Hi everyone, I am a beginner artist who started the art school journey on 04/08/24. I have never tried digital art before and have limited-ish experience traditionally. I used to doodle a lot years ago at school but nothing crazy (I've never studied art).

I have always wanted to improve my drawing however I like to have a structured path to follow so felt like this course was the best choice for me. Hopefully you and I will be able to see progress as I make my way through the course content.

I am not super sure what my end goal is but I know I enjoy illustration and want to get good at it and I am enjoying the process. I have just finished term 2 so thought I would post everything I have done so far and will continue to post as I (slowly) move through the course.

I am using CLIP STUDIO PAINT and a Wacom One 13 which a friend has lent me.

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TERM 1

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Photoshop (CLIP STUDIO) for Digital Production 1

I didnt spend super long on these as I am not very interested in Image adjustments etc and I am more interested in improving my drawing ability.

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1 - Pen Control

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2 - Image Adjustments

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3 - Combining Images

These are the images I used:

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4 - SelectionsLiquifyHealStamp

I only did the first part of this assignment as I wanted to get on to the illustration assignments as I am not very interested in image manipulation etc at the moment

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Nude Figure Drawing

This section wont be as organised and chronological as the last section as my folder structure was horrible when I did this. I usually did the whole assignment sheet in one sitting but will present it here differently.

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Line of Action

Had to compress these as they are fairly large
20/08/24

26/08/24

04/09/24

05/09/24

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Cylinders

20/08/24

24/08/24

26/08/24

26/08/24

04/09/24

09/09/24

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Proportion

25/08/24

25/08/24

29/08/24

29/08/24

04/09/24

04/09/24

09/09/24

04/10/24

06/10/24

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Gesture

I really struggle with gesture drawing to be honest but here were my initial attempts. Planning on coming back to this.
25/08/24

60 seconds:

29/08/24
30 seconds:

60 seconds:

04/09/24
30 seconds:

60 seconds:

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Measuring

To be honest I really didnt like using the measuring tools

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Perspective

I've never studied perspective so i found this quite interesting. Although I found measuring things out and drawing guide lines tedious. I definitely prefer a more intuitive approach but definitely need to get more confident before doing this all in my head.

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Finding convergence

The bottom left image here confused me a little bit

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Shapes

04/09/24

09/09/24
Here is my first time drawing shapes in perspective without guidelines (only the horizon line)

Here is me checking how well I did:

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1 point perspective of my (old) living room

Atleast this looks like my room but I am not overly happy with it. Didnt spend too much time on it and shading is very new to me

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Street corner

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TERM 2

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I enjoyed Term 2 a lot more than term 1 and am very eager to move continue forward with the course

I skipped Photoshop 2 - Assignments A as it didnt interest me too much however I am sure I will pass back and do it at some point

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Photoshop (CLIP STUDIO) 2 - Assignments B

I did have quite a bit more here but seem to have lost the files somewhere

11/09/24

11/09/24

17/09/24

24/09/24

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Perspective 2

I really didnt like how this one came out. Feel like I should have planned it a little more rather than just randomly slapping stuff in. Definitely need to get better at identifying things I like in what I create though

24/06/24

25/09/24

03/10/24
An attempt at a sledge hammer

Not sure what this is, saw a cool thing on artstation and tried to make my own version

04/10/24

06/10/24

07/10/24

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Anatomy 1

I started actually drawing along with the lectures here - not sure why it took me this long. Realised I have been wasting a lot of time just staring at the screen mindlessly for a couple hours at a time. Drawing along is also helping me absorb the info in the lectures.

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Volumes

I struggled with this, I find it very difficult to manipulate the volumes in perspective and make them interact with each other. Should I be drawing guide lines for every single thing I draw in this assignment? Definitely want/need to keep practicing this. Anyway, I thought I would include a few of my draw alongs from the lectures/

05/11/24

06/11/24

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The head

I was very surprised with how this went. Im particularly happy with my eye studies (not sure how I drew those to be honest) and least happy with the mouth's. For the mouths I can see there are a lot of fine details, its like I can perceive them but have no idea how to draw or represent them.

For the head studies I also followed some of Sinix Design's anatomy tutorials and found some success combining their methods with the courses methods.

11/11/24

14/11/24

17/11/24 & 19/11/24

24/11/24

30/11/24

31/11/24

06/12/24

07/12/24

08/12/24

And that is everything I have done so far. Not sure if i should have split this up into several posts but here we are. I've enjoyed the process so far and think I will try one more full portrait before starting term 3. Not sure if there is visible progress here but I think what I will do going forward is: whenever I finish a terms assignments I will go back and do all the other assignments from before again before moving onto another term, I think this should hopefully give me some good millage while also - hopefully - make seeing improvement easier.

The dates I have included are not super accurate and does not mean the work under it took only that day to complete, its just the day I started working on that piece. You may have noticed there are some pretty big gaps, I definitely want to work on getting more consistent at doing this every day although some of the gaps can be explained by me doing a 3D hardsurface modelling course at the same time - which I am only half way through at the moment.

Thanks to anyone who got this far. Any feedback/criticism is greatly appreciated and I am looking forward to learning/sharing more