Journey from absolute zero

**JerryActric** · July 15th, 2012, 04:56 PM

todayyy, Gestures, 100% Opacity block ins to train my eye to see color. and finished that sketch, about 4-5 hours all up, and no reference. Also had the chance to try and do some painting on an Ipad, Its really hard but i would like to keep practicing

**JerryActric** · July 18th, 2012, 06:28 PM

Some studies and stuff from imagination trying to see what i remember, also read a TON of colour theory, very interesting but i need to read more !

**Jaik** · July 19th, 2012, 07:14 AM

Hello Jerry! Was just trolling through CA.org forums and saw your post about art school in australia. I'm pretty much in the same boat as you, I started drawing at the beginning of the year. I've just finished my first term at Ashtons this term with David (Briggsy) (I only can afford to do one class a term =/) So if you want hit me up and we can have a chat.
Ive seen you on the CD forums/livestreams too, seems we have similar goals and interests.

Keep pushing those values and dont be afraid of softer brushes

**JerryActric** · July 20th, 2012, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Jaik

Hello Jerry! Was just trolling through CA.org forums and saw your post about art school in australia. I'm pretty much in the same boat as you, I started drawing at the beginning of the year. I've just finished my first term at Ashtons this term with David (Briggsy) (I only can afford to do one class a term =/) So if you want hit me up and we can have a chat.
Ive seen you on the CD forums/livestreams too, seems we have similar goals and interests.

Keep pushing those values and dont be afraid of softer brushes

oh awesome man ! ill send you a PM thanks

here is the stuff from today and yesterday, wrote up a schedule and trying to get less distracted while i study ! want to power through this hump where i cant draw the things i want !

**JerryActric** · July 22nd, 2012, 06:16 PM

Hey all ! here is some stuff from the past 2 days, Still sucking at anatomy booo ! haha
but im going to focus back on head drawing LOTS for the next few days, I really want to get them down abit better. 2 screen caps and the rest from imagination, Trying out soft brush too, was eh.. i like hard round much better but maybe i just need to practice with it more

**JerryActric** · July 24th, 2012, 05:07 AM

Decided to work on heads alot, Im realizing that my construction is way worse then i thought it was, and that is what is causing alot of issue ! so more practice

and trying painting with the RGB sliders, trying to think of light

**Miles_** · July 24th, 2012, 05:19 AM

Good steps in the right direction! It's nice to see that you are really trying to understand the forms you are painting rather than only learning to spot the 2D shapes. This will help you a ton when it comes to drawing from imagination. Don't be afraid to really slow down and spend even like a week on a study, One of the biggest limiting factors in beginners is feeling like they go too slow or take too long and rushing to a 'finish' to compensate. I'm sure if you were really critical on yourself you could make one of these screencaps near perfect and learn a ton in the process.

It's just a suggestion based on some of the atelier philosophy of learning I've picked up in the last year. All in all you're doing great, just keep it consistent and don't get complacent. I don't think you will though, good luck

**JerryActric** · July 25th, 2012, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by Miles_

Good steps in the right direction! It's nice to see that you are really trying to understand the forms you are painting rather than only learning to spot the 2D shapes. This will help you a ton when it comes to drawing from imagination. Don't be afraid to really slow down and spend even like a week on a study, One of the biggest limiting factors in beginners is feeling like they go too slow or take too long and rushing to a 'finish' to compensate. I'm sure if you were really critical on yourself you could make one of these screencaps near perfect and learn a ton in the process.

It's just a suggestion based on some of the atelier philosophy of learning I've picked up in the last year. All in all you're doing great, just keep it consistent and don't get complacent. I don't think you will though, good luck

Thank you Miles ! today i practice what you said about slowing down and everything come out ALOT easier and nicer ! i also started another screen cap study that im going to spend a whole week on

Thank you for looking in at my SB !

Today i did some pencil study and it was suuuuuper fun ! Slowed right down and focused alot on construction, im starting to think its not drawing itself that is difficult, but its knowledge behind the marks. I was telling someone that i have been drawing alot more lately and they said yeah practicing to get the pencil to move like this * then they did some weird arm gesture haha * ( they are not into art at all )

and i said its not difficult getting the pencil to do what you want, but knowing why you want the pencil to do that. so i figure its smarter to spend ages drawing one head, and learn as much as you can from it, then drawing 10000000000000000 bad heads to make your SB look fancy. I guess only time will tell haha !
refffff

Imaginationnnnn

**Matija Vuk** · July 25th, 2012, 10:10 AM

It is always good to see someone start right from the start

Just push it, keep it goin , I can see the development already, actually it is not questionable at all, you just need to practice and practice

**T-Eight** · July 25th, 2012, 10:37 AM

great studies. like it.

keep going on!

**JerryActric** · July 28th, 2012, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by Matija Vuk

It is always good to see someone start right from the start

Just push it, keep it goin , I can see the development already, actually it is not questionable at all, you just need to practice and practice

haha i didnt realize how bad i was untill i decided i wanted to draw ! but thank you

we will both do it and be awesome one day !

Originally Posted by T-Eight

great studies. like it.

keep going on!

Thank you

Studddyyy study and maybe one day ill be good

haha

but here is some stuff now that i can get back on track

learning forarms is hard! but ill get it,

and some pencils on a shirt, but i started so late in the afternoon that it went into darkness so i had to bullshit the shirt before just ending it because i wasnt learning on bullshiting. but the pens when done in daylight

**JerryActric** · July 30th, 2012, 06:34 PM

Some arm studies, some loomis, 2 no reffed heads and my mouth / nose from life haha, aswell as a doodle that i started, but changed monitors and realized that the colours looked so different from screen to screen and ended up hating it !

**T-Eight** · July 31st, 2012, 11:17 AM

wow really great human anatomy studies. like it! and thanks for ur comment. keept it up.

**Soapy** · July 31st, 2012, 01:14 PM

Wow, serious improvement here! No critique (I'm a beginner myself) but I just wanted to say your studies are awesome. Very motivational

**JerryActric** · July 31st, 2012, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by T-Eight

wow really great human anatomy studies. like it! and thanks for ur comment. keept it up.

not a problem man ! i think it would be awesome to all try and improve together

! and thank you for the kind words

Originally Posted by Soapy

Wow, serious improvement here! No critique (I'm a beginner myself) but I just wanted to say your studies are awesome. Very motivational

oh man thank you

! its such a buzz to hear that im getting better, I love thinking about the future and how you can only always improve ! I think its better then letting those scary thoughts take over of never improving , what am i doing bla bla bla which i have done before !, But open up a sketchbook and we can all work and improve together !!

Grinding through some more loomis! thinking of new approaches, Trying to create my own, I think that is really the best for learning at the moment. Trying to learn the very specific measured construction and then trying to simplify it, but only once i understand the complex

and a Refless girl from imagination, trying to see how much is getting stored in the old Jerry brainnnnnss haha !

**kevin_** · July 31st, 2012, 08:05 PM

nice updates, keep pushing all this work out man!

**JerryActric** · August 2nd, 2012, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by kevin_

nice updates, keep pushing all this work out man!

thanks man !

if i keep working at it maybe ill get good one day

haha

Heres my stuff from yesterday and today

Some no reffed sketchbook stuff, studies, and a banana i tried to paint on the ipad when i was waiting for a haircut, its only about 10 mins though haha

**JerryActric** · August 3rd, 2012, 08:51 AM

Today rocked ! I got to draw lots and i tried lots of new things

DDD i stripped down and drew myself in front of a mirror, It wasnt very comfortable because it was at a dressing table but it helped SOOO Much, i actually think it would be better drawing myself then a model because you feel your own anatomy moving as you move and you understand why that part has moved ! anddd i tried some mass painting ( i think thats what it is calle ) just no lines. my values and colours are still poop but practice practice ! oh and i did some quick colour studies, Not worying about details, trying to see value and colourssszzzz. I also looked at some art that made me day dreaammmmm about the chance that one day i could be that good... maybe haha

**JerryActric** · August 4th, 2012, 04:41 PM

so some more boring anatomy studies,

Then the

worlds crappest doodle

then i decided i wanted to learn some perspective, so worked out the horizon and blocked in some basic values, but was not going to spend time rendering, then i started another study but realized the reference for the study was bad because it was super over exposed and there is no point learning that... i think :o

sooo then i did some self portraits, the first one made me veryyyy dissapoint..

So i said dear face, im going to draw the shit out of you .. again, and worked on it again before bed

then made it scary

!

then just... eh i dont know haha

**JerryActric** · August 8th, 2012, 08:54 AM

So update from a few days, did alot of deep thought and kind feels like i worked out alot of stuff about light and colour and edges and stuff, was kind of weird, alot fo things all sort of clicked at once. some studies, and all of the other things are from imaginations, so no reference trying to work on imagination stuff !

Thanks for looking if you do

refless doooodlezz

then the studies ( yawwwnnn )

**JerryActric** · August 8th, 2012, 08:56 AM

oops this is the right one, haha the other one is from earlier in the night

**eclip-se** · August 8th, 2012, 10:35 AM

Oh boy.. you've got my attention, very very nice progress, things starting to shape in right direction pretty fast.

**kikindaface** · August 8th, 2012, 02:12 PM

hey dude, i'm really impressed by the ammount of work !! keep up everything, i wish you to go really far on your journey, to become a pro and much more, because you deserves it !! i'll be glad tofollow you on your way to become a pro ^^ keep it up !!

**JerryActric** · August 16th, 2012, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by eclip-se

Oh boy.. you've got my attention, very very nice progress, things starting to shape in right direction pretty fast.

Ohh thank you very much

! sometimes it doesnt feel like it haha but that only means i need to practice more!

Originally Posted by kikindaface

hey dude, i'm really impressed by the ammount of work !! keep up everything, i wish you to go really far on your journey, to become a pro and much more, because you deserves it !! i'll be glad tofollow you on your way to become a pro ^^ keep it up !!

thank you for the very kind words

i am very excited to become a good artist ! lets all bussttt butt and get there

haha!

So i had a few days where i could barley draw at all

which sucked and put me in a bad mood haha, So its been a little slow trying to get the ball rolling again. Basically just some studies, crapy doodles and trying new things. Like 100 opacity things some more. I also realised i sucked really bad at painting, but then though i had not really dont much painting. so ill need to work on that over the next few weeks.

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**JerryActric** · August 22nd, 2012, 08:00 PM

okaayyyy more stuff from last few days,

Same old stuff, few studies then imagination, and trying some new things out!

refless doodle before i went to sleep

poop

studies

then some sketcbook stuff, all from iamgination as you can tell haha

**JerryActric** · August 28th, 2012, 02:14 AM

Some more stuff from the last few days, days are so random, one day it feels like im getting better then the next it feels like im going backwards, Maybe its just me being tired today! but surely i must get better one day. So ill just keep going on!
doodles from imagination

studies

**dhilipsomesh** · August 28th, 2012, 05:02 AM

Keep doing good studies ,
i see you have started understanding line weights and volume

**Psychobuddy** · August 28th, 2012, 07:48 AM

Holy shit Jerry awesome improvement, everything is just so much better. Keep up the hard work man it's really paying off!

**Steeliebob** · August 29th, 2012, 06:06 AM

Seeing you are progressing nicely! keep it up man!

**JerryActric** · September 26th, 2012, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by dhilipsomesh

Keep doing good studies ,
i see you have started understanding line weights and volume

thank you very much

your work is very nice

Originally Posted by Psychobuddy

Holy shit Jerry awesome improvement, everything is just so much better. Keep up the hard work man it's really paying off!

as are you man ! few more years and you never know what we could do

Originally Posted by Steeliebob

Seeing you are progressing nicely! keep it up man!

Thank you very much for the kind words

Soooo instead of updating all my studies i have done why the forum was down, i think i will just continue posting from today, so here is some things from yesterday and today, I unfortunately deleted some arm studies

but oh well haha i still learn from them !

Some stufffff, stupidily i have deleted a page of 5 arms studies i have done, but i have the ones from imagination , except they are poop haha