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Made this image for I have the best neighbor’s that I wanted to show gratitude. They have this great dog named Khaleesi a.k.a Kalle 🙂 Painted with acrylics.

I’m at the hospital again for a few days and am currently watching Steve Hustons painting course. My goal the coming days is to make some 3 value study drawings.
Hope you are all well out there!

Also! Steve Huston say white like “hwoite” I’m so curious what that accent is from. Any Americans here who can enlighten me?

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Why, thank you Tim! <3

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Thank you for sharing your process. It reminds me to be patient, which indeed is a virtue. I find the hardest part, and usually the part that adds most to the painting, is getting-in-the-zone. I constantly have to remind myself to give the process and my mind time to unfold that by itself and not try to force it like I tend to do.

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Checking in! I’m continuing to apply the knowledge from Glenn Vilppus course when drawing people and anatomy. Also I’m exploring light and shadow with inspiration from the Russian approach (although I’m not following it fully). Hope you guys are well and let me know if you have any feedback!

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Wow, you are really good at nailing that light and shadow. Making a difference between your midtones and darktones. Do you have any insights to share that where brought to you through the process?
All the best,
Marie

[marieflood91]

Thank you Erik, your words warms my heart. I feel encourage knowing its a shared experience.

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Hi!
So I’m checking in, one week and two days later than I planned. Checking in everyday is probably set up to fail. My inner critic is good at getting the best out of me. I’ve been in here watching some courses though. Almost finished Glenn Vilppu’s anatomy lectures. I have also started the Head Drawing for Entertainment class (sketchbook practice underneath) along with Steve Hustons Introduction to painting. I know I am a bit all over the place, but I need to take things as it comes and watch what feels most inspiring at the moment.

Past week I’ve also been to my local artshop (again) and bought some acrylics supplies. I have drawn some at coffee shops, drawn fast gestures while watching tv. I’m currently struggle with seeing and applying the terminator line when working with light and shadows.

My biggest focus right now is to just do some little drawing related thing everyday and to be nice to myself while I’m drawing.

 

Sketch of my fiance and our dog Lilo taking a nap:

Some acrylics on paper, my dogs Lilo and Nimbus.

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Thank you for replying srsanyal! Yeah you are right about that, it need some more work for shore. I think i need to tone down the shadow on the arm as you point out aswell! To be continued!

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Checking in! Some casual sketches of my dogs from yesterday. I also posted two pieces here https://www.nma.art/forums/topic/anatomy-and-rendering-feedback/

that I’d love to get some feedback on. To add to the community I’m open to provide feedback in the form of draw-overs. If this is of any interest to you, please comment with a link to your piece.

 

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Checking in! Today I went to the local art supply shop and bought high quality papers for the Complete Russian Academic Drawing Approach.  I also bought two wooden plywood boards to mount them on and some papertape. There was a couple of years since i did this last and I look forward to be working bigger and on paper that manage quite some erasing.

I also bought some different pencils. The shop owner suggested buying “Tombow, highest quality <homo-graph> Mono100” pencils from Japan. Apparently someone had told him that they are the best in the biz. I bought 2B as is recommended in the Russian Drawing course. Let me know if you want me to get back to you on the quality or if anyone out there has tried them, let me know what you think!

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Yes! They started vaccinating the first person yesterday here. Its a woman cutting hair, she was cutting it on an infant in his mothers lap.

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Checking in! Today I have been hanging out at the local shopping mall in our town drawing people in motion. I have mainly been focusing on catching movement/line of action as both Glenn Vilppu and Steve Huston keeps talking about. I have also been playing around with how I hold the pen and sit, inspired by the Complete Russian Academic Drawing Approach.

I’ll keep watching several courses parallelly, tackling that focus problem I have, choosing the course I feel mostly drawn to at the moment.

To Tim:
Thank you for checking in and leaving such a lovely comment. I’m glad to find a forum where people take the time to write one another, it motivates me. Let me know how the new pencils work for you! I sure put my hopes on 2021 being better than this year.

Best,
Marie

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First publication to go. Drawings of my two dogs after watching the Glenn Vilppu video on youtube –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAboZuZTLUg

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