#ctrlpaint

My attempt for the lesson "Sketching With Line" of chapter 3.

I found this terrific reference on Pinterest by chance… so I saved it for trying later and tonight was the time.

Posting this after a year ago... Sorry for taking so long... I had others things that needed my attention, and I'm trying to get back slowly, I'm more into learning blender 3D now. I like to do these exercises for practice (and I need to use my drawing tablet lol). These exercises are contour lines from Ctrl+Paint.

No promise, but I'll try to draw at weekends now, see u soon! <3

PT-BR: Postando os desenhos um ano depois de ter feito... Precisei fazer outras coisas e acabei não conseguindo postar os desenhos... Agora eu to aprendendo a mexer no Blender que pra mim é mais fácil modelar do que desenhar usando a mesa digital (mas como eu comprei pra não ficar de enfeite to tentando usar kkkkk).

Os exercícios são do Ctrl+Paint pra quem estiver interessado.

Vou tentar desenhar durante o fds e depois posto aqui quando finalizar, mas não prometo nada. Até a próxima! <3

Going back to one of my most favorite digital art resources; ctrlpaint!

I followed Matt Kohr’s lessons long ago, and today I’m participating in his world building series! Over the next few months I plan to flesh out this brand new world I have created around the word ‘Alpine’. These first steps into this new world feature some architecture studies, I’m trying to sketch out some loose ideas of what some dwellings might look like!

Sorry for the lack of updates and sudden disappearance, the place where I work is moving to a smaller place(which also means that they’re downsizing) so I had a busy couple of weeks of moving and packing stuff. They still have some stuff left to do so I’m not out of a job just yet.

When you decide to start an adventure, there will be days when nothing goes according to plan, you will get tired and there will be nothing you can do. Unfortunately, the path of learning digital painting is very boring and frustrating, and you may be discouraged from continuing it. Even if you have a lot of interest and motivation! … but why?

A year ago when I was doing the Constructive Form exercise, I found this wonderful reference from Worgen:

At that moment, a thought came to my mind. I said to myself, why not take the training to a higher level? Designing one frame of a complex character is difficult, but designing several frames linked together to create an animation will be extremely challenging and exciting.

I had experience working with 3D software before, so I tried to design a "skeleton" for the character first, then implement "Basic Forms" based on them. However, I soon realized that establishing the sequence between consecutive frames requires more numerical calculations (at least it was for me).

I have spent 22 days (43 hours) on this project but I finally decided to stop because it would take at least another 200 hours to finish!

I preferred to spend these 200 hours on more valuable practice than on multiplication and division, which in the end the computer could do better than me.

But the one-year hiatus was not only because designing several forms in a row is a difficult task! It is true that perfectionism sometimes makes us stop doing anything, but my story was not limited to this issue. I was looking for a way to pursue art as a career and not just a hobby. I was looking for a way to find a place for myself in the animation or game industry at the age of 25 without any academic background in art. In this one year, I tried many ways, worked in a software company, and even spent 2 months in the military camp of the army. Finally, I came to the conclusion that I should prepare myself for the Master of Arts exam so that I can use the government scholarship, and now it has been a few months since I started studying for this exam. (I need to explain that in Iran, the top universities of the country accept all their students through a centralized entrance exam and all these people receive scholarships).