beginning of my Ids career

Photoshop can fix that easily. I just opened it up, duplicated the layer and set it to Multiply. You can also play with the levels to get even more contrast.

R

Thanks R, I will definitely do that for future posts if needed. In our studio at AAU I have to put it up on the walls so If its not popping on here Its probably not going to pop off the wall there. That’s why I thought I didn’t make my dark’s dark enough. It ended up not being as bad as I thought it was :smiley:
Rus

Rus, even so, great step. I’m seeing a lot more confidence in those sketches.

Just keep trying to push it further.

I challenge you to do 5 pages of sketches that are “too dark”. Just try to make them really ugly and crazy dark. An investment of 2 hours tops. Lets see that and then we can dial it back a bit. You haven’t gotten there yet though.

Thanks Michael,
Will do!

Here are some quick thumbnails I did, I really made an effort to darken the products I even used a different type of paper. Looking at it again I was so focused on darkening it and didn’t take the perspective into consideration made me loose some of the sketches. I definitely have to find the balance.

Your line weight is excellent here. Ironically it seems like your scans might be light? I pumped it up to true black in photoshop so you could see the difference.

Thanks Michael, yeah my scanner at home isn’t to good. I’ll start scanning my work at school from now on, for sure a better quality scanner.

As long as you adjust the levels in photoshop you are fine. I adjust all of my sketches. Sometimes I even tweak proportions and shift the perspective a bit using the warp and liquify tools. In my view it’s not cheating, just using all the tools at your disposal. Is using a sharpie cheating? Of course not!

Sounds good, Thanks Michael,

Here is weeks 4 sketches


Week 5 sketches
I tried a few new things this week by sketching more like transportation, more contrast, building up and focusing on 1 area of the sketch.
open to any critiques

Thanks,


This weeks sketches, soft goods

Week 7 sketches (watches) Had a hard time this week, I was really out of my comfort zone doing these watch sketches. Besides my value which I definitely need to work on, I am open to any tips or critiques
Thanks!
Rus

Last weeks watch sketches were not detailed enough, the jump from my thumbnails wasn’t far apart so I went back and added more details and spent more time on them. Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks,
Rus

Very nice! This is a great jump in your sketching.

Thanks Michael, I struggled balancing my iteration sketching to detailed sketching and I feel like I’m slowly getting out of the rut

A few helmet sketches for this week