Vyechi | Personal Growth & Mindfulness

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  • 📢 Findings On How To Timelapse ⏱

    📢 Findings On How To Timelapse ⏱

    Ultimately got to my video timelapse finished with the help of Adobe Photoshop, Premier and After Effects. I had forgotten to write how much seconds between shots. It might have been 30 frames per second or FPS. I hope the video comes out right. Nobody watches them anyway, so who cares right? While talking with a friend over the phone, I discovered that about 600 images had a freaking orange color background. The result of leaving my Chronolapse recording while I had closed my tablet. During this time I had joined the Challenges Wild West Key-Frame Concept Art Competition. I’m hoping to get good feedback from the hosts.

    Findings On How To Timelapse ⏱

    Meanwhile, I’ve been forcibly squeezing my brains to come up with an ending for all my YouTube video’s, but nothing seems to come out. YouTube has the annotations at the end of the video that gives me many options to get traffic moving to my channel. For example, I can have them subscribe, view a playlist or a random video. YouTube will place annotations at the end of the video, 20 seconds before the closing. My issue is that I want a way to speak and have a charming character appear on the scene. I got the idea from watching another YouTube  channel called “Draw With Jazza.” The solution is to use Adobe Character Animator, with the help of a webcam and an animated character I can make this happen. I’ve even written out a speech, what do you think?

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    Perseverance is Thin, Can You Assist❓

    Many days later, I finally published my video (see video above). No clue what I’m doing, but passionate to get to my goal. As an artist, I haven’t yet identified with a niche. What kind of theme’s do you like? For example, do you a fantasy or with a story? Should I put all my effort into making a new style or should I look at others? Maybe I can combine techniques I love and make a fantastic idea!?

  • Subway Doodles Sketch Underway V5

    Subway Doodles Sketch Underway V5

    Days ago I started a new journey of creating subway doodles. My art instructor, Michael Korosty recommended I try to develop doodles on the subway. He mentioned that this would be a way to practice my eye accuracy. However, my goal is to practice his technique. In fact, a few days ago, I created a video called How To Draw Proportional Spray Can? Thus, when should I practice his way and is there a way I can still blend into my daily trips?

    Subway Doodles 🔊

    Wait, why doodle in the subway and why subway doodle at all? Well, it all started with my wish to get good at drawing. Okay, not ultimately, I wanted to get better at accurately landing ovals and proportional drawing. Pause, I still owe you an explanation, I’ve been commuting every day and been drawing random sketches. That’s all it is, and at this point, I’m getting bored that nobody is interacting with me. Hopefully, by me drawing real living organisms, people will recognize it and socialize with me.

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    How my Doodles Draw themselves 🤷

    It’s quite simple; Don’t worry about anything and draw whatever in front of me. If the subject moves away, then I paint on top or create a new layer in Sketchbook Pro. In fact, I’m using more gestures than accuracy. Even so, I feel as though I’m not improving. In fact, what I want is to do studies of my subjects, but without looking weird. In other words, I started drawing using a part of the technique, but I felt guilty that I didn’t measure correctly.

    abstract pillar subway 2
    abstract pillar subway 4
    abstract pillar subway 3
    abstract pillar subway

    The little goals of drawing 🤔

    Do you ever look at a beautiful woman and stare? If the answer is yes, then you might be an artist. Joking, I don’t know, but see if you can find something interesting, then try to break down its beauty and draw it merely. Similar, imagine your standing in front of a blond woman who is sitting down, and you want to paint hair for whatever reason. If your lucky and she isn’t looking at you, and you might catch different shades of dark and light. That’s called a study if you can then draw that effect and practice it until it becomes stable.

    Subway Doodles Sketch Underway V5
    Subway Doodles Sketch Underway V5

    To Sum up ❤

    Somehow I need to fit all of this into my daily commute. Do a few doodles, practice accuracy and do a few studies. Earlier, I wrote about Phoenix sketches, which is less connected to technique and free to rendering what is in my mind. In other news, above is a picture of the MTA subway train getting ready to leave the station. As always, good luck on your adventures!

  • Video Clips & Phoenix Sketches are Underway V4

    Video Clips & Phoenix Sketches are Underway V4

    I finished the Phoenix, grabbed a few screenshots and shot some excellent video clips. I promise to go into the tools and my workflow in a few minutes. More importantly, I wanted to bring up that my goal is to publish it these every day, but I couldn’t meet the deadline, and if you stick around, I will let you know what transpired. I will go into the software I used to process my images and video clips. Besides, I will discuss my drawing and mistakes and the solutions to these issues. If you stick around till the end of this video, I will walk you through a video time-lapse of the process.

    Video Clips Digging into the Phoenix Sketches 🚨

    Let’s restart; this whole thing started on the MTA subway train. Okay, I lied this whole thing started a while ago in January when I went on a ski trip to Vermont. I had a couple of my buddies draw lines and sketches over drinks. Even so, I bought this bird to live on the New York Subway system. In other words, I continued the doodle while commuting to work and I had the idea of recording what draw using OBS. OBS created several video clips for me to edit. If your interested read more about it in the article How to use Open Broadcaster Software?

    Phoenix Workflow Unwrapped 🎁

    Wait a minute, how does this whole thing come together? Well, OBS records and creates video clips. While that’s happening, I use Sketchbook Pro to draw and export screenshots of my bird. Then I bring those video clips into Adobe Premiere Pro. This tool allows me to create an attractive video that I can upload to YouTube. Meanwhile, I use another called Spark to create my featured image. I won’t lie, I’m not good at typesetting and design. This tool is great because it saves me a bunch of time in creating the featured image look. Even so, I want to get better at designing eventually, but now, I don’t have a lot of time. Finally, I use a tool called Grammarly to help me debug my writing skills. In other words, I’m still new when it comes to writing. I would like to communicate my thoughts effectively, so hopefully, this tool is doing the justice.

    • What do you think of my writing?
    • Has it improved?
    • Should I dump this tool?

    Final Sketch Thoughts 🤔

    Now to the juicy part, the final stretch, err sketch! Okay, fireside chat, I wanted to discuss mistakes and solutions I discovered during my workflow and artwork. At the time of writing the blog post, I realized I needed more time to produce a good copy and content. For example, I didn’t know that creating the time-lapse video will take me more than three extra hours to create, encode and publish. Also, add a few days of coming home late, and exhaustion made it that much more exciting project to complete. Plus, I didn’t do a great job in identifying the focus points. For example, I pictured it all in detail, but I keep forgetting that in life that isn’t true. In other words, the wings, tail and face and all cannot all be in focus. Therefore, I will try to find which part is essential and add more detail there and keeping other parts more straightforward. Thus, allowing me to finish faster.

    V4 Phoenix Final
    V4 Phoenix Final

    You might want to know ⁉

    On the last note, I’m looking at a new tool called Chronolapse to take screenshots over a period. I think it will speed up my video editing process. Anyway, it’s getting late, and this is all I can remember. Please let me know what you think in the comments below?

  • Phoenix Sketches are Underway V3

    Phoenix Sketches are Underway V3

    This morning I decided to work on my phoenix sketches. Furthermore, I wanted a way to capture a small time-lapse of my drawing. In doing this, it will give me a way to share my progress with you. For example, I can show you all the steps in between as opposed to a still image. Likewise, I used a tool called open broadcaster software or OBS for short. If you’re interested in becoming conversant in OBS take a look at How to use Open Broadcaster Software? With the combination of SketchBook Pro and OBS, I started drawing. Upon finishing the video capture, the challenge of editing and combining the video files is the last step.

    Phoenix Sketches are Underway V3
    Phoenix Sketches are Underway V3

    Phoenix Sketches are Underway V3 😍

    Wait, let’s go back in time because we lost the plot. On the train in route to work, I found a nice comfy corner seat. Then, I started digging for the Venue Pro 11 tablet and active digital pen in my backpack. It’s not the best tablet, but it’s affordable and satisfies my needs. Also, everything is ready for drawing, but I always get this feeling of eyes watching. Do you ever do something and see somebody gazing for a moment but not interacting with you in any way? When it happens, I wish they would give me feedback on my art because it would help me improve it. What do you recommend I try to do to get more interaction with the MTA riders of New York?

    • Loudly talking about my picture while I draw?
    • Drawing things I see on the train?
    • Sketching MTA trains because it relates to the tin can I take to work every day?
    • What else should I add to this list?

    Why the Phoenix⁉

    Okay, so why did the Phoenix sketch? I started this project during my ski trip to Killington, and I wanted to see how far it would go. But, I don’t want to stretch this project out too long. Thus, I plan to set a deadline of this week. Placing a project end date is important because it will help me grow. In other words, I want to experience different types, mystical creatures. For example, I got a book on drawing dragons, and I’m excited to get back to it. In other news, I included the time-lapse video of my Phoenix; please let me know what you think?
    • Is it too fast?
    • Do the credits suck?
    • Is the music any good?
    • Should I talk?
    • Should I scrap this idea?
    • Do I need an in video webcam of me?