Daily Drawing With Timer Challenge
4mo
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.
Joseph Osley
21h
Some great shape design going on here. Looking good!
3d
These are terrific. I always love seeing the line from shoulder to heel like in the first figure. Your bean is beaning, as all beans should. Whole lot of verve throughout.
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4d
Here are some gesture drawings from the last few days with a couple random bits at the end.
2d
You are so versitile. Love your doodle characters too, they look so interesting.. all looks like they have their individual stories, i find them beautifully weird.
And some very nice practices of gesture.
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4d
133rd Day of Proko and counting.
Bean practice this morning, followed by two minute gestures. I'm throwing in progress on one of my current master studies for good measure. This kind of covers the breadth of my studies right now.
2d
You draw some real good looking beans too. And thats a great choice of master study, that angle adds a cool dimension to the scene.
4d
That study is really coming together. Looking awesome! I think those beans would make Preston Blair happy. You are killing it! Keep it up.
4d
beans are simply the best
they can wear any vest
legs arms then so
next thing you know
you've got more than a butt and a chest
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My gesture drawing practice for this week. I tried NMA timed video on youtube and did it twice. I feel like the second time around the poses turned out better.
Once again, sorry for the quality of the pics. I have to figure out some better lighting so that the whole page is lit evenly.
5d
These are excellent! Your lines are so elegant and you've captured the foreshortened perspectives nicely. I struggle with these "laying down" style poses myself but these feel well grounded and solid.
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6d
Feel and convey, feel and convey.. think i over-felt. It was my first time to gesture draw with an older model. Doublespeeding the vid amplified his instability during the pose which, to my surprise, got translated into my lines unintentionally. Fascinating, but got a bit freaked out so i did another session with a totally different model to shake that off.
i started with 30s w/ these. Still lagging so much after being out of practice for a while.
5d
These are some wonderful drawings. I think you captured the tension inherent in an older frame; there's a beautiful fragility that highlights the determination required and effort expended by the model.
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It's kinda awesome how even your shadow shapes have gesture to them, in that fleshed out figure on the bottom right of the second page.
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6d
2nd post of the day in here.
A little while back @Martha Muniz was nice enough to give me some feedback regarding shading. She pointed me to a video on shading by Dorian Iten on YouTube that was very helpful. I revisited the video tonight and took a crack at it with digital tools.
Shading is a big area of growth for me. I've done a lot of t-shirt and comic book illustrations, but the style I work in is far less subtle than what I'm trying to develop. Dorian has a shading course here with a lot of free lessons. I delved into those a bit tonight as well.
The figures I've drawn after watching a few videos were done with the intent to find the terminator (where the form light meets the shadow shape), which is an exercise Dorian recommends. I'll eventually buy the premium course because Dorian clearly has an approach I want to get deep into, but I'll wait a little while until I finish a few of the open courses I'm in.
9m
Awesome work, Gannon!
Nice!
Btw, there is a name for that trick when you make the background dark behind the lit part of the object, and lighter behind the part that's in shadow - anyone remembers what it's called?
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I am not interested in digital drawing, but what you have drawn is great. Also Dorian Iten's classes and explanations are worth watching and learning.
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6d
130th Day of Proko and counting.
10 second gestures.
Okay, this was pretty ridiculous. I found my self laughing a lot as I fumbled through them. Still fun, though.
6d
Wow. You absolute madman, you actually did it. And I recognize the poses! They have all their limbs! Insane. Bravo, sir; bravo.
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8d
I am having one of the worst drawing weeks of my entire life. My hands are trash. I have essential tremor always but it has been unhinged this week. I am house sitting so I don’t have a scanner and everything is awful. You’ve all been sharing such fantastic work I feel obligated to balance it out with my failure. I’m just struggling. Raving over.
Just have to repeat what Ash already said: page 2, bottom center portrait - it's absolutely fantastic! It caught my eye straight away and I keep coming back to it trying to figure out how you managed the expression.
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7d
Not to minimize your frustration, but if that's one of the worst drawing weeks of your entire life, just take a step back to appreciate what you're accomplishing. Without caveat, this is impressive.
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7d
If those are the works from shaky hands, then what you think is a curse may be a gift because i think your drawings are great. Even all the doodles you have accompanying the portraits, I really like them. Keep them coming pls :) And actually I can see from your drawings that all the facial feature practices you did is paying off. Kudos to you.
I esp like that Day 2, bottom center head, great work on the expression and how you stylized that.
And some great practice with the gestural poses too.
Also, maybe experiment using brush/ fountain pen, something to emphasize those special lines you’d only get with trembling hands. That may be interesting to explore.
Btw, not sure if you’ve heard of Phil Hansen before, if not, his talk titled “Embrace the Shake” is worth checking out, on youtube.
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8d
These are so good, Gannon. I wish I was at a level where I could be more constructive in my critiques to help you better. All I have to offer is encouragement and adoration. Damn my eyes! Also hands.
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9d
128th Day of Proko and counting.
Twenty second sketches.
This is a bit of an experiment to see how fast I can get a gesture down. When doing urban sketching, where models don't sit still, this is a practical concern. There is tension between how long I can hold the image of a pose in my head and how fast I can get it down before the image evaporates from memory.
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8d
Wow. Closing in on the elusive zero second sketch, I see. I think the way you’re framing it, keeping it in your mind to get it down, is really important. I’ve been trying to project the image I’m drawing from onto the page as I draw as a mental exercise. It’s hard to do. I love these. The economy of line yields such a minimal representation that captures the pose and movement of the form regardless. I’ll give twenty a shot but if I manage a full pose it will be a miracle.
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8d
Love the energy! The silhouette read is really strong too. Great stuff, Gannon! :)
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10d
I find that theres something about the belly and the hip that compels me when i'm drawing these female figures
10d
These are beautiful, great work!
10d
I meagerness came from all the 30sec practices and got stuck with me.. and i came to like it too :)
11d
I think it's really cool that when you describe only one side of the legs, you've done it so well that the mind fills in the rest.
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11d
126th Day of Proko and counting.
Some madman (ahem @Devon D. Yeider ) suggested we do 30 second sketches in our drawing Zoom call this morning. It's definitely a workout!
11d
30s are great sessions! So stressful and exciting. You got alot down with that time limit, nice work.
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