DIY Art Degree - Monthly Accountability Post! (Patreon)

Hi everyone, another month has gone by and it's time to check in on my "art degree" progress! Well, they say no plan survives contact with reality and this definitely was true for me. I spent a lot more time than I thought getting the new shop online! But for the most part I was able to stick to my baseline targets 💪 While it's great to have ambitions, I have found that defining a "floor" for my efforts has been one of the most successful tactics for making progress in my life.

First up here's the Monochrome homework:

Until now I've been focusing on "lineless" work because I didn't want to use linework as a crutch, and that's how I started this piece. But then halfway through I decided "actually I think I DO want linework to be a part of my style though" and so I added linework BACK... on top of the painted blobs. 😩I think it turned out OK in the end, but it took a lot more time than I expected. Just like a regular university project ;)

For speedpaintings...

This month I was largely focused on getting matching values and also improving textures (experimenting with different brushes). I think I made good progress on this and my ability to pick accurate colours and work my way around the colour wheel has improved a ton. The more complex collections of objects forced me to focus on efficiency. I'm almost through this collection of photos and I think I'm going to switch subjects this month.

I did a bit more in my gouache workbook...

... and I did one more Macross study, focused on colour contrast. I think I'm going to switch films now. 

I'll go into more detail about what I've learned this month at the Lab Tech level (and all the individual studies are in the vault if you'd like to look at them!) Thanks so much for supporting my art <3