Glad to have you, Joseph!
1 year later
Hiya, for those who are reading, I started this 2 years ago, and well to make this short, I practically gave up on week 4 because I'd gotten lazy or just lost motivation to continue. As time has flown by, a lot has changed in my life, and I've realized what needs to be done as 2024 nears its end, despite it being difficult. As I enter a new year, I am committed to taking my studies seriously in order to pursue my passions. As I write this, I am in week 4 trying to get back on track. I began again from week 1 to make sure I had learned everything this program has to offer. As much as I can, I'll try to keep track of my progress through my art journey.
Though I'm not sure that I'll be able to push through the year, now is better than never and I might as well do it and study, but also have fun with it. Someday, I'd like to share some ideas about my stories, but first I have to learn step by step along the way to get there.
I won't lie, despite sketching out and warming to perspectives, it was a bit difficult to draw my room with certain shapes and other details, so this is the result I got for it
I know it's not perfect but despite a bit of a rush result, I thought I did okay, and I was able to capture my room even if it's not exactly match, anyways, is there I could do improve in perspective, I'd like to hear any suggestion and criticism.
Looking good so far, those are some extreme angle poses you used for foreshortening, really cool. Room looks good but I would have left it at lineart, the airbrush effect going through stuff looks a bit muddy and detracts from the drawing
cheers
Thanks, although the airbrush part was only a last-minute hurried job, so in retrospect, I should've left it out or improved it. 
For sure, one easy way about it would be to use a selection over the plane you want to shade before using a very large airbrush and then apply the shading that way on each surface taking into account how the shadows or lights would form
This week was a bit tougher than I thought, I've been juggling between assignments and other task of what it needs to be done that result turned to be quite the mess, it wasn't until near the end of the week that I started to figure out the type of daily assignments/practice I needed to do.
The most difficult I have to work with is the line art character study, at first, I traced the character directly to the images to see how the line arts work and the I tried to replicate it outside while looking at it side to side, but since still lack practice in proportion and other small area I often have to redraw the picture to the best of my ability, while it did okay, it wasn't bad, but I know it needs more work, although it's not so bad, considering I heard from others that while line art is significant to your artwork, it isn't overall important so as long as the artwork is so good that you won't even notice the line art is imperfect, so I at least don't have to be overly worried about at the moment for now at least.
Anyway, what do you think, and which area is the most challenging to work with?
Well, in the end it all really depends. I think when you are trying to improve your line work, you should put a lot of effort into each line, simplifying and ghosting each line, taking your time etc, as for some applications your use of line can be a big deal, especially if the lineart will be prominent in the end result (like inked comics for example). It also helps when sketching and doing gestures to improve your line quality and confidence.
That said, you can totally "hide" bad line quality, you can be as sketchy, chaotic and messy as you want to be before pouring buckets of values or colors in your preferred rendering method, essentially vanishing any remnants of line art if that is how you work, in fact, some artists paint directly, entirely foregoing lineart for the most part. That's not to say it's right or wrong, but when learning I think it's best to do your best at any given thing you do, avoid being sloppy at all times, and make each mark meaningful and as easy to read as possible, both to do the exercise of understanding what you're doing at a pace your brain can actually comprehend and also to constantly reinforce concepts you are learning
It's hard to say what's most challenging. It's so subjective for me, but I remember struggling hard to do gestures when starting out
cheers
9 days later
It took much more time than I expected to draw out the background, combining perspective with the way it's drawn out, which was difficult, but that's to be expected. I tried to copy and study a scene around Tokyo station, although the details were a little rough because of the low resolution/quality, and some parts were blurred out.
Apart from the background, the other exercises are easier for me to grasp, such as shapes, but I could use some more practice to develop my skills and adapt my drawings to them. Overall, things are going pretty well. I only need to work on perspective/background, so I will keep working on it along with other fundamentals until I get it right.
As Week 7 comes to an end, I'm taking the opportunity to practice some of the things I really enjoy, such as drawing shapes in rotation and drawing poses, in addition to reading books on how to improve on them. (For posing, I read a book called Figure Drawing: Design and Invention, by Michael Hampton).
As well as for the fun of it, I draw my OCs to see how much I can apply my artistic skills to them.
As far as the quality goes, I think it's pretty good. I know there are a few omissions here and there, but it's good to see I am getting better each week. I also could have touched on perspective and environment, but I didn't want to get too overwhelmed.
Nevertheless, I am pleased with how things are moving forward, so I will continue to do so.
In Week 8, I have been making steady progress as usual. However, I do feel slightly sluggish due to mental exhaustion from work this week, but I have managed to complete my assignments and read and watch videos about perspective and background in addition to working on my assignments.
However, I still need more practice and time with the details as I slowly adjust to the perspective, and I've also learned how to copy backgrounds, which I think has helped me better understand how it's drawn, even though some are traced, but I still haven't mastered drawing backgrounds well despite having references.
The first term of my studies has ended and I'm starting term 2 next week, and I feel more determined than ever to succeed no matter how little has been acknowledged or improved in my accomplishments. Whatever the case may be, I look forward to improving even further!
Week 1 Term 2:
In all honesty, this week was a bit more challenging than I anticipated. In spite of being able to adjust to the study happening around me, I encountered difficulties catching up with my studies. Inkscape and Photopea were the alternatives to Photoshop for me, so I used them to draw and use tools after watching those lecture videos.
Ghost:
GameBox:
On the other hand, this assignment took me two days to get a good grasp of painting from the shades and the lighting of the portrait while using a mirror and my existing Oc to draw this out.
Self-Portrait:
Overall, I could use more practice when it comes to using more tools. While it could help me in the long run, it's up to me how to use it properly and add it to my arsenal to draw out great artwork and animation. On the artistic side, I'm feeling a bit confident about how my progress goes on drawing out characters up close, just to practice more on lighting and later on their poses, construction, etc.
As always, I look forward to improving even further on my journey.
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