Day 38
I took a look back at some of my earlier attempts at drawing boxes/cylinders and was able to see a good amount of difference.
My confidence in my lines has gone up and the objects look more like actual 3D shapes.
I obviously still have more improvements to make, but it’s nice to see the progress.
Day 37
Pushed myself to draw a little bigger so that I couldn’t hide any mistakes behind the smaller size.
Oddly enough, drawing larger made it easier to get the proportions closer to the reference I used.
I might do figure practice like this going forward.
Only downside is it’s going to eat through the remaining pages in my notebook a lot faster and it’s the only one I have.
I guess it’s time to start thinking about if I want to stick with paper or upgrade to a tablet.
Day 35
It’s interesting to me how much my attitude changes over the course of a drawing.
It goes something like “where do I even start?” “I just need to start over” “okay I think I know where I’m going with this” “how did I mess up this badly?” “wow, this is terrible” “oh, hey, it’s done” “could have done better, but it’s acceptable”
The original guide lines I drew when planning this out were about twice as big as it ended up being, but I kept putting the features closer together and turned out way smaller.
I think I just get intimidated whenever the drawing is larger and start subconsciously making it smaller to make mistakes less obvious.
Definitely something I need to work on.
Day 34
I’ve been feeling kind of burnt out when it comes to drawing.
Looked back at my previous posts and realized I haven’t drawn anything other than objects/figures since day 22!
Fundamentals are important, but I need to remember that I started this drawing journey to have fun with it.
So I took a break from the basics and drew Browt.
Day 29
Wanted to try some more dynamic poses.
I actually tried to do to the bottom right pose to see if was possible.
If it is, I certainly can’t do it.
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Day 26
More gesture drawing.
I can tell I’m getting faster at drawing these, now I want to work on becoming more consistent with the sizes of the various parts of the body.
I just need to stick with getting the fundamentals down and I’m sure that the consistency will come with more time and practice.