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  Effective Vehicle Design - Final Design
  • Sabrina Gosselin  

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  @TaniaGomesArt Haha thank you!
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  Shane Hunt's Effective Vehicle Design- class homework
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  @Heather-Boyd nice work 'carving' the shape out of the block. It looks believable and seaworthy. I feel like the nose of the ship in the top image should curve inward more as it gets closer to the water. Thanks for your feedback on mine too.
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  Finished Figure Drawing Fundamentals!
  • Leah Boulet  

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  I finished this course a month or so ago. It is a challenge! You did great. It's funny how hard it can be to try something new when we know initially it will be super challenging but it's only by putting in that time that we see improvement. So, great work! Congrats!
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  Character Design Class
  • Lisa Clark  

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  Hi, I have been working on this a while. My husband is an engineer so he truly is no help to me. I would like to know what I can improve here. I spent a lot of time on shape and proportion. Mrs. Potts looks really out of whack but I struggled with her spout quite a bit. I love these classes and this character design class was a lot of fun. I try to work on the classes as much as I can between being a mom to 4 kiddos (one with special needs) so I am glad when I get to do what I love.
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  Effective Vehicle Design Class
  • Lisa Clark  

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  @Lisa-Clark I recently completed this course and found the silhouette and household object exercises most helpful for shape ideation and breaking out of preset notions of what a vehicle design might look like. In my experience the silhouette exercise is a way to quickly generate multiple shape designs for a potential subject or object. It also provides a strong read of the shape by completely shading it black (although I find mixing in some white space can help communicate form nuances). I typically view the silhouette as a contour/outline of the potential vehicle drawing but it could also be just a portion of it, that you would subsequently build a more detailed line drawing/sketch around. If I recall correctly the instructor doesn’t demo the silhouette method to sketch step but does show the gesture line method to sketch step. All three of the shape ideation methods from the course (silhouette, gesture lines, household object ) follow the same pattern: take an abstract shape, and build a full sketch around that, either incorporating all or part of the abstract shape into the vehicle design. It’s just a jumping off point to get you out of the box on the vehicle shape/form. The silhouette concept is also demonstrated in the Prop design fundamentals course. Hope that is helpful.
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  Organising Classes
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  @Jim-Algar I have the same trouble! I am dying for a way to make a "watchlist" or something. I'm trying to incorporate some of the other classes in with the Foundations curriculum, and it's so hard to keep track of! I've just been keeping a list on my computer... but then I have to go search out each class, and it's kind of a pain. Let me know if you come up with a better solution!
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  Book dummy?
  • Asyas_illos  

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  Did a little more detailed sketch over for my book dummy. Anything stand out that I should look twice at? I’ve still got half left obviously but for the most part I’ve stuck to the original sketch thumbs. Feedback welcomed! Apologies if the upload quality is bad when I get to more finished stages I’ll will be sure work it out!
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  Where is Lee's Visual Storytelling Class?
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  @LisaF Perfect! Thanks so much!
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  Skullchaser - How to Draw Everything Upside Down Exercise
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  @miranda-hoover thanks for your feedback! Great to know what size people are uploading images as well
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  Looking for Feedback: 10 Step Digital Painting WIP
  • Valerie Light  

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  I think my 10 step digital painting class experiment might be finished? 95% finished? I left it alone for a few days and came back to it with fresh eyes to make adjustments to color and expressions. I'm feeling like working through this class was a big step forward for me, and I'm looking forward to more. Thanks for all the invaluable feedback, everyone!
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  Classwork - Effective Vehicle Design
  design classwork vehicledesign • • Casual-T  

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  Wondersome Wednesday is upon us! Continuing @shanehunt 's Effective Vehicle Design class. Here is Assignment 1 Part 3 (turning the forms in space), and Assignment 2 (form versus function). As always, perspective is something I struggle with, but since these are not meant to be technical drawings, and therefore don't necessarily need to be mathematically correct, I think they work. Do any of you see anything that's disturbingly out of whack? Realizing that these sketches are no groundbreaking masterpieces of epic proportions, I nonetheless find myself flabberflustered at times, noticing that my scribblings end up looking somewhat recognizable as the items I meant for them to describe. Live and learn! As always, comments, suggestions, and monetary donations are welcome and much appreciate. Have a great day, everyone! -T
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  Will Terry's 10 step digital painting Finish!
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  Yeah definitely check out any SVS courses that go into understanding light, because that will have a positive global effect on all your rendering, including shadow consistency and use of colour.
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  Prop Design Classwork
  feedback beginner classwork prop design curriculum • • Kiel Ewing  

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  Hello everybody! I just finished the Prop Design class. I went with a set of objects meant for a character that is an alchemist and somewhat of a hermit. Their furniture is stuff they could make themselves, living in the woods. The lamp is a cross between a bonsai tree and a mushroom growing out of stone. The alchemist chiseled the stone out of the ground and polished the underneath side to resemble a pot, and left the top as the natural rock surface. Some mixture of elements stimulates the plant to emit bioluminescent light. Reading material is a book of alchemical recipes. At first, I thought I had aimed way too high for my current skill level. The organic forms of the plant were really difficult and I found myself considering dropping it for something more rigid and easily defined. But I stuck with it and I ended up really liking what I came up with. I really tried to focus on the perspective of the objects for this image. I wanted to test my ability to place objects at different angles and appear to believably rest on the same plane. I am curious if anyone has suggestions on making an image with mostly dull, non-reflective textures pop a little more. It seems to me that adding highlights really seems to give some life to images, but my chosen subject matter didn't really call for it. I am including my detail sketch of the lamp because it is easily the coolest sketch I've ever done and I just want to share. It has a lot more detail than the version in the final image. Any feedback is much appreciated. I have thick skin, so don't hold back. If anyone is interested, I can post the silhouettes/thumbnails as well.
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  Classwork - Prop Design
  feedback classwork prop design • • Casual-T  

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  Happy Monday, everyone! Here's the finished (or so I hope) prop ensemble, using the lamp as the anchor prop; chair, table, mug, book. For someone like myself, someone who doesn't have years of experience drawing and illustrating, and who, at times, still struggles with basic concepts such as perspective (you devilish fiend!!), some of these class assignments seem insurmountable at first. But one careful stylus line at a time, one patient brush stroke after another, the images take shape and, after a time, come to life. It's those small successes which motivate and encourage. Thanks SVS! Any comments, constructive criticism, or suggestions are much appreciated. -T
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  Curriculum work
  • SugarAndSunshine  

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  @Heather-Boyd Yeah, writing helps me be self aware of what im doing sometimes as I go lol. I wouldn't call myself 'new' to this. Just new to doing so many so close at one time. Eye strain with black on white has always been a problem, hence me explaining I tend to sketch on blue, as white is too hard for me. As for using a pen, Im doing that because I dont have to go over my lines to darken them, that and, whatever you draw with a pen is permeant (unless you use a white pen) but the idea behind doing it like that is, it forces me to see my own progress lines for how I process doing things. Its like seeing your own thoughts layed out as you did the homework, instead of erasing it with pencil, or having it get rubbed off. Its like having to show your work when doing math homework, as opposed to just writing the answer. That way, if something feels off, I can see why it feels off and how I got there. Thats the idea anyways, instead of habit erasing sketch lines. It also forces me to try to draw cleaner lines, instead of so many sketchy ones. A win win. (that and Im used to using a pen, as ive done inktober for 5 years) Im using a rather, generic writing pen, so the outlines of some of the shapes (like the perspective ones) are thicker so I can tell those were my outside lines while I was drawing the shapes. So I feel comfortable with where they are.
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  10steps Digital Painting
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  @Emma-Echter "I am ridiculously in love with it" Yeah, exactly!!!! I had an intuous pro before, it is a big difference. And I always use the shortcuts from my laptop too so no problem at all! I recently changed to Krita. This program has a pop-up palette in wich you can choose color, brushes, enter full screen, rotate the image, mirror it, etc. very useful here's my set up:
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  Environment design class work feedback ex.5
  classwork • • Griffin  

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  @Griffin I looked back at mine and remembered I had a variety so this is how I laid mine out (below). Maybe it will help you also because I didn't want to snip off the edges of any of the work. Note these are digital and I don't work digital anymore. I love seeing these and what people choose. I think I tried to limit to 3-4 values which was tricky.
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  Creative environment design exercise 5 questions
  help questions classwork environment • • Griffin  

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  @Griffin If the assignment is composition and value try to find drawings "coloured in" not just line-based. I think if you find some really nice compositions in line work then use them for the composition part only. I suppose once you find work whether paintings or drawings and do the value study part, you could try and place what you learn value wise to the line drawing compositions to experiment. If you don't want to do that much work I'd stick to the homework more closely. I am sure you could find other line based work that has more values -graphic novels etc. I very much enjoyed this class though I never completed it and struggled to apply it to my own work. I look forward to returning to it in the future.
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  Dream Portfolio Assignment Feedback
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  @LauraA Oh, that is interesting, I hadn't noticed the swirls, but you're right, I am drawn to more organic shapes and linework for sure. Thanks for pointing it out! That may be a visual theme I try to be more intentional about as I do thumbs for the new pieces. And yes, the making-work-too-dark thing is something I am trying to be more intentional about as I push forward in this. I am actually currently in the process of lightening up many of the pieces here because, yeah, too much black, haha. Especially if I want to lean into the kidlit market for sure. I think it's probably because I am just drawn to that look personally. Hence my struggle with "do I want to do kidlit, or YA graphic novels?" Cause I feel like you can get away with more darks in a a GN. I really appreciate the feedback! Next week I'm planning on really intensely doing some research and media studies to figure out what I want the focus/theme of my portfolio to look like. I've got a few ideas bouncing around, I just have to remember not to put too much pressure on myself since I'm at the stage of my career where I'm still finding my style/voice and my portfolio will probably change pretty regularly as I "get the bad work out," if you will, haha.
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  Doing How To Draw Everything digitally
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  @m-barron My understanding was that they tried to design the courses so you can work digitally or traditionally (I could be wrong, but I feel like I’ve read that somewhere). I would also think that if you’re planning to work digitally in the end anyway that it should be fine. And better than not doing the course at all!