Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

thanks for all the input yall, the past few days ive been at a workshop for amaya Gurpide, who is a florence academy instructor. I was modeling for them for 3 days for a portrait class and made quite a bit of money from it so i will be investing in a new computer so  i can competently do 3d stuff with a more powerful machine. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmtEZOHgELs/

as far as what i learned, well i didnt get to watch it, but heard her insights. She uses shellac to prime her paper and uses rather light graphite pencils which, due to the paper will make darker marks. She emphasises slowly building forms with light and focuses on the harold speed notion of paying more attention the overall value structure as opposed to likeness or the structure of individual features. She was overall an incredibly genuine and kind person, would always answer questions without even the slightest condescension and was overall a humbling person to have met. 

For these things, im trying to put more effort in on stuff since that seems to be the consensus in here lately. I spent about 5 hours on this jeff watts study which ill include the references for. I think i got a few things right but im going to go and redo this very same drawing tomorrow where I will try to correct the head size/likeness, make the torso feel a bit bulkier and make the leg feel like its long enough. I didnt draw anything the past 3 days since posing for 8 hours a day is extremely draining. 

I know i dont learn art very efficiently, ive come to terms with the fact it will take me several times longer than other people who even work half as hard to become a professional. I do have some fun plans for some oil paintings ill be able to enter in a show in january, so i will be doing lots of prep work for that soon. I'll be doing small gouache studies for ideas, highly refined preperatory pencil drawings, mapping out the colors on small oil canvasses and then spending a week or 2 on each of the 2 oil plantings i have in mind. 

Also it'll take a while for me to get my new computer, but it'll be a huge investment and i am excited to build some robots and pose them. This will be extremely helpful for building a portfolio and will probably give me exactly what i need to become hireable.