@andy126

Hi Andy! Welcome to the forum!

@hannahmccaffery I sympathize with your lack of sunny weather. I was trying to do a landscape with a blue sky and looked through my personal photos to find a reference but all of my pictures showed overcast gray skies! I live in western NY state, US where the prevailing winds come across the Great Lakes and dump their moisture on us. It sounds like I’d feel right at home in Wales.

@heather-boyd Great to meet you as well. I have always loved printmaking but have only recently been able to really do it physically (instead of copying it in pen and ink). It has been great and I have a great teacher. I am excited to see where it takes me!

Hello new memeber 🙂

Welcome to the site. If you keep watchin' those videos and engage in the forum for feedback and such you'll improve by leaps and bounds.

Nice work so far!

@inkandspatter welcome to the forums. I am also a web designer/developer. Worked in the industry for 18 years now. It pays the bills and provides benefits for the family. I sometimes wish I could let it go and follow my dreams but that path has lead to a great paying job and job security. So I just continue to art at night for fun and a hobby.

I hope this is ok to post here – I started a Youtube channel recently just to post my Procreate timelapse videos. I know the way Procreate records timelapses, you don't actually see the brush strokes, but still seeing the process and the steps artists take to build up their paintings is always really helpful for me. I'm still working it out for myself, the best way to go about building up these paintings, and thought it might be neat to document my progress.

I only have two videos up so far, and they're both master copies of mid-century era book illustrations, but these projects are always invaluable for me to learn how to digitally recreate traditional paint effects. Hoping to post some original art on there soon as well.

Anyway, my channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs0Abzne94_UIC7U7piLWnA if anybody would like to check it out!

@jacksaurusrex I lived in Weesp and worked in Amsterdam Zuid

Hello Crystal. Welcome to the forum. I'm a new there too. Ohh, I have been working in android app reviews company. 5 years ago, I was dreaming to become a graphic designer, but some circumstances didn't let me to make my dream true... However, I believe that I have enough time to do it in near 2 years, but I don't know where to start and what to learn...

@ryandowns welcome to the forums!

Hi and welcome

Welcome. I too wanted to try art in psychology, especially for children. But went a different route. Now Ive come full circle and am going for children’s book illustrator. Helping little minds that way. 😃

great interview to read! thanks @KathrynAdebayo I always adore @Art-of-B 's works

@jon-anderson @TwiggyT @theCMbutton Thanks for the welcome! And thanks for the follow, CM. I gotta get back on that horse and post things.

I’m pretty sure @Naroth-Kean is near there

@sophie-lawson Oooh, that Sketching from Imagination book looks like a really good resource! Might have to pick that up myself, thanks for sharing!

thanks again for the support guys ^__^

@susan-marks said in New Challenge:

@rough
Welcome David. I’m even older and looking to level up my skills and enjoyment, although I do not aim to make this support me.

Have you listened to Jake Parker’s outline of what to do in the first year? I believed it’s in episode 2 of the 3 point perspective podcast. It is specific and daunting and inspiring. I’ve mapped out my plan for November 2018-2019. I’m steadily working away. I would love it if you or any others would I’d like to co-commit to a 2019 plan.

Susan

thanks Susan, Yes I already listen all the podcast wich I'm a big fan of, and right know I have a 3 year plan but divided in sub goals of 1 year each starting and finish during my birthday (no way I will not remember the deadline ^___^) of course this first year will be the "easyest" I will be focusing on removing the rust on my drawing skill, getting back to the basics and starting get out my comfort zone...

I will love to see your plan in progress too!

have a great day everyone!
Davide

@chip-valecek Thanks--and I'll let you know if I get the "reputation" message again. I saw it a couple of times initially while trying to post too quickly-but I haven't seen it in a while.
I appreciate that we all don't want spammers!
And I also appreciate that the culture seems not to create lots of "that's great" messages-instead favoring thoughtful "that's great because....", and uses the upvotes (caret) to imply "agree/great".

Welcome! I have friends in Croatia. We have visited a few times. It is beautiful country.

@dlarmantrout welcome! I'm relatively new here as well-and like you have a full time job I enjoy but want to get better at drawing (which I also enjoy). I've watched Inking (1.0), Fundamentals, and am watching sculpting a model (my sense of "gesture" can only get better). Do you listen to the podcasts? They are awesome. They sent me to listen to Neil Gaiman's commencement address (on Youtube)-which has me thinking a lot about what is "my mountain." And Jake's outline in Episode 2 of what to do in the year before to get ready to go to art school (at a university or online)--it's given me a lot of very practical suggestions. I'm collecting images and identifying artists that would be in my ideal portfolio. Then I plan to consider Lee's ideas about studying them to identify WHAT I like, and using that as a guidepost to my next practice. Welcome to the fun!
Susan