Joe - Art School Journey

Hello! I'm Joe, and have recently begun Art School. I have been creating art since I was a kid, and now want to really get deep into improvement. I had a social media for 3+ years, but it didn't go anywhere so I decided to just delete it and start over. I hope to create some connections with other artists here and get to a high level of skill. I am on Term 1, and will add more of the assignments as I go along. Feel free to provide feedback / critique.

Hey WeirdOwl, thanks for telling me about the group. I'll join soon. Getting excited!

I have worked a lot on gesture drawings. I have completed the cylinders / 'boxes' ( the skeletons ), and will show them here. I feel I am becoming much better at seeing the human form and capturing it in general. I will now focus on the figure drawing assignment, as well as the proportions. I'm not sure if self-promotion is allowed on here, but I have also created an actual YouTube channel for my art. I feel like giving my art process to other artists and inspiring them to keep creating in these tough times ( For anyone interested, this is the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCesps3wEqTTOtawnTRpayxg?view_as=subscriber ).

I wanted to share my gesture drawings today. I am definitely getting better ( and faster ), but I feel I still need to properly look at the forms themselves. Any advice / critique would be much appreciated

So, here is my first attempt at drawing the full figure. I feel there is a lot to learn still. I'd like to learn enough to be able to draw the human body accurately. Perhaps I just need some more patience and time. If anyone has got some suggestions, I would much appreciate the help. Now, the last part of the nude figure drawing is the proportions. I'll be on to perspective next.

I have started to learn about human proportions. I feel like I have at least a bit of a good grasp on this, though feedback is spprectiated. I want to learn to do this quite well.

I just wanted to do a quick post here to provide an update as to my gesture drawings. I have been improving quite a bit ( for my pace at least ), and am starting to love the art process now. I'm slowly gaining more confidence through endless practice!

I got some brand new references for the gesture drawings, since the references I was using were getting stale. It also let me quickly learn and adjust to new gestures / angles which weren't in the old references.

I have also begun the assignments for digital production ( photoshop ).

I am working through the lecture on perspective and will begin practicing and learning as I go.

Been through a lot since the last post..I'll post more in a bit