Today’s efforts attached; dumbphones! Some good, some bad. I feel like you can see where I found my flow as I worked from left to right.
I did attack this one with markers after scanning this, but the results were less than favourable as I’m a little rusty, so I won’t post it! Maybe tomorrow instead of sketching I’ll get these into Photoshop or Sketchbook Pro.
You may have noticed I’ve been absent for a while. In short, I was interviewing (successfully) for a new job which starts mid-September so I’d been spending all of my time preparing for that almost immediately after I started this thread!
Anyway, here are today’s sketches in the weekly sketch challenge theme of printers!
Tried a new approach and am not overly happy with the outcome, but want to show everything for the sake of progress tracking.
I wanted to attempt a more well rounded analogue/digital sketch, but I think I pushed how much I was trying to do in the hour I had this morning and ran out of time. Should have kept it more simple and just done enough to illustrate material breaks, value, texture, etc. I may come back to this, may move on to the next.
The original looked a bit flat so I bumped the contrast and whilst it definitely looks like a bodge-job, it looks much better.
The contrast bump on the second image makes a huge difference. I think it would benefit from heavier linework around the outside of the bag to pop it off of the page.
Thanks MK19, where did you lecture? I feel like they gave me a good foundation but that at least 80% of the real learning has been on the job, though I suppose that’s the case with every subject/career.
I’ve always been interested in the prospect of lecturing but have wanted to get some industry mileage in first before thinking about it seriously.
Today’s effort - earphones or ‘earbuds’ to my friends across the pond
Quite scrappy and felt like a bit of an ‘off’ day. These are biro and papermate flair, scanned in and with some background/shading applied in Sketchbook Pro to add a little ‘pop’.
Applying a one-hour time limit has the benefit of pushing me to produce several forms quickly, but the caveat of feeling like I’m rushing and that I could do better given more time. I want to upload everything up here unfiltered though so that a real reflection of where I’m at can be seen, even if I’m not happy with it!
Missed yesterday’s upload because I cycled to work and as such had no spare time!