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Hi, I'm Jac, I'm a full-time software engineer who is having a mid-life crisis and decided to pursue art because why not. I'm completely new to art, so I know there is a long road ahead of me, but I hope with enough dedication and persistence I will get there one day. Please be patient with me and definitely give me a lot of feedback because I want to turn this into a backup career one day.

My goal right now is just to be consistent and do at least 15 mins of drawing every single day, so please expect me to upload at least 1 drawing to this thread every single day, and if I don't, bully me for it :wink: I actually have already been doing this for the past month, and decided to buy Marc's courses as a reward for sticking with it. Usually, I do practice for more than 15 mins a day, but I would rather set a goal low and overperform it than set a difficult goal and fail to meet most of the time.

Thank you for reading and looking forward to growing and learning with all of you :blush:

2/23/2022

Figure Drawing

Gesture:

1 min observation then draw from memory:

Draw Over Reference Practice:

2/24/2022

I have started going through Marc's term 1, forgot to write yesterday that I finished his visual communication one. I started the photoshop one today but didn't got far as I had a busy day and spent the afternoon finally doing my tax lol. Honestly didn't even feel like drawing today but I still spent about 1 hr- 1 hr 10 mins on it so I consider it a win

Figure drawing, spend more time focusing on using less line/longer line instead of nailing the pose like I have been. Also tried to focus more on speed hence I was able to do 3 figures in about 30-40 mins as oppose to like 2 figures in like 1 hour like I have been the last few days:

Also did some gestures as always:

EDIT: Someone challenged me to have fun with art too and not just treat it like a daily grind, so I did a "fun" drawing tonight:

2/25/2022

Didn't watch much of term 1 today, I got carry away with other things, I did however draw some more:

Gesture (5 mins):

Figure Drawing:

Fun Drawing (credit to Qinni again):smile:

I also did another two drawing but tbh they aren't up to standard so no uploading the,

PS: I know my gesture is pretty bad, and I'm hoping tomorrow I'm getting a 1 on 1 with someone that should help me with them. Please bear with me for the time being :pray:

Nice progress so far! Welcome to the group and I look forward to seeing your progress! One thing I would suggest that has helped me a ton and I frequently hear Marc recommend on his streams is to practice your line confidence with gesture drawing. Try do draw one line instead of multiple short lines and if you don't hit it. CTRL + Z and try again. You will use this a lot at first, and it will slow you down a ton. But it will help immensely in the long run. I focused on this when I started several months ago and focused on that line practice page every day. They took me so long. But now my lines are way way above my skill level compared to everything else and it makes learning each step much easier. Loving the progress so far! Can't wait to see what you have next!

Hello fellow midlife crisis full time software engineer! I’m also just getting started on Marc’s Art School. I’ve been drawing for a year now and watching all his YT videos, finally time to dive in

2/26/2022 (1/2)

I decided to do 100 gestures today, don't ask me why. Gesture is one of my weakest skill and after about 70 gestures, you can see I had an epiphany and changed my approach to gesture completely:






2/26/2022 (2/2)



I have also started Marc's construction vid:

It not perfect but honestly I have draw so much today at this point I just can't be bothered to fix it.

But I will make up for it tomorrow by drawing maybe 10 of them :pray: