Dina Merali - Art School Journey

[meralidina]

Hi! I just joined ART School today and I'm really excited to start! I've been drawing as long as I can remember, and I started doing digital art in 2015. I am completely self-taught when it comes to art and illustration. I really, really want to make a career out of art in the future though so I decided to finally seek some courses to kickstart myself. Here is something I made in late June, just to have something to show for my current art skills then compare it to whatever I'll have at the end.

[meralidina]

Yesterday I did the line of action/cone exercises and today I started on proportion exercises. I have a wacom mini tablet, so I don't look at my hand as I draw digitally, I look at the screen. Does it mess with some people? Because without the grid, my proportion drawings came out worse digitally than they did when I tried the same gridless exercise with pencil on paper.

[meralidina]

I've been trying to take it easy due to suffering from some arm pain recently but I still managed to get some gesture drawings in. All are drawn in 30 seconds.

[meralidina]

First time doing one-point perspective, super excited to learn something new

[WeirdOwl]

Your 1-point perspective looks like a beginning scene form one of those escape the room games Maybe add some clues?

[meralidina]

Thank you! I think I will add some

[meralidina]

modern minecraft house says hello!

[meralidina]

Lots of fun with this! The text I took from a copypasta someone sent over to me that made me laugh lol. Chose Doja Cat for the cover cuz I was listening to her music as I worked.

[meralidina]

So much has happened! I got sick with covid, family got sick with covid, I had to move countries, and start a job!! I'm so glad I can finally get back to Art School stay safe everyone

[meralidina]

Spending a lot of time practicing heads, and started doing a little bit of practicing folds!

[Julia_J]

Looks really nice, especially like the face of the bigger one!
Speaking of "big"... her breast ist so huge, it kind of "swallows" the head of the smaller one

[WeirdOwl]

Was about to comment on the breast too

Question: is the smaller figure a child or a smaller adult?

[meralidina]

Yeah Juno is supposed to be an actual goddess that's why she's like 8 feet tall. The proportions look weird if you thought of her as a human

[meralidina]

Forgot to add the description of the actual drawing itself (I posted this on several discord servers as well as artstation so I started to get confused where I put the description and where I didn't) But yeah the bigger one is a Roman goddess named Juno and the smaller girl is a character from a manga that was based on Juno.

[meralidina]

Continuing folds and heads practice, got another painting done today

[cedricgo]

Great vibe and atmosphere on this one! It's awesome

[meralidina]

Thank you cedricgo for the compliment!

I got one of the fold assignments done today. I got the reference photo from a model, you'll find her @.janehoho on instagram or @.JayTstyle on YouTube. Check her out!

[meralidina]

A redraw of a 17th-century poster drawing of Anne Bonny, a really good practice of folds! I've spent more time practicing anatomy and folds than moving on with the course but any practice is good practice!

[meralidina]

Downloaded the image of the skeleton from google. Had a lot of fun w this!

[meralidina]

Watched a bunch of Marc's "YouTube Art School" videos and decided to put the advice to use