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Joseph Adams
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2yr
I've been doing a 30 day challenge, alongside of taking the Drawing Basics course, and I have to say that I have been super pleased at my improvement in that time. Between alot of the linework exercises and pushing myself every day to do just a bit more or just a bit better than the previous day, I am feeling as confident in my drawing ability as I ever have. Here is the 2nd to last piece I did for the 30 day challenge. Took me two days to complete it.
Ryan Moran
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2yr
When I'm somewhere I can't actually study/work/focus solely on drawing, I love running through the Drawabox exercises: https://drawabox.com/. I think it's a big help. Gives you a lot of warm-up exercises and it really focuses on getting down form, so constructional drawing becomes easier.
Thanks for responding! Definitely have been thinking about working volumetric shapes as a way to take my exercises up a notch. Thank you for the link!
Joseph Adams
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2yr
I've been really motivated to do more of my work in pencil/paper, lately, and have really seen what I think is a lot of improvement. I'm feeling much more comfortable with my lines with all the things I've learned so far in the Basic Drawing course. Here is my latest portrait piece.
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Preparing for Drawing2yr
Hey everyone.
I was curious as to what everyone does to prepare for the times when you're drawing, either as professional artist or as a hobbyist. I know that my day is pretty full of things that are not art-related so getting "in the mood" can either be fairly difficult or can take a long time to get myself mentally ready to draw.
As a relative beginner/intermediate self-taught artist (5 years on and off), I don't have a lot of exercises/drills/etc to work with other than drawing simple shapes. I am currently taking the new Beginner course, so hopefully that will add to my toolbox.
I look forward to hearing everyone's responses.
Joseph Adams
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2yr
Day 2. Picked some things out on my desk, at random/first glance and drew it out.
Nice ! Next time try to draw bigger :) I really struggle with that, somehow i feel more safe with small doodles
Joseph Adams
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2yr
Asked for help
Digital version of the pear using as much pressure as possible versus using a blending tool
Melissa Muhs
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2yr
Hi Stan,
I have a question about pencil grip. Should my hand be touching the paper with the tripod grip or should it just hover? I'm finding when I rest my hand on the paper it is very easy to control, but my work gets smudgy and messy; my hands get all dirty. Sometimes it'll even get on my face when I wipe my brow. lol. However, when I hover, control is much more difficult for me. I thought I'd try learning to not touch my paper to make the transition to brushes down the road easier, but I'm not sure if this is the best approach. Side note... Sometimes I use a maul stick but am wondering if it's going to become a crutch. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks.
One thing you can do is have a half piece of paper that you use under your hand to keep from smudging what you are working on.
Joseph Adams
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2yr
Working with one of my favorite mechanical pencils (Rotring Rapid Pro 0.5mm) and the cheapest sketch pads I could find for daily practicing. I realized about halfway through that I always tend to draw my eyes from left to right, so I decided to switch it up and go the other way to see how it looked.
n-eye-ce eyes! I think what may help right now is drawing a little bigger, I find a lot of people draw small and it’s very restricting for your arm and it narrows the mind when simplifying the image or object. A good exercise would be practicing (on the same size page or bigger) putting down long strokes as a warmup, another one that may help would be simplifying the eyes into easy to draw shapes that you can sketch out as a foundation.
Joey Edgar
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2yr
Very clean look. I'm still hoping to learn how to achieve that.
Thanks :) Digitally it's a lot easier, because you can either take straight lines and "bend" them into shapes (the belt) or just draw over the rougher lines on a new layer. I struggle with fine details that make the characters look more natural or less stiff. But thank you very much for the compliment.
