From Apprentice to Artisan - leveling up art skill

Dragons, goblins and other monsters in the path of self-taught artist and how to path them

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How will look like Lion 🦁 from Wizard of Oz tale in cyberpunk setting? It's just 12 year boy dressed in fluffy kigurumi with lion hood. I made some design of it and wanna show my process.

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It's always helpful return back to basics especially before rendering a big piece of work. That's how my 3d week of #illustrationfromimagination course from @paintable.cc have started. __________________________ #stilllife #value #lightshadow #digitalart #painting #drawing #digitalsketchbook #speedpainting #sketch #cgart #doodleoftheday #materialstudies #2dartist #artpractice #artstudy #artoftheday #geometrystudy #primitiveshapes #valuestudy (at Kyiv, Ukraine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGmw3PwjfFE/?igshid=ys93ilwnjbdr

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It's always helpful return back to basics especially before rendering a big piece of work. From this primitives started my 3d week of #illustrationfromimagination from @paintable.cc _________________ digitalpainting #digitalart #drawing #digitalsketchbook #speedpainting #sketch #cgart #doodleoftheday #materialstudies #2dartist #backtobasics #geometrystudy #valuestudy #artpractice #artstudy #artoftheday #primitiveshapes #stilllife #value #lightstudy #lightshadow (at Україна, Київ) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGmvHKFDhsV/?igshid=18ay8cr8omd6k

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WIP. Hey 😊 this is my linework for Wizard of Oz movie poster as part of the #illustrationfromimagination course from @paintable.cc . I really struggling drawing people but when you have so great teacher and one week deadline everything is changing)

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Work in progress. I was playing with primitive shapes today, trying to construct "overweight italian chef". I used a circle shape as base for head and imagined different types of characters. Who knows, maybe this is my new side-project) ________________________________________ #characterdesign #conceptart #digitalsketchbook #sketching #digitalart #characterdevelopment #arteveryday #doodleoftheday #digitaldrawing #stylizedart #conceptartwork #primitiveshapes #speedpaint #characterstudy #cgartist #artpractice #italianchef #chefcharacter #malv_arttavern (at Kyiv, Ukraine) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-xbfy5jJFU/?igshid=gdlf36vaj64w

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Basic #lightstudy made yesterday. It was fun) I need more often practice in fundamentals to improve my works. Think this year will do studies like this regularly ---------------------------------------------------- #primitiveshapes #sphere #cube #cilinder #cgfundamentals #everydaysketch #digitalsketchbook #colorstudy (at Kiev) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8OOOawHrG7/?igshid=k6t5lvxj3jpx

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Couple weeks ago was a perspective study. A lot of perspective) #perspectivestudy #digitalpainting #digitalart #painting #drawing #digitalsketchbook #sketch #cgart #2dartist #artpractice #artstudy #artoftheday #armchair https://www.instagram.com/p/ByPTsNUjopT/?igshid=rwfzyydct17x

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Let's eat some #yammy cupcake ^_^ ___________________________________ #digitalpainting #digitalart #painting #drawing #digitalsketchbook #sketch #cgart #artpractice #artstudy #artoftheday #materialstudies #2dartist #cupcake https://www.instagram.com/p/BxnhrXGlRq0/?igshid=d2uc288khjak

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Structure concept practice _____________________________ #digitalpainting #digitalart #painting #drawing #digitalsketchbook #sketch #cgart #artpractice #artstudy #artoftheday #concepartist #environmentart #environmentdesign #gameartist https://www.instagram.com/malv1n1ta/p/BxPyktrlFlj/?igshid=1up31ix878547

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Third week of my online Digital painting classes have already passed. This week was about topology: cut objects into sections for better shape understanding. Also more line practice and drawing more complex objects. ____________________________ #artcraft_hometasks #artcraftcgschool #artcraftschool #digitalpainting #digitalart #painting #drawing #digitalsketchbook #instadraw #instaart #sketch #cgart #artpractice #artstudy #artoftheday  #retrocar #2dartist #carconcept https://www.instagram.com/malv1n1ta/p/Bw7v5h1Fw4z/?igshid=19mem35vqaf5s

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Time management for artists. How to manage your time when you drawing if you have full time job. When I started my Digital drawing course in artcraft, I faced with catastrophic lack of time to do my drawing practice. Two weeks of sleepless nights with my tablet led me to understanding that I really need to control my time.   Let’s go! Take a sketchbook and draw 7 squares – this is our week. Down bellow write everything you want to draw\to practice\tutorials to watch etc. for next week. Opposite to each task wrote count how much time it will take (roughly). I separate my tasks into blocks for example: challenge participation, class work, regular warm ups, homework, sketches from still life etc. Then I summarize time of the tasks in each block and than total time. Let’s back to our week-days squares. In each day write down how much free time do you have to draw. Compare this numbers with your week tasks and scatter them by days. Also I reserve 1-2 more extra hours for force major situations. Now just stick to the list, honestly do your tasks, from time to time accelerate yourself and 95% of the list will be done at the end of the week) Enjoy!

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The 2nd week of Digital Painting class in @artcraft.school has passed. Wow! Lines, lines, lines are everywhere! The main theme of the week was line hierarchy. How line thickness affects on image perception and how bold it needs to be (5-6 px for contour line on a small canvas)), how to show shadow part on an abject using only line and how to balance a texture to save my eyes from crying. It would seem the line – this thing is so simple, what can go wrong? That’s where pitfalls are hiding about which I didn’t even know and another which were my gaps because of self taught drawing education. Next step was adding some color in work and line of shadow termination (only line of shadow without lights and glare) for better form performance of an object. The numbers of practice are going up in arithmetic progression! But it’s worth the effort. Even on the 2nd week I feel more confident with a tablet grip than when I was drawing from time to time. A huge thnx to @wild_wild_kot_sx for professional feedback and errors analysis, now I know my suffering will lead me to increase in skill) _______________________________ #artcraft_hometasks #artcraftcgschool #artcraftschool #digitalpainting #digitalart #painting #drawing #digitalsketchbook #instadraw #instaart #sketch #cgart #artpractice #artstudy #artoftheday #lightshadow https://www.instagram.com/malv1n1ta/p/BwpjcHRF_cc/?igshid=xkb8t1x617je

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So, the first week of Digital Drawing for Beginners course from @artcraft.school is successfully passed!

Studying process has a good structure: each lesson is dedicated to a separate topic with deep explanation and homework helps to master it.

It’s all about lines – that’s what about was the first lesson. The line types, weight, how, where and when to use it. All theory made as pre-recorded videos which you can watch during the week. But they made an interesting thing I never seen before: during the lecture @wild_wild_kot_sx shows some examples, than stops and now you have to repeat the same – and do it right now! In this way implemented class work and you are involved in it with no excuses that you’re just watching a tutorial with cup of coffee in your favorite pajama with turtles. No time to explain, draw this thing now!

At the end of the second part of practice if you can’t draw this damned straight line on your tablet, you will! There are lots of different exercises designed to help your arms to feel the stylus and tablet and practice different types of lines: drawing geometric shapes, organic leaves, rectangles and even calligraphy. After 8 pages all covered with this thing my hand was crying and shaking. But then my stylus started create magic and I easily finished the rest of homework: draw 15 objects based on primitives from draft sketch to clean line. And of course a feedback online meeting. Vitaliy opened homework of every student, looked it very carefully and made overpaint for all mistakes we made. There are a lot of things to think about and improve yourself. Summarizing all written above I like this course. During my past 3 years self-taught art practice that’s what I needed: intense structured theory and practice + detailed feedback sessions. 😊 Let’s see where it will lead) Next week 2 feedback will come soon)

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So I've already committed! Crushing Digital drawing course for beginners in @artcraftcg with great instructor @wild_wild_kot_sx  On this occasion I made yesterday this funny dog face sketch. It will be fun! Every week here I will post how it's going on: thoughts, comments, progression and so on. #artpractice #artstudy #digitalpainting #digitalart #painting #drawing #digitalsketchbook #instadraw #instaart #sketch #cgart https://www.instagram.com/malv1n1ta/p/Bv6MnucFmqr/?igshid=1ojr9rtdz14i9

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Day 72. One more dino sketch. Wanna make series studies from different angles

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Day 71.

My watercolor try. I`m not familiar with this kind of media but decided add my tyrannosaurus some color to make him more realistic.

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Day 70. More dino)