Drawing Lessons' Work Part 4

A piece in colour again.  :)

Lighting and Shading test on a Frigate bird Character

Using the tips I got from my painting lessons and Sam Nielon's Lighting exercise of a Frog as reference, I made this cute character and played around with him in lighting. I am really pleased with theresult and can't wait ot do more. Lighting really makes your work stand out a lot better. :D

This is my original bird without lighting and shading.

Lighting exercises from different directions.

....and Sam Nielson's picture I used as reference :).

And a friendly robot :P

Drawing Lessons' Work Part 3: Homer's Profile in Colour (triple colour)

Yep..Homer again using ochre, black and white. After completing this piece, my teacher and I analysed all the work I've been doing for less than 2 weeks and we pointed out my strengths and weaknesses in drawing.  Suprisingly, I was congratulated on getting to this stage in this short amount of time and was told I've been doing better with the colours (with a method of colouring I've never used before) and I was chuffed to hear that. I am hoping that with these lessons I will feel more confident in photoshop and get rid of this cut out style I've been using up till now in my concepts (which I hate!). Hopefully I will  start blending the background  with figures and focus on lighting and shading, resulting in a more expressionistc and 'free' style. I am also studying the rules of colours and how the complement eachother which I think will really help with my 'colour phobia' :P I might do some exprerimenting on that.

Hope all this pays off in the end  ^_^

Drawing Lessons' Work Part 2: Homer's Head and first piece with colour

Today was fun :) I got to use colour in a way I never used it before and the teacher said he was really pleased with my first attempt. More please..

Homer's head using pencil.

Using colour in greyscale (using black, white and blue) and in full colour.

Drawing Lessons' Work Part 1

After getting rid of my driving lessons I decided to make the most of this free time and be productive. I found out there was a small painting and drawing studio not too far away from where I live so I went there and asked to do the basics of drawing and painting for the rest of summer. So for a start I've been doing shading and lighting along with volume in drawing. What I am really looking forward to is to start using colour which I am finding a bit 'scary' to use. I am sure this will help me out with my future drawing n photoshop and certainly give me a boost to continue doing uni work for the rest of the month :)