Virtual Plein Air #2

I've been doing virtual plein air via google maps daily recently. Here are some processes. I've been listening to Nathan Fowkes' schoolism course on composition while doing them. Hopefully my compositions will get better and I'll be able to make more interesting pictures. For all of these I have been focusing on the island of Santorini in Greece. Perhaps I should move on to another location but there are a lot of good places to draw there.

Portraits Practice #3

I've been doing studies of asaro heads. They're like low poly heads. i think it's helping me to see the parts of the head where gradual transition of values is present versus the areas where it's a severe change in values. Reference.

 I also did a portrait study but I feel like I need to spend a bit more time on the lay in phase. I listened to some Jeff Watts videos while doing this.

Virtual Plein Air

I joined a Jeremy Fenske stream out of curiosity and it was very pleasant. Everyone was encouraged to search google maps for a streetview to paint somewhere in Greece. It was my first time doing virtual plein air and it was nice doing something with others. The location is here.

I did a composition exploration before committing. And then a simple breakdown of colors. It was difficult. I changed the composition again a few times as I was painting.

Portrait Practice #2

More portrait practice. I'd like to move on to figure drawing practice in my next study posts while still doing some portrait studies.

Under the cut are notes and reflections.

Portrait Practice #1

It's intimidating trying to choose what fundamental of art to practice. You get paralyzed by the sheer number of choices. But you gotta start somewhere. Even if that somewhere is actually familiar. ...like really familiar. Like I draw this thing like 20 times a day familiar. What else is there to learn about that thing? You would be surprised. 

And so I'm trying to learn something or another about portraits. Because I think, despite drawing a shitload of them, I certainly still suck at them. 

Under the cut are notes and studies and some processes.

Backgrounds for NaNoRenO

 I worked on backgrounds for the game AIRIS for the NaNoRenO game jam. It's a dating visual novel that takes place inside a medieval esque sort of mmorpg. I recommend checking it out. Above is an example of one of them. Under the cut are more backgrounds and some words on the process of their production. (It's pretty long.)

I learned a lot during my one month and felt embarrassed about my lack of skills but I'm glad they welcomed me aboard despite that.