A few people have asked for this, and far be it from me to deny my audience :D First question: what course would I recommend for people who haven’t drawn in a really long time? Answer: Technically speaking, everything you could possibly want to learn is available for free somewhere on YouTube. I, however, lack the capacity to FIND all that material and not be overwhelmed by it, so I used courses that somebody else had put together. And yes, that does say courses, plural, because I can’t do anything…
Tag: drawing
art project: 92 hours and… done?!?!?
Holy crap! I accidentally finished the coursework! The last section was definitely an overview and only took a couple hours, and now I’m flabbergasted that I’m finished! I HAVE mentally committed to 100, so I’m going to do some more anatomy stuff, but good heavens! And the truth is that if I hadn’t done all the face/head work stuff, I’d have finished at about 80 hours, probably. Which is fine: I’d figured I would finish earlier than 100 hours, but even if it had taken me the whole 100, I…
art project: 70 and counting
Aight, this wraps up my Udemy course, which, weirdly enough, I started one year ago today. Even if I hadn’t started doing this project, I’d still drawn more in the past year than I had in MANY MANY years, so all by itself that’s pretty satisfying, but this project means I’ve finished it, after buying it EIGHT YEARS AGO, and that I still have about thirty hours of practice in front of me. I thought the bricks turned out pretty cool in that one, and I’m informed the skull is…
art project: goals & … goals … :)
In a recent chat with my husband about what I wanted from this art project, I said, “let’s face it, in terms of influence I’m—” Ted: starts laughing Me: What? Ted: I’m waiting for you to say ‘landing somewhere between Wendy Pini & Jim Lee’ and…well… I mean… o.o Me, vaguely indignant: well i was GOING to say Elfquest and X-Men, not Jim Lee specifically, but…yes……. I mean, I’m never going to be as good as either of them, but still, it was both funny and spot-on. But so anyway,…
Art Project: SIXTY hours!
Me, grumpily, to my husband, as I stared hatefully at all the upcoming “how to draw a REALISTIC tree/bird/frog/skull” things in my art project: do you know who else was a major influence on my style? PATRICK NAGEL. YOU KNOW. THE GUY WHO DID THIS KIND OF ART: Not gonna lie, guys, every step of this last ten hours has been a S T R U G G L E to get myself to do. I do not care about drawing realistic trees or photo-accurate cityscapes. I despise grid drawings.…

