Volodymyr G. - Art School Journey

Well, I suppose I should finally get out of my shell and start posting.

Well hello, I'm Volodymyr (or Vlad). I've started doing art semi-seriously sometime mid 2022 after my friend suggested I do something that I've wanted to do for a long time.

So far I've got a decent grasp on basic shapes and construction from another site called DrawaBox. Though I followed the course content there for a while it was at the start of this year I had properly defined my artistic goals.

Currently my first major goal is to draw female anthro characters with accurate proportions, anatomy, etc (no clothing for now) in any pose. Following this goal I have several others but I think it to be best to avoid overwhelming myself.

As of today, I've finished watching Nude_Figure_Drawing of the term 1 pack of Art school, and did a quick 30 minute practice session without a timer. I really struggle with finding the movement and translating that onto a canvas, so I welcome any advice.
I'll also be skipping some of the assignments in the Nude_Figure_Drawing assignment sheet, mostly the construction and perspective exercises.

I've also thrown together a weekly study schedule for myself to try and reach my first goal but I am currently unable to share it (new user).

Anyway, here is the results of my first 30-minute gesture study:

Hopefully with time and experience I will be able to give critiques to other students.

Oh and I should mention that my username is Strelok_2012, not Uraniumpuppy (that's an old username I used when I was younger).

Continued study/practice of gesture, even after having a rather crap day. I tried to take my time and try placing assymetric curves where possible. Gonna have a look at Michael Hampton's figure drawing and see if I can get some better ideas there.

Aaaargh, 3 days without posting, noooo....

Anyway, In addition to learning art I had to figure out some life stuff. But now I'm back.

Tried timing my gestures and it looks like I'm in the intermediate stage where I can identify the gesture within a given time, but still struggle. I'll have to attempt another 30m practice session untimed.

30s, 1st page

2nd page

1m, 1st page

1 min looks much better, which is to be expected. Even managed to add contour lines in some of the gestures.

My thoughts so far are to maybe try shorter lines to try and add some repetition in areas where there are more sudden turns.

Maybe in a couple weeks I'll move onto figure drawing.

Trying untimed gesture again and trying some new things I picked up from Michael Hampton's Figure drawing book.

Turned out fairly well, around the middle I started getting some repetition and timing in my lines. Last gesture was a mess because I didn't identify the line of action first.
Otherwise I've gotten more loose with the lines but need to work on line confidence first to avoid hairy lines.

Hm, alright. I'll give it a shot today or tomorrow.

Ack, life is biting back hard. I barely have enough time to do my studies and art in general but I am undaunted.

These are the untimed gestures I did on 23/02/2023 (took anywhere between 2-3 minutes):

Now I know I promised @snakker that I'd try the measured figures and cylinders, and I will still do that. Right now on top of common responsibilities I'm trying to get out of my dead-end job and get something that pays a lot better for the skill that I have. So I have an incredibly tight schedule each day which only gets tighter with my dead-end job trying to pull me down (by giving me extra hours, which I can seldom refuse given my financial situation).

tl:dr;

I'm getting my ass whooped by life but I'm still getting back up, Strelok out.

Missed yesterday due to having too many things to do.

Untimed gestures done today, roughly 1-2 minutes each.

And then I switched to 30s timed:

@snakker I'm going to have to do the cylinders tomorrow, I've watched through all the Term 1 videos so now I can make a start on the other assignments. I'm also revising my own personal study schedule as I go.

Alright I gave the Nude figure drawing assignments along with the Photoshop one as suggested by @snakker.
I'm not 100% sure on whether or not to do the Image editing assignments, given I'm working in Krita.

Pen Control

Action lines and skeletons (over photo reference)

Cylinders in perspective

I'm still working on the skeletons with cylinder limbs assignment. I should have it posted tomorrow.

Gah, work and distractions. I had little time today to draw so I'll have to post a WIP of one of the assignments. I understand these are meant to be done daily and I'll have to refactor my schedule to revolve more around Art school and less around whatever my current self-learning method is.

For now here is the Draw over photo reference assignment I'm working through:

Oh and I should mention that I managed to get in touch with an artist I admire , which has really put some wind in my sails.

Tomorrow I'll hopefully have the finished assigments for today and tomorrow.