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Bwahahaha! Maybe.

She's a bit out-there... sort of your standard flakey art type (though the first instructor I've had in the program like that). I guess I don't really blame her, she's only up here (central New York State) during the week and on the weekend commutes down to work in a studio in Jersey City. I'd be totally insane driving that every weekend.

Thanks CR! I really agree about the light source because I'm not as happy about the shadowing and know I can do better.

I DO have to disagree about the cabinets/counter top. The entire Leonardo grid was properly plotted out, and the horizon line is placed in the area between the cabinets and the counter top (I'd have to go back to my first sheet to double-check, the inks are a trace since the first drawing was a rainbow of lines of sight and such). So doing the lines of sight back to the vanishing point, there was just that smidge of underside visible.

If the horizon line doesn't seem like its placed right, its just because of the set-up we were given. The actual grid and scale was done right in class. I thought there were a few of the specs that were fruity, but maybe the instructor thought they would be easier to deal with or something. I can only assume there was a method to her madness ^.^

OK, I had originally wanted to work this up in marker and all, but I just don't have the time with all the schoolwork. But nevertheless, here is a quick sketch pin-up of none other than Turkey Lurkey!

Oh La La Turkey Lurkey

I know I'm not used to 10' ceilings in my apartment! As BW pointed out on my dA, I think the big thing is the cabinets are too large. Not thinking that the ceiling is a couple feet higher than mine at home, I made them go too far up. They throw stuff off for the rest of the scene. I should have thought that part through a little better.

I agree, and you're right, the fridge was spec'ed to 6 feet. The island had to be 4', so I kind of went with that for the counters and all, since most kitchen islands I've seen seem to be the same height as the counters. If I had my druthers, I would have had them at 3.5 feet.

Thanks for the critiques!

I do need to mention that the wall thickness and scale of the door, fridge, island, and window were all scales and placements that were pre-spec'ed by the assignment. Don't ask me why the walls are a foot thick and its a 7' door for a 10' ceiling... I also thought it was weird. It was stupid hard to work in that freaking island with how small a room was given...

If I either didn't have to do the island or didn't have to do counters and cabinets, I would have been much happier.

The garbage can also seems a hair off to me, probably because I free-handed it. It IS supposed to be one of the smaller stylin' metallic cylinder ones (its what I have in my kitchen), and is smaller than most kitchen garbage cans.

And I agree... I think there could be more contrast with the shadows. I think I was a little timid with it.

I fail hardcore at environments, especially buildings/interiors. I recently finished an extra credit assignment for a drawing class that was a good exercise in doing a room for me.

Extra Cred Kitchen

I'd like lots of critiques to help me get better with them! Sorry for the quality... if a lot of you guys it might be better to have a scanned crop of the piece, I can do that.

Yay! So looking forward to this. I think I'll even have enough time to gather my refs for ya today, too!

Did you have a preferred email to send the refs too? I'm a little confused with the wrong email being used for PayPal and such.

Didn't he just get here a couple weeks ago? o.O

Its not so bad. And we actually had a female model on uh... what was the last class? Thursday? I don't even know. Anyway, Figure Drawing is definitely turning out to be my favorite class of the semester.

But I'm crazy crazy busy. Busier than I thought in my worst-case scenarios before the semester started. So I don't know how much attention this thread will be getting from me... but I do miss the CoX art. It won't be totally forgotten, I promise.

Really nice! Bobby must love it, or we all shall flog him.

I think the only little niggling thing that I notice is the neck/clavicle area looks a touch thin or flat to me.

Oooooh, glad I saw this while coming up for air between class/work. I want in!

Wait... the forum has other sections? No way!

EDIT: Oh great, now I can't post ever again because my post count is all nice and ordered at the moment. Though this may make some people happy ^.^

Maybe you should develop a meth addiction so you can get more art done?

Neat, I didn't know hand dominance was the word for that. But I know what you mean with the skewing.

I do a lot of standing at an easel and drawing for my drawing classes. I assume that's the logic behind the students learning to use their whole arm in the process.

Still playing with Turkey Lurkey. All I want to do is put him (fully costumed) into a classic female pin-up pose. Just can't quite decide on which to do...

Also pretty darn busy since classes started up. Drawing naked old men and such... bit of a change of gears for me.

I'm also interested to know what is meant by hand dominance. It gave me an interesting mental image of LJ doing arts with his feet to shake things up ^.^

Shia for the massive win! I love that piece.

Anyone else think BABs let her win just to get her on top?

I approve of this idea ^.^

I'm the subject of an investigation now because Foo told me to slay in school >=(

Hey, that piece with "little attention" has a lot more views that most of my stuff gets, and over a hundred comments!! How is that not attention?

That second one with the demoness is puuuurty.

Oh! Didn't even think to download it =P Those refs should be great, thanks. Though like you said, maybe you'll regret this... mwahahahahahaha

Wait... does that say "SLAY in school"???????

*takes the advice*