Beginner Drawing Club - anyone want to join?
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@liasbird
Hi everyone,
I’ve just signed up to the Drawing Basics Course and thought it would be fun to learn alongside a few other beginners.
I’m looking to form a small friendly group where we can encourage each other to keep practicing, ask questions, stay motivated and share our weekly exercises and progress.
No pressure or judgement- just enjoying learning together.
Maybe looking to post one exercise each week - not sure if that’s the usual thing.
If you’re interested let me know where you’re from (I’m in Dorset UK), whether you are a beginner etc.
If enough people are interested, we could keep everything on Proko or later try WhatsApp.
looking forward to meeting some fellow wannabe artists!
Lia 🇬🇧
Hello again,
So I just subscribed to the 'Drawing Basics' course.
Good to see some more beginners here, I guess the idea would be to post the result of our individual projects on Proko or elsewhere (maybe on a weekly basis or so, TBD) and help each other along during the course with (constructive) criticism etc...
Any suggestions are welcome of course 🙂
To maintain more or less the same pace within the group, I'm planning to do the first project (level 1, the simplified pear) this weekend.
Hi, I've been drawing with reference for the past three years but then recently I realized that without a reference I'm a completely mess, so I decided to learn how things work. I started to learn the composition of the eyes and now I'm trying to learn body anatomy however it's been a big challenge. I would like to join a begginer drawing club but, I didn't understant well what you are looking for so if you could explain better I would appreciate it.
Hi,
About the beginner drawing club : see my reply above ^^
Concerning the big challenge you mentioned, what are you mostly struggling with?
Lines, shape (drawing squares, circles etc), form (essentially values), perspective, knowledge of artistic anatomy (*) ... ?
Blind contour drawing and upside down drawing may help improve hand-eye coordination, more info about these and other exercises :
https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/drawing-exercises-to-improve-drawing-skill
Or the Charles Bargue drawing course (AKA sight-size method) but that may not be for everyone I guess 😱
(*) a good book for that would be Classic Human Anatomy by Valerie L. Winslow or possibly Artistic Anatomy by Paul Richer, that also has interesting explanations and images but is - contrary to the first book - entirely in black and white.
Hope this helps (a little bit).
I’m in! Minnesota, US. Just did the pear/portrait exercise in the last couple days. First started drawing a couple months ago.
@liasbird @bloomis635 @Graham @Wentbankrupt : which lesson(s) of the basics course are you doing right now?
Just to see if I can still catch up 🙂
Hi, just signed up for the course yesterday. Great idea and definitely interested, drawing is a new hobby for me and I’m an absolute beginner. Looking forward to sharing the journey 🙂
Hi,
Like your initiative, I asked almost the same thing here two days ago. I haven't signed up for the basics course yet but if there's a few more people who'd like to join this group, I intend to start as soon as possible. Don't want to lag behind after all :)
I'm sort of a beginner (from Belgium btw), I used to draw a lot more until a couple of years ago (nothing fancy, mostly simple line drawings of plaster casts and stuff) when work and life suddenly intervened, you probably know how that goes? :)
I'm certainly motivated to start over again, and one assignment each week would be ok for me.
Also looking forward to this, hopefully you'll get some more replies soon!
Wim
Thanks for the reply Wim - hopefully we get some more interest and you sign up for the course. I’m excited to get started! Let’s see what happens 🤞
