Goal: Follow the tutorials of The Gnomon Workshop to see if this left brain person can become an artist. Each week I plan on posting my progress, the good, the bad, and the in between. Now to be fair, I come from a long line of very talented artists. So maybe i have an advantage, but anyone who knows me, knows I am a math, computers, and science guy all the way. So why do this? I like the idea of it. I get excited. I get nervous. Maybe it goes no where... and that's o.k.. To try something without expectations..., just do. So here goes everything and nothing at the same time. Oh, and it my first blog post too.
So here is my first piece of digital art work that I am posting. It's a ball. A nice bright, shining ball, I hope you agree. Yes it's off center and that drives me nuts, but I'll just say I'm making use of negative space. The steps to make it shinny were relatively straight forward.
- Grey background...check
- Plain old red circle... no problem
- White patch on top was hard to get the lines cleaned up
- Bounce light on the bottom was hard to do, until I discovered opacity settings.
- Glare around the edges was hard for me to get the circular motion right
- Shadow only to 4 attempts. Again the opacity setting takes a while to get use to.
Science of the day: Sharks have up to 3,000 teeth, but usual 500 teeth at any point in time, in 2 or 3 rows. It was a question Isabella asked and I was curious too, since I didn't know either.
