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Thanks Raven! It’s a relief to not have a pressure but I am also determined to keep the good habit.
Wow, I made it! I am so grateful for doing this challenge. I certainly wasn’t able to make it every day, but I was much closer to making a true habit of drawing than if I hadn’t done this challenge.
Highlights:
- Started scheduling art time in my calendar.
- Worked on longer pieces consistently.
- Explored new mediums and was motivated to finish work.
- Showed up and worked even when I didn’t feel like it.
- Really started getting into the Russian Academic approach (love it!)
Challenges:
- Could not actually do every day. I had anticipated that at the beginning because of life events (moving, finishing grad school, etc.) but I was hoping to be more consistent than this.
- Frustration with lack of progress – this has much less to do with the challenge than with my own burnout. I had intended on bringing focused effort every day but I mentally could not do that. I think my skill would improve more with better intentional practice.
- Scheduling: I did not want do art late in the evening, but on some days that was my only alone time. I also felt guilty drawing during work hours when I had things to do.
- Embarrassment: I had a hard time posting something that I didn’t like or looks/is technically poor.
Day 100:
Finished (?) David’s Eye. I struggled to not get into details on the eyebrow. Got a few tonal issues to correct tomorrow once I can get fresh eyes on it, plus a few more strokes for the background/shadow.
Day 99:
More of the eye. Tomorrow I’ll be finished with both the eye and the challenge. Wow!
Day 98:
Today’s session was shorter than I’d like, but I still made a bit of progress at least!
Day 97:
Kept thinking about eyes, so I decided to start the RA lesson on David’s Eye. I am still very slow about getting proportions and angles correct. I hope this is something that just improves with time and practice.
Day 96:
I tried drawing a Gibson Girl, from one of the works by Charles Dana Gibson. I couldn’t recapture her expression. I think it’s the eyes.
Day 95:
Wanted to see what I remembered from the perspective drawing course, so I tried a one-point perspective based off a park nearby. I’m not sold on doing art on a tablet, but maybe it’s because I’m not sure how to do it.
Day 94:
Yesterday’s drawing was live charcoal sketch of my plant. The focus was breaking complex organic objects into simple shapes and tried to keep it all proportional.
Day 93:
Lessons and notes from Steve’s head drawing tutorial followed by some practice of model Bridgette’s head.
Hi Mirian, and thank you!
Day 92:
Had to rush out the door so I didn’t have time to upload it. Yesterday was figure drawing 1 or 2 min poses poses plus a 5 min (top left). I was very slow!
Day 91:
Done? Might strengthen the ink outline a bit, and need to fix that mistake in the shadows (accidentally touched it while wet). I tried to make sure you could still get the gist of shadows on the shell. Hope that came across.
Day 90:
It’s starting to come together. I’ll need to figure out how to separate shadows from saturation (or not?).
Day 89:
Started the watercolour for the oyster. It looks like a mess but it will (hopefully) look a lot better over the next couple days.
Day 88:
Tried an exercise that was recommended but hadn’t really practiced: drawing subjects while in motion. I went with simpler forms – Muppets! This was good for making me put down lines quickly. No pausing or rewinding. I was done when the scene changed.
Day 87:
Short session today. Started drawing an oyster shell I kept from a dinner a while back. It’ll be largely greyscale so I can focus on line and shadow.
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