Maya: Magnifying Glass

Magnifying glass complete! Took a while to complete with having to redo certain parts that kept doing their own thing but very satisfying seeing it finished :)



Defeated...I don't think so!

Finally managed to get the 1 Point Rear lighting for Maya correct. Big thank you to Jake and Ollie for your help! Cookies for both!

1 Point Rear Lighting



Technical Exercises: Maya Lighting (part 3)

Here are the rest of the lighting tasks for Maya. Did really enjoy creating these different moods on the same image and I feel that I'm getting to grips with Maya a bit more now with the tools especially.

Early Morning Lighting

Mid Day Lighting

Night Time Lighting

Horror Lighting

Sci-Fi Lighting

Fire Haze Lighting



Technical Exercises: Maya Lighting (part 2)

More Maya lighting! Managed to not dodge these ones up like the previous one and very pleased I managed to do them. On to the next!

2 Point Lighting

3 Point Lighting

Technical Exercises: Maya Lighting (part 1)

Well I've been getting on with the lighting tasks we were set for Maya. The first one went well and I'm happy with the outcome.

However, the second one doesn't seem to want to work properly but I'm following the video tutorial exactly. I've tried it a few times now but it still doesn't want to work :( Any suggestions?

Feet Studies

Well here are my feet studies! I'm actually very happy with them considering I'm not very keen on drawing feet because they seem to be the problem area that like to cause me annoyance with their shape. I'm especially happy with the first top view of my foot and the proportions and I tried to draw from a range of angles to challenge myself. Just the portraits left to finish!

Life Drawing: Week 3

Week 3 of life drawing and things started getting messy!...yup the charcoal came out! We started off with a round of 1 minute sketches when the panic settled in with where do I start? How can I show the figure in proportion and looking like a figure in 1 minute?!

Mine seem to overlap as again each drawing craved to be centre of attention and take up most of the page but I kinda like it as it seems to have some energy going. The proportions are way off in some places but it really helped loosen me up and I especially like both sheets' bottom right images even though there isn't much to them.

 

We were then taught how to measure the proportions with our hand and pencil which proved very useful. We had to split the body up to fit the head in 7 times and I think mine did improve as the session went one. One thing I definately need to keep practising though is my time. I nearly always seem to take too long getting the proportions correct. Getting a rough shape then focusing on them might be the way forward.