Showing posts with label progress report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progress report. Show all posts

Monday, 13 April 2015

Taking Stock, April 2015 - Progress and Reassessment

So, in January this year, I stopped and took stock. I was hopeful of moving my art forward, but that doesn't seem to have happened, so I stopped and took another look

Where I was:

  • Refamiliarise with materials: using the book Everyone can Draw. That hasn't happened. Once university started pretty much everything stopped.
  • Dragons: apart from the Anna and the Rock Dragon cover, I haven't touched a dragon picture since I wrote this piece.
  • Beetles: also no progress.
  • Spiders: also no progress... unless you count all the photographs I've taken since then.
  • Problem Areas: I figured out I needed to work on a lot of things: perspective, colour, plant shape and form, lizard anatomy, weapons and proportion. I was going to start small and work bigger. Hasn't happened yet...
  • Sunday Walk Feature: supposed to happen every Sunday; hasn't been happening.

So, not a lot of progress. I'll try again.

Where I'm going:

Lately, I've been studying an awful lot - anywhere from 6-12 hours in a day. That's not going to change much. I've also not been taking as many photos as usual. That will have to change. And I haven't done any sketching or picture-making. That will definitely have to change. Here's what I'll try this time:

  • Do some drawing every day: Sounds simple. I figure the time for this is usually just before I go to bed. To keep myself on track, I'll post what I've drawn the day after. I'm thinking of a dinosaur and fighter focus.
  • Photograph something every day: Again, easier than it sounds. I might have to incorporate this on my morning walk.
  • Sunday Walk Feature: I'm not quite up to this, at the moment. I'll post walks as I manage them.

Saturday, 21 February 2015

Progress Report: Week 1, February 2015



So, I wasn’t going to do a progress report, but then I decided I might.

I’m still working on a couple of blog entries for here, but my dragon theme reminded me I had a book cover to make regarding dragons-and as I finished the rewrite and edit about five weeks ago, I should probably get to the next edit and start formatting, which means I really need that cover.

So, apart from lumpy-face dragon prelim, I went looking for stock art at Dreamstime, but the closest thing I could find was a lovely sketch of a dragon on a rock by Algol (whose work is awesome, by the way), and nothing that resembled Anna. Which means I’m giving this cover art thing another go, but I’m combining it with digital media as well.

I’m not sure how this is going to work.