ThatGamerGrl in the post "Who Are You? Introduce Yourselves!"
2015-03-12 02:50
Greetings all! Let's see, what can I tell you about myself? For starters I'm 31 and once been drawing since I was little. I remember being in first grade and having a sketchbook in my backpack all the time. A tradition that continued well into my late twenties. I took art classes in high school and was put into the advanced studies program. Took a few more in college including some architectural drafting classes for theatre. Nothing too intensive though since I was a medical science major and got my degree in massage therapy. Most of my works from high school are somewhere in my parents' attic and the stuff from college got lost in my many moves since then.
As stated in my lesson 1 comment, I tore up my wrist (dominant hand) really bad about 5 or 6 years ago which has killed my massage therapy career. (This may or may not be a forever thing, still need lots more physical therapy to find out.) Lots of other stuff happened that kept me too busy to have time to do any art at all. Thankfully, now I'm able to pick it back up.
My goals are to first rebuild my eye-hand control and retone my arm muscles enough to get the basics back. Then, I'd like to work on my realism (a topic I always struggled with). Eventually, I hope to perhaps make a little income with my art. The creativity is there. I need help getting the hand to follow.
I have some work on DeviantArt (link: http://lree.deviantart.com/ ) under the user name Lree. Some subject matter is very NSFW so please be mindful. I always welcome critiques so feel free to say anything as long as it's helpful.
I found this subreddit by searching for art fundamentals in reddit. Pretty straight forward. ^_^
So there's my wall of text. Nice meeting you all!
Edit: link added
ThatGamerGrl in the post "Who Are You? Introduce Yourselves!"
2015-03-12 03:05
Thanks for the welcome, and the sympathies. It's been a rough road getting it healed. I spent 3 months having it completely immobilized and couldn't do anything with that arm at all. I still have to wear a brace from time to time when the muscles get over worked. Drawing is actually one of the things that was recommended to me to help build up the muscles of the whole arm while keeping the joint stress low and allowing full range of motion and flexibility so huzzah for that!