Desertwind56 - Art School Journey

[desertwind56]

Hi, my name is Connie. I studied traditional art many, many years ago. There are a lot of things I never learned. I hadn't done any drawing or painting for decades, until about a year ago. I've been doing traditional painting (oils). But, I've hit a roadblock. I can draw the human form. I have comic ideas I just can't get on paper. Most of my artwork is mediocre. So, here I am!

[desertwind56]

I finished the Photoshop Assignments. I used Krita instead of Photoshop. I have a Huion Kamvas 13 tablet.

I'm still new to digital art and these took forever. I struggled with them a lot.

[desertwind56]

And here is my "castle" and the photos used. Even though I struggled with these assignments, I learned a lot!

[andysawesomemovies]

Welcome, Connie! Good to see you have most of the basics down!

[catsforsnacks]

Welcome to the forum!

[Pattu_w]

Welcome!!!

[mitsuki-youko]

welcome to the forums!

[patrycja.lerch]

Welcome Connie!

[desertwind56]

Thank-you everyone for the welcome!

[ZekeDraws]

Welcome to the site!

[desertwind56]

I watched the "Nude Figure Drawing" video. That was a lot to take in. I'm going to have to re-watch it as I go through the class assignments.

Here is my first attempt at the skeleton with cylinders assignment. Any comments are welcome!

[shawnellefernandes]

Good job, looks great.. maybe you could slightly adjust(increase) the spacing for the last pressure practice exercise, I don't believe it's necessary but I guess it'd make it look more distinguished.

[desertwind56]

Yeah, the supplied sheet for that last pressure exercise is way to small. I've been creating a new big page with room to practice.

Thank-you!

[desertwind56]

I added gesture drawing to my daily practice. Here are a few that I did yesterday. They are about 30-45 secs each. They are barely glorified stick figures. And a lot of chicken scratching going on.

[mitsuki-youko]

they convey the gesture well! nice job

[desertwind56]

I've been working on the first study of a professional artist. I started with "Drunken Aunt" by Chrissie Zullo. Here is my pencil sketch and a picture of her original. Currently, I'm working on digitally inking my version/copy.

[desertwind56]

Here is my final version of "Drunk Aunt". It was a good way to practice digital pen control. I hadn't realized how much line variation there is in the artwork until I "inked" it.

[desertwind56]

I finished my second character study. This one is by Jake Panian and is from an animated movie called "Mitchells vs. the Machines". Haven't seen it. But I liked the action in this image as well as the character design.

[desertwind56]

And this is my first drawing for the proportion assignment. I followed along on Marc's video as well as referencing "Figure Drawing for all it's Worth" by Andrew Loomis.

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Third character study is done. This one is a study from Anna Cattish.