Oscar - Art School Journey

oscar.kim 2021-02-03 19:50:14 UTC #1

Lets see if Im doing this right. I dont have much forum experience so this gonna be interesting.

Hi
My name is Oscar im from Germany and currently 17 y/o.
I have "only" been interested in art for a few years (it started in 2016) and not too long ago I decided to take it more seriously because it is the thing I enjoy most. Im not very comfortable here yet so im going to keep this rather short.

I purchased Art School right at the start of this year so im already half way in Term 1. I hope Im able to keep this somewhat updated.

oscar.kim 2021-02-03 20:55:16 UTC #3

So here are a lot of my gesture practice session from january.

oscar.kim 2021-02-03 21:15:00 UTC #4

I have some catching up to do so here are the skeletons. I was lazy with a lot of them but i didnt want to go over the line of not having fun anymore.

oscar.kim 2021-02-03 21:35:49 UTC #5

So second to last i have the proportions assignment. I did this about 5 to 10 times and each time it looked the same and yet completely different. If you notice any issues please let me know.

oscar.kim 2021-02-03 21:51:11 UTC #6

So last but not least the full figures. These were so hard and unfortunately since I didnt think about posting them here in the beginning I erased many guidelines and also (semi) cheated here and there by overlaying them to see what they were lacking while still in progress.

dangras-almeida 2021-02-05 08:11:44 UTC #7

Wow, this looks pretty good! Congrats!

HANDRO 2021-02-09 20:09:50 UTC #8

Nice Oscar!

These look a lot better than when I was working on this stuff. Keep it up.

Not sure how much overlap you did to check yourself but I recommend you do it in moderation, I did the same when I started and it was rather hard to break that habit personally.

oscar.kim 2021-02-11 11:02:58 UTC #9

Thanks for the advice. I tried to only do it for correcting mistakes but its so easy to do it for personal satisfaction x).

oscar.kim 2021-02-20 10:19:35 UTC #10

So I thought I should start sharing my progress more often because thats kin of the point. But Im still hesitant because (this might sound stupid) uploading everything here takes some time and thought. Any ways I will try sharing more frequently from now on.

Here is the first draft of my perspective sketches for the perspective part of term 1.

oscar.kim 2021-02-20 10:24:55 UTC #11

While im at it here are the more recent ones (I did one every other day starting Feb 1st).
I did get of track on some of them where it wasnt so much about the perspective and more about the painting.

Frygidal 2021-02-20 12:01:51 UTC #12

I love the mileage, keep up good work!

oscar.kim 2021-02-27 21:29:20 UTC #13

These are my last four sketches for Perspective and Term 1. I feel like i've gotten a lot more confident with over time (February). Im so hyped for everything thats to come.
Hope you like them and please leave your thoughts.

These last few months I was completely focussed on art and Im seeing so much improvement already. At first I was (and still kinda am) scared I was gonna burn out or get bored but Im just having more and more fun.

For Term 2 I will stop my daily practice for about 2-3 weeks because thats what stresses me the most, especially in combination with school.
So while im studying visual communication 2 and ps f. d. pro. 2 im just gonna do personal stuff and studies. Then I will start practicing daily again with anatomy 1 and after that perspective 2.
Thanks if you read.

oscar.kim 2021-03-07 16:45:03 UTC #14

This week I started Term 2 and since Visual Communication 2 doesnt require that much physical practice I did some studies and also worked on my current personal project (chess piece characters). If you like it check out my insta (@ossiartist).
I want to take my time with these posts but I feel like they take a lot of time so im kind of just putting a small portion of my stuff out without much structure which really is not what I would usually do.

This one im currently working on:

oscar.kim 2021-03-14 20:39:06 UTC #15

Dont know what to post this week because I just started Anatomy 1 and dont have much to show so heres just some other stuff I made this week.

Study of 2 of Marcs paintings

Julia_J 2021-03-15 07:18:28 UTC #16

Looking good!

oscar.kim 2021-03-21 11:13:11 UTC #17

So this week I mainly focussed on my heads and faces but also did a lot of other stuff. These are not in chronological order. The individual facial features I mainly practiced in school in my sketchbook.
This was a productive week but im still struggling with finding a painting progress that really works for me.

oscar.kim 2021-03-28 18:24:45 UTC #18

Dont have much to say this week. Pretty happy with my portrait progress but still nowhere near my goal. Also worked on skin because I noticed my skin never really looked that good.

oscar.kim 2021-04-04 16:12:38 UTC #19

I did a lot of practice this week but again focussed on portraits. Also finally finished my project which I really didnt wanna continue in the end.
Also started a bigger painting which I really dont do very often. Most of my stuff only takes up to like 5-6 hours at most Id say.

If you have any advice please let me know especially on the first one!