7 Months of Art Improvement Challenge

The 7 MONTHS OF ART-IMPROVEMENT CHALLENGE is a 7-month-long challenge I made for myself to improve art fundamentals and become a better artist. It's not a course! I am sharing my journey with assignments, my studies and images, video processes, and recorded live streams where I am explaining tips and tricks I have learned on the way.

See the 7 Months of Improvement Challenge Plan HERE

See one week example HERE

See my improvement process HERE

Each month is divided into 4 weeks and each week has 3 topics to study.

• The main topics to focus on during the challenge are Anatomy, Gesture/Figure Drawing, and Color and Light Studies so basically, they will be studied in depth.
• Besides that, the challenge will include such topics as Head Studies + Facial Expressions, Clothing, Composition, Perspective, and Environment Design, which are spread over the whole challenge and will be studied at a basic level.

ANATOMY 

The anatomy assignments are made based on Stan Prokopenko’s free online Anatomy course. I will provide links to watch and/or download the free references provided by Proko.

___

GESTURE/FIGURE DRAWING

The Gesture/Figure Drawing assignments contain a bunch of exercises based on free resources and tutorials from the internet. This topic will help you understand how to work with shapes and silhouettes, how to better understand human forms and values, and finally, how to add dynamics and flow to your gesture drawings. You will have access to over 300 gesture drawing studies and images.

* 1st example is a gesture drawing made from a silhouette (from imagination)

** Examples 2 and 3 are the gesture drawings I made before and after the challenge.

___

COLOR AND LIGHT STUDIES

The color and light study assignments are based on the "Painting with Light and Color with Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo" course on Schoolism. I will not share any videos or images from this course since I do not own the material, but you will have access to a bunch of links to free resources that will help you better understand light and colors. Along with that, there will be exercises that will challenge you to study different types of light, how the color changes depending on the temperature, and color and lighting affects mood.

___

SECONDARY TOPICS

Along with the main topics, there will be some secondary topics that will only have a few weeks dedicated to their study.

HEAD STUDY and FACIAL EXPRESSIONS - the assignments for this topic are breaking the head into parts like the nose, lips, eyes, and overall head construction. After learning head construction, there will be an assignment that will challenge you to better understand facial expressions.

___

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN - includes assignments that focus on studying composition, perspective types, trees, clouds, water, and rocks, after which you'll have to combine them all in a nature study.

___

CLOTHING - during the challenge you will have assignments that will help you better understand fabric folds and how to draw clothing.

___

THE CHALLENGE CONTENT 

Each Week contains a list of assignments and content that will show you how I have accomplished the assignments:

• Assignments [PDF] - that will challenge you to study all the provided topics.
• HD Images [LPEG and/or PNG] - examples of the studies I made while accomplishing the assignments.
• Video Processes [mp4]- screen recorded videos of my drawing process.
• Time-lapse Videos [mp4] of the accomplished assignments.
• Recorded Livestreams mp4] where I am sharing with you my process of drawing, how I think, and some tips and tricks I gained on the way.
• Brushes - Procreate and Photoshop Brushes I used

Over 700 sketches, drawings, and studies on different topics like:

• Anatomy (170+),
• Gesture/Figure Drawing (300+),
• Color and Light Studies (50+),
• Environment Design, Clothing studies, Facial Expressions, Perspective, etc (150+).

Each sketch and study has a recorded video process.

REFUNDING: I will do a total refund of the purchase only if you have accomplished at least three months of the challenge's assignments and you are still not satisfied with your improvement.

VAT: The price tag doesn't include VAT. Gumroad processes all transactions in USD. Customers outside of the US may be subject to an additional fee for international purchases, depending on the policies of their credit card company.

For any other questions, email me at aalmaluar@gmail.com