52 Week - Art Challenge
This will be my own 52 week art challenge.
At each end of the week I want to give something like a status report. What went good, what was bad, where did I have incidents and what could I do better for the next week.
If you want to hop on make sure to use the tag #52WAC or #52W-AC
I listed the different topics under the cut. I didn’t want to spam your whole tumblr page with the challenge.
Me and my brother @balko37 will start the challenge on 02.07.2018 and will see this as our first week of the challenge. I wonder if I can make it through. But I don't want to give up.
Draw at least one picture of your choice (doesn’t matter if traditional or digital) Save the picture until the end of the challenge
Recap and Time management for the challenge If you really want to do this 52 W-AC you’ll need time! So write down your general appointments throughout the week. Try to consider everything. Going to school or working? Having other hobbies or weekly meetings? After you wrote down all your appointments, you’ll see where you have free time to devote to the challenge. Try to reserve at least 1 hour a day.
Information: Material Study Get to know the medium you’ll be using for this challenge. Search for information on how to use it (When should you use which pencil? What kind of settings does your digital program provide? Or are you using something absolutely different?)
Information and Train: Composition Gather information about compositions and draw different compositions for different scenes.
Practice: Make it simple Choose an animal/human/objekt and make it simple. Break it down to its basic shapes like squares, cubes, pyramids, triangles, etc. or just lines.
Practice: Scenes with simplicity Think of different scenes and break them down into their basic shapes. Include your knowledge about composition.
Information: Light Study Gather information on different light and shadow techniques without using colors (only black/white/grayscale).
Train: Light Study Now it’s time to use your new knowledge and try them out. Which technique do you like most and why?
Information: Color Study You probably heard something about a color wheel and how some colors mix better together than others? But is that really all to it? Collect information on it. Was there something new you didn’t know?
Train: Color Study Try out your collected knowledge. From now on try to use it as often as you can in this challenge.
Information: Light Study with Color You know the basics of light study but how do light and shadow react with color?
Train: Light Study with Color Train your light study with different colors. Remember your color study!
Information and Train: Shading Search for different shading techniques. Try them out. Which is the one you prefer most and why?
Train: Preferred Shading technique Train your preferred shading technique a little bit more. From on try to use it as often as you can in this challenge.
Information and Train: Faces and heads Get information on how to draw faces and try them out. Remember every face looks different. Try to draw a variety on head and face forms.
Information and Train: Hair styles Collect information on how to draw different hair styles. Do you like it more to draw hair styles with hairlines or without? What kind of hair style do you prefer?
Information and Train: Facial Expressions Try to get to draw different facial expressions. Use yourself as a model if you want to or search for references on the internet.
Information and Train: Hands Hands are hard. At least for me. Find references and tutorials on how to draw them. And practice them for this week.
Information and Train: Gestures Hands are actually pretty expressive. Find different gestures and practice them. Use an appropriate facial expression to express the emotion even better
Information and Train: Feet Now it’s time for practicing some feet. What kind of positions can they take?
Information and Train: The human body In this week we are dealing with the human body. And I’m not just talking about the ideal body. Some poeple have long legs, other a longer torso. Try to experiment with the body shapes.
Information and Train: Body language Time to put everything together. Body language includes everything you trained in the previous weeks. Search for different body language poses and draw them in different body shapes with hands, feet and facial expressions
Information and Train: Body language Deepen your knowledge of the body language and practice it more.
Train: Clothes Now it’s time to get some clothes down. Search for references and draw different clothing articles. Maybe look into your own closet and draw your favorite outfit.
Train: Wrinkles Don’t forget the sweet sweet wrinkles in clothes when they are worn. Wrinkles can be pretty tricky, that’s why we’ll be doing a little bit more of clothes with the focus on wrinkles.
Train: Shoes Did you know there are a lot of different types of shoes? Draw some of them. We associate a lot with different kind of shoes. To give your characters variety you’ll need a selection of them.
Train: Different accessories for a character Search for different possible accessories for a character and draw them. Maybe they’ll always carry an umbrella or technology with themselves.
Information: Character Design Now that we have the basics it’s time to create some new characters. But before we can start it’s important to have some information on how to create a good character. So gather as much information as you can.
Train: Character Design With the gathered information create some new characters.
Information: Perspective To bring the right perspectives into a drawing can be very tricky. That’s why we’ll concentrate on collecting information on how to create different perspectives. Are there easy tricks you can use?
Train: Perspective Practice your new information with different perspectives in your drawings/sketches.
Train: Perspective Train your perspectives more!
Information and Train: Characters interacting with other Characters Now that you have a few different Characters and the basics of perspective down it’s time to let your characters interact with each other. Do they talk/fight a lot or have a healthy relationship with each other?
Information and Train: Characters interacting with other Characters Let your characters interact a little bit more with each other and maybe with completely others too. Maybe they meet their famous fictional or real live crush.
Information and Train: Characters interacting with their environment Gather Information and practice your characters interacting with their environment. Sometimes they’ll probably open the door, drink a glass of water or are sitting and enjoying the sun. How are you interacting with your environment?
Information and Train: Water Water is the most important element on our blue planet. That is why this week we will deal with this particular element. Gather information on it and draw a river, the ocean, a sea or maybe rain.
Train: Flora Our Flora has so much variety to offer. Besides all the different trees, there are a lot of flowers, weeds, parasitic plants and even carnivorous plants. Research some of them and practice their designs and textures.
Train: Landscapes Time to look for some landscapes to practice. I love landscapes. They can set a beautiful atmosphere for a drawing. So train a lot of different landscapes in this week.
Train: Buildings Drawing buildings seems to be pretty boring in the beginning. But if you drawing or story plays in a city and not completely in the wild you’ll need to draw a house or a building eventually. So search for references and draw some buildings. Maybe you can use pictures from your neighborhood?
Train: Vehicles Vehicles are important for transportation. That includes logistic, public transportation, road traffic and so on. Look for references and draw different vehicles. You could design a futuristic car or an old carriage.
Train: Furniture Furniture is important and can tell a lot about a drawing. Is the table well taken care of or does it show a lot of sings of usage? Is the kitchen clean or dirty? Draw a lot of different furniture and experiment with it.
Train: Real Animals Search for references and draw a few animals. But remember that there are not only mammals, but also insects, fish, reptiles, etc. The world has much to offer
Train: Fantasy Animals Now it’s time to draw some fantasy animals. But don’t just create unicorns or dragons. Try to create a few completely new ones.
Information and Train: Backgrounds Backgrounds are a sore subject for some artists. But it is important to set your character in an interesting environment. Is there something in the background, that could catch the viewers attention at second glance?
Train: Backgrounds Practice your backgrounds more. Don’t forget it makes your drawing more interesting.
Train: Set yourself a time frame Set yourself a time frame in which you want to finish a drawing. After that exact time you have to stop and look at your result. Were you able to finish it? If not, think about where you wasted time and try again.
Information and train: Field trip Get out and try to find inspiration from outdoors. Maybe there’s a place in your town you always wanted to visit. Sit down and sketch the scene before you. What does the composition look like?
Information and Train: Field trip Same task as last week, but visit other places. Maybe a zoo for differences?
Practice: Draw to the lyrics of a song Take a lyric line from your current favorite song and create art for it. Try to use every information and knowledge you collected so far.
Practice: Draw whatever you like Draw whatever you like. Where do you still have potential to grow? Which topic do you need to look into again?
Information: Recap what you learned Check over your collected knowledge and refresh everything for the great finale. Look more detailed into the topics you have the most potential of growing in. Try to rest your mind and hands :)
Draw the this again Draw the picture form the first week again. Try to use all your different collected knowledge form this challenge. Congratulations! You did it!