Daily Drawing With Timer Challenge
1yr
Gannon Beck
I enjoyed the habit of drawing everyday during the 12 Days of Proko. The timer tool is great and there are lots of professional photos to work from. I took one day off from it and got right back on it. Now the habit is a fixture in my daily routine.
I've been posting the images in the two week challenge thread in the Drawing Fundamentals Course, but since a.) this will be a longer habit than two weeks and b.) not everyone on Proko is enrolled in that course, I'm starting a thread here.
Anyone inclined, feel free to join in. Use the timer and whatever photos you have packs for, or are freely available.
Here are a few two minute sketches from me--mostly from the Viking Volume 2 Pack.
22nd Day of Proko and counting.
Still working out how best to combine space and gesture. 10 minutes is a pretty short duration for these
nice exercise of putting the figures into a box! I can sense the measurement of their height relative to each other
from 1 min-2 min to untimed. Habit of too focused on structure kicks in again, so mid-way I try loosen up and went along with lines without taking the pen off. Feels like my output quality is still inconsistent
I really like the ones you did with one continuous line, specially the shapes in the two seated ones in the bottom middle. You should try more like these!
461st Day of Proko and counting.
Two minute sketches.
Deadlines are moving into the rearview mirror. Can't wait to sling some paint soon!
460th Day of Proko and counting.
Sooooooo I missed a day yesterday. I've been charging through a bunch of deadlines and got so caught up in it that I forgot until I was already in bed.
Getting right back on the horse with a few two minute sketches.
It was bound to happen eventually. Even Superman oversleeps sometimes. It was never about the streak anyways; it's about the habit, the practice, and the phenomenal progress you've made. Great energy in these btw. You'll always be the Ironman of Proko to me, Gannon.
Yeah I've learned to not beat myself up when something like that happens. Yesterday I was too brain drained to do an important thing well and I just said "fuck it, taking the rest of the day off." I was literally producing no useful output. The important thing I think is getting back on track.
The right bottom one is a study from a painting I found on Pinterest.
Day 103: 17th March, 2025
10 min ones
459th Day of Proko and counting.
Super busy this week. Not a lot of time for longer sessions, but I'll do what I can. Five minutes.
Wanted to practice putting figures into a space. Because it’s rare you’ll get a shot where you can just pose the figure with no relation to the scene they’re in.
Right! I need to get on board with that, too! It will provide me some much needed perspective study.
Tried to develop a gesture into a full figure drawing where I focused on overall shapes and shadow shapes and also on lineweight. Looks like I still have a long way to go when it comes to developing a gesture further.
Day 102: 16th March, 2025
2 min and 15 min
