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New Year's Art Resolution?????
Dec. 26th, 2018 11:43 pmSo I just saw this guy's art improvement meme and fuck. Not only is he just 20, but he also improved so fucking much in like 3-4 years??? What the actual hell, man. I'm so jealous of his motivation and discipline.
But seeing something like that really gives me the motivation to improve my art. I've been pretty unhappy with my art as of late. I can see how lacking my foundations are. I have literally zero concept of human anatomy, my colours are shit, what are backgrounds, etc etc.... But there were just so many things I wanted to improve on I never actually got around to really working on improving them.
BUT IT CHANGES TODAY. My biggest issues with these kinds of improvement things is that I'm always split between too many goals and also too ambitious with my steps so I end up giving up in no time. This time, I've decided that I want to focus on solidifying my fundamentals. I'm planning on focusing on two things, specifically. Anatomy and light. I'll practice human anatomy a shitton so I finally understand how the fuck the human body works... because I really don't LOL. Additionally, I'm FINALLY going to look into how light works in the real world and reflect that in my art.... lelelele--
I was going to lament about my terrible discipline, but I realized, I keep giving myself excuses to slack because I say that I can't draw daily. No. I have the discipline to calorie count and lose weight, so I absolutely have the discipline to make practice drawings everyday.
The schedule will be thus:
- 10 posemaniacs or SailorSenshi poses (better to focus on pictures of real people rather than frame models)
- 1 pose drawing where I focus on value and combine it with a light study at the same time if possible.
That'll be my bare minimum since I still want to draw other things, but I'll probably try to focus that "other things" time on experimental work that will further improve my art. My commissions will be closed and lord once I'm done my charms I'm not going to do chibis for a loooooong time if I can help it LOL... This means I may not draw as much Megaman, because Megaman character design can be restrictive in some ways... mostly on the clothing part. Need to practice them clothing folds lol
I'll be doing this for just one year, because one year isn't that long so if I want to change gears I can decide after the year is done.
What I'm looking to have a solid improvement on by the end of the year:
- Anatomy, duh. But I want to get good at drawing several types of body shapes.... and actually learn how to draw older men. LOL.
- I SWEAR TO GOD IF I DON'T GET BETTER AT HANDS BY THE END OF 2019 I WILL BACKFLIP INTO THE SUN AND THEN TAKE A PLANE TO JAPAN TO HOLD HORIKOSHI HOSTAGE AND GET HIM TO TEACH ME HOW TO HANDS
- Shadows, values... I want my art to have depth to them that seems to be lacking still.
I wish I could put a focus on backgrounds and compositions, but putting too much on my plate will kill me for sure. So, for now, anatomy and light. If I sneak in background and composition practice that'll be incidental.
ONWARDS TO 2019----
But seeing something like that really gives me the motivation to improve my art. I've been pretty unhappy with my art as of late. I can see how lacking my foundations are. I have literally zero concept of human anatomy, my colours are shit, what are backgrounds, etc etc.... But there were just so many things I wanted to improve on I never actually got around to really working on improving them.
BUT IT CHANGES TODAY. My biggest issues with these kinds of improvement things is that I'm always split between too many goals and also too ambitious with my steps so I end up giving up in no time. This time, I've decided that I want to focus on solidifying my fundamentals. I'm planning on focusing on two things, specifically. Anatomy and light. I'll practice human anatomy a shitton so I finally understand how the fuck the human body works... because I really don't LOL. Additionally, I'm FINALLY going to look into how light works in the real world and reflect that in my art.... lelelele--
I was going to lament about my terrible discipline, but I realized, I keep giving myself excuses to slack because I say that I can't draw daily. No. I have the discipline to calorie count and lose weight, so I absolutely have the discipline to make practice drawings everyday.
The schedule will be thus:
- 10 posemaniacs or SailorSenshi poses (better to focus on pictures of real people rather than frame models)
- 1 pose drawing where I focus on value and combine it with a light study at the same time if possible.
That'll be my bare minimum since I still want to draw other things, but I'll probably try to focus that "other things" time on experimental work that will further improve my art. My commissions will be closed and lord once I'm done my charms I'm not going to do chibis for a loooooong time if I can help it LOL... This means I may not draw as much Megaman, because Megaman character design can be restrictive in some ways... mostly on the clothing part. Need to practice them clothing folds lol
I'll be doing this for just one year, because one year isn't that long so if I want to change gears I can decide after the year is done.
What I'm looking to have a solid improvement on by the end of the year:
- Anatomy, duh. But I want to get good at drawing several types of body shapes.... and actually learn how to draw older men. LOL.
- I SWEAR TO GOD IF I DON'T GET BETTER AT HANDS BY THE END OF 2019 I WILL BACKFLIP INTO THE SUN AND THEN TAKE A PLANE TO JAPAN TO HOLD HORIKOSHI HOSTAGE AND GET HIM TO TEACH ME HOW TO HANDS
- Shadows, values... I want my art to have depth to them that seems to be lacking still.
I wish I could put a focus on backgrounds and compositions, but putting too much on my plate will kill me for sure. So, for now, anatomy and light. If I sneak in background and composition practice that'll be incidental.
ONWARDS TO 2019----
