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STUDENT LOG 4: February 1st, 2025

Hello! I am finally posting my Week 3 work! A lot of new things this week --- new pen control exercises, introduced gesture, and artist studies! Digital gesture drawing sure takes getting use to. I only managed to get one artist study done so far (see the last image). I decided to do a piece by tacodemuerte. Their art has such amazing gesture and stylization! Their lineart is great too. I tried not to spend too much time on the art, so my study isn't entirely accurate, but I enjoyed deeper analyzing the piece. Week 4 introduces perspective, and I finally get to move on from the tracing exercise (thank God)! I'm going to spend two weeks on Week 4 and catching up on the Week 3 studies.

Follow tacodemuerte here: https://www.tumblr.com/tacodemuerte

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I have finished the assignments for Week 3, but they won't be posted yet. This week I'm halting progress on the art course because there's a lot of important due dates coming up this week for school.

I always end up having this problem where I procrastinate on school work and it ends up putting everything else on the back burner. There are strategies to get past this, but I haven't been using them. This week I will!

I will try to watch the Perspective 1 video this week and take some notes, it'll get me a head start for when I start back up next week.

Good day!

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12 museums that you can visit online

www.hermitagemuseum.org

britishmuseum.org

www.louvre.fr

www.museodelprado.es

collections.vam.ac.uk

www.moma.org

www.khm.at

www.digitalsculpture.org

www.tnm.jp

artsandculture.google.com

collections.lacma.org

collections.rom.on.ca

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STUDENT LOG 3: January 17th, 2025

This week wasn't as prolific as I would've liked. First, I had the wrist injury which delayed me a few days and then school started back for me! That threw off my whole routine, so I didn't do exercises every day.

Still, I noticed that it got easier as I progressed. I got faster at both the pen control exercises and the tracings. Now do they look better?? That's debatable....

Week 3 introduces gesture drawing! Which will be fun, but also challenging. I also have to study (copy) five images from my favorite artists. I wonder who I'll choose... 🤔

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Style studies of Jabberwick's art! He has such a distinctive style with great form and shape language! These were just simple copies, but I hope to do a deeper analysis in the future.

Check them out: https://leerghast.carrd.co/

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STUDENT LOG 1: January 8th, 2025

For the first week of Marc Brunet's ART School. This week is a slow start since I'm redoing other assignments. I modified the worksheets so I would practice one exercise each day. My plans to redo the original worksheet were so rudely interrupted by my injured wrist from a spontaneous workout. It's feeling better today, but I'm still going to take a day off from drawing to let it heal up. I can't wait to start this week! The figure drawing assignments are coming up!

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Top secret W I P... I'll only share here! I'm doing a "benchmark" illustration for the ART school course. Of course, I have to draw my favorite OC. I'm also giving myself an entire month to do this, so I'm taking my sweet time. I think this'll turn out cool!

Edit 1: Added the second and third sketch pass. Edit 2: Added the lineart pass. Edit 3: Added the color pass. Edit 4: Added the rendered pass. Edit 5: Added the final pass.

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ART School perspective assignments I did in 2022.

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ART School figure drawing assignments I did in 2022. These were the gesture drawing exercises for 30 sec to 1 min. They were low key my favorite! I really like gesture drawing, and it's really improved my art.

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ART School figure drawing assignments I did in 2022. These were about capturing accurate proportions. Both capturing the idealized proportions and then trying to replicate that in photos.

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ART School figure drawing assignments I did in 2022. The aim was to trace over basic forms of a figure and then to freehand.

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It's 2025 which means I'm officially restarting Marc Brunet's ART School course. I'm on Week 1 which means I'll be starting Visual Communication 1 and Photoshop for Digital Production 1. Here are my assignments I did back in 2022.

For the Photoshop unit, there's the pen control assignment, and the rest are about learning how to use the tools for photo manipulation. I don't plan on on redoing most of them since it's not relevant to focus. I will continue to do the pen control assignment, it's quite helpful! I'm really rusty with digital art. The only "assignment" for Visual Communication is daily deliberate observation. I might also start doing still lives to further build my visual library. Once I finish reposting old work, I'll start posting my homework weekly every Wednesday.

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Student Log 1 - December 27th, 2024

Long time no see... Lowkey, I haven't been in an art improvement / practice mood. However, things are going to change in 2025!

Back in 2021, I received Marc Brunet's course "ART School", and I only made it through the first term. I want to get it done though! It was a lot of money, and I think it'll introduce me topics I haven't broached yet like certain anatomy, creature design, and mechs. My entire journey will be posted here!

The course was designed to teach digital art. While it can be done as a traditional artist, you get the most out of it if you go digital. Personally, I'm more interested in developing in mediums like watercolor, but I'm not gonna waste the course! Small assignments will be split digital/traditional, but all major portfolio pieces will be digital.

To make up for that, I plan on doing weekly sketchbook illustrations. I'll really experiment and let loose with those since there isn't a major pressure for those to be great.

Alright, that's all for now! Doug signing out👋

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Just finished my current sketchbook, so I'm returning to this little one which I've only filled one page of all the way back in December 2023. I decided to do a redraw. I'm quite surprised at the improvements! I haven't practiced as much this year, so it feels like I've stagnated. It's nice to see I'm still making progress.

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Introduction to My Art Improvement Diary

Follows and likes from: @bigglobestrikesagain

Hello, I'm starting this document my journey to improve at art to achieve my dream images. I'm not a complete beginner, but more so broaching the intermediate stage, completely fumbling where to go next. I've focused a lot on figure drawing, so I'm fine at anatomy at the expense of everything else; My art lacks good color theory, composition, or design. My perspective is rudimentary as well.

Now, a lot of people recommend specializing so the learning process doesn't take so long, but I'm stupid and kinda wanna be good at everything, so that advice won't apply! it doesn't even matter because I don't plan on having a career in art. I can do whatever I want!

My main goals/interests include:

Worldbuilding and character development for my stories.

Drawing my characters in cvnty outfits and poses (as written in my sketchbook).

Making surreal / abstract / symbolic art with wacky colors and lots of shapes.

Also, I see people with really cool, exaggerated cartoon styles, while my style is in-between semi-realism and cartoon, so I either want to work on exaggerating my current style, or creating my own distinct cartoon style The things I'll post:

Obviously, my own own studies, WIPs, sketches.

I might also reblog other artists' studies for inspo and such.

Another purpose of this blog will also be compiling resources from around the internet to help in learning art.

Finally, two specific things are #artfails where I share my ugliest sketches because I think it's important to share our shortcomings and not give an impression of perfect success. Also, #throwbacks for studies from previous years.

STUDY PLAN!!

On my journey I'm going to focus on what I've decided on for the fundamentals of art:

Form / Construction / Perspective

Values

Color Theory

Composition

Draftsmanship / Technical Skill

Observation

Design

Imagination and Creativity - People don't often mention this one, and I neglected it or a while so I struggle to just have fun and be creative with my art. It also entails being able to draw things without a reference.

I still need to set in stone a study plan, but as of now: For perspective / form I plan on using Drawabox and Proko. For figure drawing I plan on using Proko, Michael Hampton, and Love Life Drawing. These are sources I've used in the past, and are really good! I'll add more later!

Finally, here's some benchmark drawings, just a simple sketch of my OC Xander sitting in nature. Left is from June 2023 and the right from June 2024. Not as much improvement as seen in previous years, but surprisingly still there, especially with the perspective. And yes, these photos are low quality, but nobody is gonna see this except me!!