Admin Post: Community Check-In for June 2019

[goss]

Today's the last day of June, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in June, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.

Comments

[yhlee]

I was sick for almost all of June but have resumed doing Phil Metzger (Perspective without Pain) to learn basic perspective, Bargue for figure (Charles Bargue: Drawing Course), and have been screwing around with my iPad/Procreate: Now and forever, I'm your gun I actually finished earlier today. If I can get into a habit of doing Metzger and/or Bargue every day, I'm hoping it will eventually make a difference.

What I'm struggling with right now is feeling like I'm a hamster on a wheel--I'm practicing, but the last time I had art class was 9th grade and I suspect I just do not know how to learn effectively. I am seriously starting to doubt whether it's possible for me to learn on my own when my foundations are this shaky, but realistically my job means I won't be able to commit to even community school type art lessons for some time.

[goss]

Now and forever, I'm your gun I actually finished earlier today.

Nice! I really enjoyed following along with your entire process in the vid. Also, the galaxy effect you got is so cool! Thanks for linking back to the tutorial - makes me want to attempt digital painting again.

As for art lessons, I feel like it's never too late to learn and develop art skills. You definitely have a good eye for it and lots of natural ability (I love your figure sketches!), which can help compensate for discrepancies in your former art education.

These days the vid tutorials available online are such good quality that sometime I find myself using them as a guide for how to teach certain foundation art concepts in my own classes. Perspective is always my most challenging one! /o\

[yhlee]

Yeah, I keep forgetting that "look it up on Youtube" is an option these days, which it wasn't when I was a kid growing up! My daughter does it constantly (she's in the GT program for art at her high school) instead of going to books the way I do, and it's certainly working for her! Thanks for the words of encouragement. :)

[minoanmiss]

Learning can be a bit more difficult when we're out of school, but I have every faith you can do it! ANd by doing this you are exercising your brain, just like muscles, ad thus staving off age-related degeneration down the line!

*cheers you on*

[yhlee]

Thanks! I really appreciate the words of encouragement. :) I'm working on developing a habit of drawing at least a small thing every day even if work gets busy.

[mekare]

Cool, thanks for posting the process video, I'll watch that later. I like the lighting in the art.

Re practice, I've had that feeeling of not feeling like the practice makes a difference but I do believe that regular practice will pay off in the end! Plus there's always the comm here where you could get some advice on WIPs if you want.

[yhlee]

That's a good thought--thank you for the reminder that I can do that. :D

[mific]

Interesting process vid, thanks!