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Hello all, Akky here and a total beginner to art as of October last year. After years of wishing I could draw/paint I actually bit the bullet and started down the self taught route. The huge amount of free resources online has been a little overwhelming in trying to focus my learning, so I signed up for Art School to give myself more structure and a proper practice routine.

Until now I've been using traditional tools, so making the jump to digital is proving to be quite a challenge. I had plenty of practice drawing lines and cylinders with a pen on the DrawABox tutorials, but the feeling is so different with a stylus that my lines feel like they're all over the place.

So, here's my first couple of attempts on the photoshop line quality lesson (albeit using Clip Studio Paint). I'm aiming on coming back to this and doing it at least once a day until I'm happy with just my generic line quality and smoothness.

Feedback will always be appreciated with all my posts, but the main reason I decided to start sharing my progress was to hold myself accountable and make sure that I'm at least putting something up once a week. Being completely new, it's been easy to get disheartened at the lack of progress and slip into a slump where my practice dries up.

Thanks for reading!

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Heyho Akky!
Welcome on the forums. Great that you decided to work on your art with the structure provided by Art school.
I think you did a good job on those lines, I personally like to rotate my whole canvas when doing these drills, that way you can draw the lines at an angle that fits you best (just like rotating the page with traditional medium). Also, ghosting as taught in the Drawabox course is really helpful.
Hope that helps.
I am looking forward to see more of your work here!
Best,
Mau :smiley:

Thanks for the tips, Mau. It hadn't even occurred to me that I could rotate the canvas like I would with paper. Doh! I need to learn some hotkeys!

You're right about ghosting, something which never fails to be useful. I've repeated the exercise a few times now in between making a start on the figure drawing assignments and my line quality is already adapting to digital very nicely.

Kicking things off with gesture drawing today. I took part in the Love Life Drawing figure drawing month in February this year and really struggled with it. This is the first time I've attempted any gesture drawing since.

The first couple are 30 seconds, but I think it was too quick for me to produce anything that actually helped me learn or improve, my brain just can't analyse the photo and get anything legible down on canvas that quickly. So I upped the timer and most of this page are a mix of 1 and mostly 2 minute gestures.

Feedback is very welcome on these assignments as I've always struggled with getting proportions anywhere near accurate in the short timescale. Maybe I should slow down even more.

ah your poses are really nice, you are delivering the message at least for me!
the proportions part I think you need to power through it for a while and it starts coming along, but i have the same feeling that my drawings get super loose on those short time spam x)
But welcome and keep up with the good work!

Thank you!

I'll probably keep drilling the gestures every day for a couple of weeks and gradually introduce the other assignments as I go along. I want to balance my studies so that I devote enough time to each topic whilst also keeping it varied enough that I don't get bored.

Satisfied with progress on line accuracy so far.

Introducing cylinders and basic skeletons on poses too.

Had fun with these action poses. Need to focus on using less lines so that they don't look quite so rigid. I've been reading "Force" figure drawing by Mike Mattesi and want to start implementing some of his advice into my efforts.

These are a mix of 30 seconds, 1 minute and 2 minute gestures.

First go at the proportions exercise:

Happy weekend all.

Some more gestures from the daily routine. Trying to be conscious of making my lines flow to capture more of the pose with less. Proportions slowly getting better too.

Starting with the perspective assignments tomorrow I think.

Tried the measuring proportions assignment and got to say that I don't really get it. Marc seemed to suggest it wasn't really an effective technique for digital artists and the explanation on what to do instead wasn't enormously clear. I measured the model in head heights, made a clear marker where the legs began and generally mapped out the joints and then essentially just winged it for the rest.

I'm not sure how much benefit I'm getting out of this one. I don't want my end results to be exact copies of my references anyway when I come to actually creating my own pieces. Maybe I'm tired, but right now I'm just confused. :joy:

This one will take a lot of repetition to sink in.