OpaqueApple - Art School Journey

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!)

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

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.

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

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

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.

quick practice on Perspective assignment 1 for the day.

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.