Hey there, welcome aboard

For smoother lines and curves, try using your shoulder instead of your wrist or elbow, ghost a bit (try doing the motion in the air) and when you are confident commit to the line and go for smooth and steady pace

Cheers

Term 1 - Assignment 2

The last one was SO rough for me lol! Especially in Krita after watching him in Photoshop. God bless Google and Reddit lol.

Yes. I was trying to use my prior "Draw a Box" methodology for drawing the lines but something about drawing on the tablet is just throwing me off. Definitely will start warming up with a few of these assignments.

Nice job with the colors, that last one was tough XD
Gotcha on the tablet thing, those standard graphics tablets seem difficult to get the hang of at first

Term 1 - Assignment 3 - Combining Images

This one made me laugh out loud at how bad I was at it. I added the house all the way in the back cause it was the only place that would work and turns out my images were rEALLY bad quality but I just was not thrilled with this assignment haha.

1 month later

Term 1 - Assignments 4 - Selections/Liquify/Heal/Stamp

I have pushed off these "Photoshop" lessons so badly because I literally really really really did not want to do them. I don't have photoshop and just got Clip Studio Paint and I've never been more frustrated trying to figure out how to do these with a different program. Like almost in tears haha! Some of what he was doing literally does not even exist in Clip Studio so half of these assignments I spent googling for answers. But I did them to the best of my ability while keeping some sanity (not amazing).

I just really didn't want to skip it while really wanting to skip it lol! Here they are.

18 days later

Term 1 - Nude Figure Drawing - Daily Practice 1-4
Honestly, not sure if I can keep up with these daily exercises! They took me so long! Like 3hrs. Not because it's a hard concept but because I'm just not great with straight lines and placing my circles/squares properly due to apparent discomfort with my tablet lol.

I think I'm gonna have to downgrade to just doing one of the "cylinder" figures a day otherwise I won't progress. :frowning:

Lol also I've always hated doing the 8-head practice so I already know I'm in for a lot of "doing the same thing" practice so may as well move on to that while building my understanding of volumes.

Decided to do one more draw over set of the cylinder poses! Same images so figured I'd just complete both the simple skeletons and cylinder skeletons. (Was inspired by other forum posters)

looking good indeed, just one small thing about the cylinders, there is no need to do so many contour lines on them, two or three should be plenty to show the direction of it, try to space them, to many looks a bit to clustered, keep it up :smile:

Haha yeah, that's why I only did the many contour lines on that one figure. I just was curious how it would look! Thanks though! :smile:

Nude Figure Drawing - Assignment 4
First time doing the cylinders outside of the body. Honestly, my proportions are just a tiny bit off but I did better than I thought I would. I was just trying to tell myself "I can do this" because for some reason I thought it would be too hard? Anyways here's this assignment. I think I'll move on to the 8 heads now!

nice work
do note in the bottom left figure, that the arm is pointing towards the observer rather than being shorter and to the left, more like the upper left figure

cheers