lyndsay is drawing too, i am so sorry ::THE END IS NIGH::

Really don't have much today. :T

The New England Satans

Didn't really draw anything new today, gotta finish a project for tomorrow! But I did paint the satan football player

here's day 20! I woud like to stop missing the occasional day. I DID draw yesterday but nothing good came of it. This one was very very fun though. I feel better. I was feeling SO SHITTY about art, but I feel better.

GOOD! Glad you're feeling better! I love the atmosphere in this one.

another troupe character! he's one of the clowns, and he stands at roughly 5'5". here he is with no makeup and only half of his black and white costume. the color is a bit of a tribute to "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern. Really dug the concept of that story.

thumbs from my concept art class. this is so amazing and i'm having a religious experience here. i need to do more environments.

These are awesome. Have you learned anything about how to build up convincing thumbs like this quickly? I've never been able to 'see' the depth and scope forming in my attempts to work like this before. I feel like there's a rule of thumb I'm neglecting to keep in mind.

here is what we learned and it instantly blew my mind, even though i guess it should be like, common sense? idk. i didn't think about it like this before.

start with a light grey (furthest away, atmospheric value and all that) and throw some random soft shapes down. then go to your medium grey and throw more on top of that for your midground. then use your darkest for the foreground. and just play with composing crazy quick shapes that work. and once i had something vague i liked, i found objects and scapes within that. then i touched everything up with light and shadow and harder edges.

i hope that makes sense. i wasn't actually there for the lesson but i had it explained to me by other classmates.

as an example of the "simplest" stage, here's studies from a guy in my class (Caleb Hunt).

Well. That makes a whole lot of sense. Perhaps I'll give this a try today!

yeah, do it! i can't recommend it enough. my life changed, fo real

holy fuck thats genius

OOH. I LIKE THIS METHOD A LOT and your environment thumbnails are hecka cool

Also your daily draws have been great! I especially like the one of the dude in the moody dark cave with the warm highlights.

awesome! i'm glad i was able to pass some useful info along to you guys.

and thanks matt! honestly i think the lighting needs a bit more tweaking. the warmth doesn't quite sit right for me.

woohoo! homework done. they were supposed to be in color. whoops. HUGE ASS POST, SORRY.

I still give it an A+. These are so beautiful. Really makes me want to push myself to do scenes and backgrounds more often outside of the comic panel backgrounds I force myself to do.

Uuuggghhh so good.

thanks you guys. they went over pree well in class too! feelin pretty solid right now.

THESE ROCK! Don't you dare stop doing these environments. you're killin it this month!

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and thanks matt! honestly i think the lighting needs a bit more tweaking. the warmth doesn't quite sit right for me.

You're right! F.LUX WAS ON and made everything on my monitor warmer as a whole. I keep forgetting it's even on!
I think your lighting placement is golden but a shift in overall image warmth for that cave piece would do it.

Day 24! I have a few other sketches from this session that I put on my Tumblr, then deleted! Hah. o well.

Wonderful concept pieces, and that devil football player is the bees knees!

I got to see the other session sketches before the post was deleted! They were super nice as well. This is neat. I'd love to sit in on some life drawing sessions again.

THANKS MATT AND DAN AND JENN, ugh you guys making me feel AMAZING.

This is a commission i have been sitting on for too long, and BLEH w/e here it is

another commission! this one was fun. i should probably do something personal today weh

Aw wheres my reply about the horny pirates? Guess it didn't actually post. They are good! Glad you're feeling amazing! Keep it up!