Hi everyone! I'm Agnes, an IT girl, and at the age of 33 I decided that I want to learn how to draw. I started with random youtube tutorials, then Udemy, in meantime I discovered Marc's channel, loved it, and here I am :wink: I loved drawing characters as a kid (and teenager), and I want to learn how to do it properly.
So for start, some reference point - my "skill" level before I started learning anything about drawing humans (march 2020) vs after about a year of learning from random tutorials (february 2022; I had a one year break on 2021), but before Art School. I promise my next ones will be better :smiley: And I know they will bc I can see a progress already.

Amazing progress ! I'm looking forward to seeing you grow as an artist :)))

hello Agnes! welcome to the forum! great start! i'm looking forward to see you progress!

Welcome to the forums Agnes! I look forward to seeing your progress!

Thanks everyone :smile:
Here are some exercises from Term 1. I still have to work on those perspective ones :smiley:
Gestures - I'm doing 30 sec drawings for now. I have very analitical mind and longer ones are hard, because I start to overthink and focus on details.
Proportion chart is quite easy, but for me those figures looks too bulky.
And thanks to exercise with simple volumes as limbs I finally better understand poses and how to draw them.


this is AWESOME!! nothing makes me more exciting when seeing people in other fields wanting to get into drawing. I look forward seeing your progress. I already can see some of it!1 and it looks really cool. You are starting to grow your confidence with lines. Good job there! Keep up the good work. :smile: And welcome to the course. I am also newbie. I have not posted anything yet. Still practicing some things from past week.

14 days later

Small update. Currently I'm working on drawing figures from reference using measure method - It's a lot of fun and at the same time I'm getting tons of new informations. Thanks to that my random scribblings improved a lot :smiley:
I also started Term 2 and slowly diving into head construction. It's exciting and terryfying at the same time lol.

3 months later

Ok, I was a bit lazy during summer, but it is time to get back to work. I decided to focus on perspective to have better understanding of forms and how they work in space.
Here are some exercises for 1-point perspective - the same form from different angles, random furnitures and room assignment from term 1 (not finished yet, need some details).