I was able to check just yesterday the term 7's video [I realized what the discord message meant only after seeing a post here] and I wondered if some of you have an idea of a not super personal [like fav music] way to get in a good state to work/draw. Apart of not being interrupted each minute.
I've only been able to identify that I really work well with a supposedly music
for ADHD from [Greenred Productions - Relaxing Music] in youtube [it's a orange BG with a veil boat]. I shared it to a friend and she only got headaches from it, but adored a video with an animal on the thumbnail instead.
So I think if you are in the same situation, it's worth to check other music of the kind if one didn't work. Thankfully it work for the first one that poped randomly to me.

I can totally vounch for learning better when thinking to teach it to someone, we had a study group who used it and was the best. Sadly, I didn't thought it before as just go to a class with the mindset of needed it for something. I can see it now, and I wish I had done so for regular classes, as now I understand why teachers ask to review the subject before the lessons.

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What I've been struggling the most is the deliberate observation exercise.
Lets keep trying again, like just after clicking to post this!!

Term 1, week 2 - Combining images & Selections/Liquify/Healstamp
For the second exercise Clip only have the basic stamp tool but I wanted to try it anyway.. Color balance to fix it.

Totally. Still, I wanted to hoard ideas and see if one worked for me too, so many thanks =p
Oh, I like to use the times to stand up to do chores. Lately I've done them in big chunks of time and I get tired. I'll try that.

Thanks!! Yes, I loved to play with Ps years ago, so I wanted to try the exercises now with Clip, I really missed having the magnetic lasso. I never met the healing(?) stamp, it sounds really like magic.. what the, photoshop, how much have you grown??? xD

Term 1, week 2 - Figure drawing [3]
I liked making the stick figures too much, I'll suffer when have to draw the whole body again xD They look cute!
Now to eat and then see if Mr. Pen wants to work again and try today's pen pressure exercise. [it stopped just before it].

No, no.. now I'm required to only have prehistoric art on my walls. Better and better in gesture and leave it to it!!! [<33]

[I'm not sure I drew many stick figures... I remember I tried some weird alien/elf things and they were very slim, but then my drawings were really, really static, so I can tell I never took them very well xD]

Edit: I posted firstly to say how hard still was to try the deliberate observation and I totally forgot to add it to this.

I think I'm going well with the excersises, a little faster maybe -- but damn circles. Why circles exist xD I've been glaring at cilinders too though.

Term 1, week 3 - Pen control & Gesture drawing
The first pen control and today's gesture.
Gestures also fight me. I did upload it now because I felt them more readable today.

Thankkkss- - Now if only I'm able to replicate it xD

edit: the results*

These weeks have been super busy, so I've mostly done exercises, even if I feel faster though.. Only 2 drawings apart of it. How it goes for you?

Term 1, week 3 - Character study (5)
Explainded in case someone also struggles knowing what to do as I did xD :
I tried marking head and stick figure, and general outines -in different degrees- over the art. Then I tried making the figure and grid over the art, draw over the marks, then compare diferences between grid and mark lines on the reference to see where goes the real line.

I'm pretty happy with them, but I really, really liked the results for the gridded studies. I was able to notice much more or faster the curves than I hadn't realized made me like the like some details.
So, in case I'd want to emulate them, I know now I can study them like this.

I wish to have 2 screens, because my arm ended hurting when I got too close to being able to see the differences. Remember stretching, take rests! [I'm ok !!]

Now I'll let my arm rest a little more and focus in rewatching the videos for now.
I hope you had a good week there -- byes

And, if anyone wants to check the art
1. Honghong-er, Heaven Official's Blessing's fanart.
2. Elementalist Viera, Final Fantasy Tactics advance's official art.
3. Wei Wuxian, Modao Zushi's official art.
4. Ryuu, Akagami no Shirayuki-hime's chapter 115 cover.
5. Past Tomoe, Kamisama Hajimemashita -- no idea the chapter--

Hi, there. Sorry for going MIA for so long [it's really, not that long.. but I had just started here, so in %s...], I have a serious question in case anyone can help me with it.
I had a few awful months here and lost the track I was in for this course, then I finally at least felt well enough to try drawing but I had a project to finish and poured all my energy there. I did finish it in January, and I was very proud for it!, but decided to use February to rest from art too. Now it's bakto'scool time and I want to resume this course too. I feel super awful with myself and feel I betrayed other people here even if just a couple even knew about me doing this.

My question is: any of you have any advise of how to face the course? Should I start all from 0 like never started, warm up with the exercises I made until now, take from where I left?
I know it's a personal thing, but I struggle too much with personal decisions, I wish to see if someone has ideas, having or not passed by the same. In case it helps someone to poke me, my idiot brain is like this:
- I struggle with inspiration and motivation, I usually do better when working for someone's request.
- When I get inspired I can work lots-- a day or two moody, sick or forced to make another thing and I will completely forget what I was doing and even less remember I was motivated to work [in general, not just art]
- I try to get track of what I do, lists, Habitica, a dairy sometimes - I forget about them too even if I like them.
- I do get bored repeating the same things, and that scares me to start from 0.. but I want the order of it too.
- I know we use references for a data library and create new things, but I feel I have 0 creativity unless prompted [hopefully, a whole book of descriptions for it] --/then/ I can use the references. [ex. some challenges don't work for me cos to broad.. like.. "cats"? sure, what about cats, which cat, what feeling for them???]
- My better time drawing was when I had a daily doodle made without much care for anything [very difficult!] in a tiny paper, by around 10 minutes [I tried to make it twice, to not forget, like duolingo really xD]. It was themed as happy domestic life of a couple and dog, and living with my partner then helped to fill the idea gaps. I stopped because someone kept me asking for months to improve my paper, even after telling them I was using it to not feel pressure... I just broke down at some moment.

I really hope someone can check this and poke me, I'm very ashamed I'm not that good in moving by my own, I know I'm very ...outsiders pressuring me motivated.. sorry.
I hope everyone there a good day anyway. Be goodwell!

-Baph