Mar '23
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Hi everyone, my name is Ken, I bought Marc's School because I have always had a passion for art and drawing but to be honest I haven't drawn anything since I was probably 13 years old. I'm now 45 and I just want to draw, and create. I love PC Games and the Art that is in them and I've always wanted to create great concept type art.
Who knows maybe I'm too old to get into this stuff now, maybe not, but I'm going to try and see where this course takes me.
So far I have done some of the Assignments in the Term 1.
I really don't know what to do first or how much to do.. I've watched all the videos in Term 1 so far and now I'm just doing Assignments every day for an hour or so that I have to do them. I saw Marc is coming out with a better Schedule so we can have a bit more focus on what and when we should be doing things.
So anyway here is some of my work that I have been doing.
Some Construction

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Proportions

Gesture Drawing

Attempt at Free Hand

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Mar '23

Welcome to the forums! i don't think anyone is ever too old to learn something :smile: in fact i've heard that so long as you're learning you're never really "old" :smiley:

Mar '23

Did some Proportion work before Bed It is looking better than my last try. I just really struggle with arms and calves.

Mar '23

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alwaysneedsleep

I can't wait to see it either! lol I feel so Excited to be on this journey and I have also noticed that drawing brings calm over me and everything just leaves my mind and it's just peaceful.

Mar '23

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mitsuki-youko

Tell that to my Bones! lol Maybe one day I will be able to draw some strong healthy bones that don't ache every time they move haha!

Mar '23

Welcome to Art school Ken!

I'll say what a few others have said and that's you're never too old to learn new things.

Of things I'd suggest it would be line confidence. In the first exercise (pen control), try to draw lines in one continuous stroke. To further help with this, try ghosting your lines (hovering the pen over the tablet as you execute the line) to help with keeping it accurate.

Otherwise, you're doing quite well.

Mar '23

Ya i seem to be doing the "sketching" thing because for some reason my pen strokes are always so light, I have the Opacity button off but still even when I press pretty hard the stroke is not dark enough so I end up going over it a few times.
I'm using a Wacom 22 Cintiq and Photoshop. Not sure what the issue is.
Like sometimes when I open the Brushes panel the Brushes are all Rounded or Square at the ends like this.

Then other times they are like this, and I'm not changing anything. It's just different every time I start PS up.

Mar '23

Just a bit of Sketching I did. I did some gesture drawing today and I just wasn't feeling it. I'm really bad with proportions obviously because i have no clue what im doing wrong with that, but I was getting frustrated a bit. I'm pretty sure it was because a LOT of the poses had foreshortening in them.

So then I went on to just free sketching and it calmed me a bit, tried drawing a couple heads then some shapes and my first try at some fingers.

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