Allrighty so posting my anatomy Term 1 assignments (ranges from beginning of May to beginning of August). I am only posting the works where I think progress is happening over time. The rest I usually erase because hard drive space is limited and papers will be everywhere.

So for start, this is how I did (pre-artschool) my tracings over reference so Marc's method wasn't unfamiliar.

Then I followed his "simplified" forms traced over references with the cylinder practice (not included).
After about 1-2 weeks of this and cylinders, I felt comfortable moving along to the "routine" practice : trace, reference, full figure study, with gestures implemented as much as possible.

So the TRF (trace, reference, figure) routine from May to today (August 12th):

Here is my progress for tracing and referenced figures daily exercises (about one week interval between each 2 pictures starting from the top)

And here are my full figure studies . I was playing around with smudging around June since it felt a lot like pencil sketching and I also wanted to incorporate light studies but I heard that that should be avoided?
I was also relying on the grid method before dropping it for only measurement in June.


End of July Progress Figure study (at this point I use construction lines and measurements only).

And this one is the latest I chose in week 1 of August for progress assessment.

So that's the whole shabang on the full figure studies over a 3 months span.

Also my proportions exercises and gesture studies:

For proportion: it went from no confidence, keep everything as similar to Marc's video as possible (it's not like I don't know where stuff goes in general but anatomy scares me) to okay do this your way, via memory and your simplified skeleton.

Therefore how it went:
Versus how it is going:
Now I can spot a lot of mistakes still (like the poor dude's legs for example) but I am going to say that I am happy that I could do this from memory and "accept" the risks of mistakes. I don't have much confidence and am my own worst harsh critic when it comes to my learning process so this was a huge boost in confidence.

Finally Gesture Drawings:
I needed a min and panicked constantly all while resisting the strong urge to erase (the urge won several times).

June's work got lost because it was on paper...so July it is. I know I wrote 1min but I was fluctuating between 1min and 45 secs. Much more comfortable.
I am now in August and decreasing the time. So these are at 45secs and 30secs respectively. Always trying to focus on the flow and action more than the rest.

And that is it for now ! Hopefully it wasn't too much of a drag.
I may (or may not) be posting Perspective Term 1 (which has been and still is a challenge for me , ...drawabox helps...I think.).

Otherwise I am considering moving to Term 2 on the anatomy part. Let me know what you all think.

Allright today is perspective according to the schedule (me thinks).

And after doing cubes and more cubes and boxes (drawabox) and more boxes...so many boxes. I got fed up with boxes.

So I am shooting for the room and mama the pain is visible.

Also unsure why my brain thought it would be a great idea to start with the back of the room, instead of the front.....Even on different layers, this is going to be a pain.

Oh well. Keep pushing, I will.

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And just cause I needed a break from this (heh the excuse), here are some WIPs.

Too many details on the corals. Took forever. I really needed to simplify more.

Which hopefully won't end up in the never-ending WIPs pile...Hold me to it guys: I am not allowed to forgo these now that they are posted.

Some progress on the perspective room but I am so slow at it.

I know that practice increases speed but I am wondering what else could help as well. More simplification probably.

Let me know what you guys think.

It's late and I couldn't sleep so I did some anatomy.

It's not my best but it was good practice. I went faster on it too (2 hours instead of 4 hours) since I wanted to increase speed and see if I would lose too much.
One thing for sure: I am practicing hands and feet.

Also thinking of attacking term 2 in anatomy for certain now, so first thing in the morning.

Been feeling under the weather which got the best of me these past few days but back to practice.
Been listening to lectures in the meantime and practiced as much as I physically could.

Perspective room is still going along but still so slow....have no idea where I am going to put the second chair for that desk or how, yet....

WIP, but I am using it for color theory practice... still a lot of work on shading and it's uhm, yeah, that background would make a 5 year old probably happy, maybe? ... let's go to the next set of assignments.

Going to keep practicing those forms, but it's something.

Back to the perspective room I go.

So life, and health royally kicked my butt in the last three months, and while the idea and motivation was to draw everyday, the physical reality was that I barely managed to get up and eat or drink everyday so art was under the rug for a bit. I feel like I blinked in August and next thing I know I am close to November.
Back after that, taking the advice on the Discord to finish unfinished works and get back in the grind/continue where I left off. Hopefully, I haven't lost all the progress I had originally made.

Anyways...

Some selected exercises from the digital sketchbook: portraits, (part of) the 100 heads, feet /hands, and imagination gestures.

The room (I inflicted this horror on myself, I will see it through):

One character concept I am working on.

I just would like to know if the guy looks like he is the same person side view and facing forward?

My completed lineart of a Bottled Chibi:

Clothes folding are a challenge.

That's all for now.