Well, after looking through Deviant Art and grabbing inspiration, I feel it's time for me to focus most of my time on improving my artwork to the next level. I 'doodled' for several years. Produce something good enough to post here then sit there for a long time until the next thing pops up. I've tried other things to try to find my calling. Writing, horses, etc etc. I come right back to art.

So here is my goal. I will practice figure studies every day. Gesture drawings, so on and so forth. This is for humans and animals a like. That means projects probably won't be posted for awhile here, most things will probably be in my scrapbook. But! Once I start feeling more comfortable with my level of skill, I'll start producing projects often. Art classes I've taken haven't really taught me anything but force myself to finish projects in a deadline, so I'll be teaching myself.

I'll finally start branching out to other mediums too. Charcoal and pastels. I'll of course continue with my prisma color studies. I've got a tablet that's been sitting in my room for quite some time that I'm tempted to even try my hand at CG work. That will be way down the road though.

Now, to my friends, it'd be nice if you gave me some advice or helpful hints on where I should start. What exercises/practices do you generally do every day if anything? Just the typical gesture studies and sketches? How long do you spend each day if you do? I figured an hour of these gesture studies, breaking it down to poses and also focus on parts of the human/animal body. ALSO! I've got a lot of references online that I use for poses and what not. Besides those, do you have some books you'd recommend me to get? I've searched all over today while stocking up my art supplies and couldn't really find anything interesting. Just some tips would be nice to get me moving forward in my art. ^_^ Thank you!