11 December 2015

Winter Break Homework!

ok so I haven't put anything out on this blog officially yet, but since it's another leap year coming up I'm going to reboot this project! My thoughts are that instead of just any drawing sufficing, I will do a finished/semi-finished piece every day. Basically, the idea came from Inktober which I did for the first time this last October and it helped me a lot and was a super good motivation to work on personal art and not just homework art and I was like I need to do this all the time!! So I am going to do that for this site for the year of 2016! You will be very astounded to see how much my art and work ethic have improved in the last four years. But, as a way to kind of gear up for this, and also to hopefully not lose all my skills of an artist over the winter break, here is my self assigned winter break homework!!!!:

100 hands
100 feet
50 faces
Read and copy every drawing from Ken Hultgren’s The Art of Animal Drawing
25 knees
25 shoulders
25 arms 
10 elbows independent of arms
100 perspective drawings (this could be something as simple as a box or as complicated as a cityscape)
30 sketchbook pages

I posted this on my trash tumblr as well. I'm going to update as I complete this and also as I think of possible other assignments for me to do! Hold me accountable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the whole point of this blog! holding myself accountable! ok I'm doing some math and this is how much of each thing I'll have to do on average per day over the break (not counting sundays it's 20 days)

1.5 sketchbook pages a day
22.5 drawings a day (not counting Hultgren because I am not going through that whole book and counting out how many drawings are in there)
5x hands, feet, perspective
2.5x faces (heh)
1.25x knees, shoulders and arms

16 DEC EDIT: I decided to reduce the number of elbows because I've been drawing a lot of elbows with my arm drawings so that changes my numbers a little bit. I'm going to recalculate how much work I need to do based on how much work I've already done (I'm... behind on everything I think.. except maybe hands)

1.6 sketchbook pages a day (I'm still aiming for 2 a day so this doesn't change too much)
22.5 drawings total per day
3.7 hands
5 feet (I am apparently on par on this one, who knew)
3 faces
1.6 knees & shoulders
.75 arms (heh, you can see what I've been working on)
.625 elbows
5.375 perspective drawings (these are probably the hardest for me, but I can feel them benefitting me the most)

26 Dec edit: sooooooo I've been hella slacker status, but I did draw this!!!:

After I finished off my last paper for school (the 21st) I've been spending pretty much all my time working on this. Ok but now that that'd done and Christmas is over, I better get back into this homework (dear me :/)

48/100 hands
22/100 feet
3/50 faces
Read and copy every drawing from Ken Hultgren’s The Art of Animal Drawing
0/25 knees
0/25 shoulders
15/25 arms 
0/10 elbows independent of arms
31/100 perspective drawings (this could be something as simple as a box or as complicated as a cityscape)
6/30 sketchbook pages

so that means:
7.4 hands
11.1 feet
6.7 faces
who knows what's happening with the animal book but that really ought to be my priority
3.5 knees and shoulders
1.4 arms and elbows
9.8 perspective drawings
3.5 sketchbook pages
45 DRAWINGS A DAY :0000000000 I hope I can do it I'll probably die


probably nobody cares about any of this but meeee!

25 January 2013

look at my entire blog!

here we are, at the end of this blog. what a sad day not really. Here's that art summary meme thing

this is the first year I've actually been able to do one of these
I should have posted this a million years earlier but I was like "I need to write something cool about how much this experience meant to me!!!" and that was intimidating so I didn't do it. but here's this! If you still want to know what goes on in my life, check out my stupid blog about Provo. SPOCK OUT.

31 December 2012

THE END TIMES, Day Two

the promised follow up self portrait to see how much I've improved. yay improvement! This actually isn't quite finished but I'm going out to do new yearsie things so I guess I'll just post this in case of blah balh blafdksla. kay bye.
I need a haircut
novel: fjdsakl

30 December 2012

THE END TIMES, Day One

I couldn't decide between calling this Week Fifty Three, Week One, Year Two, or Year Two Day One so I went with something completely different.
novel: nooooope

29 December 2012

Week Fifty Two, Day Seven

partying everywhere
novel: I wrote... two sentences. so proud

28 December 2012

Week Fifty Two, Day Six

just one of those days
novel:fjdsklafjadsioure

27 December 2012

Week Fifty Two, Day Five

this looks so wonky because I didn't use a reference at all.
novel: I'm a mess

26 December 2012

Week Fifty Two, Day Four

I always wonder to myself, why is it I work with such small sizes? oh right, it's because my computer can't handle anything bigger than like 1500 square pixels at 72 dpi.
oh, it's you again.
novel: a sentence maybe?????

25 December 2012

Week Fifty Two, Day Three

happy crimbles you louts
novel: actually I am working on it right now

23 December 2012

Week Fifty Two, Day One

WOW THE VERY LAST WEEK!!! I never dreamt this day would come. jk I knew it could come eventually. I have to get my butt in gear so I can see if I improved at all since last year (my guess: probs not)

novel: that def did not improve since last year I tell you what

21 December 2012

Week Fifty One, Day Six

I can't
novel: nopey nope

20 December 2012

Week Fifty One, Day Five

I'll be your candle on the water, my love for you will always burn
I really like mountainous night scenes yes I do
novel: I actually wrote like three sentences!! wow wow me!

19 December 2012

Week Fifty One, Day Four

I just want to study old norse and read harry potter ok.
I swear every day I get worse at art
novel: #gandalf:same

Week Fifty One, Day Three


17 December 2012

Week Fifty One, Day Two

Mithrandir, why the halfling?

novel: lolnope

16 December 2012

Week Fifty One, Day One

I love starting these things 5 minutes before midnight.
someday I will make good art. That day is not today.
novel: ffpfpftrtff

Week Fifty, Day Seven

this is all I have.
guh
novel":  nope

14 December 2012

Week Fifty, Day Six

some guy.

novel: I wrote a whole sentence!

12 December 2012

Week Fifty, Day Four

yeah alright whatever
novel: oval

11 December 2012

Week Fifty, Day Three

I made a potential pattern ish background for InaProvopriate which I will be working on after this.

novel: maybe I will write some today??? probably not.