Dina Merali - Art School Journey

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.

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.

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.

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

Thank you! I think I will add some

modern minecraft house says hello!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Continuing folds and heads practice, got another painting done today

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!

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!

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

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