Day 10: the cat sat still long enough to draw him. Didn't get the proportions right yet though 😆

Starting back at lesson 1 after a year break and life. Energized and excited to come back. Tried two different references. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advanced and happy drawing :)

Day 3 : animals, stuffed and real The cat is actually from the end of yesterday, and the stuffed bears from this morning. They do feel a lot easier. "Too easy" would be a warning sign for me ("I can draw every shape"), so I keep focused on line quality and CSI. I shouldn't have added too much context with the bears, as it kinda loses the focus on them, especially without shading or color. Maybe a lighter tone could have been better. But I'm happy with the end result nevertheless !

Day 9: tried tackling a trickier subject with 3 layers stacked on top of each other and a similar perspective problem as the well from previous post. I should probably dedicated a whole page instead of half a page. I'm pretty happy with the result however. I decided to overlap the zebra despite this not being the case from my POV as a solution to make the depth ordering more clear.

Day 2 : two attempts with household items. Before breakfast, I first attempted a jar whose curves I like very much. I think I did a decent job capturing those. Overall a good experience, short and focused, with some mistakes corrected on the go. The second attempt, the chair, went OK but I do realize that my perspective if off. I may have been distracted by the preliminary "placeholder" sketch. I am too used to isometric perspective, and got tricked by it I guess. Other than that, it felt good not to struggle for ages to find a decent line. I mixed 2H and 2B for the jar (I forgot to use the 2B as intended at first…), and for the chair I used the 2H for the sketch, and 2B for proper lines. This is kinda scary for now, but it does makes the lines look more confident imo.

This is the first day of the two-week challenge. I'm not good at all with this kind of routine, so let's see where that goes. Anyways, here is a first "nature morte" (still life in English ?) with the random objects that laid on my desk and a little composition. I squeezed the drawing in the last 30-45 minutes of the week ! I'm trying to overcome my late laces-related trauma. :) Also, I realize that the eraser-pen might come in handy for tiny areas which can ruin the global perception.

I think this is maybe over 2 days

Day 7/8: a little attempt at a tablecloth, and a stone well with some pumpkins on it that is near a local farm shop. I found the perspective on the stones tricky and noticed that I got tricked into drawing them straight on even though they should loop around. I think next time I'll lay in perspective lines first as I did the ellipses for the top of the well already and could just have followed those to lay in the perspective.

OKAY, so the snail still destroyed me when it came to problem solving proportions. It looks fine after some measurements and some "I feel like this line should be this long". Simplifying the body of the snail was the most difficult part.