Fay - Art School Journey

Hi!! I'm hoping to improve my art with this course, after having access for a couple of months I finally have the time to focus on it properly so i'm hoping to keep a good routine and sticking to the tasks!

last year I graduated from university where I studied games art so I have previous experience with digital art but tbh the uni course wasn't great and I dont think my art and more imprortantly my process is polished enough for me to try and go straight into the industry. It also burnt me out , I stuggle alot with self discipline and motivation so im hoping this blog acts a motivator and keeps me in check lol.

Other than that I'm excited and eager to learn and improve!

some fairly recent art below (haven't drawn alot this year ), so i can track progress:

dont know why this ones so big

procreate did not make this easy , i was trying for an hour to do the last one - still doesn't look right lol

haha thank you!

the combining images task, had to make it a bit more interesting so I would do it , I used it as an opportunity for some world building.

Cylinder exercise ^
this was frustrating icl, i started this a week ago but had to leave it cause it was making my brain hurt. finally sat down and forced myself to finish it off today, I think im gonna have to have a couple more goes at this, some of them look right but some are completely off

finally completed week 2, i think this took me way too long , i'm really finding the cylinder exercises hard to do, I just cant get the hang of the angles - most of these i cant tell if they're wrong but they look it. I guess if i'm finding it this hard i've just got to keep doing them till I get a better understanding.
looking forward to week 3 though - hopefully i'll actually be able to do it in a week instead of taking a month

I did a sketch of my SWTOR character ^ so i thought i'd pop this in here but other than some doodles in my sketchbook I haven't really drawn this past month i want to get back into regular character design and project work for my portfolio, so hopefully ill have some of that to post this month!

gestures - only had time to do these today as I'm on back to back night shifts

For my fist line-art study I chose this concept art of Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn by Ilya Golitsyn. I love this piece its so beautiful, I have the art book and this is one of my favorite pieces from that and I love the games, theyre amazing!! Having said that I am glad with the direction they went in for Aloy's final desgin (suits her character more) shes so pretty and badass.

This was fun but next time I think I'll choose a piece with more obvious line-art and less details cause this took me forever