I picked a random photo off the internet for my study. I am not new to portrait drawing, but one thing that I learned from this lesson was the method of picking a unit of measurement and sticking with it. I've done something similar in the past, where I have choosed one point (and one point only) to use as a reference to measure angles from. The reason being that the first point is the only one you can fully trust to measure from, as each added point from that on will have an error to it. And then, if you keep measuring from each point added, the error will potentially grow. However, that approach ended up being very technical to the point where I could just have used a grid or tracing to get things done. I like this method more, as it keeps to the principle of only using the pencil to measure.

I did this exercise at work, on post-it notes, so apologies for the poor image quality. I might make some more digitally as well before moving on. It was a fun project, and the best part of it is that I can see this approach incorportated in a normal worklow, even in cases where the end goal is realism.

I revisited this challenge before moving on, and went for the skull by Jeff Watts this time. I felt that this turned out better than my last attempt, and I think it was a good idea to choose a simpler subject to study.

Here is a non complete study of a drawing by none other than Kim Jung Gi. I didn't complete is since about halfway through I realized that I didn't really pay enough attention to the actual lines of the original drawing. The amount of detail sort of overwhelmed me, and I ended up looking more at proportions. I'll do another master study, probably of the skull in the demon this time, and really try to focus on the lines instead of all the proportions.

I picked the level 1 for this one, as I had limited time today. Might do level 2 as well some time.

I might have deviated a bit from the project goal here, but at least I had fun doing it :)

This was a fun exercise. I did the penguin and hand first, and tried to loosen up more when drawing the girl.

Here is Level 2 - Skellie. Time to watch the demos!

Other than drawing a camel (for the first time in my life!) I spent the day doing some line art and masking of a visual novel character I am working on. I hope that counts as being part of the "draw every day" challenge, in which case I am now on day three :) (I do not count course projects towards the daily drawing, as I try to follow the Draw a Box "rule" of spending 50% of my time on personal stuff),

I tried going a bit faster this time around, and to simplify more. Just Skellie left now!