2 months of homework

phi disclaimer: I've only been in school for 2 months and I can't have improved much during then! So pleeeaaase please don't expect anything fantastical! ;_; I'm here to improve because I feel like I suck to begin with and I still suck so that's why I'm in school so so so don't expect anything fancy okay T^T okay moving on...
I have no scanner so most of these are all really blurry photos. Sorry for bad quality. m(_ _)m

It's really weird going from what's basically 100% digital and working with a tablet, scanning and fixing my crappy sketches in Photoshop (transform tool addict here) to 100% analog. I mean, I have no CG-capable computer here and no scanner, just my little laptop. I have to fix my drawings by *gasp* redrawing them >_>; and when I ink it's like for good... I guess my biggest sadness was NO CTRL-Z!!! But I'm kinda used to it now, sort of? But yeah trying to not use the computer as a handi, and forcing myself to make decisions and do it by hand... because anyone can make a great piece of art if they're given 10 years. The difference is a noob needs the 10 years, and the pro doesn't.

Anyway so I'm just gonna run through most of the homework I did.
Click for larger versions for some of them.

A progress photo I shot of 3 different assignments:
(top) Manga I: monochrome illustration
(bottom left) Manga Illust: watercolor inked character frontal and 3/4 view
(right) Manga II: facial expressions (Happy, Angry, Sad, Scared/Shocked)

facial expressions inked and hatched.
No tone, I didn't realize we were allowed to use tone at this point...

The finished watercolor, done on a ghetto foldable table donated to me by family friend. I dislike watercolor. I just use it like Copics. He looks like a goober. But incidentally, my classmates told me the other day that said goober got put on the display window on the 4th floor and the 1gumi and 2gumi classes have started calling it "yuusha". I haven't gone to confirm this yet, but what? They even titled this garbage? =___=

finished monokuro pen and ink. As you can see, I bought my new bigger prettier desk XD Only problem is it gets dirty easily if I drip ink on it.
Ah, forgot to say... most everything is done on B4 manga paper. I use G-pen, maru-pen, and saji-pen. I mainly use G-pen for drawings, maru-pen for smaller drawings, details or hatching, and saji-pen I used to use just for larger hatching, but I hardly ever use it anymore. For ink, we got like 4 different types for different purposes, but I like Pilot ink since it dries fast and so less smudge risk.

He's rabbit-dude, like a human version of my Gaia evolving item, Hermes! I experimented with some tone here. I haven't touched tone in 8 years. I'm actually using the tone I bought 8 years ago. The price tag on my tone says 12/2001 on it. X_X

for Manga II: hairstyles
we had to draw 4 guys and 4 girls with different hairstyles. I just used this assignment to experiment, and referenced some hair and clothes from fashion magazines, because I'm really unoriginal. Especially with girls.

 hairstyles inked, hatched, and used some tone here and there. It's bad, I know. Don't laugh.

Manga Illust: watercolor monochrome assignment, where we have to draw a character with 3 geometric shapes (either square, triangles, or circles) in the BG, and only using Red (Vermillion) and Black for the palette. I really don't care for this assignment (or class, the teacher is kind of a bitch) and so I recycled a really old sketch I did of my Gaia avatar, and changed it up a bit.

 

Manga II: 8 member family assignment. We had to draw 8 people in an illustration to practice drawing not just young pretty people. They had to be from ages baby, kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school, 20's, middle age, and old person. This one was kind of interesting. kixies was visiting me during this one, and her helpful input and toning advice helped this project go by faster~

For Manga Basics, we had to use all the different hatching techniques we learned and apply them (if even just a little bit) to a 18x18 cm illustration. I started this one at like 10pm the night before it was due, and finished it at like 7 in the morning. Once a procrastinator, always a procrastinator. But I finished it in time for class heh. Done mostly with maru-pen, no tone.

Manga I: Jack and the Beanstalk
We had to make a 4 page manga of either Jack and the Beanstalk (up until beanstalk discovery) or Cinderella (up until the pumpkin carriage) and because I previously made character designs in my last art school for Jack and the Beanstalk, I was a big cheater and just re-used those ones. I did rehaul it a little bit of course, because my work from 3 years ago is really gross!

I know there are lots of errors, especially the serif bubbles and panelling, but its (sort of) my first time so now I know and i'll do it better next time... so don't look too closely.

Super THANK YOU to who let me use her tones, and helped me tone like half of it cos we were rushing, and taught me so many toning tips. And also let me use her scanner to scan this~ m(_ _)m arigatou senpai~!

(right to left)

 
 
 
My sketch class projects are really dumb so I'm not showing those. They basically just involve copying photographs out of magazines, so boooring.

My next project is I have to draw 50 original characters, 10 of which are due next week, the other 20 in a month, and the last 20 after summer break. I also got -another- fullcolor watercolor due this friday, involving a character and some sort of vegetation. Last is a 5 page original manga with he keyword "rain", due after summer break. It's rainy season here and all I can think of right now in association with rain is "hate" and "I want to go home to dry cali weather".

ah, I hope that was kind of informative. It's quite different from the art school I'm used to, since there's not really traditional art foundation classes... but I'm learning a lot.

aaand done!