Sketchbook: Ukase Death Ritual

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Hey
A lil bit about me:
I'm a beginner learning to draw. I just turned 20 today (bought myself a tablet 2 celebrate). I live in Montreal & I work as a dishwasher. I used to make electronic music but i'm putting that on hold so I can focus on drawing.

I'm trying to get good enough to become a professional illustrator by the time I'm like, 26.

I'm gonna post practice pictures in this thread daily. But not today.

Even though a beginner's sketchbook is super boring to look at, I hope that some of you kind souls will offer advice, criticism and/or encouragement.

Cheers

Wing

Exciting! Good luck on your art journey, man! Don't get intimidated or discouraged everyone starts with stick blobs at first! You are already at an advantage by choosing to post on a forum like this with so many talented people who are also on their art quest!  Time to start grinding ex and lvling up those skills! 

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Thanks a lot for the words of encouragement wing

Today I unfortunately didn't get down to practicing. I ended up organizing my desktop and going through Sycra's photoshop tutorial series which is stupidly long for the amount of useful information even at 2.5x speed. But I learned a little bit about photoshop, so that's good.

I pilfered some food at work from the pans that needed washing. Mmm.

Here's an early page of cubes I did in my sketchbook:

Here's a photo of a page of cubes I did last week:


That's all for today, cheers.

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Man, work today was brutal.
Only practiced 1.5 hours cuz i'm a lazy bum. Gotta work on that.
Organized my desktop a bit more, almost perfect.
Tablet takes some getting used to. Not too bad though, guessing it will take about a week to feel normal.

That's all for today.

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today I only practiced for an hour cuz I'm a lzy fcker. Gonna have to try a bit harder.
This second one took forever. It's a cube from a Marshall Vandruff Practice. I actually printed out and folded up the template and junk too so it's drawn from life. I also bought his perspective series. I dig that guy's enthusiasm.  

Ended the day by getting drunk and listening to some burial, porter ricks and stereolab. Wooooord up.
Really gotta get my shit together.

Alright peace.

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So since my last post I just smoked weed and made a few beats (https://soundcloud.com/roy-rang the first two)
I set some more specific goals for art today because I feel like I needed that extra bit of motivation or whatever.
Man jobs suck. My clothes get soaked at work and I come home and shuck them off into the laundry hamper but today I was looking for an old black shirt in there and I found out like everything in there had mold on it which was like surprising to me and nasty so now I need to deal with that which I guess isn't so bad but like today just coulda gone better overall. bleeeh

I practiced for an hour today.

thanks okay bye

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today sucked but trying to get good at drawing gives me the will to live I guess

Practiced for 3 hours which is an improvement on what I normally do. I'm trying to get up to 6 hours on work days and 14 hours on off days. It might take a couple months for that to feel normal but whatever.

Also looked at some of Moebius's art. Haven't read any of his comics but I really want to.

I need to do some research on deliberate practice so I can optimize my practice sessions. For now, I'm just gonna focus on one thing at a time (cubes: for a long time) because I think that's like one of the basic ideas.

(I wonder if I get can get welfare if I get fired?)
Toodaloo

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Yo

Today I did three hours. Not great but at least I didn't backslide.



Peace