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My day 1 sketch :) I drew a sculpt from my friend @Alec Brubaker
LESSON NOTES
Establish a Daily Drawing Routine
Challenge yourself to draw every day. Try to get into the routine of drawing daily. Set aside a specific time, and put it in your calendar. If you're already drawing every day, push yourself a bit further. Draw a bit longer or try something new. However, don't go overboard. Set a manageable goal, especially since we'll have another project coming up later.
Daily Drawing Exercise
Each day, fill up one page with linear drawings from life. You can go outside and draw when inspiration hits, or find something at home to draw. Take a photo of your object if you like.
Steps for Your Drawing
- Observe your subject for one minute without drawing. Imagine it as a drawing.
- Begin drawing by sketching a few lines.
- Look, think, and execute. Repeat this process until you're done.
Each drawing can take 5 to 30 minutes, but don't worry about timing them.
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COMMENTS
Day 4! Drew a lot today, but this is from imagination because I was working on something for tomorrow and didn't have time to draw from life
I know it's not from life, but I was keeping a similar theme to the observation project I was working on for a while and needed something fun to draw from my favorite animated movie as a kid. More animation study to continue to work on line quality too
Trying to find something fun to draw quick before bed. I felt a lot like Goofy here lol
Day 1 and 2 - I really dislike Day 1 but it was the first object that caught my attention and it had a lot of different but structured curves. Day 2 was after I watched the CSI critiques and tapered stroke, and with all the Disney animation references, it seemed like a good object to practice those curves and line quality.
Day 6... Obviously perspective way off but, well.... drawn from rl, not the photo (which obviously makes it a lot easier to see!)
Day 5. Did better on time, but still about 50 minutes :/ I unfortunately had to move the lamp to a new location to get a decent photo of it so can't figure out if my proportions are so off from the angle or just so off 🫣
That's a tough one! Two rotated spherical edges with your horizon just above the top one. Try drawing your big shapes very loose to start and think of them as being slices of a sphere for this case. I love how the switch reinforces the form of the bottom piece!
Ok this is technically Day 4. But the 1st 3 days I spent way too much time (!!) drawing a pic I liked (yes, same pic, ergh, and still not finished). So today I switched to something "easy"... which.... still took me 3 hours.
Anyway this is my poet sofa - which seems like it should have been very easy! Altho once I started trying to do softer lines to distinguish between contour lines on the outside of objects and the lines from the patterns within the objects, that ended turning into light shading and then I wasn't quite sure where to stop and so ended up also shading the purple of my sofa to show contrast (and finally going over that part with a tortilla - it's not called a tortilla, I know, but I can't remember the right name 🙃 )
(All I can see now is how off that front left leg is! I guess probably the back left too - clearly that was what my brain thought they should be - angled out - not what my eyes see. Oops)
Final 7 days of the challenge!
I share the same with some posters below, I found drawing from real life reference to be much more challenging. For the last few days, I went outside to sketch and despite it being messy and a struggle, I loved it! It felt like journaling places you've been to and things you've seen.
Day 4, it felts a bit more easy than yesterday to copy 3d models. I need to do another version of the sunglasses, it was harder.
This was really hard and it's looking pretty bad ! I couldn't get the right proportions, faces directions. I felt that copying 3d things in front of me was harder than copying the same things in 2d on a picture. Need to do a bit more of that cause even the usb key was not that easy haha !
Day 2 two and another version of the left boot from previous lesson. I forgot a bit to focus on doing only CSI lines at first so note to myself : do not forget
