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Plan from August:

finish DAB Lesson 5 (multiple pages per day if possible so I don’t lose momentum) ✗ didn't do any of this

study whatever the next step in the Radiorunner curriculum is ✓ lots of 30min figure drawing sessions, read Hampton's book on figure drawing, still need to carry on learning about the spine and ribcage from Proko

do 30min figure drawing/other studies at least 15/30 days ✓ most days

finish that damn comic ✓ FINALLY

sketch out/thumbnail every prompt fill for October prompt lists ✗ because I can't concentrate on anything

ACTIONABLES: CLEAN UP LINEART✓, reference/learn about neck-body connection & shoulders✗, mannequinise figures(kinda), take own clothing reference photos for exact pose instead of trying to abstract existing images (not skilled enough to do this yet)(sometimes), draw hands✗, study leather texture in particular (since it’s a common material)✗, start drawing in greyscale again(kinda)

Overview of September:

did a fair amount of figure drawing trying to use gestural lines more often as a framework, decided that my time is probably best spent carrying on doing construction for longer poses (since it's the main reason my sketches take so long). Getting better at seeing ribcage/pelvis angles and imagining them inside figures. Learned about opposing tilts (usually) that balance the body out. Still having problems just drawing outlines agh

that's... kinda it? I've been really scared of drawing anything more complicated because my brain now associates planned-out sketching with pain (because I struggle so much to get things to sit right in perspective/have believable anatomy/draw background objects).

October plan:

finish all 20 pieces I need to do for various promptlists. work on art every day for at least 3h. all non-sketch pieces need to be at least 70% good before they're finished

30min figure drawing at least 15/30 days

--study on hold this month--

notes and improvements from finished stuff:

comic: holy shit my faces look atrocious, composition isn't great (esp. a lot of tangents), values are a bit confusing, those knives in the second panel are SO BAD, could be more energy in the last panel, backgrounds kinda ok but also kinda halfassed

orochimaru: perspective on eyes is fucked (the eyeballs look flat), think I tilted the head down too much as a copout of drawing an actual cool angle, painting is super messy (though that isn't that much of an issue, this was a paintover of something I did in June and there was a LOT of stuff I had to change), I didn't actually think about the lighting when I was doing the paintover and I feel like there are some incorrect areas (not sure the cheek or undereye area on the right should be receiving that much light), didn't reference anything so pretty sure the chin is also a tilted-down copout

ACTIONABLES: revisit all head construction videos from July, fix tangents when I see them, redo background objects if they look bad, use references when drawing ALL HEADS (even ones at normal angles)

#end of month

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