Another Update on the project, Please if anyone has any advice or any tips please share because I have no clue what I'm doing lol. Just going with the flow.

This is pretty much my test to see if I should go to term 2 yet or stay in 1 and continue perspective and construction.

Red is Construction - I think the Opacity is turned down
Blue - Armor and Just Ideas
Black - Ink of course

I really didn't know what to do with the cape in the back as far as lighting.. Like should I just keep it all pure black or what? lol I feel like if I do that it has no detail and looks flat. Maybe some bounce light off the floor on to the cape.
I was just playing around with the cape and made it torn up kind of brainstorming a story like she is mad about being in a fight and now her cape is ripped lol

Just some practice I've done so far today, working on hip Construction.

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Thank you very much.
My grandfather was an artist, a painter. He used to do portraits of Indians and Animals, he also did landscapes and Pirate ships, he was also a carpenter. I spent a lot of time with him in my younger years and we used to draw and paint together and do carpentry projects. I remember sitting with him and watching good ol' Bob Ross on the tv every afternoon lol.

When I got older I stopped visiting him so much because well, I was growing up and it cost a lot of money to fly out to colorado from jersey. He actually used to drive here to see us but then that got too much for him.

I guess maybe art is just a part of who I am and I never really tapped into it until I saw Marc's videos. He sounded so encouraging and saying it's not talent and anyone can do it made me want to get back into something I used to do with my grandfather.

Just some sketches before bed.

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@alwaysneedsleep I just do what David explains in his videos. I've really only been doing this for about a week. The arm in the sketch was the first comic style arm I've ever drawn with detailed anatomy on it. I don't even know anatomy. I just did it. lol.

That's why I told @mitsuki-youko in my posts that I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just doing things. lol

Oh also I learned the hair from David too.

Random Sketching, I started out doing classwork and by the time I got to the bottom all hell broke loose lol...

Thank you @mitsuki-youko . I have been really trying to get things working in my head in space. I'm having the biggest issue with perspective and rotating the figure.. been working on that today.

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I been looking at the schedule and my god.. It's a lot of work for a beginner. Being new to drawing I draw really slowly and it takes a long time to get my lines and all that.
Having to just draw "a full page of cylinders takes quite some time. Then we are supposed to draw 5 figures AND the daily exercises AND Construction over reference. Just doing the 5 figures takes me all morning to do lol

I'm drawing from 8 am till 10pm lol, it's pretty rough.

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4-1-23
Week 3 - Day 5
Classwork for the Day

Morning classwork Exercises.

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Wasn't really trying to be great, just classwork and really fast sketching