#environment sketching

[humblegoatart]

i was looking at a lot of cool environment art today and while i didn’t have it in me to go deep on studies i did mess around working on blocking a bit 💃

[steftastan]

This background stuff is really testing me, but I’m slowly finding it less and less tedious and finding more joy in it. :) 

One of my school buddies, Lucas, has made available a free Gumroad of a 1000 picture set of various New Zealand landscapes. These were some of my picks for these sketches but I was also sorting them out to make custom shapes out of them later and stuff. If your computer can handle ~3GB of photos I definitely recommend grabbing them!

You can see how I was sort of finding my way as the exercises progressed. For instance the first one is not very successful because of the lack of contrast in the image. So I decided to change my palette and used 4 values ranging from black to white with minimal brush strokes (the only purpose of the brush strokes was to soften edges). All shapes were drawn with the lasso tool.

Here’s another link to Lucas’ free photo pack! :)

Another thing... I’m pumping a lot of stuff out that I can’t really show because of all the wip phases it goes through, plus some personal projects. For that reason I decided to re-instate my Patreon (was on hiatus since last year). If you’d like sneak peeks for all these projects, including WIPs and sketches for the Dark Souls Tarot Project be sure to check it out! For instance I’ll be uploading the PSDs for these studies on there in just a moment. I will still be sharing stuff here as usual so no pressure at all :D

Patreon link here :)

[humblegoatart]

daily sketch 1/1/25: photo study of a pic i took a few weeks back!

[humblegoatart]

daily sketch 2/6/24

spent a solid 4hrs deep in freelance art work today but still spent another hour tonight adding a few new entries to my 100 environments project

[humblegoatart]

daily sketch 2/17/24

another little environ sketch! tried to focus a lot more on values than lines with this one since i was working with just a classic graphite pencil. really pushing myself to do structures and buildings with these since that’s definitely something i feel far less confident in drawing than most things