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Hello Paul @PaulDidier Thank you for stopping by and commenting. You have some awesome work on your thread. Your quick ink studies are expressive and confident, and the figures you did in graphite are look very cool too. I am truly impressed with your gouache studies as well. It is such a tricky medium for me. It is totally understandable in your situation to have dropped the challenge at the time. You are doing really wonderful work ! Let’s keep going 😉

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Hmmm, nope doesn’t want to upload.

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Day 3

Didn’t have much time today. Trying out Michelangelo reference from Discord master study Monday. Conté Sanguine on Drawing paper medium surface.

But it doesn’t want to upload.

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Hello Jan. Thank you! 🙂 Yes, I remember our conversation 😉 I am happy to be back. It’s the construction that I am not happy with in this one, but that’s ok. I will try to do beter next time. I am trying to get in the mindset of doing the best that I can in the moment, and moving on to the next thing without dwelling on my mistakes. I started studying perspective also. I am liking it so far. I want to go out and draw the city once we get into spring. Thank you for stopping by and commenting )

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Day 2/100

Finished the drawing I started yesterday, but I can’t manage to upload it.

 

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Day 1

In my sketchbook.

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Day 21

I started very late this evening. This is the beginning of a portrait, but I can see now that I took a photo that the nose should be higher in this angle looking up.

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Day 20

Finally rendered my Asaro head. The proportions are not quite right. It is tipping downwards. Started drawing planes from the 3D model, but it is not quite right either.

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Impressive!

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Day 18 and 19

The little time I had yesterday was spent moving lines on Asaro’s head. I think that I am just going to render it at this point. I realized that the photo reference is a slightly different to the angle Iliya was drawing from. Didn’t have much time today either. Late night quick sketch copy of Frans Hals’ painting on the opposite page of my sketchbook.

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Hi Jan

So cool! I want to draw this cast as well now. You did a really good job with it. I understand why it is not recommended to render everything to a similar degree. I want to try this, but it is difficult when you don’t really know the subject yourself too well.

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Thank you dear ) I connect with the idea of limited time as well. You have nothing to loose and everything to gain by starting this challenge @Deep

Thank you Jan. It was a pleasure to read your comment. For me it is still a struggle to get into volumetric thinking, because the construction itself is new to me, the breaking down into simple shapes, thinking of geometric shapes in perspective, and all that. I started on the wrong path a little while ago, and I think it did more damage than it did good. I still catch myself copying lines, especially when I am not concentrated, but I don’t measure much. Measuring drives me crazy and I start thinking and drawing flat. I have to draw in silence, and unfortunately I have neighbors that are noisy sometimes lol I understand what you mean when you say drawing like you are running your finger over the form. I will be thinking of that tomorrow 😉 I am not satisfied with the scull, because I think I didn’t separate values, and the rendering is just an aesthetic thing, but underneath it doesn’t have much knowledge really. However, certain things that were completely out of my reach yesterday, are doable now. So I know that it does get better. I am in a good place right now, enjoying the ride.

Day 18

My neighbors were giving me grief today. I had to escape from home. So my plan to draw the 3D head in a complex angle fell through. I started drawing late in the evening and just did a block in of the Asaro head. To be continued tomorrow.

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I don’t know what I’m doing really. I am just going to leave it and go back to planes, now that I know how to eliminate the perspective distortion on the 3D model. Should always read, watch the instructions lol

 

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