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Love all these suggestions! Especially like the idea of more challenges, or themes. I just started the 100 day challenge and it has already helped my productivity and progress exponentially!

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Day 4: Keep on keepin on. Not the best today. Definitely don’t like the more rendered head. The nose is wrong, and the eyes are too close, the brow isn’t right either. Ill probably work on more individual features. Looking in the mirror or flipping the canvas is really beneficial.

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I’d just like to also say, Joshua I highly appreciate all your very insightful and helpful advice! Your knowledge and level of pure draftsmenship is just awesome. Your comments have been so insightful and beneficial for all! Much thanks

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These are some great tips here! I as well have the ultimate goal of drawing comic like things from imagination, so figure drawing is very important! While it’s very difficult And at times near impossible for me to draw a decent figure out of imagination at this point, I try to keep in mind what Steve Houston teaches, gesture and structure. The figure drawing corse by Glenn Vilppu also really goes in depth on gesture. Another book that really helped me understand gesture In a really dynamic way is Mike Mattesi’s book Force.

There’s shouldn’t ever really be shame in using reference, that’s what is going to build your skills and actual understanding. But, I think drawing from imagination gets easier with lots of practice! Like a muscle, you have to train it and build it up. My goal is to try and draw something from imagination everyday, not necessarily an exact picture in my head all the time, (though that is a skill) but just making it as I go, or changing something from the reference, like an arm or leg to avoid tangents. A very difficult exercise that I need to try more is drawing a reference from a different point of view. That one can twist your brain!

But I just know for myself I have to be careful not to get too carried away with drawing everything from imagination, because things start losing validity real quick lol. Just keep on at it, with studies of great artists and fundamental training. Hope this helps, writing this has certainly helped me. 🙂

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These are so amazing! I envy your crosshatching skills!

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Lol, those horses are totally fantastic! Very impressive.

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Christopher, I just found your thread today and went through the whole thing, and I  just wanted to say that the sheer amount of quality work you are putting in is super impressive and inspiring! This type of hardcore analytical study is VERY difficult for me, and seeing your work inspires me greatly to put more time and effort into my learning!! Congratulations on nearly completing 100 days! This is certainly an accomplishment. I think your work, and the many insightful comments here have inspired many to keep on working! 🙌🙏

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I also tried tracing out the forms on a few of these awesome sculptures in procreate, this was real fun and eye opening! But I don’t know what I was thinking on the first ones neck… whoops. I don’t know much about how to use procreate, so I definitely want to get a course sometime. And I’ve found it to be pretty difficult to make lines with my arm on here due to the size of my iPad, and the glass.

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Day 3: Alright, I drew for quite awhile today, please know that the 1st picture is artwork I drew from Pinterest, it isn’t mine haha. Just having some fun, I gotta mix it up to keep myself fresh. I don’t think I would necessarily call them “studies” but I always try to avoid mindlessly copying. We don’t copy! And sorry if the pics are low quality, it was dark out, I tried my best!

I made an attempt at some value on pic 2. I’m very intimidated by value honestly, I’ve learned a few things from Steve Houston in his head course on it, but I haven’t really studied it. Since i don’t really feel like I know what I’m doing, that itself will Probably kill it, So I usually just give up which is no good either. But, I need to know planes and form properly before I can really tackle value, hence this Challenge!

I’ve noticed all my heads are basically the same scale. So I tried going bigger, and the results were very revealing to say the least!! So I made a lot of bad drawings, they aren’t posted here. But then I studied some great sculptures and structural drawings on Pinterest, and I think that really helped.

one last thing! I think I have a bad habit of pressing too hard, making too many lines. If you made it this far thanks for reading!

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Day 2: still have to build up some momentum. I have a hard time with hair, haha. Need to work on more of the lessons! Right now I’m on Charles Hu, need to keep at it! I find it difficult finding the balance between devoting time to learning, and actually drawing. I don’t want to be fostering bad habits, I’m sure there are plenty here…

 

 

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Wow that head with noses for eyes is pretty great stuff 👌

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Day 1. Well, hopefully all we can go from here is up.

 

 

 

 

 

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This is some really awesome work. Really inspiring! Your writings made me literally laugh out loud, in a good way! Keep em coming

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Thanks so much!!! I’ll certainly try to implement more structure!

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Thanks! I think you got it right on the money, I appreciate the help! I’ll certainly try and work on it! 👌

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