The collar bones are much easier to imagine than the shoulder blade, especially the top bit above the blade. Im interested in how the "how to draw" video will explain it.

This makes so much more sense than the pelvis haha

Posting my assignments helps me stay accountable to myself. I know I dont understand squished cylinders in perspective yet, but I'm going to keep going. If I need to revisit things later, that's fine. I feel like I can envision the structure much better than I could before I started. But I think making these from imagination would still be difficult.

This homework REALLY gave me wind again. The way these complicated forms make sense even as little stick figures- it felt like something unlocked inside me. I know I didn't make them pretty, but I sure think I learned something.

My perspective needs some help, but I looked at some other students drawings and the original simplified shapes to set some of these up. Just posting to prove I did the homework.

I've never done any anatomy course before, so these are pretty bad- I think I'm going to hate doing this but I know I need to understand anatomy better to actually improve at all. So I have a goal to finish this class!

These are gestures I was trying to finish within 2 mins although it toke me a bit more time. I sometimes have problems with having the correct head size compared to the body legs and limbs. Do you know any way I could get better. Thanks in advance 🥇🧨🥇

Yesterday was torso study day.

I knew what gesture was, but in my one formal art class we focused on observation and measurement, so I was confused when I saw that some of the gesture drawings shown were fairly different from the models actual poses. The angles were different, mostly. So I tried this method and I'm honestly blown away- this makes poses feel so much more natural than just copying the photograph, in a way that I don't really understand yet, but I'm excited to explore.

I went all out and tried to do my VERY BEST on this. When I finished, I realized I'm not where I want to be. I'm trying to figure out what I want my art to look like, so that I can compare it to that in my mind, see the differences, and correct them. While I do that, I'm trying to go back to the basics and really learn stuff I missed as a self-taught artist. I'm wondering if these two are the right courses of action...? What do you think?

The idea of "I charged 50 dollars for a portrait, but I was young and bad." is already wild to me. I've charged fictional currency worth nothing. The most I've ever charged for a piece was 100 dollars. Any trip into an art space with lots of young people and you can see them scrambling to offer the lowest price, in order to get commissions. Now once you grow up a bit and hit a certain level in your artwork, that certainly changes, and prices (comparatively) skyrocket, but usually those artists are still selling themselves short. It's such a saturated market. And it doesn't help that most people with "real jobs" are both underpaid themselves, as well as used to undervaluing art. I'm no economist, but if I wanted to make money on my art, I don't think I could handle the freelance world.

AI is also one of my favorite topics!! I love to follow 2 Minute Papers on youtube where they talk about interesting AI projects, usually stuff that might help out artists! Like creating a rigged 3D model from just a sketch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ny-p-CHNyM&t=31s) making a photo-rendered background from a doodle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqHs_DkmDVo) and stuff like that! I also like to follow projects like "This Anime Does Not Exist", which does the same thing as "This Person Does Not Exist" but with anime/manga type images. I know that fine artists wouldn't like this type of stuff, but as I'm someone who does art and game design as a hobby, having tools and AI that help me speed up production on things I'm bad at (like backgrounds) is invaluable.

I took my best friend to a huge portfolio review at Cornish College of the Arts hosting dozens of colleges. She was trying to get into art school. We bussed in and she had her big black portfolio case, or whatever it's called, and as we got off the bus this man looks at us (two 17 year olds at the time) down his nose, and in the most condescending tone says: "Aughf. Cornish students." Now it's an inside joke for us to call each other Cornish Students, even though neither of us ended up going there.