Ognjen Sporin

Loose Drapery Studies

A few drawing studies and a couple tips:

-never space your folds evenly

-always vary fold sizes

-folds are basically tapering and curving cylinders, and they cast shadows!

Rimlight Portrait

A portrait study from Noah Bradley's reference pack, along with some process and tips

A couple takeaways:

-this yellow highlight is nearly white at the highlight and nearly orange-reddish near the edge, where there's subsurface scattering

-there's also subsurf scattering visible through the nostril from this angle

-the main light source is col...

Gripping Hands

The big takeaway from these is the way the index finger tends to stand out and raise above the other fingers while gripping, and also the way the gripping fingers conform to the curve/form of whatever they're gripping - in this case a thick rope.

Also, the knuckles are curved and asymmetrical, and the hand will look very stiff if they're not drawn that way.

Snowy Rocks

Trying to address weak points and working on improving my environment visual library.

A couple tips when doing these types of rocks:

-always design asymmetrical shapes keeping Big, Medium and Small in mind (variety)

-roughly horizontal and vertical cracks crossing each other

-when doing cracks be sure to vary their depth and b...

Figure studies and Lighting strategy

A couple grayscale figure lighting studies. 

I wanna use this to stress the importance of using your lights for creating focal points and changing the reference to have a stronger focal point read. 

The first, male figure, had a much stronger fill light, but for the sake of the composition and light design, I dimmed it down considerably so the focal point ...