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Day 25: I feel like today was really going great. Drew for a long time! I’m trying to work on my abilities in drawing from imagination, fun times! It’s real hard at first, but once you get going it gets better. Gotta get more used to getting out of the comfort zone, all of these are pretty safe. I did do some figures, but I was just messing around, didn’t turn out. Need to find the balance when doing imagination between making it up as I go, but still putting forth maximum thinking effort to make it work! Lol. I mean seriously  it hurts my brain to try and produce something somewhat thought out. But I guess it takes practice and training! And sorry about these pictures, jeez.

 

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Thanks Blaise! It means a lot!

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Yes, great course! Love how energetic and full of life every one of Vilppu’s marks are. Watching him draw you can get a glimpse of his massive knowledge and mastery. We don’t copy!! These are some great notes. I really want to revisit this course soon, much to learn. And Debra I can really see the progress, good stuff.

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Day 24: something a bit new here, so this was fun. I don’t really know much about drapery, I started going through the clothed figure drawing course but didn’t finish, that one is mostly from live classes right? Mostly demonstrations, which a lot can be learned if you apply yourself of course, but I tend to stay more engaged with the more focused courses, not to knock the course, I want to get back into it. So my lack of understanding and practice in drapery shows pretty clearly. And not really super happy with the figures, not my best.

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Day 23: couldn’t really get motivated to draw today, no good, so these are pretty halfhearted random attempts. I gotta get into a course or something to get some more focus.

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Day 22: started real late sadly, so I didn’t get much accomplished. I did do some figures/gestures but it didn’t go too well so I’ll just save em. And these faces are… Can’t say I’m happy with today’s result. Now these unfortunate heads will forever be the first thing you see of page 3. ;(

 

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Day 21: did lots of sketching, trying to push myself in drawing from imagination, need to do that more. Trying to do different things. much of which I do not care to share.. this first page is definitely not great, rough, unfinished. They aren’t from imagination, some from jc leyendecker. I think i really need to try more and bring my sketches to a more worked state. I think I just give up to soon, no good. These skull attempts are from the new refs! Tried to draw them bigger than what’s comfortable. Anyway.

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Day 20: eh, not the best. I tried some studies from Michael hamptons book, and don’t like these figures very much, I think I broke that leg haha. And that one is just off in a lot of places.

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Day 19: not many faces, ran low on time today and I wanted to do something a bit different. These figures in pen are real sloppy, oh well, I suppose the others are too! The rest are from will weston’s drawings on Pinterest. I don’t know anything about his classes, but I love the chalkboard drawings, such lively gesture and structure working so harmoniously together in a very simple way. My renditions certainly don’t do them justice, but i think Im learning along the way.

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Day 18: pretty rough start on this first page. Again, started late and didn’t do anything too different! Time management! Things always go better later if I just start with something earlier in the day. The 2nd page are some JC Leyendecker’s, so at least that was a bit new. I need to get better at actually studying artists though. I will have to do something a bit different tomorrow hopefully.

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Day 17: had a tough time getting motivated, im quite dissatisfied with this page, not much purpose to it. I need to change things up, I feel I’m in the beginnings of a rut. I watched Glenn’s lesson on the nose so I was trying to focus on that a bit more with these. But I drew too small…

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Hey this is some great work! I especially like day 43 those eye sockets and skull parts are fantastic! And they look great, like the highlights. I just wanted to mention that I have the same struggles drawing bigger, I tend to draw everything small and the same size, So drawing bigger can be really uncomfortable and very difficult!  I’ve had the feeling of being lost many times, in my experience it’s like I have to relearn the basic structure and proportions, like you did with the overlays. and worst of all after all the work things end up badly skewed or stretched! but hopefully with practice and time it soon won’t be a big deal. I tend to just eyeball most of the time when I can and call it a day lol, not that measurement isn’t important, it needs to be internalized, but I think eye measuring is just something you improve with over time doing it.

Anyway great work, day 44 wow, almost halfway!

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Hey Christopher, thanks for your thoughts and suggestions! It’s very helpful and I appreciate it! 🙏 I really love learning about gesture, it is at first deceptively simple but really It is one of the most important studies I believe if not the most important in the beginning and the end! I have barely scratched the surface, eager to keep learning, but of course I think I need to really focus in more on capturing the structure and 3d volumes.

I’ll certainly see if I can try out some of your suggestions, sometimes I think I get in a mode trying to draw all the features and head at once and kind of make a sloppy job of it, more focused attention is needed. I certainly want to and need to switch it up with something different, maybe even animals even though they probably won’t be too good haha. I need to do what I’m not used to, out of the comfort zone, I don’t want to get trapped only drawing two things the same ways! Much thanks I guess we’ll see what happens.

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Day 17: wasn’t too productive, was distracted today. But this was a fun time. Oh well, I’ll get to work this week! I need to sleep.

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Day 16: didn’t have tons of time today and I wanted to work on my figures so I just focused on that today. This still counts right?? It’s structure/proportion and I drew a few of the faces… I included some of the gestures as I was following Karl Gnass, some are pretty incomplete but I might as well include them. I don’t think I’m thinking nearly enough about gravity, some are pretty unbalanced. I really need to learn more anatomical structures, that can be quite apparent. That would probably be a great 100 day challenge for me! I definitely need more structure, more Solid knowledge to carry these further…

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