Day 51 & day 51 - Another set of ravens with the practice.

Day 50 - More birds. 3 minutes on each this time.

Day 49 - my practice has gone to the birds ... ... ... Tough crowd! Seeing what I can do with sketching some ravens!

Day 47 & 48 - Been a busy couple of days, was able to get the drawing in but just not the the posting :). More knight sketches. Really like this guys the proportions and angle are all bizarre, which makes it both interesting a difficult.

Day 46 - Late with posting these from yesterday. Started the proko line practice for 5 minutes before the sketching and moved on to a Knight line art.

Whether its pretty picture, or practices lines, my sketchbook will take all marks! :) This is oddly nostalgic, as I did some DrawABox Lesson and there is some cross over exercise (only more fineliner). But that was a LOOOONNNNGGG time ago and I tossed most of my practice sheets. Pity.

Day 45 - More timed dragon. I did the 5 pages of practice Proko dropped today, put I'm posting them in the actual lesson

Day 44 - Another timed set of some dragon line art. Also tried a third sketch with no time limit but was to a complete finish....because I wanted to finish something.

Day 43. More Leviathan, this time with a 3 minute sketch an 8 minute sketch and no time limit sketch. Moving on to a new drawing tomorrow.

Day 42. Tried 2 sets of timed drawings (2.5 minutes followed by 6 minutes) of a line art of the Final Fantasy Leviathan...I think. going to up the time to 3 minutes and 8 minutes tomorrow see how that does.

Day 41. Exhausting day , but at least I redid the timed sketch from yesterday of the vr girl, this time with 2 minute 30 seconds and 9 minutes. Worked better this time.

Day 40 (sketching streak) - figured I would come out of my hole and post to a lesson. Since I felt that I have stalled a little I figured to circle back around and do something to at least improve the consistency and focus. I did some timed sketches. Its been a while (over five years) since I have done timed sketches of anything, so I figured this first one was probably going to be mostly getting rid of the stress of drawing under time pressure. And I was right! I picked 2 minutes and 5 minutes, both I felt a bit too short (especially on the VR girl), but the point wasn't to finish the sketches, it was about not wasting time. @Stan Prokopenko I know you said not to time your works before, but for someone like me that will fill every available second with fear, doubt and self loathing, sometimes the clock is our friend. Well once your get over the nervousness and lack of skill :)

DAy 38: This will be my last little bit of owls for now. Now that proko critique for sketches is out I want to try the drawing trio again.

Day 37: found a youtube video by Mary Sanche going over bird anatomy. Very useful, but of course it was a lot of listening and note taking with only the diagrams and 2 failed exercises for the effort. but it was still useful.

(don't know why this didn't get posted yesterday) Day 36 - back to some owls sketches. This was based off some superior sketches of owls I found online.

Day 37 - Less of a sketch and more of the start of exploring the owl wings. Didn't have a lot of time today so, my sketching was limited.

Day 35 - more punching practice. Trying to examine the gut punch from a bunch of references.

Day 34: I accomplished what I wanted with was not to get a accurate, proportional, clean or good looking drawing (obviously) but to take a pose I though was too stiff and try and exaggerate it enough that it would make it look more dynamic. I think I got some of the way towards that with my sketching, thumb nails and exploration of the post. I probably made 20% progress towards that goal and all I needed to do was abandon everything else that made the drawing look good :). Let's see what I can do with the next one.

Day 33 (apparently I had 2 day 31): Trying to figure out lines of action and force in a posed figure. MY goal is to take a posed or stiff figure and figure out how to morph and render them into a dynamic pose. I know the base line advice of "exaggerate", "imitate the pose" and "practice gesture" but there is a chasm between that and actually producing a good dynamic sketch from a less-than-dynamic reference. As I keep at it, hopefully I will close the gap.

Day 31....did a sketch of a Larry Elmore piece called the protector. Wanted to focus more on the proportions (since I think I have been letting it slip) Will integrate gesture into the sketches more in the future.