GOTTA GO FAST

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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 ^^
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