Have I really not posted on here since April? I've still been doing art and I've been active on the Art School discord, I've been kind of experimenting with ways to stay as productive as I can and avoiding the things that stop me from doing art. I am still working on that, but I missed posting on here. So I have a bit of a dump of everything I've been working on lately.

Here are the projects I previously posted WIPs of:

I ended up following Marc's cel shading video to complete this:

And then I decided to try to paint this more realistically. rendering jeans might be a bit beyond my current skill level but I like how it turned out:

and my 3 point. I might still go back and shade it

Here is some of my work from the Master Portraits Discord thread. The rules are you have to do it on paper and use a medium where you can't erase. I like having something that makes me go back to traditional media sometimes.

I did these after watching Trent Kaniuga's video about redrawing faces consistently:

I tried drawing some of the Battlefield 2042 specialists from memory:

A painting study. rendering water is very challenging

A sketch of some helmets

And finally another side project I started. as tmepted as I am to just keep going with this, I think I will go back to exercises for now, so when I go back to this it will have a better chance of turning out how I want it to

Thanks @snakker! scenes and landscapes are still much more in my comfort zone compared to faces and figures, so that's what I'm trying to do more of

Another portrait on paper, and my 4 point. I'd appreciate any feedback, I don't know if I like it

Thanks, that does make sense! I've been doing them in my sketchbook and trying to save room for more, so maybe I should try bigger sheets.

I actually started those as my Term 2 creature, but I liked the first one I drew so I decided to keep going and draw more. Still not 100% sure where I'll go with them.

my final Term 2 assignment, my self portrait... I really wanted to follow the instructions to do it using a mirror, so my options were to take my tablet in the bathroom or use an old car mirror I had lying around, I chose the car mirror and that explains my expression, maybe kinda? lol

and for my T2 free week I decided to study some real otters

Thanks so much @snakker and @daceronine!

I'm just getting into the Term 3 materials now. I've seen some discussions about whether it's better to watch the videos all at once or in parts, In the other terms I watched them in one sitting, but I always ended up having to go back and re watch parts. I will probably still do that, but this time I am seeing how it goes breaking them up. I think this will work better, I am always eager to try the things Marc is talking about.

The study guide came out when I was starting Term 2, so I made sure to do all the exercises, but I didn't really follow the schedule at all. This time I will be sure to do everything in order, but I don't think I'll try too hard to do each week's work within a week. (unless maybe the weekend is included)

I've never been that good at taking notes, but I have seen how it can help, and it would probably be less distracting than trying to follow along with Marc on the first viewing.

@daceronine I also wish I had time to do the daily exercises every day, I feel like I'd be leveling up faster If I did. but my approach is similar. Thanks for the example and insights!

looks like I kinda sorta lied about doing Term 3 in order, I saw one of the exercises was 10 heads from reference, so I thought that seemed like something more familiar to start off with, I meant to do 2-3 before leaving it for later, but I liked how it was going and finished all 10

My first attempt at the clothed figure assignment. It was harder than I expected! I think I need to do several more of these before trying the nude figure dress up assignment

and a couple more of these guys, because painting baby animals is also kind of addicting