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[Resolutions Thread 2011] SIGN UP NOW!
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Resolutions! Who doesn't love 'em? There's nothing like barreling into the new year with unbridled optimism and a fresh start. Secure in the knowledge that after all the lessons you learned last year, this time you're going to get things done.
And as you may remember from Last Time, what better thing to get done than the AC Resolution Challenge?
Just like last year, it is deceptively simple: create a piece of art a day
It can be anything. A doodle, a digital illustration, a photograph, a toothpick house, a clay ashtray.
That's the easy part. The hard part is doing all this while complying with the rules (shamelessly stolen from beavotron's 2010 resolution thread):
Rules
Still undaunted? Here's how you join!
Post here saying you're in. Then elaborate by saying what your own personal challenge or goal for the year is, if any.
Sign up deadline is this Saturday, January 8th. At which time we'll start Resolution-ing.
What if I fail?
First, stop thinking like that!
Second, your art can be as easy or difficult as you like. If a week is particularly hectic, ship in a bunch of stick figures and keep your resolution alive. Remember, quality does not matter, just do your best with the time you have.
Third, we can't legally admit to looking over your shoulder every hour of every day. If you don't do anything all week, then create all 7 art pieces on Saturday, no one is going to call you on it. Except your conscience.
And if you do turn into a Faily McFailington, you can always come back next week and try again. Just don't say you're going to "make it up later." You can't. When you miss a week, you miss a week.
What About Crits?
This is not a good place to discuss a particular piece of work at length.
If you would like criticism and feedback, it's best to create your very own personalized thread and link to it on your Saturday post.
Although criticism is very important to improving, the focus here is on motivating you to be an artist each and every single day of 2011.
But... but... I Don't Know What to Draw!
Beavotron addressed this very problem quite well last year:
My advice, though:
And as you may remember from Last Time, what better thing to get done than the AC Resolution Challenge?
Just like last year, it is deceptively simple: create a piece of art a day
It can be anything. A doodle, a digital illustration, a photograph, a toothpick house, a clay ashtray.
That's the easy part. The hard part is doing all this while complying with the rules (shamelessly stolen from beavotron's 2010 resolution thread):
Rules
- You are to submit one drawing per each day this year, starting Sunday, January 9th. It can be as big or as small as you want, in any medium, any style. For photographers, one picture. It must not be something you already made. It shouldn't be something you did for school or work, it should be a drawing you made to help you reach the goals you set out to reach in this thread. (but if it doesn't pertain specifically to one of your goals, it still counts.)
- Do not submit your drawings each day. Saturday is the last day of the week, Make a post and dump all 7 drawings from that week into a post. Don't spoiler it.
- For the sake of sanity while loading this thread, keep the file size as small as you can (400x600 works pretty well), you can always link to the super-huge-sized original.
- You're invited, but not required, to include any reasonable commentary with your Saturday art post, AND for those who do post on Saturday, you're allowed one (1) feedback post on the following non-art weekdays (yes, that's Sunday through Friday). This isn't a thread for crits and advice, but it's all good fun to high-five after a job well done.
Still undaunted? Here's how you join!
Post here saying you're in. Then elaborate by saying what your own personal challenge or goal for the year is, if any.
Sign up deadline is this Saturday, January 8th. At which time we'll start Resolution-ing.
What if I fail?
First, stop thinking like that!
Second, your art can be as easy or difficult as you like. If a week is particularly hectic, ship in a bunch of stick figures and keep your resolution alive. Remember, quality does not matter, just do your best with the time you have.
Third, we can't legally admit to looking over your shoulder every hour of every day. If you don't do anything all week, then create all 7 art pieces on Saturday, no one is going to call you on it. Except your conscience.
And if you do turn into a Faily McFailington, you can always come back next week and try again. Just don't say you're going to "make it up later." You can't. When you miss a week, you miss a week.
What About Crits?
This is not a good place to discuss a particular piece of work at length.
If you would like criticism and feedback, it's best to create your very own personalized thread and link to it on your Saturday post.
Although criticism is very important to improving, the focus here is on motivating you to be an artist each and every single day of 2011.
But... but... I Don't Know What to Draw!
Beavotron addressed this very problem quite well last year:
Here are some assignments for people who are stumped:
Observational Drawing:
1. Put together a still life and draw it from 3 different vantage points.
2. Take a striped piece of cloth, arrange it however you want and draw it, paying attention to how the stripes move with the folds along the cloth
3. Take a complex object, like a bicycle, in your mind frame off just a section and draw that section, paying attention to composition.
4. Go to the local museum and do some drawings of various skulls and bones
5. Go to your local park or cafe and do gestural drawings of people
6. Find a local life drawing meet up or course and sign up
7. Do some gestural drawings from http://www.posemaniacs.com
8. Cut a cabbage or other vegetable in half and draw what you see. pay attention to line variation
9. Draw only the negative space of a tree or chair (or both)
10. Take a trip to the zoo, draw some animals
11. Take a trip to the library, dig through some art books, or scour the internet to find some work that inspires you and try to mimic it. Pay attention to what makes it good.
Character Design:
(taken from "Prepare to Board" by Nancy Beiman)
1. Take a human character and transform it into an animal, showing one step in between
2. Make 4 numbered lists, in the first list put 20 different species (animals, human being, aliens..whatever) in the second, genders (male, female), third time periods (1400s, jurassic period) fourth age groups (infant, toddler, tween, teen, adult, elderly) Now using a random number generator (lots on the internet) pick random numbers from each list so that you're left with a species, gender, time period and age.
so for example, for one of mine i got kangaroo, male, roman period, teen. Now draw that character.
3. Create a pair of characters that contrast large and small
4. Draw characters that illustrate a single line from a nursery rhyme
Environmental Design
1. go to http://wikitravel.org and click "random page" you'll get a random place. Do some research and come up with some sketches based on this place.
2. To add another dynamic to the above task, do a series of lists, one with time period, another with colors. use a random number generator, and from these lists, get a time period and a main color that you have to incorporate into the enviro
for example: Belize, 1400s, blue
3. Do another random list thing, this time, make a list of places (open space, mars, under the sea, antarctica), type of environment: (landscape, castle, room interior, bathroom etc) time period: (jurassic, 1980s etc)
so for example, I did one and got: open space, bathroom, 1980s. So you gotta draw a bathroom floating around in open space with 1980's stylings haha.
Observational Drawing:
1. Put together a still life and draw it from 3 different vantage points.
2. Take a striped piece of cloth, arrange it however you want and draw it, paying attention to how the stripes move with the folds along the cloth
3. Take a complex object, like a bicycle, in your mind frame off just a section and draw that section, paying attention to composition.
4. Go to the local museum and do some drawings of various skulls and bones
5. Go to your local park or cafe and do gestural drawings of people
6. Find a local life drawing meet up or course and sign up
7. Do some gestural drawings from http://www.posemaniacs.com
8. Cut a cabbage or other vegetable in half and draw what you see. pay attention to line variation
9. Draw only the negative space of a tree or chair (or both)
10. Take a trip to the zoo, draw some animals
11. Take a trip to the library, dig through some art books, or scour the internet to find some work that inspires you and try to mimic it. Pay attention to what makes it good.
Character Design:
(taken from "Prepare to Board" by Nancy Beiman)
1. Take a human character and transform it into an animal, showing one step in between
2. Make 4 numbered lists, in the first list put 20 different species (animals, human being, aliens..whatever) in the second, genders (male, female), third time periods (1400s, jurassic period) fourth age groups (infant, toddler, tween, teen, adult, elderly) Now using a random number generator (lots on the internet) pick random numbers from each list so that you're left with a species, gender, time period and age.
so for example, for one of mine i got kangaroo, male, roman period, teen. Now draw that character.
3. Create a pair of characters that contrast large and small
4. Draw characters that illustrate a single line from a nursery rhyme
Environmental Design
1. go to http://wikitravel.org and click "random page" you'll get a random place. Do some research and come up with some sketches based on this place.
2. To add another dynamic to the above task, do a series of lists, one with time period, another with colors. use a random number generator, and from these lists, get a time period and a main color that you have to incorporate into the enviro
for example: Belize, 1400s, blue
3. Do another random list thing, this time, make a list of places (open space, mars, under the sea, antarctica), type of environment: (landscape, castle, room interior, bathroom etc) time period: (jurassic, 1980s etc)
so for example, I did one and got: open space, bathroom, 1980s. So you gotta draw a bathroom floating around in open space with 1980's stylings haha.
My advice, though:
Tell stories with pictures.
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I'll only be posting once or twice a month though, if I'm to be realistic with myself and my laziness with uploads.
I thought the point of resolutions was to change your habits
Just get better with photoshop painting, define my style, and be awesome.
I hope to improve, my sense of expression, foreshortening, inking, computer illustration, layout, lettering, and overall style.
Also, nice job, Slacktron, on keeping up on last year's resolution.
I want to learn about composition, i'm tired of drawing a dude without an environment for him to live in. My drawings are getting bored!!!
I also want to improve my anatomy. My peeps are not looking as human as I'd like...
where MAKING THIS HAPEN
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where MAKING THIS HAPEN
Thats just a ruse.
My goal is to draw every day, it can't be expected of me to upload nearly as often - priorities.
This year I'll be approaching it differently; while I still want to of course get better at things such as composition, anatomy, execution, etc. etc., I fear that going into this aiming for such things kills some of my eagerness to simply make art.
So, while I will be looking towards such things, the only thing I'm really looking to achieve is this: to become a more dedicated artist.
Vague, but it'll show clearly by 2011's end whether I achieve that or not. Hoping I'll be here by the end of the year with some of you guys; I'll be taking notes from you, Slacktron!
Something I'd really like to do this year is learn to digital paint, I've trapped myself into only really being able to shade properly in lines. I'll try to work something lineless in at least once a week
My goals are to: try new things!
My goal: Practice, Practice, Practice!
My goals: Complete the full year. Also, to express more story in my art.
Consider me signed up.
I have plans for a story based piece which should make this easier, but first I think it will be life studies/random doodles time...
I need to work on everything, but main goals: get better at drawing hu-mans, value/expressing form, better line quality.
- I'm too busy. I have other work to do. Demanding child, cat, wife etc. Black plague. Small pox. Had to rescue a drowning puppy from a tidal surge. Helicopter accident (they theoretically can't fly you know), Blood everywhere, Broken computer, pencil, crayon, and such and such.
Hopefully i make it the whole year. I want to at least out do my 8 (or so) week run last year.
My goals are pretty much the same as last year...how sad.
I've lurked around for years and I need to get out of my shell.
I need to tackle anatomy, design and color. I will study with traditional media.
Here's to a Brand New Year.
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I've always liked Melting Doll's style so I shamelessly and poorly copied a drawing of hers in the upper right (I changed it from a frown to a smile at my wife's comment that she looked too unhappy) and then tried to draw in the same style in the lower left. Hopefully Melting Doll doesn't mind. And yes I know that the piano is nowhere near accurate.
I've been working my way through the Loomis books on drawing, the above is one of his exercises.
My wife and I have been miserably sick this past week and to help keep ourselves from going completely stir crazy we went and bought a PS3 and have been playing Little Big Planet like crazy.
Fine. I guess I will post my scratchy things from the past week- ish.
A tree, some movie doodles, some other random stuff.
Wanna start working through the Bridgman book next week.
whoopsie daisies
I have some stuff just from weekly doodling though.
friend of mine asked for one of the new pokemon poorly disguised as a butterfree
First week plus one from New Year's since it's the eighth. I rarely color my drawings and I've not dabbled into digital drawing too much, so I'm fairly satisfied with the amount of work I've chugged out over this week. Will be playing around with different things throughout the year though, that's for sure.
My apologies for humongous; vectors do not scale down very well!
I won't be home enough for the next couple of weeks to update since I'm house sitting elsewhere without my scanner. When I get back on the 25th I'll update!
Ah well I've got some stuff ready anyway, get ready to avert your eyes!
I've generally stuck two days worth on one page to save on space and paper:
I'm still using last years date apparently...
Mostly just back-to-basics skeletal anatomy this week. Next week: Musculature!
love the tron guy