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Sova Fanart Competition

Byjack

A few weeks ago I started the Sova Art Competition listed here.

While I was really excited initially about this art competition because I get to combine two of my passions (art and Valorant), I started to feel really overwhelmed because I don’t feel that I have enough experience with digital art and drawing from my imagination to get to the type of painting that I want to submit.

I think I will need to embrace failure and discover what kind of art is coming out for me, but also, I want to break down this challenge into lessons or milestones, just like with the Valorant challenge. The mindset I want to take is to create a syllabus in such a way that it is impossible for me not to win.

Today’s date: March 10th 2023

Submission deadline: March 27th 2023

Number of days remaining: 16

UNIT ONE: Sova Model Studies

  • Day 1 – Portrait
  • Day 2 – Half Body
  • Day 3 – Full Body

UNIT TWO: Dynamic Figure Drawing

  • Day 1 – Explore figure sketching techniques/simplification
  • Day 2 – Copy a pose from memory, trace, and correct original
  • Day 3 – Animate

UNIT THREE: Inspired Starts

  • Day 1 – Random Line Start
  • Day 2 – Famous Painting Start
  • Day 3 – Disliked Painting Start

*All exercises have the potential to be a final submission.

Days remaining after sova fan art drawing class: 7

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I should keep things simple and increase my likelihood of success.

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about 6cm away from phone for clear vision

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The main issue is inflammation. After a few days of non-stop traveling, weeks of stress and sleep deprivation, and a workout that left my knees shaking, it’s no wonder I felt extremely inflamed and depleted afterward, the thing I always worry about when I work out.

Luckily, I talked to my coach today about feeling like I shouldn’t work during depletion even though work sometimes makes me feel stronger and more energetic. I finally have a sort of solution to depletion and inflammation. It’s a version of self-soothing that I like to call self-cuddling. I thought of it because sometimes I just wish my girlfriend was here so I could cuddle with her, but I can actually hold myself and freeze in soft comfy positions that I can then move and change. There are elements of stillness and comfort and delicious movement.

There is a sort of feeling that work is similar. That interesting and powerful work can be delicious movement and calmness can be holding myself and cuddling with myself.

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My inner thigh is definitely tight and can use some body work and I wonder if that is causing me to move it a way that hurts my knee.

Fantastic point. Need to keep the knees over the toes. They connect because of inner thigh tightness it makes it harder to keep knees over toes.

Some more ideas when it comes to kicking.

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I’ve been doing my Valorant challenge for about four months now and I haven’t seen much progress.

I think there are a couple of changes that needs to happen.

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