ArtUp GR 1

• Observations & Interviews. Give a narrative of the three people that you observed and interviewed. Don't use their names. Don't identify the users by name, but do describe who they were. Each narrative should include a particularly interesting moment -- a breakdown or workaround that exhibits a feature of the problem you're aiming to solve.

We made a survey, 48 people passed it.

About 1/3 of respondents consider themselves as having good drawing skills.

About 2/3 respondents want to learn a new style of drawing. The distribution of time which they are ready to spend on this is the following:

The results show that most of people are ready to spend at least one hour a week studying drawing. We tried to allocate barriers of learning new styles of drawing. The survey showed the following:

The most popular reasons are lack of self-motivation and that private classes with professionals are very expensive.

• User Classes.
  • Artists 
    • amateurs, not professionals 
    • are able to draw in at least one of the styles
    • want to study how to draw in either one of the new styles
    • or to study how to draw like their favorite artist
  • Characteristics
    • People who
      • can draw pretty well
      • don't want or have no opportunity to spend a lot of time on studying
      • probably bored reading a lot of information before getting to work
      • have no money for paying for expensive lessons
      • or have no time to go on this lessons
      • really want to study new drawing technique
      • or dreaming about drawing like his favorite artist 
• Needs & Goals.
  • Create interactive way of learning new drawing technique which:
    • will be really interesting to use (which means no boring readings, no boring understanding)
    • will be convenient to use
    • will allow to draw on a paper directly without trying to draw on web-site or in tablet while studying lessons
    • will provide precise and objective feedback