Rebooting my art learing journey - feedback appreciated
2yr
Geert-Jan
So i've been practicing drawing (almost) daily for the last 2 years or so. But I lack focus and structure. After listening to the draftmen podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1xbX2ESP8). I've decided to bring in more structure. The podcast mentions this Redit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/learnart/comments/dapk62/from_the_guy_who_made_the_most_comprehensive_list/) with a full curriculum. My challenge will be to follow this curriculum as close as possible.
I've created this topic mostly to keep myself accountable. But i will post created work regulary, and any feedback/ critique from you guys is greatly appreciated!
Some personal info:
-39 years old
-fulltime job outside art
-On average i have 1 hour each day to practise (a bit more in the weekends)
-Not a native English speaker, so please forgive me the grammar and spelling mistakes :)
The first unit is figure drawing. I've already followed Stan's figure drawing course before, so im revisiting the course. Here are some 2 minute and 30 second gesture drawings (drawn in Procreate). Please let me know what you think of them.
week 65: Continued with the 30 day head drawing challenge, I also included some gesture drawing this week.
Week 64: some technical difficulties that prevent me from posting images on my side. But I've continued the 30 day head drawing challenge from Marc Brunet each day. I'll try later to post something.
Week 63: Started the 30 day head drawing challenge from Marc Brunet. + Value composition studies for the drawing fundamental course. Small daily work! For fun some copies of cartoon characters
Week 62: Finished Marc Brunet's 30 day challenge, also did some gesture drawings. A new lesson in Proko's drawing fundamentals course was released, so I started with that assignment as well. :)
week 61: I did the same thing every day this week:
-Some warmups
-1 Notan Study
-5 Gesture drawings (1 minute or 2 minute per gesture)
-1 Assignment from the 30 days challenge
-1 quick sketch of a cartoon character as fun/ cooling down :)
Week 60: Continued with the value notan studies. Also did some longer gesture drawings and I've started the 30 day drawing challenge by Marc Brunet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5AV42mgAe0&t=340s
For fun some masterstudies. I think I did a lot of work this week!
Week 59: Continued with the drawings fundamental course. Starting with the values section. Created some value scales this week and done some Notan studies. For the fun part, I did some copy studies of Scott Pilgrim and Primal :)
Week 58: Continued with the drawings fundamental course. For fun I did this plant character digitally
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2mo
I love the tree house!! Keep up the good work!
Week 57: Getting back at Stan's fundamental course. Drawing cross contour lines on Ginger root people and lobsters and crabs :)
Good for you. I've been messing around with this stuff since the summer of 2002. But I keep having at it. You can never give up
Week 56: Since I'm a bit behind with Stan's fundamental course, I've decided to concentrate on that one the couple of weeks. Did the last assignment, drawing cylinders on vehicles, which was very hard to do! Drew the tanks from imagination.
Week 54: Some more drapery studies + I did an (unpaid) commission for a birth card. Drawn from imagination in procreate. I'm pretty happy with the inking, but I'm also struggling with adding highlights and shadows in a cartoony drawing.
it's absolutely lovely, but tbh i am not sure where the lightening is coming from (top-left?), I think children faces confuse me and the bird's tail
Week 53: Continued with drapery and clothing, sketching clothing from Pinterest references
Week 52: I had to get back into the game, so I did different exercises from different lessons: Loomis heads, some gesture drawings, cubes and line studies of drapery and clothing.
I have also started this past week with the same curriculum. Figure drawing is hard to grasp. I look forward to getting better each week. What term are you on? After a year or doing the curriculum you must be a little under halfway.
Due to personal circumstances, my art journey have been paused for the last few months. However I'm picking up again! Hope to post some new sketches this week.
I’m in a similar boat to you I want to reboot my art education. I am starting to be more consistent, thank you for the inspiration 🙂
Week 51: Started with the clothing and drapery unit. I did mostly quick studies from references from different sources.
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1yr
Nice job, @Geert-Jan!
Have you been using any book or a course as a study resource, or are you focusing just on the practice?
