[Josseline Jeria]

I have been doing my daily challenge work, but a bit behind on the uploading on here. Here’s day 12 graphite – getting my cubing and ellipting on

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@JoshuaJacobo I think that would be very useful and helpful to current and future NMA students. It’s easy to get swept away here at all the sheer volume of content. I’m sure most would appreciate even the slightest bit of suggestions to help them direct their learning better.

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Lucas – painting is so wonderful but it does take a lot out of you. So many things to think about! Thanks, and likewise. Your lorikeet profile pic is SO sweet. I get lots of them in my area. During summer many of them hang on my balcony 🙂

@andregirao-tauffer thank you! Those were spontaneous studies – I will be doing more in the near future. I needed to fill another page in my sketchbook, so I grabbed a photo I had on my phone and drew from that. I love bird so that is probably why they came out ohk.

@Ramona – thanks so much! It was a good year. This year will be much more training focused.

@JoshuaJacobo – thanks! and I appreciate hearing that. The background inner critic wants to make you feel bad for being fatigued. Feeling better now – I still did my art but had two days off from study – that helped 🙂 Thanks for the encouragement.

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Day 10 – Fountain pen – timed gesture session. I still need to figure out how I want to approach these. The way I do these for studies doesn’t work so well for timed sessions. Doing them in pen is difficult for me.

Graphite and stabilo point 88 fineliner – a few quick sketches I did whilst at the hospital. It felt strange drawing in that kind of enviroment, made me feel uncomfortable, I think the drawings show that, but it helped during those brief moments to take my mind off things by drawing.

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yeah 3/4 is what most artists like – it’s the most informative in regards to seeing most of the head and face, and the planes. great imaginative work. Showing that you are  understanding your concepts.

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Lucas – Thanks 🙂 I know right? I don’t think it’s because we don’t actually want to draw, just our brains are a bit fatigued due to how much work we’re doing. But doing some kind of art everyday is essential to ingrain long term persistence!

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It was beautiful watching it unfold. I’m real keen to see something on the upbeat side from you.

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So today, April 19th marks one year since I started learning how to paint and wanting to pursue learning about the craft of art in general.  Happy with my efforts, but plenty plenty more work to be done. It’s a pretty special thing for me, so I wanted to share this post with you all, for those who may be interested 🙂 it sums the progress across the year for my painting.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_JTZBPnwHb/?igshid=is6r40pkum4s

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Day 11  – I’m feeling pretty burned out. It’s reflecting in my work I think. I decided to take a break from painting, studying, assigments, sketching, everything. I just quickly put this watercolour sketch idea down. Given I’ve done most days of the challenge 1+ more pages than what I had set myself (2 pages daily) I think it is ohk for this day to leave it at that. (I posted day 10 prior to creating this post but because it has a few photos, it will take a while till it uploads,. You all will be able to see it shortly once it’s up 🙂 )

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Thanks @ZHISU I know I’m very early in my artistic pursuits, thus getting mileage in is amongst the most important things I have to focus on. Yes they do! I had to do a LOT of them the other day for the Russian course. But really felt I got an even bettter handle of those forms after those assignments.

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Your mess looks neat compared to mine! Gesture is real tough for everyone. The main kind of tough for beginners is just learning how to do it in general. I’m struggling a lot and getting frustrated, but determined to persist. We’ll push through. You’ve got this!

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Love these Hokusai sketch studies! I really enjoy doing these kind of master studies.

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I see what you mean with the proportions. I think the second one is better. But not sure why, the first one reads, at least to me, more characteristic of the cat than the second one. I think it’s just the eyes as the first one immediately you can see the flat shape that looks like the cat, whereas the second one there is more construction breakdown. Looking forward to seeing this cute cat unfold 🙂

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Great studies Peihong! How are you getting along with the course? I’m about to finish the geometric forms section (before the light and tone part). The sheer volume of all the assigment work for the beginning section was high! But it pays off. Ohhh Perkin’s course! One of my favourite’s I’ve done on here. Those timed colour exercises were tough! I did them in oil, felt like speed painting, haha. They are such a valuable exercise

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Your geometric forms are really coming along! Can see you are really getting the hang of those free hand cylinders. How are you feeling after all that section of the course? I’m up to the cylinder, cone and truncated assignments. The cubes and ellipses, oooffff. after drawing the 50 cubes and the 4 A2 pages of ellipses, I dreamt about them all night having them on my mind all day! haha. I found doing the observational measurements really made me see how perceptive our eye is the even to the most smallest differences in angles. It did improve my ability to see angles better, and understand cubes and ellipses more conceptually. I had fun trying to move the cubes in all different orientations and space. I found working with your eye line below the horizon line most challenging to have it read right with tilted cubes. Guess might be because I’m so use to looking immediately below and ahead, but much less so above.

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