[Ramona]

The plasticity of your portraits is really amazing, especially the last one looks like it has been sculpted!

[Ramona]

This is such a cool idea! I think after these 100 days you’ll have created a solid database for all sorts of animals, keep it up! 🙂

[Ramona]

Dear Joshua, thank you again for your very valuable advice! I really tried to pay more attention to this aspect today. One thing that I noticed is that I hear some facts about anatomy over and over,  but nevertheless do the mistake in my drawings until someone points it out. I really need to refine my observation skills to spot mistakes in the future.

 

Today, I managed to draw in the morning and the evening. Here are my attempts from the evening. One was based on a Michelangelo drawing, but I count that as a failed attempt. I think my line quality needs a little brush up and decided to add some basic drawing exercises to my daily routine from now on as well. Please forgive the noodle arms, I haven’t covered this topic yet 😀

Day 7:

[Ramona]

Today I continued to watch some instruction videos and did two rounds of Croquis Cafe videos (head+torso focused).

It’s day 6 and today it was a little bit easier to grasp the anatomy compared to day 1:

[Ramona]

I really need to get rid of the habit to tackle this challenge in the middle of the night! I guess this challenge is really good to establish a daily drawing habit, but I need to find a better time for it. As I was sleepy, I have not done much, but I watched a video about the basic construction of the face and did a head from scratch with this advice.

 

So here’s day 5:

[Ramona]

Thanks Lucas and Joshua for your very encouraging words! Today was actually more busy and I didn’t feel like spending too much time on drawing, but after reading your comments, I felt more motivated! I’ve watched some videos about the construction of the head. I usually enjoy drawing heads, but I have difficulties to attach heads properly to the torso. Hope that I can tackle this in the next weeks!

So here’s day 4: Did a small master study of a Van Dyck portrait by the end of the day (the right one is based on a NMA photo reference)

[Ramona]

It’s really interesting to see the how the different early stages and layers of the figure merge together to convey a specific feeling, it already seems pretty emotive to me!

[Ramona]

The rendering looks pretty good on this one and you’ve created an interesting effect with the light that surrounds her right edge of the face!

[Ramona]

Thank you for your comment Josseline, I actually tried to do a few pages of the overlapping forms today!

So far, I’m doing a little bit of here and there, so I decided to be more organized from now on. The next week will be devoted to the torso and the neck!

Here are a few pages for day 3, nothing special:

 

[Ramona]

Seeing your progress within the last year is really inspiring, keep up the good work!

 

[Ramona]

This is a really interesting and informative challenge, I’m looking forward to follow your process!

[Ramona]

You’ve made some very neat and confident lines with the pen, looks great!

[Ramona]

First of all, thank you very much Joshua for your helpful feedback! I will definitely keep that in mind in the future!

Day 1 was actually done yesterday, so here is day 2 (today):

I finished the first batch of instruction videos and managed to draw a lot today. The assignment attached to the videos turned out pretty weird, because, honestly, I misunderstood the task at first. However, I could make first attempts to apply the simplification method to the human body in the end and did one more analytical drawing from a reference photo (right).

Here is a summary photograph of  today (as you can see, not every attempt works!):

[Ramona]

The structure of the nose and forehead on the male portrait are really convincingly drawn, good job!

[Ramona]

So for day 1 I attempted to draw a few pages of gesture drawings, but they turned out a little bit messy :’) Thinking in curves can create a higher fluidity in the drawing, which I like, but I definitely have to revisit the single body parts for getting the anatomy right. I started watching instruction videos but haven’t made it to the assignment part of the first session yet,  so this will be my task for today! 

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