Tub’s ART School Journey

Hello everyone,

My name is Tublis (Toulee), but you can just call me Tub. I am 29 years old, and will be turning 30 next month unfortunately. Every year I get older and everyone else seem to get younger.

I love to sleep and I sleep a lot. As I say, the perfect place to is under the shade of a on a wooden bridge next to a running river on a cool and day. Yes, I have experienced it and it was pure bliss. If heaven existed on Earth that was heaven for me. Surprisingly, I didn't get maul by a bear . That's how I got my nickname sleepingTub.

I'm more of a writer, or storyteller, than an artist, but I have always done both for as long as I can remember. To put it simply, I draw what I can't write and then I put that drawing into words. It's part of my writing process.

My art experience is somewhere between beginner and intermediate level, but let's just say I'm a beginner. I took art classes throughout my highschool and college years, but never took art seriously. Art to me was a way to escape from my studies and academics thus my art skills are not that great because I never saw the need to produce GREAT art. Just throw a little paint here and there, and maybe my handprint right here! By the way I'm horrible with colors. As long as I could understand what I was trying to convey in my art I was happy with it.

My specialty as I say, is doing sketches in pen or pencil on paper with my horrendous skills, however, recently I've gotten into digital drawing when a friend gave me their old tablet display they no longer wanted. It took me awhile to get used to digital drawing (I'm still getting used to it), but after a month or two of toying with it I've gotten a little better at it. I mainly struggle with hand-eye coordination as well as pressure control. It sure gets frustrating at times when the lines don't come out how I want them too. Sometimes I wonder why I put myself through all that frustration when I can just do it traditionally with less stress haha.

I joined Marc's ART School program a month ago in hopes to improve my drawing skills. Hopefully in the long run I will improve a lot. If I don't that is ok as well. Some improvement is better than none.

My life goal and dream for the future is to publish my writing and stories with original artworks done by me. One day I'll get there!

I do work fulltime plus overtime so I don't have much time to practice. What little time I do have free I split it between writing, drawing, sleeping, and well life of course.

I created this topic mainly to keep track of my progress with the program. I'll try to post at the end of every month with the assignments I've done as well as my own works of art (if I'm not too embarrassed). Hopefully, it helps keep me on track when I begin to wander off to who knows where haha.

Yep, that was a long introduction.

Cheers!

Some practice I've done.

Some proportion practice.

I still struggle with proportion a lot especially when drawing without guide lines. Any tips would be very helpful.

Figure drawing pracitce.

How long do you suggest I take to study each lesson?

I figured 2 weeks for each lesson so that's about a month or two for each term depending how fast I grasp each lesson. Let me know what you all think.

As of lately I've been focusing solely on gesture drawing and figure drawing trying to get my proportions correct and what not.

Thanks.

Some drawings I did using references two months ago when I first started digital drawing. It was just me messing around when I was learning CSP as well getting used to drawinig digitally.

Yep I had no clue what I was doing I was just going with the flow haha.

Here are my gesture drawing practice at 45 secs.

This was when I first started at the beginning of April.

Then this is now at the end of April when it finally clicked! Of course there is still room for improvement.

It finally clicked for me when I watched these two videos close to the end of April. Definitely go check it out if you are struggling with gesture drawing beacuse it helped me a lot.

I definitely recommend watching his other videos too, the guy is awesome.

What I learned was...
1. Don't worry too much about proportions with gesture drawing (which I totally was when I first started). Worry about proportion when you are doing figure drawing!!!
2. Look for them CURVES and JUST DRAW. The proportions will fix itself haha. My proportion is still not all that great but my gesture drawing is definitely better than when I first started.
3. Hide the timer so it doesn't stress you out
Hope it helps y'all out too.

Will be starting the perspective lesson for term 1 this coming weekend when I have time, and I hate perspective so we'll see how it goes.

I also really hated gesture drawing at first too. I was like why am I wasting my time drawing a bunch of ugly stick figures but now I quite enjoy it. I finally get what it means to be loose and to just let it flow and spill all over haha.