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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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Challenge yourself to draw every day for 2 weeks! See if you can get into the routine of drawing daily.
Had to go quickly this morning so no time to clean up. Digital today. But I need to get over that and embrace the fact a quick rough sketch is fine. Proportions are off since I was rushing. E.g. too tall.
Really enjoyed this one. Re did the straight lines a ton. Not perfect but worked really hard to consciously fight my shoulder vs elbow and wrist. Slightly curved still but much better than a week ago.
Drawing the curves and straights in the lid was fun and relaxing.
Ugh this was hard tonight. Really don't like this one and made me feel like giving up.
But pleased I made time to still give it a shot and persevered. Really feel like I need some tips on pencil grips and shoulder movements
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Heck yeah. Way to stick it through.
Getting used to using your should when drawing is such a critical skill. I think one of the best ways to develop it is to draw BIG. Get some cheapo 18x24" newsprint and some charcoal or a broadly sharpened pencil. You'll quickly find that you HAVE to use your shoulder to draw that large. Also learning different ways to hold your tools is very useful. I'm a big fan of how @Patrick Jones teaches it. He has some course on here, and also some free content on youtube I think on how to hold charcoal. (he's also an amazing teacher in general!)
Cheers!
Day 14! 2 weeks complete! Yay! For the last day of the challenge I tried to draw the beetle in my profile pic, a landline phone and a trash can!
Day 5 - Strawberry Still Life
I wanted to keep this one real loose, sketchy and quick.
Not quite sure why, but today I drew a duck. Plant. Thing. Hair was fun. Lots of sweeping c curves and lines that felt good. Still too much chicken scratch on feet in particular
Day 3. Started drawing 2 weeks ago or so now. Enjoying the focus and shutting the noise out while zoning in. Took a picture of this guy while on a walk recently, so tried to challenge myself. Took a full hour over lunch. Messy and I didn't want to shade at all but accidentally did a few bits! At least it has the right number of legs.....
STILL find myself chicken scratching. But tried hard to simplify on the outline, wins etc and break it up into simpler lines. A few bits where my pencil wandered around details though which weren't necessary - and I only drew basics for the wood before I ran out of time, mostly focused on the robin.
Some of the propositions and placement are off (front chest feathers). And the angle of the top of the head is wrong, how did I miss that!
Digital again with stylus. Finding this so tough! Everything seems to take way longer than I'd hope. Getting lines and curves down where I want them is hard. Did not like the shading on the shadow! Should have left blank.
I did get some nice feeling sinlge confident Lines on the bottom half of each side. Still need to really think hard to use elbow and shoulder
Day 12! A deckbox, a toilet paper roll and a candle holder. Feeling like I need to slow down more when doing these, think im rushing too much and getting messy :(. But these didnt turn out too bad.
Day 1. Super novice. Digital tablet and stylus today. Back to paper tomorrow. Focusing on CSI and contours. Still not confident!
Proportions off on the yellow guy a little.. too tall
