Dynamic Sketching - Week 5

More shapes this week, although a little bit more interesting.  Now we're merging and dissecting them!

I definitely felt comfortable merging box shapes, less so when I mixed in cones, cylinders and spheres. Dissecting shapes was fun and these are all great exercises which I can carry over after this class is finished.

Drawing objects from life was a lot more challenging as suddenly you're drawing in a representational way instead of just something imaginary and nebulous.  I probably didn't leave myself enough time in the end to do them justice.

We're over halfway now and I feel like I've given a fairly good account of myself so far but I know I could also have worked a lot harder too, which is probably reflected in my results.

It's all about mileage at the end of the day and I'm going to need to do more if I want to be successful at this.

Week 4 - Dynamic Sketching

This has been a tough week.  I've fallen WAY behind on my perspective class and I'm just about keeping up with Dynamic Sketching.  I think realistically next term I'll take one class and focus exclusively on that.

Day job 'and' 2 classes just doesn't work right now.

On the plus side I'm pleased with my 'arrows'. My freehand perspective is coming along quite well. The organic shapes with hatching are ok and my arrow plant is the weak link in my assignment this week. I should've given more time in the overall design before launching into it I think.

Dynamic Sketching - Week 3

Happy(ish) with the organic forms but the texture studies and texturing primitive forms probably need to be re-done...

Dynamic Sketching - Week 2 assignment

There was a bit more to get to grips with this week but we're still just getting started...

Freehand boxes and ellipses were the order of the day and I'm realising how important repetition is.  It's not enough to just say you've done the assignment, the real work starts in the practise you do outside of the assignment.

Currently I'm trying to fill 2 pages a day with warmup exercise, which I hope is starting to pay off.

In the meantime plenty of good and bad in my submission for week 2 but I'm pleased I got everything in on time.

Speaking of time, I can see I'm going to have to start managing mine better.  The workload along with my Perspective class as well means I have to be a bit more scientific about when I watch tutorials, do the assignments etc.

Still got my Perspective assignment to do this week and then I can start week 3 of dynamic sketching.

First assignments finished

I've posted the assignments I've completed for Perspective and Dynamic Sketching.

Not all that much to see yet, particularly on the dynamic sketching assignment, but the perspective assignment was a good way of getting back into Photoshop and getting used to the toolset again.

More to come next week...

Scribbles

After a lot of procrastination I finally got down to some drawing exercises.

As is nearly always the case, I found that when I got started, I settled in and started enjoying the process.  I followed the Term 6 - Dynamic Sketching tutorial from the Foundation Patreon guys.  You can pick it up on Gumroad if you're interested.

This afternoon was just a couple of hours on warm-up exercises, followed by textures, then organic shapes and then compound shapes.

I've uploaded my texture practise and organic shapes but I feel like I still need a bit more time on my compound shapes.  Freehand perspective is difficult to get a grip on especially if you haven't drawn for a while!

These exercises were done with a fineliner (Staedtler triplus fineliner 0.3) and it's good that I'm practising with it now, because it's exactly what I'll be using for my CGMA Dynamic sketching class.

Only 2 weeks to go!

Registered for Winter term

Not much to add this week except I've successfully registered for my first 2 classes at CGMA!

I'll be taking Perspective and Dynamic Sketching 1 which start on February 5th and February 1st respectively.

Both classes run for 8 weeks plus a 2 week review period to go back over the material.

So I only have about 3 weeks before the hard work starts! I want to use that time to prepare for the classes and try to get into 'student mode' before the term starts.  To do that I'll be drawing on (sorry...) a couple of valuable resources already available to me:

How to Draw by Scott Robertson:

This is a great book for anyone who wants to understand the basics of drawing in perspective.  I think it'll be a very useful tool to help get my head around this subject over the next couple of months.

Foundation Group:

These talented guys (John Park, Matthew Zikry, & Daniel Park) make great affordable videos around the subjects of drawing, design and digital.  The drawing videos will be perfect preparation for my dynamic sketching class.


Next week I'll hopefully have some scribbles to show...