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Thanks, @elizabeth enright! 🙂

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Hi @Azra – thanks so much! Which one is the one you’d like to know more about? The one with the apothecary shoppe?

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Hey everyone! I had to quit NMA for a few years due to health issues and finances, but I’m baaaaaack 🙂 So I thought I’d post some of my progress here in my sketchbook. Here are some of my sketches & sketchbook paintings over the last year:

This one isn’t finished yet, but here’s what I’ve got so far of the apothecary shoppe:

Building a squirrel snowman:

At the museum:

Another unfinished one:

A couple of little sketchbook paintings:

 

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I’m doing plein air also, at the suggestion of my mentor. And I’m not happy about it, haha. It’s HARD!! Your pieces so far are looking a thousand times better than mine are – yours are beautiful! I look forward to keeping an eye on your thread for inspiration as I regularly have my hat handed to me by nature, lol.

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I’m planning to do this too – how are your 100 days going?

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1) Character Design and Concept Art

2) Creature Design

3) Environment Design (not just perspective classes, but actually how to design environments for, say, a fantasy illustration, etc.)

4) More Animal Classes (anthropomorphizing for illustration, wildlife portraits, more in-depth animal anatomy classes about specific classes of animals, etc.)

5) Gouache Gouache Gouache!

6) Pastel & Pastel Pencil classes (there are so many oil classes, but almost no pastel classes, which is also a very popular fine art medium)

7) Costume Design/Clothing/Tools (I struggle so much to come up with costumes, tools, etc. for my characters and to populate my world in my paintings)

 

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I second all of the above instructors! And I’d like to add Aaron Blaise for animal topics, Omar Rayyan & Christopher Dunn for illustration topics.

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@ixtorresxart – I’m a member of Watts’s online Atelier, but unfortunately the gouache classes are in the $199 a month tier, which is something I can’t afford right now. I’ve searched the Internet and found no one else who teaches gouache lessons (actual how-to videos, not just videos on tools, videos of someone painting, ala James Gurney or speed paintings, as most others do). If you know of others, I’d greatly appreciate links!

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@Calebjacobo

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I’m having the same problem!

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I wanted to include a couple of my older graphite drawings here because I’m hoping to do more this year and I’d like to see the old and new ones all in one place.

This one is called The Singing Lesson and it’s from 2015. You can clearly see my problem with environments here :/. This was also done before I’d learned about form, anatomy and structure, so you can see those mistakes here also.

This was from 2014 or 2015. This was the first drawing I did where I felt like I’d found the subject matter I enjoy drawing. It’s called The Mouse Wizard.

This was a commission I did in 2014. Again, you can see my issues with form and environment. I’ve done a lot of work to improve my form in the past year, so I’m hoping to improve my environments this year.

This one is from 2014:

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Unfortunately I think we all rarely notice our own progress, @deanyosla :/ .

I have trouble finishing courses too – I tend to bounce around. But I always make sure to make myself circle back around to finish a course, even if it’s a few weeks later. Of course it’s better to stick to one course and follow it through, I also have a focus issue, so it can be really tough. Hopefully having the learning paths here will help both of us with that!

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Thanks, @robertseal-coon! I actually don’t want to be an illustrator (I’m TERRIBLE with deadlines and I don’t play well with others, lol), but I’m greatly influenced by the Golden Age Illustrators, so my work is very illustrative.

As far as pencils, I typically only use one pencil when I sketch – and HB. I have both a regular wood pencil by Staedtler and a lead holder by Staedtler; I like both for different reasons, but kind of just grab whichever is closest to me when it’s time to sketch :p .

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Hey, @deanyosla, welcome – it’s great to see your work! You can definitely see the progression in your work. Also, you can tell that you really enjoy drawing the superhero characters, because you spent a lot of time and care getting their proportions and details correct. And there was a huge leap in skills with the anatomy & figure sketches – nice work! I hope you’ll continue to post here – I look forward to seeing more 🙂 .

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Hey @barryb1718, are you a fellow member of the Watts groups on FB? Your work is great – I look forward to seeing more!

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