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day 42: page 6, moving up! Here are a few 5 min drawings around the house. I’m in the process of making drawing things from life a habit. Drawing something in front of you is certainly a different experience, really makes you LOOK at it, translate it on the page. can’t say I’m happy with this lamp, will try again. My perspective abilities need serious work! Placing the ellipse can be very troublesome…
Kept it pretty low stress. The Thailand portraits are super neat! My faces for some reason always look cartoony, I suppose there’s worse things for the moment. it’s probably just the result of trying to define form at my current understanding? Possibly not paying enough attention! Not a realist yet lol. I do need to learn light and shadow quite badly, but I don’t have much desire for rendering honestly.
Would love to see more reference pictures from out in the wild haha. But I suppose I should just go out in the wild myself! But COVID. I’m sure I’ll be able to find a good spot sometime to give it a shot.
Day 43: basically the same. Very slow moving. But that’s a-ok every once and awhile. the bottom one is a Norman Rockwell, the gossip one. I will draw all of those epic faces! I just got the drawing lessons from the famous artists school book, can’t wait to check it out more! my spheres are looking rough man.
Hey Mattias,
Yes! Actual object drawing! That’s always fun. I like your trees. I was actually out at a park last week, was ready to go home when I stumbled upon a bunch and began sketching their branch growth/flow. I started walking through a neighborhood and just LOOKED at trees. Quite revealing.
I should brush up on object sketching!
Thanks much as always Marcolino, looking forward to trying more! Looking more!
Day 44: don’t have much to show today, was doing lots of boxes and such. Here is an attempt at value. At least it’s SOMETHING lol. I must practice it more, learn more. Time just got away today, I need to sleep!!
Hi Mattias,
I think you can clearly see that your gestures payed off. Your tree and object sketches look really loose and gestural.
I just like visiting your thread regularly because I really can relate to your thoughts and struggles.
Even with a goal in mind it’s not easy to get out of our comfort zone isn’t it? At least for me that’s the case 😅
In that regard I’m curious if you already have a specific direction or goal in mind you are working towards. 🤔👋
Thanks Christopher, I always appreciate the comments! 🙌👌 While I was looking at trees in the wild I was taken aback by how strong the gesture is when you look for it!! I know for me looking through your thread and others here, reading the comments, it can be encouraging when you see someone dealing with the same things, and very helpful!
For goals… get good!!! Haha, it’s hard to say, I probably have lots of smaller goals for different things, trying to get a solid understanding of fundamentals I’ve neglected, improve my education and learning, and be able to apply it all well to creating! i appreciate your question however because it’s important to not get lost in just getting things ‘right’ and that’s it. It’s all too easy to lose sight of your original goal, especially In such early stages. I want to improve to a competent professional level, illustrations, character art, graphic, comic books, cool creative stuff that requires strong draftsmanship! I’m a long ways off, soooo much to learn, Many fundamentals I haven’t touched, but this is what I must do! I get very inspired looking at absolutely spectacular artists like leyendecker, Rockwell, Dean cornwell, Heinrich kley, Claire wendling, Matteo scalera, Mike mignola, and many more I can’t think of!! Anything to get me there!
Day 45: I’ve slown down, and hard. Fell flat. Basically because of my stupid time management, goodness… so lame, I do my quick 5 min object sketches and then put keep putting off The real drawing till wayyyy too late. Now I’m very tired, have stayed up way too late, and can’t draw!!! I did it bad yesterday and it was much worse today. Very frustrated at my foolery! This will not happen tomorrow! These gestures are just very sloppy and rudimentary.
Hey Mattias, won’t be the first or last time you’re in a rut. Take a day break if needed.
I will say that your figure on the right follows Steve’s word on tracking that long-axis wherever you see it, here, it’s along the torso to the leg to the foot.
Rest easy.
Thanks for the help and encouragement as always Marcolino, I really appreciate all your help here on the forums! I feel like a better schedule could really help me work out of this issue.
Day 46: I really need dedicated time for coursework. Feels like I’m shooting in the dark? Something ain’t right. I didn’t have lots of time today, but I started early and tried a few figures. Oh well, In time and schedule!
I saw this ^^ object study in the Forums thumbnails and thought “Pretty sure that’s Mattias” 😉
Yeah, scheduling/time management has been hit and miss for me throughout. Definitely been a bunch of times where I just practice like crazy, then kinda just do it sparingly. Drawing everyday without thinking about doing it is easy, it’s blocking out chunks of focused/dedicated/consistent time. >_<
Love those ballet figures. Posted a few gestures on my thread based off of this Broadway performance: https://youtu.be/tOWh6LSHa48
Good exercise for warm-ups to start your day off.
@marcolino haha yeah when you saw those jacked up ellipses on the toilet paper you knew who it was LOL.
yes, it’s just too true… actually thinking about what I’m doing is what’s difficult!! And I saw thise gestures in your thread, fantastic!! started watching a vid on YouTube but this one looks way better, thanks, will try and give it a shot, this is pretty cool. The ballet/dancers like this are just so dynamic. My problem is that I never get past the warmup!! Lol, thanks much, I’ll try and think of how to spend my time more effectively.Thanks much for the complements @natalie, great references!
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