8/20/2014 Here Be Dragons 30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge

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30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge
Are you tired of feeling like your art just isnt improving? Do you want to do a 30-day challenge thats actually
useful? Welcome to 30 Days of Improvement Hell. >:D
I made this because Ive 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 others awesome artwork.
I may even create a blog and reblog them! :D
What are you waiting for? START!
1. Self-Portrait - Introduce yourself
2. Draw a figure using a reference - link to reference
3. Draw a figure thats in action, using a reference - link to reference
4. Draw a part of the human anatomy you have trouble with. x20, with atleast 5 being skeletal/musculature
studies.
5. Draw more figures. Quick gestures and silhouettes. x20, with atleast 10 different body shapes
6. Lets have some fun. Design a character from this character generator. (created by
PreservedCucumbers)
7. Pick the weirdest object in your house/room. Draw it. Shadows and Highlights.
8. Find 2-3 objects, make a scene with them. Draw it. Bonus points for creativity. Double points for
dramatic lighting.
9. Draw a landscape of a place youve never been or drawn.
10. Draw a BG with 1pt Perspective. Negative points if its a railroad or an empty street.
11. Draw a BG with 2pt Perspective.
12. Look out a window. Draw what you see. Bonus points for adding something interesting.
13. Draw an interior setting with the character you designed on Day #6 in it.
14. BG with either birds eye or worms eye view.
15. Halfway there! Draw three action scenes with different compositions in each. Quick sketches are fine,
just make them interesting and understandable! Bonus points if its the same scene, but different
composition.
16. Draw a single page comic with 5-7 panels (the story begins and ends on one page).
17. Draw an animal youve never drawn before. x10 Link references.
18. Draw a car. Negative points for whining. Hint: Use a perspective grid.
19. Think of the thing you hate drawing the most. Guess what? Draw it! Negative points for lying to yourself.
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20. 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.
21. Draw a character/object/scene, and shade them using ONLY solid blacks and whites. Bonus points for
good use of lights/shadows
22. Draw a different object/scene/character. Shade using hatching, crosshatcing, and/or pointillism. Bonus
points for lights/shadows and textures.
23. 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.
24. Draw and color a scene/object/character - no lines allowed! (aka - lineless art). Dont forget light and
shadows!
25. Draw a scene/character in a style youve never drawn before. If emulating an artist, credit+link. Bonus
for color style.
26. Draw a character. Draw 10 emotions/expressions. Bonus points for uncommon emotions. (i.e. anxiety,
guilt, despair, loneliness etc.)
27. Draw three random shapes using your opposite hand (or your foot). Now design characters from those
shapes.
28. Turn on the tv (or load your illegally downloaded movies). Pick an actor and draw them.
29. Almost done! Lets have some fun. Draw some fanart. Bonus points if its super obscure and unknown.
Make people guess what its from.
30. Last day! Find a drawing you did within the last year. Now draw it again using what youve learned! Link
it for comparison!
Look at all that amazing improvement! Congrats!
[Update] There is now a sequel challenge, Draw All The Things!