/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.2098669]

Post your schedules, /ic/. I need models and ideas for one since im out of school for 12 weeks. pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.2098670]

>>2098669
here OP
>Wake up
>Grab a brush and put a little make-up
>Hide the scars to fade away the shake-up
>Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
>Here you go create another fable

[Anonymous No.2098672]

Just draw for 12 hours. wtf.

[Anonymous No.2098673]

>>2098670
>>2098672
thanks guys, i appreciate it

[Anonymous No.2098678]

>>2098669
Schedule:
>whenever I feel like it

[Anonymous No.2098684]

>>2098669
heres a sched w/ pretty pictures, good for a laptop wallpaper.

mind you, unless you have zen monk discipline then you are going to have a hard time following a premade schedule. Its better to set your own pace.

[Anonymous No.2098687]

>>2098669

I'd actually like to see some posted too. I took a long break from drawing and I'm rusty as fuck. Bought some anatomy and figure drawing books that I'm reading through, but with a full-time job I'm trying to set aside time for improvement but roommate/friends are making that tough too.

[Anonymous No.2098689]

>>2098684
Thanks so much man

Appreciate this input.

[Anonymous No.2098690]

Only acceptable schedule

every waking moment: draw

[Anonymous No.2098691]

>>2098684

oh god I dont even do that much in a week
how am I supposed to get there

[Anonymous No.2098692]

>wake up at 11AM
>practice drawing and shit for an hour or two
>go to work at 2PM
>get back home at 2AM
>crash as soon as I get home
>barely have enough money to survive

Yay

[Anonymous No.2098704]

>>2098684
Uh, do you have any work from this fellow? is he any good?

[Anonymous No.2098724]

>>2098704
No, although he does know his thing by making such an elaborate schedule. If only I knew what GLORY or /sic/ meant then maybe I would have a clue.

[Anonymous No.2098737]

>Wake up at 2 pm
>Say to myself that I'm gonna draw a lot today
>Browse 4chan and play video games
>Realize I haven't drawn yet at 2 am
>1 hour of comfort zone doodling
>Cry myself to sleep because I'll never git gud
>Repeat ad infinitum

[Anonymous No.2098739]

>>2098737
Just look at this anon. You cant believe how lucky position youre in.>>2098692

[Anonymous No.2098742]

>>2098737
Start waking up earlier and play less video games. If you have to browse 4chan, stay on /ic/.

[Anonymous No.2098750]

>>2098737
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.2098756]

>>2098724
Glory and /sic/ were study groups/projects.
Schedule was roughly followed for 2-3 months. It's inspired by Dave Rapoza's (pic related) and Draw or Die's schedule.

>>2098691

If it makes you feel better I didn't do most of the stuff after 1:30 because I usually had to work at that time. Hence why studies are all in the morning. It was more of a 'when you are not working/busy, this is what you should be doing' sort of thing.
Doing the full week regularly was a neet goal more than anything.
I posted that in a schedule thread a while back because it was helping me at the time and doing everything on it seemed 'ideal' to getting good at the time, but it's very personalized. Most days were only 3-6 hours of actual drawing.

I do things differently now but I plan on hopping back on the something similar to that once I get my shit together again.

[Anonymous No.2098761]

>>2098756
The Draw or Die schedule (way too intense I think, nice goal though)

[Anonymous No.2098762]

Wake up at 5 in the morning.

[Anonymous No.2098764]

>>2098669
here's one using a sort of point method which might help motivate people

[Anonymous No.2098768]

>>2098669
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-4555.html

[Anonymous No.2098795]

>wake up at 5 AM
>go to work at 6 AM
>return home between 7 and 9 PM
>eat dinner and browse internet
>go to sleep between 9 and 10 PM

>spend about one or two weekends a month drawing.

[Anonymous No.2098806]

>>2098761
i mean will this even work? i will fucking do this m8

[Anonymous No.2098808]

>>2098756
wtf it's literally 90% anatomy. no wonder his art is so boring.

[Anonymous No.2098999]

>>2098806
lets do this annon, i'm gonna do it for a month, client/ascension part will be replaced for degree final project, we gotta do it now, not tomorrow

[Anonymous No.2099004]

I draw for an hour each day in my lunch break. Slow days I'll do some basic line exercises too.

I'd post samples of my works but they are so good I doubt these servers could handle the extra traffic. Or, of course, my work is just really shitty.

[Anonymous No.2099006]

>>2098684
Lol he's unemployed

[Anonymous No.2099011]

I think it is better to just fight your difficulties, and try to improve on one part at a time or 2/3 if it works. You dont need to make a schedule that is same every week.
My approach: make a sketch/full piece => what is off? => study that => new piece => what is wrong? => study
Also I spend every few days some hours on composition and reading. Also good to look how other artists tackle sutff and such. It is important to do things as life-studies and anatomy studies too. But doing anatomy for 4hours+ a day is noncense. Yo will be good at anatomy but your other fundamentals will be lacking or you will have boring pieces. A schedule can be good if you are just starting out though and learning the basics of the fundamentals, like gesture and perspective and value.

[Anonymous No.2099102]

I started draw or die faggots, wish me constancy

[Anonymous No.2099103]

my what?

[Anonymous No.2099107]

>>2099102
not gonna help you, getting better at art isnt exactly about the amount of time spent mindlessly doing art

[Anonymous No.2099113]

>>2098808
It's a study schedule he did like 5 years ago you moron. Do you think artists are forever bound to one study schedule and one only?

[Anonymous No.2099117]

>>2099107
Why are you assuming he's approaching it mindlessly? You sound very insecure.

[Anonymous No.2099123]

>>2099107
it's not about time, and these exercices does not seem a time waste, on copy exercices for later regurgitate will be oriented to my project needs, if you read the program it's obvious you cant do this mindlessly as it's not about 2d copying

[Anonymous No.2099128]

forgot to say, so far only 1 male & female head drawings and regurgited, 2x2 more to go, bodys and then project :/

[Anonymous No.2099268]

I draw from 6pm to 9pm everyday
I draw in 30 minute intervals with about 5 minutes break in between intervals
I spend the first hour drawing casually to warm up and then the next 2 hours drawing whatever needs drawing. If I have some lineart that needs doing I'll do that in the last hour because it's a fuck hard thing to do and you gotta be smoking on the floor for it.

I started the schedule by observing what times I would naturally feel like drawing. I expand it by an hour whenever I feel I can handle another hour.
Baby steps

[Anonymous No.2099272]

>>2098761
Lets get a thread started for this challenge. Would many anons be up for this? post progress

[Anonymous No.2099282]

>>2099272
I already started today as I'm used to my salf saying things I'm gonna do and never start em kek :(

got face part done, still female/male full bodysto study facepalm, and personal project remain -_-'

[Anonymous No.2099291]

>>2099272
Sure, make a thread and let's do this. I'm always more motivated when others are also working on the same thing.

[Anonymous No.2099297]

>>2099291

yeh, at least we work more for a week or so kek

[Anonymous No.2099550]

>>2098795


I got a new job a few weeks ago and your schedule is EXACTLY like mine, I'm still trying to adjust to it and figure out a plan that will work

I hope we figure it out and make it anon

[Anonymous No.2099710]

>>2099006
>>2098756
>If it makes you feel better I didn't do most of the stuff after 1:30 because I usually had to work at that time.
>had to work

[Anonymous No.2099720]

>>2098669
>schedules
I prefer Zen.

[Anonymous No.2099755]

>do stuff from 12 to 12
>work on art from midnight to 4

i'm very much a night owl.
recently i'm thinking i need to do more. but i'm still having trouble finding a good time window to be undisturbed in the daytime.

[Anonymous No.2102109]

>>2099282
>>2099291
>>2102103

[Anonymous No.2102131]

Any advice for someone wanting to get proficient while holding down a job?

[Anonymous No.2102163]

>>2102131
What kind of job? Part-time or Actual job?
I set my study schedule based on how many hours I work per day. You could do the same to fit your goals.

8 hour work day
>Ten 2-minute gestures
>Ten 15-minute studies
>30-minutes looking for inspiration, gathering reference, or reading art theory

4 hour work day:
>ten 1-minute gestures
>three 20-minute studies
>one in depth study or illustration from imagination.

Day off:
>Animation study, finished illustration, or contribute to a larger project

Every night I evaluate my work and narrow down what I need the most help with, and then each month I rotate subjects.

[Anonymous No.2102191]

>>2102163
part time, but I'm looking to get another to put together 40 hours.

I like that "nightly inventory" idea might have to try that.

[Anonymous No.2102230]

I just remind myself every second I'm not painting is a second I'm not getting better. I'm not very organized, but I have the drive.