How do I structure my self learning of drawing?

[UrbanHermit]

I got a job as a games tester at a studio and would like to try being a concept artist. I am teaching myself to draw at the moment and hope to take some college classes next year. In the mean time I am teaching myself.

I know I need to learn the fundementals such as perspective, compostion, anatomy and colour theory. What I don't know is how I should structure my self learning.

What should I start learning first?

How should I go about teaching it to myself?

Could someone give me some rough instructions of how to structure my self teaching?

[Hyskoa]

1) Pick the subject you like the most, go nuts. When you get stuck or bored, switch to another one. You'll be doing this your entire life because there's always more to learn.
2) Start comparing your art with people in the industry you like, what are they doing right that you're doing wrong?

[Crash5936]

Yup, that's my way of learning as well. And I guess it's most effective in terms of being entertaining. You just do what you like. And that's great feature of art or drawing - just doing it makes you better. Analyze your drawings a bit and as said before - specialize on what you like. For example, I am now trying to get some human anatomy into my hand, but I still do drawings of random objects I see or architecture. And I periodically get better at all of these, and someone I even find out, that something I've learned in eg. drawing objects helps me with drawing anatomy etc.
Switch the ways of drawing too, it's useful to know many methods, and again, I don't even it's entertainment value.

[Big Bad Wolfman]

I am got a job as a games tester at a studio and would like to try becoming a concept artist. I am teaching myself to draw at the moment and hope to take some college classes next year. In the mean time I am teaching myself.

I know need to learn the fundementals such as perspective, compostion, anatomy and colour theory. What I don't know is how I should structure my self learning.

What should I start learning first?

How should I go about teaching it to myself?

Could someone give me some rough instructions of how to structure my self teaching?

Hi UrbanHermit,

I started seriously teaching myself a year ago. I've attached my timetable that I created for myself back then (I've cut out all the areas that were none essential to my art studies at that time). The idea was to schedule my progression by starting off with basics and by taking my time. Pretty much like an academic class timetable. I would also change my timetable every 2-4wks depending on how well I was developing myself.

One thing i would recommend, however, is sketch books and also to date each page as you work, this way it acts as a visual diary of progress (its encouraging to look back on when I have bad days lol).

Hope this helps dude ::D: :yayca:

ps I uploaded some of my years worth of studies over at...
http://www.cgpad.org/forum/big-bad-wolfmans-t1590.html