MightyRoops in the post "Who Are You? Introduce Yourselves!"
2015-01-17 09:37
Hello.
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I'm 21 years old and I liked to draw since I was 16 or 17. However I never drew regularly and mostly it was just little doodles and sketches. Only in the past two years I have gotten the wish to learn actual techniques and skills to improve.
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I never had art classes, I did tutorials from websites every now and then but looking back, they probably where way above my skill level and I basically just copied the steps without understanding the reasoning behind them.
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For me art is a hobby. I'm not the most imaginative person but every now and then I get a really cool idea and I become frustrated because I don't have the skill to put it on paper the way it looks in my head.
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I don't really have much to show you but here's a drawing from a photo I did a year ago and here's a little character I drew a week ago.
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I found out about this subreddit from the sidebars of lots of other drawing subreddits. I lurk in a lot of them because I like reading about the techniques and skills but my problem is that I never really know how to practise them.
This is the main reason I joined here, because your (/u/uncomfortable) homework gives me some clear goals so I can practise efficiently.
MightyRoops in the post "LESSON 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2015-01-17 16:44
Here's my first homework.
I'm not really happy with my results, especially the varying perspective. I guess I'll do the 250 boxes challenge to practise that a bit more.
Also my first page of lines was a disaster and there's barely a line where all 8 are on top of each other but at least with time it got better (purple lines where first, then green, then orange).