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Day 78

I got approval for the second mural sketch, so I worked on some refinement.

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Day 77

I watched the Ben Fenske lesson on sky and clouds and repainted day 75 in oils.

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Day 76

Another mural design.  I got the idea from someone’s instagram drawing.  It had a bird’s eye view of a bird looking down on a street with curvilinear perspective.  I was looking for something I could do with the Red Hawks (mascot), so I took the idea and ran with it.  Under the hawk’s beak is a girl holding up a diploma.

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Day 75

Thanks Gordon!

I did a small color study, acrylic on paper.  I think I need to do five, or ten of these little color studies and try different things.

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Day 74

Thanks Deborah.  I’m waiting to hear back from the Principal to see if she likes the idea.  I hope she likes it too!

I did a little digital landscape using the concept of 5 point perspective for the sky.  We have a lot of horse farms here in Kentucky because the limestone in the soil gives the grass a lot of calcium which makes horses bones strong.  I think all of the edges are too sharp in this.  I worked on separate layers, and I need to combine the different layers and integrate them better.

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Congratulations Christopher!  I’m really glad you got so much out of the challenge.  I have no doubt that you will continue to improve and grow by leaps and bounds.  This stuff takes a long time to master, but in just a few years, it is amazing the progress that can be made.  Keep at it, and make sure you are enjoying the process because it IS a life long endeavor, and it DOES take a long time, so the only way you can stick to it is by having fun and enjoying each moment!

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Day 73

Thanks Deborah!  You are giving me way too much credit for the 5/6 point perspective work.  In some ways it is easier than 2 point because the vanishing points are not way off the picture frame.  To get the bubble to look more transparent, I can lower the opacity of the layer, but that brings down the value and you loose clarity, so it is a trade off.  I need to make it more obvious that the background is the same room as the bubble.  I think I can do that by creating a pattern in the wall design where the green meets the lighter tan of the wall and making that design more explicit in the background and in the bubble without having it be too obtrusive.  That is my plan anyway.

On to another mural.  This is a design sketch for a library wall.  I’ll have to be up on a scaffold, but the wall is smooth!  Their mascot is the shark.  You can not only see this wall when you come in the library entrance, but there is a large window on the second floor hall that overlooks this space as well.

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Welcome back!  Looking forward to your thread.

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Day 72

Thanks to Kat, Joshua, and Gordan.  Basically, 4,5, and 6 point perspective deals with arcs to the vanishing points instead of straight lines.  Its like a wide angle fish eye lens.  I used 6 point perspective in the bubble to curve the left and right as well as top and bottom vanishing points around the sphere of the bubble with a another vanishing point in the center for depth.  Kim Jung Gi uses it a lot to get his wide perspective drawings.  Of course, he can do it all without a grid!

I worked on the background and portrait today.  I really suck at digital.  I need way more practice.

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More killer stuff!  Can’t believe you’ve never done pen before.  I wish I was that talented.

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These are nice.  You should do more of these.

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Welcome.  You have found a great resource in this site.  I hope you can get as much out of it as I have.  Cheers.

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Nice job Deborah.  You are really showing some great improvement!  Keep it up!!  One thing  I did notice (and you might not be done yet), but the upper lip is a down plane, so it should be a little darker over all.

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If there are any jazz fans out there, the trio is John Scofield, Steve Swallow, and Poncho Sanchez.

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Day 71

Thanks Kat and Deborah!  I don’t have the construction to post, but all I really did was get a 5 point perspective grid and use that as my underlayer.  Then I drew the box of the room starting with the wall that is facing us.  After you get the box on the 5 point perspective grid, the rest is just standard perspective stuff: referencing for scale, “X”ing to divide space, and then adding details.

Color added.  I’m not really very good with painting and digital.  I mostly use it for sketching out ideas.  This is the furthest I’ve taken a piece in the digital realm.  Still needs some work, but I’m happy where it is going.

 

Here it is in the context of the sketch.

 

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