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  • June 22, 2020 at 10:00 am in reply to: Alex’s 100 day art challenge #593823
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    Day#4 more head studies/sketches

    June 21, 2020 at 1:48 pm in reply to: Alex’s 100 day art challenge #592255
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    Day#3

    Ive been working on the digital drawing I posted earlier today as Im unhappy with the likeness. I’ve also worked on some sketches. here is one of the more successful ones from today 

    June 20, 2020 at 5:32 pm in reply to: Alex’s 100 day art challenge #590775
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    @janstannard You’re welcome, gotta pass it forward, its horribly difficult thing to get good so I always feel like I should help others where I can as I appreciate others doing for me. Hope everything goes smoothly for you learning the head basics, it takes a while and is still taking a while for myself.  🙂

    June 20, 2020 at 4:04 pm in reply to: Alex’s 100 day art challenge #590686
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    close day #2 out with a sketch of one of the models in the image archive. think it went alright for eyeballing it 🙂

    June 20, 2020 at 10:47 am in reply to: Alex’s 100 day art challenge #590433
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    day #2

    only did a few sketches today, just wasnt feeling it. heres one of them, will upload more later.

    June 20, 2020 at 1:26 am in reply to: Alex’s 100 day art challenge #589980
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    @jeansantos thanks mate, just looked on your instagram. your sketches are great, how long are you spending on those? They make me feel bad about mine! :’D yeah you should its really good, he gets into doing expressions and using sqaure vs rounded forms and characterisation towards the end which I think you will enjoy.

    June 20, 2020 at 1:16 am in reply to: Alex’s 100 day art challenge #589975
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    @janstannard Yes, dont be disheartened, I already have a degree in art so have had some skill to fall back on. I’ve been doing NMA for about a week and practising 10 hours a day or more, I’ve always struggled with proportions and never been able to get a likeness freehand or get the features aligned on the front of the head. Before NMA, I was struggling learning the Loomis method for about a week or two (it dates further back on my instagram but thats because I got angry and stopped making art for 2 weeks). Honestly, I advise you learn the Andrew Loomis method first, then I advise that you learn Steve’s method but don’t commit to using his sail/kite thing, it can feel unnatural. Watch the videos and try the assignments using his method AND the loomis method, see which you prefer, then mix them together if it will help. The other big thing that has helped me so far is that I bought a medical skull prop for about £30 on amazon and learned the names of the different parts of the orbit and jaw and the muscles and where they connect. If you want to see how its developed then I have a few years of drawings on my instagram at @alsartblog but bear in mind that anything that looks spot on is more than likely traced up prior to this year.

    June 19, 2020 at 4:17 pm in reply to: Self-portrait in pencil #589684
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    sorry I dont have a scanner :S

     

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    June 19, 2020 at 12:38 pm in reply to: Self-portrait in pencil #589479
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    June 15, 2020 at 2:58 pm in reply to: Hello from Liverpool, UK #584764
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    Hi Joshua,

    thank you for your warm welcome and also thank you for assisting me with the references. I will be sure to submit progress to the community.

    I hope you are keeping well,

    kind regards,

    Alex

    June 11, 2020 at 9:08 am in reply to: Hello from Liverpool, UK #579278
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    Hi @christopher

    Yes, fortunately in the UK we have student loans companies that make it a possibility, I now owe 60k with interest!!!!!!! :'(

    In this sense you are quite lucky as you can teach yourself at a fraction of the cost online! Also, you’ve wasted no time at all and can get straight to the useful stuff so feel happy for that 🙂

    I hope you also achieve your goals in the end, thank you for your well wishes

    best,

    Alex

    June 11, 2020 at 9:02 am in reply to: Hello and greetings from Germany #579277
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    Hi christopher,  yes, structure is something I also struggle with, jumping back and forth from perspective drawing to anatomy, drawing to painting, painting to modelling. Its all daunting to look at, chipping away a piece at a time is all we can do. It may be a willpower thing, I’m sure even the instructors on here experienced the same thing starting out. 🙂

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    June 9, 2020 at 3:57 pm in reply to: Hello and greetings from Germany #576813
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    Guten tag, Christopher

    I am also starting from scratch like you. Good luck on your art journey! It will be hard fought! 100 days will be an impressive feat! I am very much looking forward to seeing your progress if you post it online 🙂

    best wishes,

    Alex

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