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Day 88: Heinrich Kley!! Wow now that’s what I call a master. 💯🙌 the new Proko video was amazing. Every image looks so utterly animated!! And the planes, form, delicate hatching. The spontaneity and mastery. I at least had fun with these attempts, and loving the works. I’m not too proud of these top faces though. 😬

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and totally killing it on day 75! the glenn demos, the cross hatching is on point! shadows look really legit to me 👍 the last page looks great too

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haha yeah what you said is very true, I think im very susceptible to these frustrations, once I realize a problem I try to fix it in a day, and going against what I said it can be rough when you look back and think why the heck can’t I draw anymore!! but of course this attitude only makes it worse.. I really appreciate your insights though, it tends to be that other people can see our problems much easier than we can.

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yeah if you compare this page with page 11 you can really see my brain is in a fog…

 

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hey Christopher, thanks man your comments like this one are super helpful for me too!! hopefully what I said has something interesting to it, mostly just talking to myself lol.

But im coming to see what you brought out here is definitely something im struggling with, the style thing. the pen sketches were just like my warm up, but then it turned into the whole day! so clearly yeah I was just trying to look of course but I was just on automatic lol. its just so hard to think!! some of these figures are really brokenly stretched, no kidding. the stomach area gets real bad, that turns the figure into an accordion!! im afraid that I’ve done things the same way too many times and now im going backwards. I definitely need to pay attention with the proportion, Glenn Vilppu HIMSELF said the same thing!! this ‘style’ is in the way of my progressing. I don’t know why I just keeping doing the same thing!! make it stop!! whyyy! have I brainwashed myself with accordion proportions?? this practice is getting in the way of progressing!!!!!

man its just so difficult to do new things. Ive said it and I KNOW im kind of stalled out, I just don’t know how to get out of it. but hopefully this has given me the direction needed. I have to do something. much thanks Christopher 🙏

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Day 87: slow going, a tiny bit of Steve’s course at the end, hopefully it’ll be more interesting tomorrow.

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Absolutely. we all like to compare ourselves with the incredibly skilled, experienced, and accomplished artists we look up to, which is super important in giving us a goal to shoot for and making much of our improvement, knowing what’s good and how to do it. but its important not to let Inspiration become negative comparison. we tend to forget how long it took them to get where they are, which can make us negative about where we’re at in the process of learning, and when we don’t reach that ‘success’ in a couple weeks then we failed! which of course is absurd. I’ve recently had a time with this, it can be hard to find the balance and avoid too much Inspiration lol. just trying to get a handle on the negative thinking realizing that it only sets you back! we want to stay inspired, not overly discouraged.

really like you said the only comparison we should really be concerned with is our own! seeing our own improvement from even a week ago should be inspiring. imagine what it could look like a year from now!! we must harness the POWER of POSITIVITY! hahaha. keep up the good work, we all just gotta keep on keepin on! 🙌🙌

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Day 86: not really feeling it today, tired. But not bad I suppose…

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most of these and above are pretty rough, quick. Just trying to figure it out I guess.

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Day 85: no time to write about it now, but I was inspired by this amazing artist YouTube theKirkshop, and really tried the overhand grip more. Frustrating, difficult, but hopefully for the better. Had a bit of an awakening/crisis of confidence, it feels like I have to rebuild, but all for progress.

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Day 84: went to the Vilppu steam this morning and it was awesome! I actually got a critique from Glenn himself and it was incredibly helpful in what is making my figures flat, not carrying the volume all the way through the forms, drawing flat contour lines! I have an extensive note, can’t get into it now though. But the rest of the day I never got past the gesture/mannequins, I had every intention to draw later tonight but it never happened. Disappointing, all I’ve done lately is just the same quick gesture stuff. Not focused. Having a hard time finding focus. Wasted a bunch of time, no good. Tomorrow will be better.

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Day 83: not my best, sloppy, vague, inaccurate. Should have just went to sleep instead of the brush pen drawings, too late, too rushed, looks flat. But I did spend some good time on Steve’s course, fantastic stuff, but drawings from that aren’t great so not here.

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looking great Christopher! love to see so many, really solid feeling stuff! the cross contours really hugging like a rubber band wrapping around the form, really awesome boxes and corners for the pelvis. 🙌 like you said I can definitely feel some great gesture/rhythm/movement in some of these. every day on this page has some really awesome gestures, boxes, form, or all! keep up the great work! sorry to hear about your hand, that’s gotta be a rough injury trying to draw.

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Day 81:

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Thanks so much EK! 🙏👌 just been picking up a few useful parts at a time, kind of along the way, but also Steve Houston’s new course is awesome!! your words are encouraging, I think we can all be inspired seeing everybody’s progress on here, so many! I know I certainly have!

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