DrCheekz - My Art School Journey (Term 1)

[DrCheekz]

Hey everyone. My name is Curt and just started Art school about a week ago. I've been drawing on and off throughout my life and only saw small gains each time, but after a lot of soul searching and helpful advice from my therapist, I'm finally taking the plunge and committing myself to finally improving drawing skills. I'm very new to digital art, so I have a bit of an uphill battle getting used to drawing on a tablet. I look forward to hearing any and all feedback that you may have.

[DrCheekz]

Here is what I've been able to do so far. It's only the first assignment and I can tell that my pen control can use some work, especially with circles. It took a while to make things look like I wasn't sitting in a paint shaker while I was doing the exercise.

[snakker]

Welcome aboard, good job, as you practice you’ll improve control

Cheers!

[DrCheekz]

So, It's been quite some time since I've posted anything here, and I feel pretty guilty about that. Life got extremely busy, and on top of that my original digital tablet broke on me, so I had to replace that (which took some time), but now I'm back up and running and plan to be more consistent with my posts. I owe it to myself and to you guys as well. I will say that I have continued with the lessons and assignments the whole time, so you can see what I have been up to. I look forward to any and all critique and suggestions you all may have.

[DrCheekz]

Here's a more current attempt at the pen control assignment. I have noticed more confidence in lines and circles.

[DrCheekz]

The image adjustments assignment was an interesting one, especially that last image. Man that one was a bit of a struggle.

[DrCheekz]

Here are the rest of the Photoshop for Digital Production assignments.

[DrCheekz]

The Nude Figure Drawing assignments were a lot of fun. As I practiced doing all of the assignments I noticed that I was becoming more confident in my lines and pen control. The Measurements assignments was a little bit of a struggle, but I think I got it relatively close.

[DrCheekz]

And now for the gesture drawings. I've been sticking with just 30 second gestures because I wanted to make sure I had a pretty good grasp on what I was doing. While I still think I have quite a ways to go I think I feel confident enough to add in 1 minute gestures. What do you think?

[patrycja.lerch]

Welcome back!
I see improvement in pen control
Good job on these!

[DrCheekz]

Here's a fresh batch of 30 second gestures I was able to do today. If anyone has any recommendations on what I can do to improve upon these I'd really appreciate it.
I would like to start doing 1 minute gestures, but based off of these I'm not completely convinced I'm ready to move on. Again, any and all help is welcome and very much appriciated.

[DrCheekz]

A quick batch of 30 second gestures. I wanted to try a new approach and focus mainly on the main line of action and the limbs. If I had time to add anything else I would. Thoughts? Recommendations?

[DrCheekz]

Here's my daily batch of 30 second gestures. I definitely still have a ways to go, but I feel like these are my best batch yet. A few more batches like these and I may feel ready to move on to 1 minute gestures.

[DrCheekz]

While I have noticed some improvement with my gesture drawings, the one thing that still causes me some issues are side profiles, more specifically people that are bent over (I'll include a picture for reference). If anyone has any tips or advice on what I can try to improve upon this (besides more practice) I'd really appreciate it. As silly as it sounds, and maybe I'm way over thinking it, but I don't feel like I can move on to 1 minute gestures until I can get my 30 second gestures down solid.

[catsforsnacks]

I'm of the opinion that as long as you are doing gestures daily (10-30 min) you are doing great. They're not all going to look good, in fact most of them will look like crap haha. That's just the nature of trying to cram a drawing in such a short amount of time. Move on to the 1 minute ones, I don't think the time interval is too important as far as the exercise goes. The variation should help avoid burnout as well.

the one thing that still causes me some issues are side profiles, more specifically people that are bent over

I like to imagine the torso as 2 separate boxes joined by a flexible tube. How those two boxes are angled and how they interact with one another really helps sell the pose. Might be hard to depict that with just 30 seconds though haha. All in all I don't really see an issue with your profile or bending over poses - you're doing great.
Nice work. Keep it up!

[DrCheekz]

I just realized that I neglected that to add the reference photo. Sorry about that.

[DrCheekz]

I am in need of some help/advice. I'm finally beginning Term 2 after having to take a bit of a hiatus due to a work related injury, and I'm having some issues fallowing along with the lesson on the Pen tool. I'm using Clip Studio Paint and a lot of what Marc is showing does not really translate well from Photoshop to CSP. I've spent roughly a week finding a tool that is supposed to act like the Pen tool, but even then I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to do even a fraction of what Marc is describing. Has anyone else run into this sort of issue? I would appreciate any and all advice that anyone has. Thanks everyone!

[mitsuki-youko]

Hi! I use CSP and can help u with it - can you give more detail on which homework item you are working on and i can look back and see what I did for it

Was it one of these:

or one of these:

or something else?

Also, welcome back!

[DrCheekz]

I realize that I have neglected to post the assignments I did for perspective. Here are a couple of the ones that I did. The assignment for making a room in 1 point perspective has turned into something I plan on making a gift for someone, so I'm going to take my time with it.

[DrCheekz]

I also wanted to share a piece that I drew in my sketch book. I don't know if this is the proper place to put it, so if anyone knows the right forum to post stuff like this and can let me know I'd really appreciate it. I can confidently say that his is definitely the best thing that I've ever drawn. I learned a lot working on this (mainly that I have a lot more to learn when it comes to the fundamentals) and it help to reinvigorate my motivation to continue to learn. my only regret is that I couldn't do this digitally. I still have to work on my confidence for that. I hope you guys enjoy.