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I want to see some improvement around here!!
Gonna do lots of drawing for at least three days to see if I can get a better grasp of really basic things. During this time I'm not going to draw anything from imagination (except this art trade I have XD); just from life and figure drawing photos. I really don't have much experience drawing from life, so it should be interesting...
Today I've already done a fair bit: a few pages of 30-second gesture drawings (trying to focus on legs/pelvis to figure out weight), random household/café objects, including a long table so that I could try obvious perspective in real life, some hands and some longer figure drawings from photos. I've already learnt a surprising amount!
While drawing hands, I got really frustrated by the fact that I always start drawing the wrist and palm first, then make the fingers in proportion to each other but way bigger than they should be, so I tried to figure out why this might be. Still not sure about that, but I did have more success trying to look at the edges of everything and drawing that instead of thinking about what I was doing anatomically. I feel this could be quite a useful skill to develop, especially in life drawing, as it eliminates the need to work out perspective (basically just makes everything like drawing from photos) and is useful for shapes. It does, however, also make everything I draw look really flat XD
I found the longer figure drawings to be quite useful in trying out different methods of approaching the drawings themselves. Got pretty frustrated when I was trying to just do an exact copy with detailed lines, using the edge-drawing trick, as my anatomy just isn't there enough yet and everything came out looking really stiff. I'm quite happy with the last three I did, though, abysmal line quality aside (not gonna focus on that over the next three days, I'm more using the figure drawing to help me with anatomy).
I'd like to move away from using outlines during my practice (when I sketch things it's usually a mix of super loose lines and crosshatching to get the shape of things, which I quite like), but I think that might have to come later after I'm more secure with the more basic things. Outlines are so boring.
Hopefully my boyfriend wakes up before I go to bed, in which case I plan to draw him for a bit ^^
Gonna do lots of drawing for at least three days to see if I can get a better grasp of really basic things. During this time I'm not going to draw anything from imagination (except this art trade I have XD); just from life and figure drawing photos. I really don't have much experience drawing from life, so it should be interesting...
Today I've already done a fair bit: a few pages of 30-second gesture drawings (trying to focus on legs/pelvis to figure out weight), random household/café objects, including a long table so that I could try obvious perspective in real life, some hands and some longer figure drawings from photos. I've already learnt a surprising amount!
While drawing hands, I got really frustrated by the fact that I always start drawing the wrist and palm first, then make the fingers in proportion to each other but way bigger than they should be, so I tried to figure out why this might be. Still not sure about that, but I did have more success trying to look at the edges of everything and drawing that instead of thinking about what I was doing anatomically. I feel this could be quite a useful skill to develop, especially in life drawing, as it eliminates the need to work out perspective (basically just makes everything like drawing from photos) and is useful for shapes. It does, however, also make everything I draw look really flat XD
I found the longer figure drawings to be quite useful in trying out different methods of approaching the drawings themselves. Got pretty frustrated when I was trying to just do an exact copy with detailed lines, using the edge-drawing trick, as my anatomy just isn't there enough yet and everything came out looking really stiff. I'm quite happy with the last three I did, though, abysmal line quality aside (not gonna focus on that over the next three days, I'm more using the figure drawing to help me with anatomy).
I'd like to move away from using outlines during my practice (when I sketch things it's usually a mix of super loose lines and crosshatching to get the shape of things, which I quite like), but I think that might have to come later after I'm more secure with the more basic things. Outlines are so boring.
Hopefully my boyfriend wakes up before I go to bed, in which case I plan to draw him for a bit ^^
plan of action
so! in approx. 1.5 months it'll be the year anniversary of my return to drawing and I'd really like to improve as much as possible in that time think I need to study anatomy, keep working on backgrounds/objects and drop the super simplified style I have going for a while. I'm also committing to trying to get the drawing part of my art as accurate as I'm capable of (so no cop-out hands or refusing to redraw parts because it would take too long). tentative plan: anatomy studies/gesture drawing, environment sketching, for finished pieces drawing people interacting with objects (same basic skillset needed as for man-made environments - I need to improve detail/texture) also need to do more form studies but not sure where they fit in with the rest of all this :/
2020 goals
I want to get serious about improving my art this year, but I don't think I'm ready to study 24/7 yet, so I'm going to try and pepper all the fun doodling stuff with some small deadlines. February - Kylux Positivity Week I started an art blog on Tumblr a couple of months ago that quickly devolved into Kylux (the trash pairing of Kylo Ren and General Hux) hell. The community is holding Kylux Positivity Week at the beginning of February, which I intend to see through to the end. With this in mind, I'm already planning out the drawings I want to make so that I can identify the biggest areas of study within them - looks like a hand study week is on the cards again so far. I'm currently studying both of their faces and actually picking up some useful anatomy pointers along the way, which is great. I'm going to try and do as much of the hard work and drawing as I can before the beginning of the week so I can post every day. I also said I was going to draw @Lumazaco's Exile ages ago, and
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Been doing the 250 box challenge from Drawabox.com over the past few days. I got to 50 feeling like I was still struggling, so did some more of the rough perspective exercise from the website (plus correcting boxes immediately after drawing them instead of waiting for the end of the page) and now things are finally starting to click for me! My boxes aren't perfect yet, but they're a lot better and I think I've hit that stage of rapid improvement. Gonna restart the challenge, do around 10 a day and then I'll be a box master by the end of October :D
WOOOOOOO
Proud to say that I'm now noticeably better than 2010 me (e.g. the year at which I pretty much stopped drawing)! Only took about six months DX
I've started learning a bit of anatomy, try to draw a little from life (ends up mostly being mugs of tea, whoooops) and have improved my line quality somewhat by drawing a fair few still-life boxes XD I also bought a brush pen and used up all the ink in two sessions by drawing Kylo Ren too many times (no regrets). Even more excitingly, I finally got hold of a non-blunt pencil again! XD
I'm currently waiting for the life drawing class in my city to find a new venue, because my timing is - as always -
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