WCC College Of Art

Hey y’all! I’ve noticed a lot of younger, aspiring artists joining the site recently, and I had the idea of teaching some art classes, focused around WCC!

WCCCA will cost nothing but your time, although some kind of digital art setup is recommended! This is low-commitment, and you’re able to learn on your own schedule!

HOW IT WORKS:
When a student first joins WCCCA, they will be assigned to a group, of Kit, Apprentice, or Warrior. You’ll be able to rank up through completing lessons and improving your art skills! Here are some short descriptions of the groups and sub-levels:

Kit
Smol Bean:
Just beginning to learn the basics of art. You might have colored in lines and made doodles before, but never really drawn seriously.
Bigger Child:
Just starting to really get into drawing. Understands the very basics of anatomy and has made a few finished pieces before. Knows how to draw with underlying structure and has cleaner, if a bit wobbly, lines. Can draw from front and side view, in standing, sitting, and laying positions.
Apprentice
Young Apprentice:
Knows the basics of drawing, and is beginning to develop their own unique style. Has a mostly consistent, readable style. Can capture basic expression beyond “happy”, “sad”, and “mad”. Knows how to draw from 3/4 view in standing, sitting, and lying positions. Beginning to learn how to shade. Learning how to draw from a reference.
Experienced Apprentice:
Is beginning to learn more advanced poses and pieces. Has a more confident, consistent style with clean, steady lines. Can draw more complicated poses like jumping and rolling on the back. Has a decent understanding of anatomy. Can turn the entire body 3/4 in most poses, not just the head. Is beginning to expand from just cats and dogs
Warrior
Young Warrior:
Is confident in their style and line technique. Can draw complex poses from several angles, and is just beginning to work on drawing from above and below. Can do more complex shading with several layers.
Experienced Warrior:
Is learning the nuances of anatomy and shading, and is very confident in their style, which should be clean and consistent. They can draw just about any pose from any angle, and can work with many body shapes and fur types.
Senior Warrior:
At this point, I can’t help you anymore. If for some reason at this stage you still want to improve, go and find a professional artist or illustrator who can give you pro instruction. I congratulate you!

JOINING:
In order to join, please just pm me saying you’d like to! DO NOT post asking to join, as I don’t want this to get cluttered with join requests. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join, all you have to do is provide me with links to recent pieces of your art (No bases, please, I’d like to see your own lineart!) so that I can place you! If you could give me your preferred prefix as well, that’d be great! My goal is for y’all to have fun, and being able to rank up with an actual warrior name will hopefully add to that! No prefix restrictions other than be appropriate! You can totally be sparklepaw or hamburgerkit if you want ^^

While a digital art setup is preferred, traditional art with a pencil and paper is just fine as well! However, I do ask that you specify you’d like to do traditional instead of digital.

STUDENT LIST:
KITS:
-Deerleap (Smol Bean)
-PikaDaisy (Smol Bean)
APPRENTICES:
-KittyKatz (Shinepaw) (Young)
-Chickenwing (Experienced)
-Snickerdoodle (Experienced)
-Feather (Dovepaw) (Experienced)
-Swiftey (Experienced)
WARRIORS:
- Smiling Advocate Ink (Inkblaze) (Young)
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Here ya go!

Assignment 1

Guys, please don’t judge. I’m new to drawing,

It looks great, Deerleap! You have all the basic parts there, and you’re at a good starting point! I can really see you improving quickly!

Mind if I ask what drawing program you use?

Here is a quick little sketch of SwiftBranch (I’m better on paper so sorry if this is rough)

Aw, it’s super cute! Fantastic work!

I use Sketchbook- an IOS app on my a iPad. I actually usually use my stylus, but I couldn’t find it.

Here's my drawing! The character is one I made up just now lol. Program is Medibang Paint, took me around 5 ish hours!

Process and refs:

Wonderful, and very interesting! Thank you!

(I use MediBang, too, it’s awesome!)

I've finally finished it! Took me 4 hours and 31 minutes according to Krita, and I couldn't think of a background, but it's done!



That's the finished result, with all the shading and everything. Unfortunately, I'm terrible at cell shading and it freaks me out, so I went with softer shading.

I didn't use many reference images, but I've put all the ones I did use down here:

Spoiler:

for the process, it's a little bit more complicated than the images I've made, but here's the sketch and the lineart:


The thing with the head is why I used reference images, because cat heads are hard to do for me.



Basically, I just muddled around with shading and things, and chicken-scratched my way around the line-art because drawing smoothly on a tablet is hard. I used separate layers for the flat, the shading, and the highlights, and a couple of misc ones for the eyes, along with a separate one for the line-art. The composition thing along the bottom was for if I did a background, but I... couldn't really think of anything, so I just left it.

And... yeah. Basically, my process is pretty much just chaos.

It looks great! Thank you, Chickenwing! I’ll probably put up the second assignment soon! Very cool to see your notes and how you take so many things into account!

Decided to do a quickie for this one!!! Not sure of how long it took me, as it is a rather simple black/white ink drawing that I made during the span of sparse quick breaks at work and "colored" quickly at home.

This is Ebonykit of FotW, and no, you're not seeing double, she does have 4 ears