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[Death Faust IX]

[ A r T * R e V o L u T i O N ]

I. About the Mentor, Death Faust IX

I've been and will be again a digital arts student of Ateneo de Naga University, in Naga city, Philippines. Right now, I'm just an out of school nobody who's got no work.

Real name's Ken. I prefer people calling me by my name.

II. Help you

I can help you in improving your art style no matter what that is, even if your trying to do the weirdest stuff in arts, I know I can help you improve.

How? I can give you tips regarding color choice, concept and composition.

I can help you improve the quality of your artworks. :"]

I can help you step by step to becoming a better artist.

III. Focus

I focus on digital arts: photo manipulation, digital painting, typography
I won't really give much focus on your flaws, I'll go point what you already have and make you improve it.

IV. Mentees

I can accept up to 5 mentees
I'm looking for active people to be my mentees
I'll remove you in my list if you don't respond to my PMs

1.~FergiGirl~
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3.
4.
5.

V. Requirements

Be able to submit work within the time frame I tell you
Write a journal once a week regarding your artistry
Follow instructions and submit before deadlines

VI. Links

My gallery: http://ken-sama.deviantart.com
AOL: kenesperanza@aol.com
YM: ken09b@yahoo.com
formspring: http://www.formspring.me/radimirace

 

[Death Faust IX]

RESERVED FOR SUBMISSIONS  

[LavenderMintRose]

I could be your mentee if neither of the other ones I applied to can take me.

(I commented on your DA page, your art is really nice.)  

[~FergiGirl~]

I would love to be a mentee heart

I don't get on gaia that much nowadays, but I can start getting back on more ^^
I get on the computer everyday, at least 30 minutes, so I would be an active mentee, and I will be able to submit work in a reasonable time frame.  

[Death Faust IX]

@ Fergi

Yep, you can be my mentee

Hmmm, I checked your gallery
Based on that self improvement meme, you've done well
but you still have a long way to go for your artworks still have distinct flaws
you have a style close to anime yet there are some non anime works of yours which shows potential

Here's a couple of your works which I think are your +



Improve on these styles perhaps rather than focus on anime like stuff
But if you want to improve in manga style, I suggest reading a manga or watching anime as reference

Just to know where we'd start our course
I'd challenge you on one art work

[ Challenge ]
Theme: King of Pentacles
- it's one of the minor arcana tarot cards
Here's a reference: http://www.learntarot.com/pkg.htm
I want you to make not a tarot card but an image about that tarot card
Thus, I want you to make a landscape pic, not a portrait
You don't need to color it, I'll just check on your style and how you can work with ideas as reference

- try to describe it, tell me what's on the picture and how it relates to the king of pentacles.  

[Death Faust IX]

@Fiametta

Alright :"]

I checked your gallery
I characterize your art work to be anime
your + is in coloring the traditional way
but perhaps your works are flawed by the anime anatomy, lack in background, and weak concept
let's work on polishing your + and at the same time remedy those flaws
I can't help you much in anatomy work, I'll try to give comment and pointers about it though



the background doesn't compliment much on the art style
but I like the way you colored the character

so here's a challenge
for me to know where we'd start

[ Challenge ]
Theme: One of the Seven deadly sins " Greed "
- you know what that is
orientation: landscape
no need to color it for now, but you may if you wish to.
- relate a description of your work to " greed "
- try to work on the expression  

[Death Faust IX]

I'd put you on my mentee list after submitting those [Challenge] art works :"]  

[~FergiGirl~]

>w< awesomeness. I'm a little confused about the challenge, though, do you want it just be a landscape, like no people, or can I add people as long as there's a landscape? Also, is there a deadline for this?  

[Death Faust IX]

@ Fergi

the orientation of the art work is landscape
means width is longer than the height
you can add subject of course, people and whatever

there's no deadline
as long as you pass before all the mentee slots get taken.
that challenge art work is your registration to get on the mentee list
:"]
 

[~FergiGirl~]

K, I'll get started on it today since school is closed :3  

[~FergiGirl~]

Here is what I have done so far. Believe it or not, this was all done on the day you assigned it, and I've not worked on it at all since then @A@

I've just felt kind of tired lately v.v

I'll really try and work on it later tonight, but I'll probably end up taking another 4 hour nap OTL  

[Death Faust IX]

@Fergi

The art is good
You've shown effort in adding details to your work
You also showed that you understand the subject, for you've portrayed the king of pentacles well

But there are a few flaws in the composition

I won't judge your art style much, I think you can still improve it.
... are you using 1,2,3 yellow pencils or the H, B, HB ones
Read about them, they'll help improve your artwork

There are a lot of stuff in your art work
It's good that you placed less detail on the background mountain
But I think it would be better to make it steeper
and the lake more centered and wider

Having the tree on the left adds something on the composition
But the bottom part is kinda awkward
and you need to fix the leaves, darken it
The peacocks [ birds ] on the tree are kind of merging it's tail with the leaves
Make it appear more, add details, make it a little bigger, darken the lines

The cat's kinda cute
But it would've been better if you did complete it's body
Also the table and the kid
[ The kid's kinda awkward, place him somewhere else or don't place him there at all ]
Complete the base of the table

The king's clothes are good
work on it's detail
and I think you need to make his face more expressive
[ imagine a kind and generous face ]
his body needs to be bigger
make him fat or muscular
earth and gold are solid elements
thus the king needs to compliment it's elements

Also move him closer to the camera
thus make him bigger
[ I'll advise you go practice anatomy through studying human poses ]
Move him to the right more
so that the subject is not too centered
[ Rule of Thirds... google it, it helps ]
[ Also Golden Ratio... it's mathematical stuff, but it helps too ]

I like the lamp
it's pole needs to be thicker though
and the gate needs to be lower
add arrow head tips for the rest
the arrow head tips needs to be not much of a triangle but more of a tear shape

Look for reference for those vines

I like how you designed the tea cups and tea pot
Their placement on the table needs work to
and there's something wrong about the tea pot's handle

- - - - -

You are now my mentee
Congratulations ...

I'll let you work on these first

Submit in order

1. Basic Geometric Shapes and Shading
- Cube, Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Pyramid, Donut
- Draw them and shade them, light source on 10:00

2. Complicate Things
- Crumpled Paper, Flower, Apple, Tea Cup
- Draw them and shade them, light source on 2:00

3. More Detailed work
- Land scape, House

4. People
- Full body of a character

* work on your style

Perhaps these maybe tedious
so I'll let you work on these till
2nd week of February

Submit your journal report
in this thread weekly though
Just tell how you're doing

 

[~FergiGirl~]

Woot!

I didn't get references for anything in the piece, so that's probably one reason it had so many flaws sweatdrop

I already knew what the rule of thirds was, but not the golden ratio.
Is it bad that I cringed when I looked up the golden ratio?
eek

math is so evil, because you need it everywhere OTL


I don't know what you mean by yellow pencils, do you mean like pencils you'd use for school? I'm using derwent sketching pencils, and a .5 mechincal pencil with pentel lead sweatdrop
I forgot what variations of hardness I used sweatdrop

The case look almost exactly like this


To tell you the truth I had no idea what to put behind the fence, so I just put down some lines ><;;;
I hate how it came out ><

Do you want me to work on fixing that while I'm doing the assignments?  

[Death Faust IX]

@ Fergi

about the golden ratio stuff
it's similar to law of thirds
[ rule of thirds follow the golden ratio stuff ]
http://masaakikaji.deviantart.com/art/Fibonacci-233-121416489
check on the links
it helps :"]

No need to do most of the maths
Just study the concept

Yellow pencils are the ones commonly used at schools
... their the ones having grades 1,2,3
1 being the darkest and 3 being the lightest
Light pencils are used for sketching, as well as light shades
Dark pencils are used for shading and doing the line work

There are techniques in doing pencil shading
--- cross hatching, smudging, stippling
whatever, I can discuss that if you want to

.5 mechanical pencil
hmmm
mech pencils are often used in doing the rough draft
I assume your using the mech pen for that

I usually use the light shades first before I got for the detailed dark shades
[ I don't have any of my traditional works in my gallery XD ]

Lotus flowers or water lilies on the lake will be good
Just look for reference images
Lots of reference images
I store piles of magazines under my bed
Their my quick references

You may fix that challenge work
it's optional
but is a plus point
wink
 

[~FergiGirl~]

I've been looking for reference images online, on DA's awesome stock gallery heart
Because the only magazines I have in my room are 20 issues of Shonen Jumps, and maybe a prom dress catalog that came in the mail to every single girl in high school xd (it is a pretty good place for references for dresses though >.>)

I'm probably going to be able to sleep today until I finish that piece xd

Noob Question Time~
Could you show me an example of something lit at 10:00? ><