Tom - Art School Journey

tbrouwer1989 2024-10-30 19:22:21 UTC #1

Hi everybody,

My name is Tom, 35 years young and from the Netherlands. I'm a full-time graphic designer and a parttime business-owner (I have a small side-business with also a focus on graphic design, (digital) illustration and even murals).

As I'm a self-thought digital artist / illustrator, my hope is that this program can lift my skills to a higher level. I never learned the fundamentals and that's why I choose this program, to go back to the basics and hopefully learn something new and exciting.

I also dream of making my own graphic novel someday and with this program I think I can learn a lot that will contribute to that dream.

Here is some of my work (before this Art School):

note: English is not my native language, so my apologies for any typos of incorrect grammar

patrycja.lerch 2024-10-31 10:25:08 UTC #2

Welcome to the forums!

daceronine 2024-10-31 17:08:06 UTC #3

Welcome to the forums Tom! You clearly already know a good deal, I think you'll zoom by some of the initial terms. Bests of luck in this journey!

mitsuki-youko 2024-11-02 07:51:51 UTC #4

woahhh your paintings are SO good!!

tbrouwer1989 2024-11-04 12:34:59 UTC #5

Thank you

uggievang 2024-11-05 03:54:52 UTC #6

amazing stuff and already so accomplished I'm a little jealous haha

tbrouwer1989 2024-11-14 17:51:08 UTC #7

Hello everybody,
The last 2 weeks I have started with term 01. I tried to do the daily exercises, but as I am quite busy with my daily job, I can't always get around to it. That being said, I am a little bit ahead of the schedule. Mainly because term 01 is also a bit (too) back to basics haha (Mainly the photoshop production assignments).
Nevertheless I did all the exercises to stay in the flow (not daily, but a few times a week). I find the Pen Control "warm up" very useful and will try to get this in my daily routine (also at work). Same goes for the Gesture drawing excercises.

Here are a few examples of the gesture drawing assigments I did. The first six are traced over, the last 6 are studies:

And here are some quick gesture drawings (mostly 30 and 60 seconds):

Thats it for now, I shall try to keep you guys updated

daceronine 2024-11-17 18:57:02 UTC #8

These all look good! Though from your previous work it was clear you'd have little trouble with these first parts xD.

Those gestures are REALLY good for just 30/60 seconds though. Very impressive!