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Day 46: I really need dedicated time for coursework. Feels like I’m shooting in the dark? Something ain’t right. I didn’t have lots of time today, but I started early and tried a few figures. Oh well, In time and schedule!
Day 45: I’ve slown down, and hard. Fell flat. Basically because of my stupid time management, goodness… so lame, I do my quick 5 min object sketches and then put keep putting off The real drawing till wayyyy too late. Now I’m very tired, have stayed up way too late, and can’t draw!!! I did it bad yesterday and it was much worse today. Very frustrated at my foolery! This will not happen tomorrow! These gestures are just very sloppy and rudimentary.
Wow @gordanknezic those are some powerful insights! Very well said! 💯 especially Steve Houston’s spaghetti! fantastic.
Hey Christopher, I can definitely relate to the sinking feeling, thinking I’ve done it all wrong, i think it’s just an unavoidable part of growth and moving forward, although it certainly isn’t any fun and is very stress-inducing in the moment. Of course there isn’t a perfect way to learning art, and as much as we want to we can’t learn everything at once. We all tend to lean to one extreme or another, which can be a strength.
But for what I would suggest, it’s very important that a percentage of our time is used in things that are interesting, exciting, and fun for us. Whether it be figures, animals, animation, whatever it is you love, and Want to do. Mad drilling can be beneficial, but it can’t be everything, we won’t last on willpower alone! We have to find the Productive Balance between academic study, and more creative things, left brain vs right brain if you will. But finding that of course isn’t easy, it takes time, experimentation. There are many lessons to be learned from both ends of the spectrum! I guess it comes down to coming to love the process of art, trying not to get too caught up in just the result. Easy to say hard to do lol. to love the process it must be interesting and engaging for us! This is something I certainly believe in, and want to do more, but I also need more academics as well. Balance is everything!
I hope something in this helped, or was hopefully encouraging in the ongoing process of learning! We all have things to work on, and our strengths. We must be in it for the long game! I appreciated your comment and wanted to see if I could return the favor, it feels like we’re in similar stages of the journey!🙏👍💯
Thanks Christopher, I always appreciate the comments! 🙌👌 While I was looking at trees in the wild I was taken aback by how strong the gesture is when you look for it!! I know for me looking through your thread and others here, reading the comments, it can be encouraging when you see someone dealing with the same things, and very helpful!
For goals… get good!!! Haha, it’s hard to say, I probably have lots of smaller goals for different things, trying to get a solid understanding of fundamentals I’ve neglected, improve my education and learning, and be able to apply it all well to creating! i appreciate your question however because it’s important to not get lost in just getting things ‘right’ and that’s it. It’s all too easy to lose sight of your original goal, especially In such early stages. I want to improve to a competent professional level, illustrations, character art, graphic, comic books, cool creative stuff that requires strong draftsmanship! I’m a long ways off, soooo much to learn, Many fundamentals I haven’t touched, but this is what I must do! I get very inspired looking at absolutely spectacular artists like leyendecker, Rockwell, Dean cornwell, Heinrich kley, Claire wendling, Matteo scalera, Mike mignola, and many more I can’t think of!! Anything to get me there!
Day 44: don’t have much to show today, was doing lots of boxes and such. Here is an attempt at value. At least it’s SOMETHING lol. I must practice it more, learn more. Time just got away today, I need to sleep!!
Day 43: basically the same. Very slow moving. But that’s a-ok every once and awhile. the bottom one is a Norman Rockwell, the gossip one. I will draw all of those epic faces! I just got the drawing lessons from the famous artists school book, can’t wait to check it out more! my spheres are looking rough man.
day 42: page 6, moving up! Here are a few 5 min drawings around the house. I’m in the process of making drawing things from life a habit. Drawing something in front of you is certainly a different experience, really makes you LOOK at it, translate it on the page. can’t say I’m happy with this lamp, will try again. My perspective abilities need serious work! Placing the ellipse can be very troublesome…
Kept it pretty low stress. The Thailand portraits are super neat! My faces for some reason always look cartoony, I suppose there’s worse things for the moment. it’s probably just the result of trying to define form at my current understanding? Possibly not paying enough attention! Not a realist yet lol. I do need to learn light and shadow quite badly, but I don’t have much desire for rendering honestly.
Would love to see more reference pictures from out in the wild haha. But I suppose I should just go out in the wild myself! But COVID. I’m sure I’ll be able to find a good spot sometime to give it a shot.
Day 41: did some (mostly) five minute life drawings today! Trees and buildings. I live in San Diego so there is tons of interesting stuff to draw! I probably won’t include them all, some are better than others, it was very challenging, but a ton of fun. Trees aren’t real easy for me, these are pretty messy. The top right of the first was an attempt to draw someone running but I wasn’t fast enough lol. Finding the gesture in trees is so amazing though. Don’t really know what to do with leaves. Definitely want to take the landscape course at some point…
also, I signed up for the eavesdropper tier for the Marshall Vandruff bridgeman 2nd round, so I finally got the book! I can certainly see why bridgeman is daunting, but this is just so cool. These are some quick drawings from the interlocking forms first 2 pages. I feel like I could read the page describing interlocking forms over and over, and the drawings are just so dynamic. I do want to check out modern day James series on bridgeman eventually too. So much to learn! And then some gestures. Need to do longer drawings,
Thanks man I appreciate the help, this may be a bit overkill haha, but I’ve had my moments. But I will press forward! I have actually done some on location life drawing today, so that was quite a new and exciting experience for me. I have looked in a whole new way! Breaking down real life into boxes is certainly something I want to do more of. 🙌
Day 41: not great today. Only this. :((( skulls from life, the proko skull. This is embarrassing how bad I am at any upward or downward angles. Good grief, my brain is just having difficulties. The freakin jaw is just the worst. Just haven’t devoted near enough time to learning the skull, Just Basically winging it now. I will learn these fundamental skills! I must educate myself! If I am going to go beyond beginner I must rigorously train!! Take my studying seriously!! I have put off difficult fundamental studies such as the skull for too long! I have meandered around difficult studies! I must destroy my deficiencies, not ignore them!!! My understanding is WEAK. I will take my fundamental study to the next level. I plan to work on these things. Schedule! Time management! 🙏
Day 40: didn’t have much time today, so it’s a bit random, but certainly entertaining LOL. At least a little of something new to expand my mind! Tried doing a bit of natural perspective with K-9 here, the robot dog from old doctor who. 💯 or at least converging lines lol, perspective yet another thing I’ve been avoiding lately… and I just decided to do some quick giraffe heads for whatever reason, real refreshing, I really want to do more animals too!! So many new and amazingly dynamic forms and rhythms to be found! Take the courses here of course. Sooooo much to learn, but really that’s exciting! Or it needs to be.
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