Revisiting Fundamentals

It's the start of the new year and looking forward to what 2020 will bring for me. The last couple of days i have been revisiting my fundamentals and digital rendering techniques. It has taken many tries and many attempts to get angle and structure right therefore i looked back on a few schoolism classes by Jonathan Hardesty Essentials of realism which i would highly recommend for beginner artists because it covers the knowledge of proportion and accuracy so many of us tend to skip over and therefore go straight to rendering. Jumping ahead too quickly without a solid foundation and resulting in often not so satisfying results. There for i went back and tried to implement the three stage Block-In method recommended by Jonathan Hardesty a drawing process that i'm pretty familiar wirth used in classical atelier drawing, and proved to be great benefit in a of my recent drawing. Drawing form and structure is so crucial and evidently the most common flaw in many of my previous works and the ability to develop eye to extrapolate these concepts i have come to realise takes a great deal of time and extensively requires the artist to take opportunity to develop the observational skills to deconstruct the world around them for this is a important stepping stone in creating and designing a subject matter whether that is organic or man made/hard surface.

The task i have set to achieve these coming weeks is to also get better at rendering those forms and planes also by redoing an old assignment instructed by Sam Nielson, His knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of light and how it interacts with objects is impeccable and mind blowing and feel i have learnt a great deal from practising these concepts that are often very simple to understand but difficult when putting into practice and applying to personal work. 

The images above are shots of what i manage to accomplish these last few day and feel i have a still great deal to learn about rendering but, definitely get a sense of what i should be practicing next. 

Another fellow artist and friend of mine has really pushed me to lengths which i could never have imagined and iam extremely thankful for and his willingness to give up his time to give feedback frequently.I have decided this month i will stick to studying some more black and white images and practice rendering out these basic forms in order to reach a standard where i feel i have grasped the ability to effectively paint these shapes without the necessity of relying of photos. 

Perhaps the next stage this coming week will be to review classes from John Parks Fundamentals group classes and get better at rendering the essential types of surfaces. But who know theres is also a lot i shall plan to be reviewing the next couple weeks including digital line art and rendering traditionally, huh.. now to see how i can manage to split up the time to allocate these practices is the real challenge that me including and many other artist struggle with. Any how till next time