" Thanks for the warm welcomes and comments everyone. I really appreciate all the feedback so far.

Today, I finished up the rest of the initial photoshop assignments (attempted the fantasy home twice with better results the second time around, but I only used two images since that kept it from getting too complicated.)

Assignment number 3… oh boy, it was not great. I mean, the spot removal tool is very cool, but I got lost in how to make the image appear real especially in using shading. The mark removal tool is incredible tho!

Total lost cause on the old man ‘ young man photo and though I eventually figured after some research that I COULD use liquify - just in another app - I was ready to move on from my frustrations.

At the end of this, the alien and woman piece was really, really fun to work on as a first timer. I actually felt like I knew what I was doing to a degree in the fresco app even though I was just messing around with trying to humanize the alien so to speak. It definitely looks fairly different so I consider it a success!!

Thanks for the comments! I struggled with color matching but I actually just didn't understand how to do it. It's been very fun though so far.

Okay. On to the next assignments!

I have finally reached figure drawing and though it starts off simply, the difficulty gradually increases—as it should. Here are the first two parts just before Christmas.

Oh the cyclinders were tough and I still don’t like them as a whole but it’s done!!

After looking at them for a couple of days, the cylinders have grown on me so thanks!

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Today, on New Years Eve, I’ve finally finished yet another part of the assignment, but it was definitely difficult and though I understand it’s not supposed to be perfect, it still leaves me feeling unsatisfied to a degree.

I wasn’t sure how to contend with the overlapping though and I probably picked poses that were a little too difficult, but I simply picked them from the poses I already had stored on my iPad.

Here they are:

These were rough and show that I still have a lot to learn as far as creating decent looking cylinders imo, but Happy New Year everyone!

Thank you for the response. I’ve been trying to keep your advice in mind as I continue to practice!

Best of luck to you as well!

Work has been tiring, leaving me worn and I am uploading something from a couple days ago—nothing super recent. Though I feel a bit bad about that, I’m going to continue moving forward, but try to give some more effort on those really tired days.

Here are some gestures!

I’ve finally been able to buy the entire course and I’m super excited so here I am posting again. So, as I do the work, I’ll be uploading here, but I’m not sure about the posting schedule yet.

Anyway, since I’ve done the first term last year, I’ve run through that stuff again using the guide and am somewhere between the second and third week, technically!

What’s bothering me the most is the gesture drawing. I feel like I’m not doing it “right” per se.