Jay B - Art School Journey

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Hello fellow art school students,

I’ve been drawing with traditional pencils as hobby for quite a few years now, but it’s always been in a very sporadic manner. At some point I’d eventually get started on a drawing, find it really enjoyable and question why I’d left it so long since the last time I drew. A year later I’d find myself thinking, “I really should do another drawing”.

I did think that spending the entire year working from home under Covid restrictions would allow me to find more time to dedicate to art, but it’s amazing how work can permeate your entire day when your office is in the next room.

I decided I needed some accountability to make sure I found the time each week to dedicate to artwork, so here I am. Having never actually had any art lessons, I also figured that learning from the fundamentals would help me to develop my abilities past the level of copied fan art and into the realms of creating original characters and scenes.

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As a starting point, my first set of assignments. Who would’ve thought it was so hard to draw lines and circles. I apparently tend to curve my lines a little.

I’m using an iPad for drawing and I’m not actually using Photoshop, so I’m having to adapt things slightly. It’s an interesting opportunity to test out 3 different art apps though, and get an idea of the strengths and weaknesses of them.

Seems I can judge hues pretty spot on, but I tend to ever slightly over saturate and darken a little to get the final colour.

[Julia_J]

Welcome I feel you, I work for about 60 hours/week and really need a push sometimes to "perform" and ArtSchool works for me

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Started working on the figure drawing lesson in the first term. Currently working on the lines of action and basic skeleton. Tried to use the square and circle approach for the body parts, as well as trying another variation for the torso form. Interesting to test each shape.

Definitely found it easier to relate the circular forms to the body positions, and the final variation allowed me to convey a little more information about the direction of the shoulders.

And I know we're meant to be using naked figures, but I want to do a parkour fanart, so thought I'd practice with that as well.

Boxes

Circles

Circle Variation

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Working on the cylinder part of the figure drawing lesson. Have to say, I actually found this quite tricky, mostly trying to work out which direction the limbs were going in and how angled the end plane should be.

Although the results when you take away the underlying image (I've included both) do look rather cool