Feb '24

The answer is yes and no.

No, you will always want to improve, to do something more. I can't think of a single pro who says "Yea, I've peaked, there's nowhere left to go".

Yes, you should learn to appreciate your own art, your progress and to be proud of what you do regardless of your level. If you put the effort and are working to continuously improve and express yourself, and more importantly, are having fun, you're doing it right.

Both are important in healthy dosis and very destructive when taken in negative ways. You will probably also swing back and forth depending on your mood and feeback received.

Feb '24

Alrighty, the next assignment is some figure drawings. When I overlayed the line work on the picture, it is pretty apparent I didn't get it right. While I think I did ok, there is definitely some improvement to be had.
I can't remeber in the video, if Marc did some guidelines for the body. I don't remember him doing them; thus I did not do them. It definitely made it a weird kinda challenge.

Feb '24

yo, these are very nicely done! good job mate

What I meant was precisely what @daceronine is saying. Basically using the entire drawing surface is what I mean. Either zooming in or later resizing to fit multiple gestures into a single picture. Gestures are always best done using your shoulder or heck, your entire body if you're standing XD

cheers

Feb '24

Alrighty, went back for some gesture drawings. These are done in 40 seconds. This time I tried utilizing the whole canvas, and man, my shoulder was getting pretty sore by the end of it. :sweat_smile: Overall though, I think they turned out well. :+1:

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Feb '24

Alrighty, went back to doing figure drawings. These are taking a lot longer than I expected them to. I'm not sure if there should be a time limit on these; although I'd probably ignore it. I have a bad habit of doing things to completion; when I'm just trying to study a specific area. :sweat_smile:

Mar '24

Looking good! Keep it up!

Mar '24

Did another figure drawing assignment. I tried doing these ones a lot faster than my others. I noticed that I was spending a ton of time making sure everything was jus right. This time I just kind of tried to get it close. Initially I was thinking about doing the next assignment, BUT, I really HATE doing perspective stuff. :sweat: But yeah, just a bit more progress.

Mar '24

It's all good progress. I feel you about perspective. Really important stuff, but it can get rough.

Mar '24

Alrighty, first perspective assignment done. I think this is what it was asking.

18 days later

Mar '24

noice, that looks like a really long tablet XD