Defintely not alone in the age group for sure! In terms of advice for the corrections the beach scene is 3 changes, if you don't hit it its best to restart from the beginning rather than attempting adjustments from there. Its a tough one to get for sure! Welcome to the forums!
@nodiern @Lockenheim, I appreciate the warm welcomes and advice! I've actually watched your thread for a while @Lockenheim before deployment, just rarely posted if ever.
As for now, I've decided that I'm going to do a "weekly round-up" sort of deal each Sunday to outline what I've attempted, practiced, and accomplished each week to hold myself accountable. For now, on-top of the first two term 1 assignments I've done some action lines, cylinders, cylinders over photos, and attempted a color study. I've learned from each one and plan to apply that knowledge going forward.
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Thats awesome to hear! Keep up the fantastic practice, I also usually do one post a week I think that works out well. I really love this cylinder practice. Keep that up for sure that skill comes back over and over and over again!
For this week's update, I've practiced cylinders, cylinders over photos, cylinders next to photos, gestures, and the 8-head proportion grid. Additionally, I've completed 3 out of 4 videos in term one and will take a two-week break just focusing on practice before moving to the next term.
My main goal was the 8-head proportion grid and I wanted to show my first 3 attempts. While they're all far from perfect, I was happy about the progress from 9/8 to 9/10. The first try on 9/8 was watching the video and trying to go along (took forever with constant pausing). The 2nd attempt on 9/9 was watching the video for X amount of time, pausing, then drawing to catch up. The final attempt for this week on 9/10 was based off imagination and attempting to remember the information.
I learned a lot this week about proportions and the rough idea of where certain parts land and that's always been a major weakness of mine. I always unconsciously end up trying to do a 1-for-1 in line size when trying to do a study in the past (like the sketchbook drawing), which causes the study to be incorrectly sized or for it to take forever. My plan going into week 3 is to organize my daily exercises and reduce certain exercises like cylinders and cylinders over photos. I've done about 100 cylinders and 100 cylinders next to photos (10 each time) and feel comfortable with the shape and how to read basic muscle flow. It's time to rotate them out and do them about once or twice a week to keep it fresh and make room for other exercises. My focus this upcoming week will probably be perspective, 8-head proportion grid, the full reference, and gestures.
Cheers and as usual, any and all criticism will be highly appreciated.
@prinzmoana thank you for the compliment! and thank you for your advice in your own thread about gestures, I tried to actively try being looser with my gestures and starting with the shoulders after the line of action helped me out a bit as you'll see below. Nothing to write home about, but definitely progress for me.
@Lockenheim thank you! you too! as I'm always keeping an eye on your thread for motivation. I've done a bunch of cylinders at this point, so I put them on the back burner and started moving to other exercises.
Now, good morning everyone! (8:30 AM for me) it's time for my weekly update after studying for some certifications early in the morning. This week (week 3), saw a lot of perspective practice! I finished the last video for term 1 back on Thursday (I watch them Tuesdays and Thursdays for 1 HR 30 MIN to 2 HR) and will take this entire week off from videos and fill in that space with extra practice time from term 1 subjects and will kick off term 2 next Monday.
I set a bunch of small goals for myself practice-wise in my notion page and use it as a way to get a ton of practice in while moving through them and doing them once in a while after they're completed to keep the skill sharpened. That can be seen below:
Otherwise, here is a bunch of things I did this week for practice!
I can't upload the convergence lines, vanishing points, and horizon exercises I did as I just googled photos and used them at full resolution. However, I did about 10 of them this week.
Hope everyone is making progress in their own art journey!
It's nice to see your progress with gestures 😄
Also your perspective looks quiet good 👍
Really awesome job on these perspective cubes. You did a great job with the cut away pieces those arn't easy!
@prinzmoana @Lockenheim thanks, I appreciate the compliments! I'm definitely happy with how my perspective is progressing and I know this week I want to really focus on my 8-head grid practice as I know term 2 starts anatomy. I told myself that once term 2 started I wanted to start putting in work on anatomy studies similar to Dave Rapoza's old-school schedule.
Addtionally, I've bought art books (total of 11 currently) that I've been reading through and taking notes on to include "Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)," which has helped me understand perspective. I've also bought "Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" and "Anatomy for Artists: A visual guide to the human form" to help me slowly understand anatomy better.
Been working on my room in 1-point perspective. The goal is to have a combination of eastern and fantasy inspiration. I play FFXIV, so I took a couple of screenshots of my in-game home, as well as, visiting other homes and taking screenshots of views that interested me. I kept one of Marc's suggestions to heart on a YT video where he said 60% should be something you're confident in and 40% should be the challenge. So you're learning, but not overwhelming yourself.
Here is the WIP:
Small update today as I didn't have a ton of time, but I wanted to make progress on my 1-point room. Added in some more objects like a desk, table, and planning out the floor design. Then started to add details to the fireplace, that alone took a while as it's my first ever fireplace and I've learned a lot from it already.
