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  • in reply to: Old Friends #433332
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hi Cindy

    What a heartwarming painting! I love your colour palette, brushwork and the figure gestures. I think maybe separating the value of sky mass from the further ground plane would help to create more depth, as they read close in value such that they merge together. Real nice piece.

    Keep painting!

    in reply to: Sylvan #433321
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    Hi Robin

    This is a beautiful painting. I love the serene atmosphere of the image. It’s lovely that you used a subtle complimentary colour scheme to have her skin tones and hair stand out more, but you made the background more neutral and less saturated which is great. I would you could push the depth of the background a bit more by making it even more neutral and less saturated. The lighting on the neck and chest read a bit lighter than what they should be, I think. I can see you defined her hair on her left side to push it back compared to her right, but maybe a bit more definition on her left side of her hair could be good, to make her overall hair read more consistently. And try to avoid using line to separate her upper eyelid from the rest of her eye socket. I struggle with this! but it does make the form read better.

    Keep painting!

    in reply to: shamelessly begging for a crit #433311
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hi Tracy

    These are so cool! I’m not advanced enough to provide much feedback, but overall I like the evidence of consistency in your style across the images.
    For the coloured image, I can see you used complimentary colour scheme to separate the spaces, and to further emphasise the lighting. I think maybe trying to harmonise the colours a bit across the image more would help. The distinction between the space where the characters and the other space feel more spatially separated than what they actually are.

    Otherwise, keep pushing your style – it’s neat!

    in reply to: Looking for critiques on some recent figure work! #433305
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hi Kevin

    I’ve hardly done any figure work so I can’t provide useful feedback for it, but I can say that you can clearly see you’ve been working and can see the overall improvement in your drawing, so keep it up!

    I have more experience with painting though. It is a lovely portrait. I like seeing that you’re trying to preserve the brushwork, which I personally like in paintings. The overall colour scheme works well. As for solvents, I’ve had that problem too. I’ve ended up now hardly using solvents, if I do it’s just a bare brush dip, otherwise I paint with paint only and also just brush dip into some linseed oil to help spread the paint. I think also focusing even more on being deliberate with placement of each brushwork to even more prevent mudding up of colours by blending more than necessary. I struggle with this so much! takes a lot of discipline to put the stroke down and just leave it there, And trying to not line the lips and above the upper eye lid – something also that I need to work on myself.

    Keep it up!

    in reply to: Free Student Video Critiques by NMA Instructors #433291
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    I myself will try to provide feedback for some where I am, but I’m pretty beginnerish so I find it hard to see what could be valuable to say :/ maybe just some general support and encouragement?

    in reply to: Free Student Video Critiques by NMA Instructors #433285
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hey all

    It’s great to see people active on here, right?!

    I didn’t fully appreciate the value in and of itself to see activity here to create a sense a community, and that it is important, especially now more than ever in our lifetime.

    I’m sure I’m not the only one who at times feels a bit isolated learning on your own. Seeing all these posts has me saying to myself, “This is so great to see others implementing what they’ve learned, that I am indeed not trudging away on my own, and it’s inspiring!

    As Joshua said, if you haven’t yet started your own thread to share what you posted here, it will help in us students providing feedback to each other.

    Keep learning, drawing and painting!

    in reply to: Landscape and Still life Oil Painting Critiques #433264
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Cheers Joshua

    How annoying. I’m glad it was brought to attention so that other’s threads can be adjusted too.
    Thanks again for NMA  providing the opportunity for critiques for us.

    in reply to: Finally here #432271
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Vilpuu will be wonderful to start with for gesture. I have started Karl Gnass’ Spirit of the Pose and afterwards plan to move onto Vilpuu. Enjoying the course so far 🙂
    That’s absolutely right! Lowering the barriers is so important, especially as a beginner I think. On days where I really struggle, I just draw the simple forms and practice line quality. It all adds up in the end.

    Yes I did! Would be a perfect start to the education here. I probably should have started with that course when I signed up last year in October, but I jumped  into the Head Drawing for Beginners course first. Though it is such a fun and well put together course that it truly is accessible for beginners.

    in reply to: Models Bridgette and Serge from image library #432264
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    I have a similar problem. My shadow and light sides start to merge the more I develop the drawing and are less distinct from each other. More practice is all 🙂 No worries!

    in reply to: Critique welcome: Woman in sitting pose sketch #432103
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Indeed. Our art provides insights into ourselves, opportunities to explore within and do some deep soul work.

    I’ve had some issues uploading, but I will have some up soonish 🙂

    in reply to: Free Student Video Critiques by NMA Instructors #432097
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hi Joshua,

    I tried to create my own thread, but upon submitting it, it says it needs to be moderated first (or something like that) and seems it hasn’t been posted. Perhaps an error of some sort? (I did post several images so it could be that?)
    Failing so, I’ll post an image in this thread. Thank you and to the instructors for your generosity and providing this opportunity for us all! Also, it provides a great insight into what coaching can offer for us. Also, it’s nice to see people active on here 🙂

    Cheers

    in reply to: Greetings #429692
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hi Kerrigan 🙂

    I started to learn about drawing and painting through YouTube videos, but I too struggled with the lack of cohesiveness and structure. It was coming across NMA channel and watching the videos they have there that made me decide to sign up. Do you have any specific personal goals for your art? Which courses are you/planning to take this year?

    Cheers

    in reply to: Greetings, They call me Brit, or T-Mac #429691
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hi Brit 🙂

    Thanks for sharing with us a bit about yourself and your art journey so far. With regard to having to get a degree and that paper, there are many examples of artists who have made art their full time career and are self-taught 🙂 it is absolutely possible. Being self-taught can be tricky as all the direction, allocated work load and accountability all relies on yourself, but with passion and creativity, many of those things can be resolved, albeit not perfectly and linearly, but it does and will get better with more practice and time.

    Which course/s are you undertaking and planning to take this year?

    All the best!

    in reply to: Finally here #429669
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hi Haider 🙂 Great to have you here.

    I discovered painting, and naturally following from that, drawing as part of mental health therapy – and then I was hooked. I started with basic forms as well – cubes, spheres, cylinders, and perspective. I found my drawings at times looked stiff, static and “life less” . I’m learning gesture now and it’s improving those aspects.

    Which course/s are you planning to take in the beginning?

    Cheers

    in reply to: Russian Academic Drawing Approach- Portrait Assignment #429666
    Josseline JeriaJosseline Jeria
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    Hi Liza

    This is a great drawing – congrats. I started the Russian course a month or two ago, but left it aside. I NEED to get back into it. Have you taken any other courses on here? I agree NMA is a brilliant resource. I started learning to draw last year as well. It’s so cool to see how much you progress over a short period of time! I think the main thing would be to make the light and shadow sides more clear and separate them a bit more would help with making the image look more 3d. It seems like the reference you used was a more ambient lighting setup? I’ve found they can be tricky to work with. I think that if you push the value contrasts a bit more than the reference shows, it helps the drawing read a bit better. Keep up the drawing!!

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