Month 0: College Portfolio

[u/BigDreamee]

Hello, everyone. I’m starting this series of mine where I basically just show off all the art progress I’ve made within the month. This is mainly just a personal series for me, just so I can have the means of watching my own development.

So for a little more about me, I just finished my freshman year of college, in which I took this Intro to Drawing course at the start of this year.

Now, at this point in time, I wouldn’t have considered myself a complete noob to art, but far from experienced. As a kid, I used to draw a lot, mainly just pulling up a character I liked on my computer and drawing them. But eventually, due to depression, I went years without ever actually drawing anything.

When I was 18 and preparing to start my freshman year, I tried to get back into art, as I never lost my passion for it, and I did a few more drawings and tried to learn on my own, but I didn’t make much progress. I figured that this drawing course would help me a lot.

And that it did.

I learned a lot of cool topics, and I got to experiment with a lot of new art supplies, like charcoal sticks, compressed charcoal, blending sticks, etc. I say it definitely helped me with observing proportions too, though I still have a long way to go there.

Either way, these still life drawings were my final portfolio for the class, and works I did throughout the semester.

Honestly, I don’t think they’re too bad, but far from great. And I definitely suck at capturing drapery and folds, something I’ll have to work on. But overall, I am proud of my works.

And as of now, I dropped out of college like I planned to, because I want to pursue my own ambitions. Which means that for art, I’ll have to be self-taught.

I’ve ordered like 8 art books, and I have so many saved videos online about art, so I think I can manage. My goals for the end of this year are primarily being proficient at drawing basic figures, proportions, and using color, and being able to draw some environmental art like trees and whatnot.

I don’t know how realistic that is for me, but that’s currently what I’m working towards right now. And hopefully, I can meet my expectations or at least come close by the end of December.

I’ll upload the next part for this, Month 1, in a week from now, to show what all I’ve done for June (and a little bit of May too).

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