I almost forgot to post this here but this is my progress so far with the first Term of the course:
Pen Control
I've struggled a little bit with this first assignment, no idea if it's a problem of my drawing tablet or if I just need to practice more. But in any case I'll just do these studies more often.
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Image Adjustments
This one was very complicated to make. I don't know how I did it to be honest.
After this assignment I gave up on the other ones because of how focused on Photoshop they were made. I completely understand the purpose of those assignments, but it felt a little bit unnecessary and overly complicated to do (at least for me as I don't use Photoshop).
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Figure Drawing
This class of Term 1 was honestly pretty fun, and I discovered a couple of areas that I was struggling with that needed to be worked on.
This first image is one of my first attempts tracing images using cylinders. And realized that my understanding on forms was not very good (at least in certain angles/perspectives), so I started focusing on studying that and then a couple of days later tried to do some figures from imagination.
This is the result of that:
I'm pretty happy with the results, but feel like I still need to study more.
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I got into the Proportions Class after that. Honestly it's something that I've already seen a while back, but it was good to revisit it again and learn a couple of new things.
I don't really like using this method for drawing to be honest, but it's kind of useful for certain things.
The figures from the left were made following what Marc was doing, while the ones from the right were entirely done from memory. I know the anatomy looks a bit wonky and weird but I've tried not to focus too much on that as Marc said it is not the focus of the class (and I also tried experimenting a little).
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Next I went into Gesture Drawing. I really liked this class and it made me start doing more complicated exercises.
When I first learned how to do Gesture Drawing on my own I used to do it with a 5 min limit, because I couldn't do gestures in less than that and my mind would stop working if I even tried doing 2 min gestures.
After watching the class I started doing some 30s exercises that ended up being really bad, but that made me realize how I should approach those studies. So then I did some more gesture drawings focusing on different things to see what works and what doesn't for me.
I still can't quite do 30s gestures very well, but I think I'm more capable now than before.
That's what I've got so far, I still need to do the measuring assignments and keep studying what I've learned. But I think I'm going to start working on personal stuff for now idk.
