/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3113379
People usually get pretty accurate near the end of their first year. Some more than the others. ( depending on how good they were before attending school )
It's unrealistic to think a few weeks of Bargues make you pretty accurate, but they do help you a lot with knowing how to measure, draw what you see and not symboldraw. But as I've seen most people who finish the whole program become very good artists.
The reason for the still lifes being after the cast drawings is that you paint them in oils. Which you start doing after understanding values and accuracy well from drawing the casts in charcoal/chalk and charcoal. The still lifes are also in color, which adds a bigger difficulty to it all.

>>3113387
It's mentally exhausting, but after a while it becomes normal : ). And yea patience is the first thing you have to learn.

There is a little before and after thing on the site of the atelier:
http://www.swedishacademyofrealistart.se/galleries/before-and-after-2/ in case someone is interested.

I wanted to post a before school and near end of first year figure, but all the ones I've posted on permanoobs are gone. So here is 2 portraits, both were done in only a few hours. The first one is in my first week of school and the second one from the weeks before the vacation.

Sorry for tripfagging, it just makes everything easier because of people like >>3112420 that wasn't me.