#setback_art

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Ngl, got a little intimidated by my last art attempt, so had to force myself to do the next one on lunch today. Turns out, it wasn’t scary at all!

This one was just about using light, circular shapes to really quickly figure out shapes and shadows. Not too bad at all lol

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My first real Blender project I’m content to call finished. A ton of rough edges still but I learned a lot, and am excited to move onto other projects!

Thanks for everything, Benfold the Trauma Hamster…

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I got distracted for a bit with other aspects of life (some creative, some stressful) but it’s cool I guess that I have enough basic skills to make frustrated art now 😅

I can see why people do that, it’s therapeutic somehow…

(Also just going over the lines with pen and lightly erasing does *tons* to hide the guide shapes, which is really cool)

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Did two lessons on lunch for drawing practice, since the first one was fast (it was about faking depth using the side of a pencil for things like fur or hair or foliage) so I did another one about blocking things out from a physical reference.

The poor ranger ran out of headroom, so I may give this another shot soonish.

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Me: “Art is so hard, what if I can’t do it? 🥺”

My very understanding beginner’s art book: “Try scribbling some clouds with the side of a soft B lead pencil!”

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For tonight’s drawing practice, I did the rest of the practice action line tutorials from the book. I don’t want to dwell too long on concepts (if I do I’ll never move on 😅) but felt like doing the other two examples would be helpful.

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Today’s art. Been putting this one off because it’s about “action lines” which is something that both intimidates me (capturing action in perspective sounds so difficult!) and I feel I should already be at least decent in (I’ve painted miniatures before, and we use similar kinda lines to draw the eye to specific parts of the model)

Alas, procrastination helps no one, so I copied this one out of the book just to get some momentum 😅

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Today’s attempt was.. not great, but trusting the process 😅 The exercise was to “train your eye to observe action so you can draw quickly” and I thought the semi-dynamic pose from one of my wife’s D&D minis would be a good model.

Even the “drawing quickly” part isn’t as quickly as I would like, but if drawing is like other art, you get good before you get fast. I’m hanging onto that thought 😅