NEW POSTING FORMAT!
I am switching things up yet again. Figuring out what I want out of the ART School curriculum and how I want to actually apply it to my own practice and art goals has been a struggle for me. I feel I've come to a conclusion today. I'll be using the curriculum to practice my Fundamentals on a Daily, Weekly, and Monthly basis.
The term updates will become monthly updates, where I take the term assignments and complete them each month ( perhaps with a slightly different focus, to practice them in different ways for different results )
This means that I'll be having 3 Post Types:
- 1. Daily: This includes Gesture Drawing, Simple Perspective, Quick Compositions, and Observational Drawing
- 2. Weekly [ Sundays ]: This includes Anatomy, Complex Perspective, the Art Studies, Simple Storyboarding, Clothed Figure Drawing, and Plein Air Painting
- 3. Monthly [ last Wednesday of each month ]: This includes Character Design, Animal and Creature Design, Environment Design, Props Design, Mech Design, Matte Painting, and Color and Light Theory
With this new method and schedule, I can be sure to use the curriculum as something I can come back to each and every day to improve my basic fundamental skills, and further to come back to over longer time periods to apply those skills to more complex assignments and projects. I hope this will allow me to gain a better, long-term and patient perspective on the curriculum as a whole, instead of trying to rush the curriculum and terms, and in turn getting nowhere fast.
And here is my first Daily Post below!
For my Observational Drawing, I am switching up how I approach observation. Instead of simply "drawing what I see," I want to draw to understand. This means that I want to observe objects and represent them in 3D space with measurements, so that I can then use those measurements to re-draw them in any angle.
I feel this method is more powerful and useful than simply drawing what I see, because this way I can truly understand what I am observing and construct it properly.
I am adding in the Quick Compositions as a way of practicing quickly and efficiently drawing out various compositions in order to begin training my compositional skills
That is all for now. See you soon 
