Matt's Art (p34: Hey, I finished something!)

[Sylux]

Oh, you

[Celestial-Fox]

Rubisko: Lol, what the--? XD

Matt: I think for the hair shading practice, you should keep one thing in mind. Block out the mass of the hair with a huge shadow brush. Then with each step of highlights, decrease the brush size. That will make things look more like hair!

I like the action and mood of the last one, but something seems a little strange about the anatomy. The sketch is clean, so at least the forms are easy to see. I think that the girl's arms are too wiggily in shape and that her thighs should be a little longer. That might help a lot.

[Matt]

@Bacon - The arm's too fat, yes. I tend to do that a lot with foreshortening, so I'll watch it in the future. And it's good to be back. I can't even remember why I left for so long. Probably art block.

@Rubisko - I second what Seefy said.

@Kierra - I'll try that out next time. And yes, there are anatomical errors in the second one. I'll keep those in mind.

So I cleaned up that sketch from page 24.

I'll color it at some point. Meanwhile, I'll leave it in the MT coloring book or something.

EDIT: Oh, look. I forgot her hair.

[Matt]

Practice on emphasis/contrast/what have you.

[Sylux]

Holy balls that is gooooood

[Celestial-Fox]

Good on the last one, but try using a reeeeeeally desaturated red/yellow to shade the whites of the eyes. Using a pure grey kills the life in the coloring.

[Matt]

Procrastinating before coloring this one:

On the upside, I rediscovered a cheat I always used to get my artistic motivation up: read manga. Going through Kenichi again and reading the new chapters.

Her feet are on different planes, so I'm fixing that. Also, her face looks awkward, but that's probably a stylistic preference on my part.

And here's how I actually got work done:

[Sylux]

where da pokemanz

[Gedeon]

Pretty good. One thing i see that is wrong is the size of the right hand (our left) hand. If you compare it to the face its simply too big. Other then that pretty ok.

[Matt]

@Sylux - Solosis was a Pokemon last time I checked.
@Gedeon - Yup.


The college bought Intuos4 Large tablets, so I drew this as a demonstration for the other students. Even if the picture isn't amazing (looked much better zoomed in), I did my job: got plenty more students interested in the class.