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Hey all, I've been drawing on and off for all my life and finally decided to sit down and really focus on art again since its my happy place, lol. Hoping to eventually get into an animation or game studio but honestly I feel like I'm really getting into this too late in my life (I'm 32 this year...) and it will probably just be a hobby I enjoy, but I don't want to regret never getting better at art so here I am!
I'm currently on week 3 of Marcs art school and excited to see where I end up in a year.
First set of 30 min 30 second poses
In between doing art class assignments/videos I've been working on some color and head studies on the side to keep busy during slow moments at work. Up until now I have NEVER used color in my sketchbooks, lol... I've always been afraid of messing up, but I'm super proud of these.
Working on the 5 lineart studies this week.
First of 5 lineart studies for the week. Haven't tried measuring proportions with a pencil since high school, still just as hard as I remember and it took me forever, lol
You know, all my life I never really understood doing gesture drawings outside of say...warm ups, but it feels like everyone seems to talk about how its almost the 'secret sauce' of drawing. I feel rushed and don't really enjoy doing them or enjoy looking forward to them each morning before work... nothing really ever looks right, out of proportion. I'm keeping at it each day for the sake of the course and hoping that one day something will just 'click' but omg..
These suck, lol. But here's my 30 min - 1 min gestures for this morning
Welcome to the forums. I like the shapes on the still life. The colors are good. The face and lineart studies look pretty good.30 seconds of gesture drawings in 30 minutes? That's pretty interesting. I think you need some more line confidence in the gesture lines.
Thank you! I think I worded it weird, lol it was a 30 min session doing 30 sec gestures.
I feel you, quick gestures can be painful 😅 i started off taking some more time at first, never got used to doing quick gestures but now starting to force myself to do themDont think it matters if they aint pretty (the one minute ones) just keep at it, maybe switch brush - try a thick one with abikity to taper strokes and try simplifying everything into C S and I curves (well, lines, as I is straight) cheers
Thanks lol yea I'll definitely have to try a different brush this morning
I swear if I wasn't doing these gestures on ipad, I'd be using 30 pieces of paper per session. I end up drawing each one so big, its a nice cheat code to be able to resize them to fit a bunch on one page, lol
I'm behind on my 5 copied linearts, heres #2, finally busting out the anime/game art books I got for christmas 2023 XD I've been obsessed with the Neon Genesis Evangelion illustrations 2007 - 2017 book this week.
You're welcome. And I don't think you worded it weirdly. 30-second gesture drawings in 30-minute gesture drawing sessions are petty good. Nice work on the line art. The gestures look pretty good.
Gestures read well, make sure to avoid symmetric curves on membersAs for the shape practice... are you just rushing through it? I feel any exercise is worth having a clear goal as to what you want to improve at but in art it's usually more than one at a time. Like with spheres, you can practice your ovals, draw em huge, work that arm and then shrink it to fit more on the canvas, but don't just rush through em. You end up having sloppy looking spheres/planes etc. Try going slow, take your time. Good straights and ovals practice
cheers!
I'll keep that in mind, the legs always end up bigger/more bulbous than the pose I'm looking at cause of the symmetry.
I do tend to go fast when doing the spheres/planes, to get it in kind of one stroke and avoid chicken scratching and wobbly lines. But I guess its having the opposite effect anyways lol thank you for the insight!
3 and 4 of lineart copies
Aaand here's #5 before the new week starts, lol... I tend to either draw during the morning or at night, both situations where everyone in my household is either at work or getting ready for bed, so I can draw without someone looking over my shoulder Idk why I just don't like anyone seeing me draw, or really do anything while I'm learning a skill
Week 4!
I'm curious as to how long doing these dailies takes everyone, lol
Pen control maybe like 15 - 20 minTypically gestures take 30 - 40 min (depending on if I remember to set my timer) Perspective boxes take maybe 20 minThe proportions took me about 20-30 min cause I kept having to relisten to parts
Listed out about 2 hours, off/on in between work.
