James R- Art School Journey

Hello everyone, my given name is James, it is nice to meet you all!
I have been drawing consistently for about ten years now, I even went to college for art, but I still feel that I am lacking in my art skills and consistency in work, especially the faces of my comic characters.
I hope we can all grow and learn here together.
below are a few pieces I have done in the past and I hope that I can look back at them in a year or two and laugh!

A character design sheet for one of the comics I hope to enter in the International Comic/Manga School Contest!

I really hope to gain a better understanding of color and digital painting in class.

Just an example of my current coloring ability.

Well that's all I have for now I will be uploading probably Fridays or Mondays.

Hello all!
So, this week I decide to start with the figure drawing assignments. I plan on going through one section of the chapter per week i.e. first week nude figure drawing, second week Photoshop for digital production and so on… that said I will be progressing a bit slower but hey if art was a sprint, I would probably fall right out the gate.

Here are a few of my cylinders Drawn over photos.

These are skeletons or wire frames I did while looking at photos.

These next two are photos I observed then tried to replicate them in a set time using eye measurements.

And this is probably my weakest area gesture drawing.

Well that’s all I have for this week I hope to see you all next week and get to know as many of you better as I can.
As always with art, any and all Critique is most most welcome!

So Two weeks in and working on photoshop assignment for the first term. Since I do not have Photoshop I have been doing my best with “clip studio” and here are the results
The apple bit was fairly straightforward I thought.

it is nice that "Clip Studio" now has a liquify tool but I am still getting the hang of its settings.

The dream house was a fun assignment and took me longer then I thought it would
the color correction assignment was a bit tricky as I have a hard time distinguishing blues apart.

the young to old assignment was fun and my line control was how might I say meditative
Anyway that is it for the new work assignments this week I think after reviewing I will start on the perspective sessions next.