05-09-2012, 02:58 PM
@ Kamiru : Thanks!
*Cue Pokemon themesong*
Hey guys, sorry I skipped out yesterday. I sat down, took some time to plan and consider where I'm headed. I have been improving a little, but not as much as I want to be.
If I'm going to be working by next summer I'm going to need a serious boost.
All I need right now is four things: Environment/perspective, Anatomy, design/style, and compelling light and colour. I'm going to have to push and get perfect at these four things.
Anatomy is first and foremost, of course.
So basically, I need to stop durdling so much and actually get serious.
If I'm going to quit being lazy about this, and actually get into gear, I'm going to have to be a LOT more disciplined.
To that end, I've come up with a little bit of a schedule. It's loose, but it's riddled with deadlines which should REALLLY help.
I though about it and realized, if I'm not pulling four hours a day then I'm just wasting my time.
However, fitting in 6 hours school, 4 hours drawing, 2 or 3 hours exercise every day plus an hour for meals is not possible in my 14 hour day (I sleep for 10 hours) if I waste time on extraneous turdlike activities.
No more of that heheh
+My new schedule is going to look something like this:
-Wake Up @ 8:00 - breakfast, school, all that
-Get Home @ 12:40
-Exercise Until 1:40
-Lunch
-Draw Until 6:00
-Supper
-Sports 6:30 - 8:30
-Homework 9:00 - 10:00
I'm pretty confident I can keep my GPA above 3.8 even with so little time on homework, so the real issue is the self discipline and putting in the time drawing.
I'm gonna try to get my parents to help yell at me a bit, but I know it's totally on me to do this.
I would also really appreciate it if any of you who see me slacking to take the time to write out a brutally harsh comment as well :)
So, as a motivational tool I'm going to have lots of understanding goals each week. I'm also going to be doing comparison posts on the end of each month:
Old work (month old)vs. New work (end of month)
AND physical comparisons, just basic physical stuff like sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, some timed stuff, whatevs.
I think this'll be a good way to motivate myself, and also a good way to stay on track.
Anyways, Here is my weekly/hourly breakdown of schedule. I might not finish all of this stuff, but I WILL spend 4 hours doing as much as I can each day.
----------
M/W/F
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-90 mins of about 5 min poses - ~9 from photos ~9 from mind
-60 mins master studies (loomis, bridgman, maybe hogarth?) or idol studies (Piemonster, Wayne Reynolds, Wesley Burt, Marko Djurdjevic, Alex Pascenko)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
----------
T/TH
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-90 mins of about 5 min poses - ~9 from photos ~9 from mind
-60 mins of 3X environments/perspective exercises (including figure placement for one of them)(MIND)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
----------
SA/SU* (I get all day basically, so lets do 6:00 hours ;))
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-120 mins of about 5 min poses - ~12 from photos ~12 from mind
-60 mins of 3X environments/perspective exercises (including figure placement for one of them) (MIND)
-90 min Tight Lines - Illustration OR Concept (MIND)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
----------
Anywaaaays, gotta run, midterms tomorrow :)
Starting off without the environments, I'll add them into the mix next tuesday.
Oh yeah, here are my scores from today:
05/08/12
Push-ups: 50 (almost died!)
Pull-ups: 11
Sit-ups: 100
*Cue Pokemon themesong*
Hey guys, sorry I skipped out yesterday. I sat down, took some time to plan and consider where I'm headed. I have been improving a little, but not as much as I want to be.
If I'm going to be working by next summer I'm going to need a serious boost.
All I need right now is four things: Environment/perspective, Anatomy, design/style, and compelling light and colour. I'm going to have to push and get perfect at these four things.
Anatomy is first and foremost, of course.
So basically, I need to stop durdling so much and actually get serious.
If I'm going to quit being lazy about this, and actually get into gear, I'm going to have to be a LOT more disciplined.
To that end, I've come up with a little bit of a schedule. It's loose, but it's riddled with deadlines which should REALLLY help.
I though about it and realized, if I'm not pulling four hours a day then I'm just wasting my time.
However, fitting in 6 hours school, 4 hours drawing, 2 or 3 hours exercise every day plus an hour for meals is not possible in my 14 hour day (I sleep for 10 hours) if I waste time on extraneous turdlike activities.
No more of that heheh
+My new schedule is going to look something like this:
-Wake Up @ 8:00 - breakfast, school, all that
-Get Home @ 12:40
-Exercise Until 1:40
-Lunch
-Draw Until 6:00
-Supper
-Sports 6:30 - 8:30
-Homework 9:00 - 10:00
I'm pretty confident I can keep my GPA above 3.8 even with so little time on homework, so the real issue is the self discipline and putting in the time drawing.
I'm gonna try to get my parents to help yell at me a bit, but I know it's totally on me to do this.
I would also really appreciate it if any of you who see me slacking to take the time to write out a brutally harsh comment as well :)
So, as a motivational tool I'm going to have lots of understanding goals each week. I'm also going to be doing comparison posts on the end of each month:
Old work (month old)vs. New work (end of month)
AND physical comparisons, just basic physical stuff like sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, some timed stuff, whatevs.
I think this'll be a good way to motivate myself, and also a good way to stay on track.
Anyways, Here is my weekly/hourly breakdown of schedule. I might not finish all of this stuff, but I WILL spend 4 hours doing as much as I can each day.
----------
M/W/F
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-90 mins of about 5 min poses - ~9 from photos ~9 from mind
-60 mins master studies (loomis, bridgman, maybe hogarth?) or idol studies (Piemonster, Wayne Reynolds, Wesley Burt, Marko Djurdjevic, Alex Pascenko)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
----------
T/TH
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-90 mins of about 5 min poses - ~9 from photos ~9 from mind
-60 mins of 3X environments/perspective exercises (including figure placement for one of them)(MIND)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
----------
SA/SU* (I get all day basically, so lets do 6:00 hours ;))
-30 mins of 90-120 second gestures
-120 mins of about 5 min poses - ~12 from photos ~12 from mind
-60 mins of 3X environments/perspective exercises (including figure placement for one of them) (MIND)
-90 min Tight Lines - Illustration OR Concept (MIND)
-60 mins free drawing (invent at least five figures from mind during this time)(MIND)
----------
Anywaaaays, gotta run, midterms tomorrow :)
Starting off without the environments, I'll add them into the mix next tuesday.
Oh yeah, here are my scores from today:
05/08/12
Push-ups: 50 (almost died!)
Pull-ups: 11
Sit-ups: 100