Skissors - Art School Journey 🐥

[Skissors]

Hello, my creative classmates! I go by skissors, and I am ready to rock my way through art school! I'm a 20-year-old living with an AAS in Multimedia (and a high school diploma? ¯_(ツ)_/¯), but I'm taking a year off before advancing to a BAS by spending it here.

I can't remember when I first grabbed a pencil and a paper and then started drawing. What I do remember was enjoying the aspects of it in 2012-14. Back then, I drew animated animals, fanart, and those 3-point perspective rooms. (I'm looking at you Club Penguin ) Unfortunately, all of my childhood masterpieces burnt in a fire ;-; but that didn't stop me, and neither did the number of sketchbooks I lost afterwards HAHA

Anyways, I bought this program not to enhance art into a career, but rather for fun. The music I listen to oftentimes plays scenarios inside my head a lot, and my OCs are the characters! I might as well visualize them to life, right?

[snakker]

hell yeah, welcome aboard

[Skissors]

Thanks, happy to be here!

[mitsuki-youko]

eyyy welcome to the forums! glad to see another animator here!

[Skissors]

Before I bounce into Marc's lectures, here are some mentionable digital artworks showcasing the progress of where I am now.

Because these two pieces were my first attempts at digital art, I drew over a template since I was a little shy, but hey, we all start somewhere...

...so I migrated them from my sketchbook! hehe

This was the first time I took an art project seriously, and it paid off very well! My favorite one, by far!

This one's a little different because, at the time, I was experimenting with newer art styles and trying new tools in Photoshop. My favorite tools in this project were the Blur tool and Perspective Transform.

That's all, folks! I'll make sure to update my art school progress at least every Monday and Thursday.

[Skissors]

Yessss!! Hoping I get into animation! Thanks!

[mitsuki-youko]

btw outta curiousity are Helios and Mika for a story/comic? or an animation series?

[queeniemp]

Hello and welcome to the Art Journey!!

[Pattu_w]

Welcome to the forums, looking foward to see your progress

[Skissors]

A little bit of both. If anything, I'd lean toward illustrating their lives through comics more, yet short animations of them may be worth a try too!

[Skissors]

@Pattu_w @queeniemp Thank you!! I'm excited to see the outcome this school has to offer!

UPDATE:

Hi again guys! I'm currently in the photoshop for Digital Production lecture, and I tried balancing the week to study drawing. Most of them are WIP mode, but here they are

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These are my imaginative figure drawings. As much as I respect chickens, chicken scratching itself is annoying : / my gut is telling me there's gonna be a line drawing assignment nearing the end of the lecture I'm on. However, any tips on slowly producing confident lines are very much appreciated!

By the way, I found something cool during my studies! I sketched a quick environment drawing one day using an image reference, as you can see here...

And then another day, I studied environments, this time with a different image reference:

When I matched these two together, it looked like I drew everything from a single reference! What are the coincidences? :'D

Lastly, here are some traditional muscle anatomy to make up for digital drawing because of work.

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That's all, folks! Again, some canvas spaces are big 'cause I'm hoping to continue my practices over them. See you on Monday, and have a good rest of the week!

[queeniemp]

Oohh nice sketches, great start!
As for tips on improving your line confidence, drawing from your elbow is good, gives you more control over the lines (also lessens the strain on your wrist), air drawing the line a few times before you actually draw it helps, and lastly try drawing the line as fast as you can while still controlling it. The rest after that is just practice. Take a page (digital or traditional) and fill it with lines, start with short lines then keep make them longer and longer as you get used to it eventually your lines will become both straighter and more confident

[Skissors]

Hi guys! I'm back! Sorry for the long wait, I was waiting on my laptop purchase so I can finish my work faster. Here are the results so far:

I liked this one below; I remember it being super fun and challenging

I'll post my third assignment this evening. Thank you for your patience!

[Skissors]

I heard about the elbow tip from an art youtuber. I've also been thinking of practicing my lines as a warmup before drawing something, so that would help, too. Thanks!

[Skissors]

Here's my third assignment. LOL I don't consider it as my dream house or castle, I felt like creating this atmospheric 'creepy mansion residing in the woods' sort of vibe.

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh nice - def has that creepy vibe lol

[Skissors]

indeed -- very spoopy

[Skissors]

Phew! I've finished the Nude Figure Drawing assignments. They're listed in numerical order as shown below:

I totally forgot about the 8-head proportion grid once I was finished, so I stretched the anatomy to at least fit in the grid hehe sorry

Activities number 6 & 7 will be reposted this evening 'cause I did them on sketchbook. Thanks!

[Skissors]

Hi again! Here are the remaining few assignments:

6

7

I might retry this activity one day when I have the time to, but there you have it!

[Skissors]

I'm back with new assignments! I'll finish the fourth one soon.

1

(I KNEW this photo would come in handy one day )

2

3

To be honest, I really liked this assignment out of the others I've done so far. I got into pretty good flow states until I forgot that the main objective was to understand perspective xD Anyways, my reference is 'plastered' on the wall.