OpaqueApple - Art School Journey

[OpaqueApple]

Hi everyone! I'm OpaqueApple.
I'm relatively new to Art School and somewhat new to drawing. I unfortunately never gave art a chance when i was younger so i have little to no experience. I found myself ignoring pretty much all the art fundamentals for a good amount of time, felt like I backtracked a lot and found myself here to try to improve from the beginning! This will mark the beginning of my journey to becoming a somewhat better artist. I'm pretty new to any forums or blogs and decided that I didn't want to shut myself inside a bubble with no-one but myself looking at my own mistakes. My aim is to improve in my art fundamentals to the point where I can say that I am happy with my own work and also create a lot more pieces! I've linked some of my better pieces for reference, the former being one I finished near the start of this year and the latter one being one I'm currently working on.

(I don't really have a consistent style so that will be a later goal if i manage to get through and grasp my fundamentals!)

[mau.wamp]

Wow those are really good paintings!
Great to see you on the forums. I am really looking forward to seeing your future works!
Cheers,
Mau

[OpaqueApple]

Thank you Mau, i feel like my drawings are accidental but i'll try my best!

[OpaqueApple]

I'm going to start uploading my progress on things in the course slowly but surely. Today I'm going to upload the first photoshop assignment.

[OpaqueApple]

Second Photoshop assignment. It was tough to get all of them to match exactly, especially the final piece.

[OpaqueApple]

Third photoshop assignment completed. I have two versions since i wanted to improve on my first one.

[OpaqueApple]

I've gone through and finished assignment 4 for the photoshop section.



i had alot of trouble mixing the person and the alien together since photoshop didn't recognize the alien as a face but i managed to work around it.
I've actually finished term 1 as a whole since i'm a month in so i might revisit PS section 1 again! I will be steadily uploading the things i have done for the rest of the term before moving onto term 2.

[OpaqueApple]

quick practice on Perspective assignment 1 for the day.

[OpaqueApple]

1 point + 2 point perspective practice

Super bland and very arbitrary but i'll upload for the sake of the assignment. It was still super fun to mess around with basic cubes in 1 & 2 point perspective. I was also too lazy to clean up and do Line Art over this.

[OpaqueApple]

I ended up finishing this off in the meantime.

[OpaqueApple]

I finished both assignment 1 and assignment 2 around a week or two ago. I will probably redo assignment 1 since i didn't really like the generic design of the room and will probably give the room life by putting in color next time. Assignment 2 was based off an image on google however I liked how it turned out overall. Also sorry for anyone who checks the assignments out since both are rotated 90 degrees, I never ended up changing the canvas and instead went and rotated the page and worked around that way.

[OpaqueApple]

Hi all,
Firstly, i decided to redo my 1 Point perspective assignment, this is a WIP of it, i still need to polish it up some more but it's near finished;
I've also moved back onto the anatomy section of term 1
I'm going to start by uploading my gesture practice, it is a bit out of order from how anatomy 1 goes however if anyone has any advice for gesture please send it this way. I feel like i'm missing something from gesture drawing. Any advice & tips would be much appreciated!;
The first 2 sets are 30 second ones and the last 2 images are 1 minute.

[OpaqueApple]

I went ahead and did some cylinder practice
i ended up leaving it really messy with the cross contours wrapping around the cylinders.

side note; I just notice that some of the minor axis' don't completely cut straight through the middle which is noted for next time i do this practice!

[OpaqueApple]

i finished off some practice figure drawings ontop of reference pictures

[OpaqueApple]

Hi all,
I ended up going through the standard proportions section once again;

i felt like i picked one or two things i missed the last times i went over this. However, i noticed that the one problem with this is the forms felt super flat for me, i put a few contours around to just help myself but these can be ignored.
apart from that, i've been doing more gesture stuffs and i'm going to lay in some gesture practice ontop of the proportions that i've done today;
the first set is 30 seconds whilst the second is 1 minute, i'm not going to upload all of the pages since it'll become too long of a post to look at and read. I sometimes notice that i go off the dedicated mark that splits my page up in half and sometimes even go off the page with the gestures! I'll try to work on that. If there are any critiques or useful resources anyone has, i would appreciate anything linked.

[OpaqueApple]

Hi all,
I've finished off the measurements exercise;

i ended up putting 3 uploads, one is without plumb lines* (I'm not sure if this is the correct term used), the second being the plumb lines added, and third is putting the drawings over the original to check for accuracy. It's a slow yet fun process to do measurements, the one thing i felt was that they do look pretty stiff!

[OpaqueApple]

Hi all,
i've once again gone over the gesture drawing section of term 1 anatomy;

The first set are 30 seconds and the second 1 minute. I'm not going to upload all of the pages since it'll spam up the thread with gestures. There are still quite alot of faults with my gestures such as proportions, losing the sense of form and sometimes still going over my dedicated centre line but i feel like i've definitely seen some sort of improvement over the past 2 months.
This practically wraps up all of Term 1! after around 2 long months, i have gotten through term 1 and will probably proceed to term 2 after a few more days of working on stuff in term 1.

[afoster1138]

Congrats on finishing Term 1! Love your gestures! They have a lot of energy and I love the line work. Keep this up!

[OpaqueApple]

much appreciated! i felt like i learned alot in in term 1

[OpaqueApple]

Hi all,
i decided before moving onto term 2 that i'd actually draw something, i'd left this as a sketch a while back but decided to pick up on it.
i felt like sometimes i'd forget about form and flatten some things out but i enjoyed the overall process.