itself. It's sort of a mixed feeling - on one hand I REALLY, REALLY hate it because I'm not legitly following the tone's correctly (SQUINT, STUPID >__<) and on the other hand, I think this is the best graphite rendering I have ever done of anything in my life! And the other part is - I might actually complete something - whoooaaahh...

Okay, I haven't disappeared and (so far) I don't think I'm going to. But I have a BIG graphite rendering project to do that's due on Tuesday (HOLY CRAP!!!), and accounting for the fact that I have 22 hours of work to do during the days I have left (I won't be at home for 25 hours if I include lunch breaks).

Until then, this is a quick comp for my graphite project.

Quick comp or not, it really pisses me off how little clarity it has and how I didn't pay attention to tones and values like... at all. =__= But I'm not going to complain since I understand it and I'll just tell myself that's all that's important... right? '__'

If anyone thinks the composition is ugly PLEASE tell me~ :D

These are my refs:

To Jooolia~, this is one of the photos I took at the horse place. I'll take you there one day, promise!

I got this photo off the internet, but the quality of this photo is GREAT (maybe too small, though... but as long as I squint, I'll hopefully be able to pull it off)

SO - what DOES the Miss Laura Mars do for art homework? Well, here it is - sorry it's bad in both picture quality (webcam~) and uh... general everything else. =__= The goal is to make it photo-realistic. I sorta failed... and I need to find time to smooth the gradients some more and fill in the texture grains of the paper. P:

I did a graphite transfer for each board to transfer the original sketch for a random piece of paper. I think my hand slipped on this one so the cylinder came out a bit lopsided.

The sphere was surprisingly the easiest and least painful one to do. Except for that wall back there. I'm probably going to try to fix that.

I look at it and I cry SO hard. I think even though I mechanically did it - it's not a legit cube, I feel. ;A;