Krafts - Art School Journey

Hey all!

I go by Krafts these days (yes, original I know).

Bear with me because I am challenged when it comes to forums (hopefully I am doing this correctly). Also I decided that after three months on term 1, I should start posting something (the thing I conveniently ignore on Marc's suggested study schedule).

Not much for intros, but put simply: I am your doodling/hobbyist artist that decided to level up from the horror stick figures and occasionally well-drawn art she has to hopefully make enough progress on a professional level.
I dropped art for a VERY long time due to personal reasons and well, after learning a tough lesson, I am now deciding to focus on it 100% now.

I also have these panel scripts for an amerimanga/stylized comic that I have been jolting down for about 2ish years or so and am looking to create something out of it (even if it just concepts or illustrations for fun).

So overall:
- I am challenged on social media updates and forums so....hopefully I am going to cure that habit.
- I am going to go as intense as I physically can on the art studies because I would like to reach a self-taught pro level (cartoon/stylized ideals mostly). With hard work and determination, one can hope, right?
- I have some wips and the lot but I am also very shy and anxious about posting them online and am very very slow in drawing.

Now that the block of text is done: onto the assignments!

Looking forward to chatting with you all!

Okay so I believe replying is the correct way to work this...Right? Right (she says).

Anyways...
I am going to post the pen control first and the rest of the Photoshop assignments I did. I have yet to touch the Liquify ones yet.

Thanks Mau !
Looking forward to the rest of the process and hope I can contribute somehow.

Allrighty so posting my anatomy Term 1 assignments (ranges from beginning of May to beginning of August). I am only posting the works where I think progress is happening over time. The rest I usually erase because hard drive space is limited and papers will be everywhere.

So for start, this is how I did (pre-artschool) my tracings over reference so Marc's method wasn't unfamiliar.

Then I followed his "simplified" forms traced over references with the cylinder practice (not included).
After about 1-2 weeks of this and cylinders, I felt comfortable moving along to the "routine" practice : trace, reference, full figure study, with gestures implemented as much as possible.

So the TRF (trace, reference, figure) routine from May to today (August 12th):

Here is my progress for tracing and referenced figures daily exercises (about one week interval between each 2 pictures starting from the top)

And here are my full figure studies . I was playing around with smudging around June since it felt a lot like pencil sketching and I also wanted to incorporate light studies but I heard that that should be avoided?
I was also relying on the grid method before dropping it for only measurement in June.


End of July Progress Figure study (at this point I use construction lines and measurements only).

And this one is the latest I chose in week 1 of August for progress assessment.

So that's the whole shabang on the full figure studies over a 3 months span.

Also my proportions exercises and gesture studies:

For proportion: it went from no confidence, keep everything as similar to Marc's video as possible (it's not like I don't know where stuff goes in general but anatomy scares me) to okay do this your way, via memory and your simplified skeleton.

Therefore how it went:
Versus how it is going:
Now I can spot a lot of mistakes still (like the poor dude's legs for example) but I am going to say that I am happy that I could do this from memory and "accept" the risks of mistakes. I don't have much confidence and am my own worst harsh critic when it comes to my learning process so this was a huge boost in confidence.

Finally Gesture Drawings:
I needed a min and panicked constantly all while resisting the strong urge to erase (the urge won several times).

June's work got lost because it was on paper...so July it is. I know I wrote 1min but I was fluctuating between 1min and 45 secs. Much more comfortable.
I am now in August and decreasing the time. So these are at 45secs and 30secs respectively. Always trying to focus on the flow and action more than the rest.

And that is it for now ! Hopefully it wasn't too much of a drag.
I may (or may not) be posting Perspective Term 1 (which has been and still is a challenge for me , ...drawabox helps...I think.).

Otherwise I am considering moving to Term 2 on the anatomy part. Let me know what you all think.