Yato - Art School Journey

[yatogamy]

Hello,

I'm Yato, a French 21 years old guy.

I kinda started my art journey a year ago, it lasted few months before I burned out, I wasn't seeing any progress and I gave up, I was stuck on term 1, doing the same things every day, it was hell.

Today is the day I took my pen and try again, during one year I was like ''Yeah, the next day, maybe'', it was a fight and it is still a fight against me and myself.

To be honest I'm doing this topic for me, to post what I think is good and maybe get feedbacks if you guys want, I made a promise to myself, I have to build my future and I can't give up anymore... I love art, I have to.

I want to express my feeling through art, I want to draw emotions, and make my art live through them , i want to express myself

Thanks for reading, I hope you guys have a good day

See you soon, maybe

• Yato

[yatogamy]

Here's some of my old stuff I was practicing, I don't know if they were good but, figure drawing was the most difficult one, no difference beetwen day 1 and it was the thing I was doing every day... :

[Pattu_w]

Welcome to the forums Yato, that's a good start right there, the proportions looks on point, and gesture is haaard, try to look for some videos on the subject, there plenty on the good old youtube, looking foward to see your progress.

[yatogamy]

Thank you mate, the thing is there is a lot of gesture video and a lot of methods to do it, which kinda lost me but I'll try to gather all of thoses informations

Thanks for the compliment :D*

[Lockenheim]

Welcome to the forums! Love to see that discord change from lol to photoshop! Keep it up!

[yatogamy]

Wow you remember me ?
Sadly league was the only thing I can success in life, now I have to take my life in my hands.

Thanks a lot lockenheim, I won't forget what you did for me

[yatogamy]

-- 30 days challenge. --

                                           Day 1

I think I needed something to get me started and I saw this one Marc's video about 30 days challenge
I made it fun, my circles and ellipses are by far not perfect but, with time, maybe.

[yatogamy]

Hellow !

Day 2 of days 30 challenge

I was kinda busy today doing drawabox (I dont know if I have the right to write it D:), I needed to get some good bedrocks base along with marc's school.

The top left ones are not that good so I tried a new approach on others, circles are not perfect but I tried to make them better.

I'm kinda happy with it tho I need to practice more of them !

[Gordon003]

Hello. Given that you are doing DrawaBox, have you try doing the table of ellipse challenge? That may help you with your circle/ellipse practice.

Bonne chance.

[yatogamy]

Hello friend !

It's the next thing I have to do on drawabox, i'm just taking my time and doing one or two exercices a day,

But thank you tho, I really have to get better at thoses

Merci :D*

[yatogamy]

Hello again !

Here is my day 3 challenge :D*

Cylinders and elispses are still not on point, but I found myself drawing better circles during this exercise, I would have loved to draw a bit more, but i'm exhausted as I'm drawing after work, I wanted to keep up with the 30 days challenge.

Today I also continued my drawabox journey and drew (for the first time) for fun, no stress, nothing, It was hard, I think I wasted 1 hours overthinking before getting tired of myself and put my pencil on my tablet

It went bad, I liked it 100/100 would do it again

As you can see they are not on point but, I can feel a bit of progress, was a fun.

I have one question though, people who draw outsides, what do you draw? I would like to draw at work (During breaks) but I don't really know if it's worth it? is a pencil and a sketchbook enough? Maybe I can use ref with my phone?

What do you guys think?

Have a good day anyway !

• Yatto

[snakker]

haha that's an interesting question!
I remember an interview of the late Kim Jung Gi and how inspiring his story of lugging a sketch-diary daily and after experiencing or seeing different things, he would try to draw those things after a while (from memory)

Anyhow, me personally I take my ipad with me and draw/paint anything there on procreate when I'm on the move. One day it could be for some gestures when in a break another it could be a painted study of a skull (I did one entirely on procreate and it was pretty fun!). Other times, I just like drawing doodles on paper with pencil or pen, it's very liberating. Another great thing to draw a lot, and can be easy to do in break times is drawing cylinders, cubes, and weird things in perspective. Finally, copying stuff from life is always a great learning opportunity

cheers!

[Pattu_w]

i remember to always have a pencil and a really cheap sketchbook and just drawn loads, and i meant LOADS of circles and split then with ellipces, some faces structures too, with time i just stopped for some reason, thanks for reminded me about this, even if it wasen't your intention tho XD

[yatogamy]

Damn dude XD

This is what i'm gonna do from now on, when I'll have a moment, I'll draw, even outside, I really like that !

[yatogamy]

So... today I was gonna post my day 4, but I went back from work and I'm really tired, I struggled a bit on it

Went from this :

To

It really is bad, probably too much preasures on some lines, circle is not enough a circle.

but.

A guy on discord (Hello Teeth Collector, you really helped me) helped me on drawing circles, said that I should ghost a bit (like in drawabox) to get at least decent circles) guess what ?

They are no perfect, probably could be better, I don't get it every time but I'm getting there, i'm really happy, it made my day ! (along with some drawabox study)

So yeah, will continue to train day 4 tommorow

It was a good day :D*

[Pattu_w]

That's a good circle right there, and i do know my circles "explosions in the background"

[yatogamy]

My man, i'm so happy, thank you XD

[yatogamy]

No drawing today

Have a good New Year's Eve, take care and see you tomorrow :D*

[snakker]

Nice they are definitely better!

Have a happy new year as well! Cheers

[yatogamy]

Happy new year man !!

Thanks a lot !