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30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge

Are you tired of feeling like your art just isn’t improving? Do you want to do a 30-day challenge that’s actually useful? Welcome to 30 Days of Improvement Hell. >:D

I made this because I’ve been feeling super ‘blah’ about my art these days, and I needed something to kick-start myself. Who wants to do this with me!? Start now or whenever you can (now you procrastinators!). Challenge yourself and have fun at the same time!

Tag your posts with #Improvement Hell so everyone can follow along and see each other’s awesome artwork. I may even create a blog and reblog them! :D

What are you waiting for? START!

Self-Portrait - Introduce yourself

Draw a figure using a reference - link to reference

Draw a figure that’s in action, using a reference - link to reference

Draw a part of the human anatomy you have trouble with. x20, with atleast 5 being skeletal/musculature studies.

Draw more figures. Quick gestures and silhouettes. x20, with atleast 10 different body shapes

Let’s have some fun. Design a character from either This or This character generator! Be creative and bring something to life!

Pick the weirdest object in your house/room. Draw it. Shadows and Highlights.

Find 2-3 objects, make a scene with them. Draw it. Bonus points for creativity. Double points for dramatic lighting.

Draw a landscape of a place you’ve never been or drawn.

Draw a BG with 1pt Perspective. Negative points if it’s a railroad or an empty street.

Draw a BG with 2pt Perspective.

Look out a window. Draw what you see. Bonus points for adding something interesting.

Draw an interior setting with the character you designed on Day #6 in it.

BG with either bird’s eye or worm’s eye view.

Halfway there! Draw three ‘action’ scenes with different compositions in each. Quick sketches are fine, just make them interesting and understandable! Bonus points if it’s the same scene, but different composition.

Draw a single page comic with 5-7 panels (the story begins and ends on one page). 

Draw an animal you’ve never drawn before. x10  Link references.

Draw a car. Negative points for whining. Hint: Use a perspective grid.

Think of the thing you hate drawing the most. Guess what? Draw it! Negative points for lying to yourself.

Pick an object in your house/room. Now design a character from it, using the shapes, forms, textures, purpose and colors as inspiration. Also link/post the object you used. Negative points for using a humanoid action figure.

Draw a character/object/scene, and shade them using ONLY solid blacks and whites. Bonus points for good use of lights/shadows

Draw a different object/scene/character. Shade using hatching, crosshatcing, and/or pointillism. Bonus points for lights/shadows and textures.

Colors! Pick a color palette, and paint a scene/character/object using only those colors (some blending allowed). Bonus points for good use of lights/shadows.

Draw and color a scene/object/character - no lines allowed! (aka - lineless art). Don’t forget light and shadows!

Draw a scene/character in a style you’ve never drawn before. If emulating an artist, credit+link. Bonus for color style.

Draw a character. Draw 10 emotions/expressions. Bonus points for 'uncommon’ emotions. (i.e. anxiety, guilt, despair, loneliness etc.)

Draw three random shapes using your opposite hand (or your foot). Now design characters from those shapes.

Turn on the tv (or load your illegally downloaded movies). Pick an actor and draw them.

Almost done! Let’s have some fun. Draw some fanart. Bonus points if it’s super obscure and unknown. Make people guess what it’s from.

Last day! Find a drawing you did within the last year. Now draw it again using what you’ve learned! Link it for comparison!

 Look at all that amazing improvement! Congrats!

[Update] There is now a sequel challenge, Draw All The Things!

#improvement hell #not art #this looks like a really good variety! #no way ill be able to do one of these a day (not self deprecating i have like classes and a job to keep up with) #so i think ill try spreading them out over several months

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thinking about red valley for no reason... small aubrey wood for everyone

#her hair should be tied back for lab safety but shhhh shes probably just reading some profiles or something #also since when has overhead cared about good research practices lol #red valley #aubrey wood #art #pencil

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king and queen of the pelicans we!

plus the actual pencil sketch, flats, and sepia photo version

#self rb

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king and queen of the pelicans we!

plus the actual pencil sketch, flats, and sepia photo version

#for anyone whod want to know i adjusted their hand positions from my reference so capella is leading and khan is following btw #dancing as a device anywhere makes me go crazy go stupid #hoping to do some more of these with other characters but no promises lol. spring break is ending soon #pathologic #pathologic 2 #capella olgimskaya #khan kain #and the flats (3rd image) are all the same hue as the lineart. i didnt think that was worth putting in the actual post but now you know

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redraw of my first kaf fanart :)

#my designs for them (at least for season 1) havent changed much but i think my style/skill has improved since then... #whatever i slapped this together in an hour or two on a whim and i dont want to look at anymore for now. enjoy #kane and feels #art #drawing #pencil

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nina sketches while i work on other stuff

#nina #drawing #pencil #shes so fun to draw even though i cant give her consistent proportions to save my life

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dinosaur au. what else do you want me to say

for anyone who's interested the bachelor is Deinonychus antirrhopus, haruspex is Parasaurolophus walkeri, and changeling is Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis

#pathologic #art #digital #clara pathologic #artemy burakh #daniil dankovsky #everyone please be nice these were so much fun also ive been working on them for like a month #if anyone wants to talk dinosaur au my asks/dms are open lol i have ideas for a few other characters but definitely not all #also i do have regular patho art on the way probably. but not before more dinosaurs #ALSO also if anyone @s me about the scale I KNOW. I KNOW. you try fitting these three on the page with realistic proportions #my own fault tbh. but i wasnt in control when the idea came to me... one moment just walking to class next moment bam. dinos #and the rest is history!! #whatever. im setting this to post sometime monday so i wont have to take the plunge myself. cya

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@pickled-cactus's character rusty for art exchange!!

#art #drawing #digital #i know i said this already but he was so fun to draw... i ❤️ using references

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LOOK AT HERRR. Behold. Behold.

my half of art trade with @collgeruledzebra :^)

#she goes here too LOOK AT HER!!!! #nicodemus ward #not my art

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somewhat rough sketch of my halman concept

#2001 a space odyssey #2010 odyssey two #3001 the final odyssey #halman #does anyone know where all the glowing blue halmans (halmen?) came from #like i dont dislike them but i really really like the concept of dust nebula dave as hes described when he appears in 2010 so im curious #where the other version came from because it's what i usually see on here #whagever. as i mentioned this is based on daves description in 2010 and my own thoughts about discovery as hals body #also i know it's not to scale sorry im compromising for visual impact #also i forgot to post this for like a month probably at least. whoops. anyway #art #digital

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also enjoy this cursed sketch i made when trying to decide poses she’s so squished i’m sorry nina .girl why are you so 👁

NOOO LMAOOO... [bad british accent] neenor

#nina #not my art #ask #pickled-cactus

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BBBZZZZT

WHOA!!! aww her little smile... thank you so much for this beautiful gift

#nina #not my art #halftones are very nice btw 👍 #ask #pickled-cactus

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midwinter aka time to draw my favorite great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granduncle again

bonus:

#art #the dark is rising #tdir #merriman lyon #can i be real with you guys. the merriman on the 2013 cover unsettles me deeply. #i mean none of the characters really look quite right but i think hes the worst. i dont know who that man is but i dont trust him. where is #professor lyon please. #idk why im putting this here it just needed to be said

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i <3 her now :-)

(as you should) AAAA SHE LOOKS AMAZING I LOVE THE LIGHTING?? and the soft shading on her feathers.. mwah. tysm im honored 🥺

#nina #ask #pickled-cactus #others' art

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I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT NINA!! anything you want to share about her, i want to collect

OOH OKAY ALRIGJT. (btw sorry this took a while i wrote up most of it days ago but The Tasks. you know how it is. here's a sketch for now)

so the thing about nina is that she is a really really old oc that i decided to revive over the summer to see what i could do with my current understanding of science and techmology so she doesn't really have an actual storyline. but here's some tidbits (under the cut because I have a lot to talk about). also warning for discussion of some unethical biomedical practices

- she's from kind of a cyberpunk dystopia where extreme human genetic alteration is possible (in embryos only ofc) but very very expensive because of not only the procedures needed to make an altered zygote but the resources required to incubate it for a full gestation period and because only some will end up viable the lab will have to create and incubate a carefully calculated number of embryos often with slight differences to ensure at least one will fully develop (this will be relevant i swear)

- so the technology is basically only available to the ultra rich

- nina was intended to have superficial birdlike features (think feathers instead of hair, high visual acuity, some minor skeletal alterations) but the lab done fucked up and she's much more bird than intended. im not an expert on emerging gene editing technology maybe the targeting sequences they used were a little off due to a glitch but you can see how she turned out

- the person who commissioned her didn't accept her and culling a fully developed altered human is well. murder. so she ended up in a care facility for rejected lab kids like herself

- she took way longer than a typical human child to start actually communicating when she talked but she was able to mimic words and phrases very very early. kind of creeped a lot of her caretakers out to greet her and hear their own slightly distorted voice repeat the greeting back from the mouth of a like two month old

- she eventually settled into her own voice but you could potentially identify the person who taught her some phrases if you knew them already. she's still a great mimic since she basically has a syrinx in there

- she struggles with verbal and written communication in general, a little better with body language at least for interpreting intentions/tone but different people can have very different body language ofc

- she also tends to be hyperactive (partly due to extremely high metabolism) and sort of impulsive

- incredible vision and spatial reasoning (those big bird eyes)

- technically with how large she is (about 4'3" if she could stand up straight without falling over and 70-80 lbs?) she shouldn't be able to fly but i ignore that

- remember how i said the duplicate embryos would be relevant well she has a secret not-quite twin another survivor from the same batch. idk how they got separated (remember i came up with the bones of this when i was like 10) but her twin had a messier life

- nina herself ended up as some kind of specialized government operative (cue booing) no she gets out of it in the end i swear

- the twin is a major figure in the conflict around rights for altered humans

- at some point the two of them meet and eventually join forces idk like i said there isn't a real story to this

- she has 2 fingers and the thumb free to move on each hand but they aren't very dextrous so she mainly uses her feet for fine motor tasks

- she also has difficulty emoting in a way that most humans can interpret due to the beak

- i have also made nina as a dnd character (her human parents gave her up to a monastery as an infant having frankly no idea what to do with her which she left as a teenager and became a highwayman as her appearance leads most potential benefactors to believe she's cursed) she has +5 dex and -1 con

and here's a little portrait for anyone who read this far. my beautiful daughter who i love so much <3

#nina #thank you for the ask!!! if youd like to know anything more specific go ahead and ask lol i feel like im forgetting plenty #may color that portrait digitally later much to think about #art #pickled-cactus #OH I ALMOST FORGOT! the feathers you liked the stylization of in my last post with her are the primary feathers :)

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hi malevolent community :/

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent spoilers #oscar malevolent #blood

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her again

#shes taken over my mind... the power of an oc you made 10 years ago persists it would seem #still messing with her fucked up and evil physique but i think the grippers are going to have to stay #idk if these are to the right proportions but whatever. anyways #nina #art #drawing #BURSTS BACK IN! YOU CAN SEND ME ASKS ABOUT HER IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE. OR ANY OF MY CHARACTERS IVE DRAWN HERE #is dragged off the stage by a crook