Its been around a month since I started the program and I realized its about time I started my journey thread, social anxiety be damned, so here we go.
Earlier this year through a lot of emotions I will not get into for the sake of time and your generous patience and attention, I decided to go back 10 years and finally get into drawing officially, eventually moving to digital, the course was a good excuse to finally get a tablet, I got one of the basic ones without the screen and since I can do some basic gestures after months of practice I figured, how hard can it be?
the answer is very, my pencil skill isn't the best but drawing while looking somewhere else is not easy, this little page here is about the best I can do, also has some of the many exercises I do almost daily
Diagonals are my best lines for some reason, up and down is pain, side to side is a decent motion, I heard Mark say up and down is the easiest and I have complaints.
I played a lot of osu! for a week and it helped with the coordination and knowing where I have to move my hand, but it does not help with accuracy or line confidence, however, I do have this little indie gem called "spell casting - meowgically enhanced edition" which is a game where you trace shapes and have to memorize them later for little tests, its adorable and deceptively difficult, it even makes you prioritize speed which greatly helped my line confidence.
I sat through the photoshop class which was kind of painful since I've already had a few lectures during my student days on the topic, I've edited some memes and pictures using inferior software, and since I'm using krita the tools and shortcuts are not the same and I already adjust color sliders for my monster hunter armor pigments and I did a few of the exercises so when it comes to the later classes I'll let my hubris be the end of me.
The real tough spot I'm on is doing figure drawing on the tablet, I can do lines and wide ellipses kind of well if I'm not aiming somewhere specific and I can't trace if my life depended on it, so it ends up looking like this
That's been my first month so far, I intended to at the very least watch every video in term 1 just so I can make all the assignments a daily routine but learning the digital pen is taking all of my efforts right now, I started to practice on pencil+paper just so I don't get stuck on one thing and stop all of my progress, I did draw this streamer fanart once upon a time, its been a while, I should do that again.
Well I'll be back next month thank you all once again for your patience and all feedback and anything else, really exited to move forward no matter how hard it gets, this is my last lifeline, after all.
