Decided to draw some figures today. It was relaxing. This was my end if the day sketching.

Last Friday working on some construction.

Been a bit. New post.

1st 20 min sketch. This is the WIP and the Finished one. My main goal for this was to use an envelope to help keep proportions in line. I added the reference. I am not that familiar with anatomy but I tried to fill in a few details when I had 10 min left after completing the preliminary drawing.

Back in the saddle again. Attempting to do envelopes to help myself understand proportions and negative space a bit better. Envelopes were about a minute. Then 3 minute to rough in the gesture. I have always found envelopes to be scary as I hated going outside the lines. But I thought of them as guidelines more than hard rules. I would love some feedback as to how to get better at using envelopes and if I am on the right track with how I am thinking about them.

More 3 min pen sketches. Continuing human gesture tonight.

More gestures. This time its Orcas!

Morning Sketching for about 15 min.

Exercising by exorcising fear

Took a break from figure drawing today and decided to do a kind of free draw based on @Marshall Vandruff’s Reveries from his Kley lectures. No planning. No underdrawing, i just decided to go formit. And i enjoyed the surprises i was finding. It is something I am not used to and I have had an art teacher in the past ask me why I planned out everything. The metaphor I have for my process is “chasing a cricket.”