Tonicarty's Sketchbook

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Kia ora!

So I decided that today would be a good day to start uploading pictures I've been doing for university in order to hopefully see improvement one day and get further feedback from you guys in what my obvious weaknesses and strengths are.

I may upload some recreation pictures also as they come but lately I've had a minor inspiration outdoes skill block and haven't had any successful sketches.

I'm currently studying online at the Academy of Art University, doing a BFA majoring in Illustration. First year, first semester, let's see how it goes!

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First week, first exercises & assignments:


Exercise 1.1 - 1pt perspective of a cube from life. Photo was meant to be taken from the same angle of my view of the cube.


Exercise 1.2 - 2pt perspective of a cube from life. Photo was meant to be taken from the same angle of my view of the cube.


Assignment 1.1 - Draw the four basic shapes in line from life. Photo was meant to be taken from the same angle of my view of the cube.

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Second Week Exercises & Assignments:


Exercise 2.1 - Value scales, one with 5 values and the other gradual transition


Exercise 2.2 - First attempt at shading in a sphere, photo reference shown.


Assignment 2.1 - Draw and render a basic shapes still life from life. Photo reference shown.

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Week Three Exercises & Assignment:


Exercise 3.1 - Print off the lines and shade in a cartoon character using the 5 value system. We were meant to find and shade it according to the basic shapes.


Exercise 3.2 - Come up with a series of extremely quick thumbnail sketches for next still life drawing. I chose the top left picture on the second image as in the others at least one item was completely in shadow.



Assignment 3.1 - Draw and render 3 pure white items with ellipses in them, from life. Photo reference shown.

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As of right now (4.12pm 20/02/2012), any advice on Assignment 3.1 would be great as I still have one resubmission I can upload for it.

Grades thus far: Credit on all exercises, B+ on both assignments.

[ptard]

Heya there Tonically, Keep up the work! You're sketchbook is off to a good start!

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Week Four Assignment:



Assignment 4.1 - Draw and add quick shadow tones to drapery from life, reference shown. It's not meant to be fully rendered yet, that's the next assignment, I just had to block in any shadow planes.

Also, Assignment 3.1 received a B+ also.

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So we had a less boring assignment to look at for ILL 133 recently, this week we have to clone ourselves using photoshop. First picture is a draft and second is the one I submitted.




So that's me for you. I tried hard to make it realistic and realised this is actually quite a difficult assignment (for me at least, not used to using Photoshop for actually editing photos).

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Week Five Assignment


Assignment 5.1 - Finish rendering the previous week's drapery.

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Extra credit. Only had to shade in one third of striped fabric.

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Ninth Week:

Assignment 9.1 - Draw and fully render a still life from life.

Received a B for this assignment.

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Tenth Week:

Exercise 10.1 - Draw rectangular prisms in one and two-point perspective


Assignment 10.1 - Draw two scenes, one interior in one-point and one exterior in two-point perspective

Received B+ for this assignment.

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Twelfth Week:

Assignment 12.1 - Draw and fully render a plaster-cast head from life

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Haha, I looked through your SB and was like "looks like AAU assignments.." then I went back and read the full first post and was like "oh yeah duh" lol. I'm in my first year also. Nice head render, it's definitely an improvement from your first charcoal stuff

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Fourteenth Week:

Assignment 14.1 - Draw and fully render a portrait from a photographic reference

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Isometric Linework

Isometric Shading

Atmospheric Perspective Thumbnails

Atmospheric Perspective

One-Point Perspective Work

Two-Point Perspective Work

Two-Point Vertical Perspective Work

Reflective Surface Work

Three Point Perspective Work

Five Point Perspective Work

Comic Pages with Local Value Only

Final Test (1PT, 2PT, 2PTV & 3PT)

[Psychobuddy]

Nice work so far, your rendering is getting better.

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Here was a fun sketch I did for someone else. It's meant to be Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler. It took roughly an hour (maybe a little more) with a 6B graphite pencil. I just worked on it in 10 minute segments every so often as stress relief. None of it is completely finished (obviously not the hair or clothes) but I kind of like the messiness

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All on newsprint so full value scale isn't there.

Various techniques for quick sketches 10 minutes or less:


Anything above 10 minutes long (can't remember the specifics for these sorry):

This one was meant to be slightly exaggerated but just became messy:


Copying others' work:


Body Parts:


2 hours drawing a friend:


Final Sketches (approx 4 hours each):


I definitely improved during this class, let's keep this up!

[kevin_]

cool sb! you have a good understanding of values and your rendering is pretty good! keep it up!

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Intermediate Figure Drawing Class

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