Jul '24
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Hello,
My name is Gabriella and I have been a self-taught artist a majority of my life! I have always have loved sketching, but felt like I had holes in my fundamentals which would often lead me to feeling like I didn't know what I was doing. This lead me to throwing away a lot of my drawings as a child because I was always very discouraged and eventually gave it up completely at 13. Now that I am older, I realize that what I need is to have some structure and guidance in order to draw as the level I want!
I am doing this to break out of my comfort zone and really challenge myself to draw and learn daily. I also want to track my progress, and see how I improve over time. I am excited to dedicate my time to ART SCHOOL and share my journey here :smile:

Jul '24

Welcome to the forums Gabriella! A shame about the eariler drawings. Still, bests of luck with your art journey! Looking forward to seeing your work!

Jul '24

Thank you! I'm looking forward to it too and for this community :smile:

Jul '24

Welcome I look forwards to your progress

Jul '24

Officially Day one!
So far I have gotten some of the first assignments finished! Nude Figure drawing was my favorite by far, and I wasn't expecting to like the image adjustments as much as I did! I do have one question.
Could I get some advice on how to do the Curves/Levels for the black and white piece in Image adjustments? That one was giving me trouble. I do use procreate, so I am wondering if there is a limitation since there is only curves and no levels in procreate, in comparison to photoshop.
Overall, I enjoyed these first assignments and feel more confident. I welcome all feedback and am excited to hear from you :smile:

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Jul '24

Yo! good work so far!

On regards to adjusting levels in procreate, wish I could help more but unfortunatly I'm not familiar with it (I'm mainly a CSP user).

I did find this video that has a section for adjusting levels in procreate though... Not sure if it's helpful but it's something. My guess is that it handles corrections similar to CSP, that is, you add a "correction layer" for levels and then adjust as needed. But again, not a procreate usre so can't say for sure.

Ep. 12 | Procreate Adjustments pt. 1 - Hue/Saturation/Brightness, Curves + | Procreate Basic Series
Jul '24

This is so helpful, thank you! I will watch it :smile:

Jul '24

Reply to

daceronine

Daceronine, I watched the video you pinned for the Curves in procreate, AND IT WORKED! I have a better understanding now :smile: Here is me retrying the black and white photo. Thank you again!

Jul '24

Glad it helped! :+1: Yea that looks incredibly accurate!!

Jul '24

Welcome to the forums. Good work so far.

Jul '24

Day 2 Progress

Worked on Pen Control, TOP 10 DRAWING EXERCISES (to improve FAST). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C87ZXHPQkh0 and also worked on Assignments 1-3 again! Proportions for my gesture/still life drawing were some what off, still working on using surrounding items to determine the size of things and using the pencil technique.

Looking forward to some feedback :smile:

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Jul '24

Day 3!

Completed Nude Figure Drawing 6 and Pen Control Practice Again! Nude figure Assignment 6 was hard for me, I don’t know how people can do this in 30 sec 😂 I upped it to 1 minute instead of 30s for 30 minutes. I will gradually decrease time as I get better. So tomorrow I’ll try 45 secs :smile: As for Pen control, I definitely had fun drawing some little things in my friends bookshelf. And omg her books🤫🤭😂
Any tips on how to get quicker with gesture drawings ?

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