Aww, we started around the same time! I finished the first 4 weeks of Drawing Foundations I, but then I got distracted by Mr. Rey’s anatomy live class, which is super fascinating, but I definitely feel like I need to get back to the fundamentals. Your work is really lovely, and I hope to see you around the digital campus!

Thanks so much for sharing! I resonate with almost all of your motivations for enrolling in fundamentals-I’m self taught and have wanted to do something like this for a long while. I’ve also been doing everything on iPad but have recently been doing traditional, and agree it is so nice to do it the old fashioned way. Thanks again, I’m excited to check these out!

This guys course looks like a poor rip off of Micheal Hamptons book

You can't learn anatomy in 12 weeks if you're talking about all the muscles. The forearms could be 12 weeks to get it stuck in your head (for about 6 months)

Thank you for sharing

awww you inspire me. little rant, I'm at that weird phase in my life where I'm working a 9 to 5 but my heart is YEARRRRNing to do art and I feel like I need an education because when I draw I don't know what I'm doing, which is frustrating! I think going over the fundies (foundations) as my friend calls them would help alot. :) Glad to have found your channel.

Thanks for making these videos, they are so inspiring to see and your final drawing in both classes are beautiful! Ive been having a lot of executive dysfunction about taking the nma drawing fundamental classes because of the traditional materials i have to buy 😢 do you think it's possible to do the assignments digitally or maybe there wouldnt be as much benefit? Where did you buy your materials? Or does nma suggest where to buy them? Also your video inspired me to take kirk's analytical figure drawing live class and i loved it so much, i hope he offers more feedback classes in the future so i can catch them. Also good luck with your classes, hope you're doing well and thanks again for making these videos.

Have you considered the proko´s begginers course? I´m already taking it and it's very nice

Fabulous. Thanks so much for sharing your experience, feedback and outcome.

Nice video. I'm a big Han fan, I liked seeing the homework too

You've learned a lot with Peter Han...

I took dynamic sketching with him during the Pandemic. God that class kicked my ass, but it was the best damned art class I have taken in my life. I am 42 and have taken a lot of art classes in my life, and nothing has come close to this.

Thank you for the detailed review! As a total beginner, I was struggling a lot with choice paralysis when it comes to picking a class, and this sold me on Peter’s course. Excited to start!

Halfway through this video and I can relate to everything you’ve said. I’m glad we’re sharing the reality of pursuing art ‘later’ in life, and not having been drawing constantly since childhood, or attending an expensive art school full-time etc. I look forward to more videos from you ✍️ Subbed🤝

Hi! I want to take kirk's head drawing course and I saw that he has the lectures at a lower price than the full course. So, in your experience, do you think I still can learn something with the lectures alone or, the full course with kirk´s comments would make a real difference at boosting my drawing skills?

Okay, it's exactly drawabox. Thanks for saving me a lot of pointless suffering ^_^

Very nice review, thanks for the breakdown!

Awesome review, I just started to draw again after many years and your reviews are so helpful specially your week to week breakdowns

Thanks!!!

Do you keep up the exercises?

be careful with this artist youtuber recommend buying Paperlike. It will wear down your apple pencil nib.

Coming back to comment. I bought the class as a full student because of this review and man Lydia you were on POINT with his ability as a teacher. He can judge SO much information about a student based on what he can see on the page. its like he knows what our brain is like and how to course correct! Thanks for making this video! It truly is worth the feedback! There were things I had no idea I was doing that was hurting me and he was able to help me go in a more helpful direction. Totally recommend taking the class as a full student if you can!

I'm not sure but I may have mentioned this. I stopped drawing probably for like 5 years because I got really depressed. Went through some really big mental problems. Now I got back into it and I'm improving. I've always kind of wanted to like make this my career. Somehow. I've always wanted to get into the industry for art working in games or animation comics. I tried going to college but I dropped out because I don't want to do something that doesn't make me happy. And I found every career that's not artistic to be extremely boring. Like every career. It's so boring. Nursing ,lawyer computer science ,business. So I'm just working like a minimum wage job at a store and doing art. I live with my mom so I don't have that many expenses. And working at a grocery store. I feel a lot of the people that work there are just doing a 9 to 5 and they're not really happy or doing anything with their lives. Most people just like go to work. Then when they get home they watch TV and go to sleep. It's like they don't have any dreams. Like the managers at the store. It's really a no experience job like you learn on the job and then you get to be a storm manager. I don't know for me that seems depressing like why would you want to be a store manager? I wouldn't find that fulfilling. It's like literally anybody could do that job. Like they didn't even want to go to school for anything? But I guess sometimes life deals you a bad hand. Some people never figure out what they want to do so they just end up in whatever job. some people don't have a choice they need to work two jobs just to survive because they have to take care of their kids or life is just too expensive. Or sometimes you could go to school spend all this money and not even get a job. It's not like our grandparents generation where you could go to university and you are guaranteed a job. So I guess if they weren't passionate about anything that requires school. Why even go to school and risk getting into debt when you don't have to.

Return me the 20 minutes of my life. So many words, nothing important is said

thank you for the encouragement

Thank you for making this video, I'm debating whether I can handle the classload or get the homework done on time. I'm also using digital so it's a little scary, but your drawings at the end look amazing! I'm planning on taking the plunge. It's amazing you balanced this class and raising a baby at the same time. I honestly expect there will be a few weeks when I miss the actual class. Was it difficult to catch up if you missed a session or were the critiques recorded for later?

YOU CAN DO IT !

This is surprisingly relatable. You make some great points.

I just discovered that Peter Han’s Dynamic sketching is starting this week - the classes are all sold out, unsurprisingly. But the sit-in is still open for enrollment! I think I might give it a try. Your saying it helped build confidence and made drawing fun, not something intimidating sold me! And actually,as a beginner, it might be good to sit in for the first time for a trial run. If I like it, I’ll take the full version with critiques in the future after building more mileage :) Thanks for the review 😊

Lol u look like my future self Since its my last year at school N thankz for the last massage 🥲👍

Hi, one more question :) I’m curretly working full time. Do you think I can combine the dynamic sketching course with my job? Thank you!

Cool video. I'm beginning to learn to draw after years of thinking about, getting motivated and drawing for a few days, then not drawing for months/years.

This is scary relatable wtf - the idea of ill do art once ive "made it" seems to be universal

Dynamic Sketching imo is the foundation of Viscom sketching along with perspective/Grid drawing (a.l.a Scott Robertson). I took Patrick Ballesteros's class with CGMA & also bought Peter Han's new Dynamic Bible 1 . Tremendous instructor to simply put. Took my freehand sketching to a new level that I thought was never possible.

I have a similar situation; I juggle work, exercise, playing with my dog and learning to draw. I even had the same situation during pandemic where I played video games non stop and felt unfulfilled. I was thinking about Watts Atelier as well but I m still unsure if I will get the proper return considering all the items I juggle. I am taking online courses with one of his students, Proko. I would definitely recommend his website to anyone that reads this.

Hi, I came across a video from watts atelier and got interested in trying the course. I tried looking up reviews/videos of people who tried the course but there is nothing online so I'm not sure how good it is. Can you tell me how the course is so far?

Hi Lydia, just wanted to ask you if you have any insight on Jeff Watts online course. Thank you

I'm glad the algorithm brought me here! I'm taking an online painting class at New York Academy of Art on the weekend while working a full-time corporate job. The online course has been so helpful to improving my art and it's added so much to my life. I daydream about being an artist full time or even making money off my art but so far my corporate job is paying the bills. At this moment the best I can do is try to practice and make art in the limited time that I have and enjoy working on the homework for my class. I plan to hopefully take another online painting class in the future and I will definitely check out Watts Atelier and the Kirk Shinmoto class you reviewed. Hope to see more videos from you!

Holy cow. Going through the exact same thing right now (software development career and all)

Definitely checking it out

This is an inspiring story. Thank you for sharing this with us, and I look forward to more videos from you. I'm subbing to this channel. Good luck to you, and hope to see more content soon 😁🙏

I appreciate you mentioning not wanting to use that nice toned paper and using printer paper instead for about of this bc I always feel like in running out even when I've got multiple unused sketchbooks which is often a barrier for me to start

Totally relatable! thanks for sharing you are awesome!

Thanks for sharing your journey. My experience is that much of what happens in life doesn't follow a straight path. And, just like your other videos, I think you are really good at explaining things.

you just earned a subscriber

Was recommended this vid by the algorithm overlords, hi! Think there are some (generally applicable) key takeaways here. Firstly, going into career for reasons very little to do with interest with the career itself, yeah probably not gonna be the best time and luck is gonna be a very big factor. Using said career as a means to a completely unrelated end... That's not to say one can't pursue a career and art at the same time, many artists are like that! But I think an ideal is a career which you take interest in based on its own merit, the alternative is volatility. And about mentality, yeah an all-or-nothing mentality is EXTREMELY dangerous in skill-based hobbies. Ultimately you just gotta get the bloody reps in and get started. How much time you have available for it is situational and may change depending on your future priorities and responsibilities, but DO SOMETHING. If you let go of expectations, focus more on the enjoyment of art, of visualizing some cool stuff, it's so so so much easier. And the way us humans work with any skill, the same amount of time spent in minor increments over a longer period of time will always produce higher ability than the same amount of time condensed. Best of luck all!

Yay you posted! I love hearing your thought process because its so relatable! I felt for you when you said you cried in front of your managers. Your story reminds me of so many of us kids of immigrants who were told to follow a certain path but that path is so overloaded with work and no fun time! I think there is so much potential for you in creating content about your art journey because of how relatable you are! I was able to sit through this grueling treadmill workout because of how focsed I was on your story! The courses you're doing are courses people wanna be doing and don't have a lot of reference to learn more about it! I encourage you to post more! There's another creator I follow on here who posted about her journey and it was clear she wasn't making art because she loved art and it was fun but rather to create something to "show off" and I stopped watching. But I can tell for you its a innate passion and I can't wait to see your growth!

Thanks for sharing. This is really relatable.

Thank you for speaking about this. Your internal dialogue sounds so familiar to mine. I can pursue my artistic goals and career goals simultaneously. I want to show my work too.

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