What have I been up to lately? I didn't intend to involve my personal life in my blog
but what's a blog without some life stories? Lol, I'll just put in afew quick short sentences;
- Got rejected from getting a job I've been working towards for.
= Wasted a month of studying / putting up with crap for a month
= Wasted precious time when I could've focused on studying
= The thought of that caused me to waste even more time.
And that sums it up. And also I've been watching Anime to get back motivation
in my life which is how I got here now (: Initial D!!!~ Anyway! Back to ol' me!~
Today, I intend to inform you guys about the classes I've been taking up online~
Now from here on out, if you follow my blog I guarantee you'll learn at LEAST two
or three important special techniques that you'll be able to use later on in future works!
Art - Photoshop wise, of course. Lol, also; by telling you guys this, I'm saving you
$400 dollars from participating the real course! So yeah. ANYWAY. Let's get on with it!
^0^
I did the drawing on Photoshop before I even did it on paper. I created more trouble
for myself. Great, Scott. Anyway, I made that mistake because I was paying more
attention to what the teacher was doing rather than the actual task I was given.
So smart I am! Anyway, first we (he) had to create a drawing using random blobs
we sketched out on paper. Alot of mine turned out 'too big', or wasn't suitable for the
tasks he was gonna administrate afterwards, so I had to restart a couple times.
I ended up with this:
Looks like something? I hope so!
After that, I was told to create a more solid figure out of it now that I have the shape
I want. The idea of this technique is to get the artist to relax and explore the possibilities
before reaching the final concept of the artwork.
Each time we 'refined' the piece, we had to use a new layer to maximize efficiency.
So my next layer looked like above!~ And now we can actually see the figure shape of the drawing ^^
Followed by that, step 3 involved adding all the
main details to the drawing, while still trying to keep a relaxed feeling towards creating
the piece. I think this was the most important step followed by step 4, as it involved
inputting all parts that'll add up to the finale. This is the most fun part too :).
^ Step 3 ^
Step 4; by here we stop brainstorming and focus on adding the small but many more details to the picture. Two main things to do here were add more small details to the pic, AND add 'weight' to the picture - Giving darker strokes adds form to the picture which in my sense, gives more 'life' to the picture, instead of being a flat image. Additionally, step 5 is same as step 4 but you clean up the picture a bit more.
I would say step 5 is the same as step 4 BUT the main difference in this step involves flip
rotating your image...Has anyone flipped rotate their drawing before?
IT MAKES IT LOOKED MESSED UP.
Rotating a pic reveals all the mistakes in a drawing~
Mine had afew mistakes here and there which I quickly cleaned up,
but there was a HUGE mistake i did which made me want to start again.
But I'm kool, and I ignored it like a boss. Final looked like this:
So that's the end of the first lesson! :D
The class actually lasted from 1-2 hours, but I spent about 10 on this, LOL.
That includes breaks and procrastinating but (: Hope you's enjoyed!
Stay tuned!~
