Monsieur-Beefy's Hall of Forgotten Promises but still trying for daily updates...

[zelda_geek]

Wow, great studies. Massive improvement.
I noticed that on the TC entry the woman to the left is standing in front of the tree, but her arm is on the tree. It makes it look very weird.

Keep up the good work!

[Monsieur-Beefy]

@ zelda_geek : Thank you! yeah I've noticed a couple of those problems. Not gonna finish that one I decided.

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[Monsieur-Beefy]

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[Monsieur-Beefy]

~Yeaaaah

[Monsieur-Beefy]

Man there are some people out there with beautiful lines ~ Can't wait to be that good

[rinnikirun]

Nice pencil drawings!

[Monsieur-Beefy]

@ ven- : Thanks bro! same to you. love your sci-fi stuff!

HUUURRRRGHHHHH

[Monsieur-Beefy]

Uhh Woahh, WTF? who rated me five stars? that's not right, but I appreciate it. I had like a mini panic attack when I saw that heheh.

Also, Daniel Lieske is a tank

[PhantomReiji]

Whoa, holy hell. I skipped from page 1 straight to page 6 and i can see how you've improved immensely!

Where do you get all your inspiration from?

[Monsieur-Beefy]

@ PhantomReiji : Thank you I get it from comments like that and also from here haha


KAMEHAMEHA!

[Aragah]

on the right path man!
great sb. keep going!

[rinnikirun]

WooH! Thanks man I dig your fantasy stuff!

[Monsieur-Beefy]

@ Aragah : Yeah thanks!
@ ven- : Glad you like it all then haha Thanks!

Saw the avenger's tonight - Good show
The middle two are reffed.

[Monsieur-Beefy]

I get to do an art class next year! I won't learn anything, but yay free life-drawing!

[pegasi]

So young man! Keep it up, strive for the world and draw from life!

[Monsieur-Beefy]

@ Pegasi : Young!? I'm 1/5 dead!

*Cue Pokemon themesong*
Hey guys, sorry I skipped out yesterday. I sat down, took some time to plan and consider where I'm headed. I have been improving a little, but not as much as I want to be.
If I'm going to be working by next summer I'm going to need a serious boost.
All I need right now is four things: Environment/perspective, Anatomy, design/style, and compelling light and colour. I'm going to have to push and get perfect at these four things.
Anatomy is first and foremost, of course.

So basically, I need to stop durdling so much and actually get serious.
If I'm going to quit being lazy about this, and actually get into gear, I'm going to have to be a LOT more disciplined.
To that end, I've come up with a little bit of a schedule. It's loose, but it's riddled with deadlines which should REALLLY help.
I though about it and realized, if I'm not pulling four hours a day then I'm just wasting my time.
However, fitting in 6 hours school, 4 hours drawing, 2 or 3 hours exercise every day plus an hour for meals is not possible in my 14 hour day (I sleep for 10 hours) if I waste time on extraneous turdlike activities.
No more of that heheh

+My new schedule is going to look something like this:
-Wake Up @ 8:00 - breakfast, school, all that
-Get Home @ 12:40
-Exercise Until 1:40
-Lunch
-Draw Until 6:00
-Supper
-Sports 6:30 - 8:30
-Homework 9:00 - 10:00

I'm pretty confident I can keep my GPA above 3.8 even with so little time on homework, so the real issue is the self discipline and putting in the time drawing.
I'm gonna try to get my parents to help yell at me a bit, but I know it's totally on me to do this.
I would also really appreciate it if any of you who see me slacking to take the time to write out a brutally harsh comment as well
So, as a motivational tool I'm going to have lots of understanding goals each week. I'm also going to be doing comparison posts on the end of each month:
Old work (month old)vs. New work (end of month)
AND physical comparisons, just basic physical stuff like sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, some timed stuff, whatevs.
I think this'll be a good way to motivate myself, and also a good way to stay on track.

Anyways, Here is my weekly/hourly breakdown of schedule. I might not finish all of this stuff, but I WILL spend 4 hours doing as much as I can each day.
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M/W/F
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-90 mins of about 5 min poses - ~9 from photos ~9 from mind
-60 mins master studies (loomis, bridgman, maybe hogarth?) or idol studies (Piemonster, Wayne Reynolds, Wesley Burt, Marko Djurdjevic, Alex Pascenko)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
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T/TH
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-90 mins of about 5 min poses - ~9 from photos ~9 from mind
-60 mins of 3X environments/perspective exercises (including figure placement for one of them)(MIND)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
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SA/SU* (I get all day basically, so lets do 6:00 hours )
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-120 mins of about 5 min poses - ~12 from photos ~12 from mind
-60 mins of 3X environments/perspective exercises (including figure placement for one of them) (MIND)
-90 min Tight Lines - Illustration OR Concept (MIND)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
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Anywaaaays, gotta run, midterms tomorrow
Starting off without the environments, I'll add them into the mix next tuesday.




Oh yeah, here are my scores from today:
05/08/12
Push-ups: 50 (almost died!)
Pull-ups: 11
Sit-ups: 100

[Mistle]

That schedule makes me feel incredibly lazy. Good luck with it man, you'll definitely see heaps of improvement if you stick with it. Just be careful not to burn yourself out.

[Monsieur-Beefy]

@ Mistle : Burn out!? I'm gonna go super nova! Thank you!

Every five minutes I die 0.000002439%! Gotta get amazing! heheh
Bike chick's bike looks shitty cause there's no ref and all the perspective is outta whack~

[KONM]

Really crazy improvement since I last checked here, and I still can't get over how clean and nice your lines are. Keep going!

[Monsieur-Beefy]

@ KONM : Heeey! Thank you. nice to see you again

90 second gestures and legs from my mind...

[Monsieur-Beefy]

Ok, here's the deal. I missed mother's day, but other than that I've been on track. I haven't been scanning because it ends up taking like 30 mins each night and my new sketchbooks don't fit in the scanner anyway.
Soooo, I'm not gonna change my schedule, and I am still doing all of this stuff, but I'm only gonna be posting more finished stuff / non-study imagination stuff from now on. I'll do it on printer paper and I'll still be able to make daily updates.
Anyways, gestures, a really stupid knight, a kappa, a colour sketch, gestures, my aforementioned new sketchbooks~

[Ellis B]

Haha. You're adventure time crazy!

[Arteast]

hey beefy i've been stalking your sketch book for a while now and am throughly impressed at your talent and skill. I am also incredibly jealous of how dedicated you are able to be to practicing for so long every day! You are my inspiration and i would appreciate it if you could maybe stop by my sketchbook and give me some pointer and critique?

[Art Minded]

Really glad to see some more color coming back to your page, but a word of advice:

Creativity does not work by a schedule. While I understand that you are focused more on learning techniques and improving your overall performance, keep in mind that a rigid timeline stifles the creative mind and can turn what is normally a passionate expression and discovery of self into a daily grind that most people grow very tired of very quickly. Enjoying your art is the best way to get better at it, so just keep that in mind as you go forward with this very tense schedule. There is time out there and no artist is perfect.

Best of luck and as usual, keep up the good work!

[TFsean]

Really nice character designs man especially digging wizard guy in #140. It seems that youre more into drawing bad ass guys anyway but I'd do a little work on female anatomy cause theres a very definite gap in the knowledge of the two cause the dudes are very nice. Also dont be afraid to make sword longer/bigger, these guys are bad ass they can take it :3

[Marlo]

youre really inspiring!!

[Leonor]

You are amazing at 16! What impresses me the most is your attitude and self-discipline. I'll be following your progress with gusto!

Have you looked into Michael Hamptons' tips on gesture?

[Monsieur-Beefy]

@ Ellis B : haha, yeah. I like it.
@ Arteast : whoa thanks man! For sure!
@ Art Minded : Yeah, I know what you mean. Still, gotta keep working though. Don't worry I don't do all this stuff in a rigid order, I just use them as guidelines or goals for what to get done. Thank you!
@ TFsean : Totally true Thanks!
@ Marlo : Thanks bro!
@ Leonor : Thanks! I have been recommended him before, but haven't library'd any of his stuff yet. I plan on it though!

Whoaa, so many comments!

[Monsieur-Beefy]

Ohh man! Had my first ever real taekwondo match today. It was super fun, but I lost 4-1 haha. I was on such a crazy adrenaline rush the whole time

[KONM]

Last guy is scary and cool.