What? Another blog within the same month? Why yes, yes indeed. I'm on another one of my art rolls, and I'm actually learning quite a lot more this time around.All started with my previous blog when I was feeling a bit… in the slums. Reason being was I wasn't feeling very satisfied with my art, like I wasn't progressing at all. I honestly could care less if I draw like shit, because progression is byfar what I care about the most. If I ever feel stagnant like I did a few days ago, I start to freak out and get depressed and seek ways out by clawing at the mortar.Well I found a way out. It could just be temporary before the walls cave in again and I go into another procrastination trance where I have to figure out just where to go next. But right now I'm feeling good about things.I've made a plan, see. If I can do 20 gestures each night before sleep or after I wake up, I should be able to keep the walls from caving in completely, and then I'm home free. The gestures work as free fuel for my motivation, I've just realized this. So yea.I'll show you guys what I've been doing all morning that I lost sleep over and wrote a horrible formatted blog about because I can't type coherently at all after being awake for almost 24 hours -again-.- I tried out a new technique I've been wanting to fool around with for some time. Photobashing. It was… interesting, and quite fun. A bit tedious, but whatever. FUN. I used one of my old super sci-fi dysfunctional guns for the experiment.
- Face practice. -
- Gestures. -30 seconds
60 seconds
And I decided to give environments a try again because I'm absolutely horrible at composition.
But yea. I'm feelin' goood right now. I mean if school would stop raping me with final projects, I'd feel even better. But otherwise, it's 6am and I have class at 9:30 with part of a project I need today that I haven't even started yet due to personal arts. See, my point is
DLC:
- Face practice. -- Gestures. -30 seconds60 secondsAnd I decided to give environments a try again because I'm absolutely horrible at composition.But yea. I'm feelin' goood right now. I mean if school would stop raping me with final projects, I'd feel even better. But otherwise, it's 6am and I have class at 9:30 with part of a project I need today that I haven't even started yet due to personal arts. See, my point isDLC:
Good luck with your class/project. :P
What was the process of photobashing?Thanks, it went relatively well. The teacher loved -loved- what I brought in, lol. I'm close to finishing.
As for photobashing, this explains it best.Holy crap, the third environment is chillingly awesome. Really like the smooth blending of colors. Though looking closely I get confused by the scale of things, but it seems intentional, like the kind of trippy bending of reality in a distant memory or something. Works great regardless, the feeling is all there.
Interesting photobash too, I've never seen that concept. Did you use some of the same photos you referenced from? Otherwise you really nailed finding pieces that looked like the drawing (like that ejection port magazine) :PTitle reminded me of this song:Thanks man. The third one is byfar my favorite too, I'm really just screwing around though. I've never been very good at environments, so to reach even this level excites me, lol.
My intentions with the scaling was for the power poles to be massive, therefore dwarfing the buildings, but you're right in being confused by it. Instead you get this odd surrealness, but hell, if that works in my favor, awesome.As for the photobashing, all I really did was take the gun, black it out so I get a silhouette, make a clipping mask, and started to throw in guns and erase parts I didnt want, etc. It's really simple if you have Photoshop and a bit of patience, anyone interested should give it a try actually.