Figure Drawing

1 min. Not my best but they are what they are for the summer. Getting back into things.

2 mins for all except for the 5 mins blue center. Should work on making them stronger than the 1.

From left to right: 1 min, 2, 10.

Ani 113B

I enjoyed the drawing processes much more. My painting skills aren't quite there yet to fully realize my vision.

Movies:
Legend Rob Roy. Reference for night forest
Mobius Serrano

Composition
Design

• Focal Point
• Contrast
• White on black is stronger.
• Golden space is 3/4 of the way in.
• Have convergence.
• Division of Space
• Flow
• Shape
• Shape overrides color.
• Distribution of shape
• 3 values
• Distribution of value
• Gallon, pint, teaspoon
• Value organization tools
• Silhouette
• Shapewelding
• Counterchange
• Tonal relationship
• Windmill Principal.
• Light on dark. L on l. D on d. Dark on light.
• Integrates a form into the background. Removes the pasted on look.

Story

• Mood/emotion
• Narrative details. Specific Action
• Artistic style

Winter Mid Program Portfolio Review Sketchbook

Summer Practice 22

1 hour.

• Wings need to be darker and lighter in some places.
• Tail needs brighter highlights.
• Feet to be less graphic.

Summer Practice 21

1 hour spent laughing about Veronica's marriage to a whale.

• Mountain needs to be warmer and darker with a gradient that ends darker on top.
• Longer gradient in the gravel at the bottom.
• More subtle shades of light blended in the water.
• More gradient in the sky.

Summer Practice 20

1 hour.

• More rock texture.
• More dark saturation in the water.
• More yellows again in the grass.
• Finish it.

Summer Practice 19

• 1 hour.
• Warmer highlight on the mountain and clouds.
• More blending in the clouds.
• More dark and light shapes.

Optics of Surfaces

Special guest: Peter Beyersdorf

Paint light rather than object.

How are we able to see transparent objects? Refraction and how the light passes through it. The background behind is also distorted.

Surface - Optics. A boundary between two regions where light travels at different speed.

Velocity (Air) ~ 300,000,000 m/s
Velocity (Glass) ~ 200,000,000 m/s

Light travels about 1.5x slower in glass than in empty space.

The brightness of a reflected ray is dependent on the index of refraction difference across the surface.

If light travels at the same speed through two surfaces, they would appear invisible within one another.

Deviation angle of the transmitted ray is also dependent on the index of refraction difference across the surface.

Surface finish

• Smooth surfaces gives off reflections. Glossy. Specular reflection.
• Rough. Scattering. Diffused reflection.
• No non-glare glass. Degraded image.

The index of refraction of mineral water matches plexiglass.

A roughened black object cannot be as black as a glossy black object.

A shiny object has more contrast than a matte object.

Google strength of reflection chart. Dependence on incident angle. Grazing incident.

Silver looks bluer than gold because gold does not reflect blue.

As an object reaches 90 degrees in relation to your eye, the reflectivity increases.

Concrete appears darker under water because less light is being reflected.

Law of refraction. Light at angles of greater incidents deviates more.

Surfaces:

• Matte
• Reflective - Light is bounced back.
• Refractive - Light is bent.

Summer Practice 18

1 hour

• Tried three brushes in this one.
• Overall too bright.
• More yellow in the grass.
• Better mist rendering.

Summer Practice 17

1 hour

• More yellow in the green.
• More subtle gradation in the clouds and in the bottom right.

Summer Practice 16

1 hour

• Regular problems but the most important one I think is to make time for enough details in the foreground so it stands apart for the mid and bg.
• More head on that grassy slope up that mountain.
• More indication of that pier and its surrounding houses.

Summer Practice 15

1 hour

• Maybe not have the airbrush be on top.
• Correct with for the trees.
• Lighter on the lightest value.
• Don't use airbrush for shapes.
• More blending in the background.
• Warmer accents.

Summer Practice 14

1 hour

• Warmer greens.
• Lighter shapes on the shoreline.
• More darker shapes in the ocean.
• Shadows need to be darker.
• Lighter clouds.

Summer Practice 13

1 hour. Poor job. Wasted some time redoing small shapes.

• Finish it.
• Don't get lost in the same shapes.