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I failed my art test at Unfocused. I was given my weaknesses upfront. Anatomy, perspective, and design language. So that is exactly what I will be working on for the coming future to be sure I am a good overall artist with a rock solid foundation for my career ahead of me.

I am deciding to go for a 30 min gesture drawing session every day ( slow down, observe, draw 2 min poses, focus on the movement ) and a 1 hour anatomy session every day ( muscle paintovers, observations, drawing muscles on top of bones, etc. ) to get started and back on track. Mastery will take time, patience, persistence, discipline, etc. So let's do this.

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joseph_k

Sorry to hear you failed your art test. What is ‘Unfocused’? Some sort of school? Keep working at it and I’m sure you will get there.

Ron Lemen has some great anatomy lessons on youtube that you might find helpful. https://www.youtube.com/@RonLemen

I like his approach since it forces you to draw the full figure every time and understand where the muscles are connecting to the bones rather than drawing surface shapes.

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kalienator

Unfocused is a startup game studio, where I was a concept artist as a volunteer for 6 months as the team made a playable demo which would be showcased to big name investors. I contributed significantly, and those concepts were used in the demo.

However, I was laughed at and kicked while I was already down in the end, failing an art test I put 20 hours into as I am currently recovering from serious burnout. I wanted to learn and try to put in the work on my weaknesses, but they simply looked down on me and counted me out.

That team was not my tribe. At all. If they ever decide to come back around, I'll show them the door and remind them of how they treated me when I was down. And by then, I'll be well on my way to an actual real-deal AAA game studio being interviewed and hired for a real studio job. Period.

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I’m so sorry you had to go through that experience. I hope you don’t let what happened there affect your art journey in a negative way.

I looked back on all your posts since you started here on the forums and you have made significant progress with your art. Keep going and you will soon rise above all those people that have treated you poorly.