CSI Practice

I’m taking the Drawing Basics course, and I’m trying to get into the habit of drawing as often as possible. I’ll try to do my best to organize my time better so I can at least do 1 sketch per day. When in doubt of what to draw to practice, I choose cats.

Drawing Practice. It was meant to be a blue pen sketch, but it just wasn’t coming out ok. I decided to try pencil and fix it since I don’t like wasting paper.

Buenos días a todos. Encantado de haber encontrado este curso que espero me ayude a aprenda dibujar con fundamento. Tengo una duda. ¿Este curso está pensado para ser seguido en orden, clase a clase, i para ir salteando según te interesen los temas? Muchas gracias a todos.

Practice Practice!

It’s hard to keep it simple, especially the boots

Here is my skull drawing. I found the skull more challenging than the camel. Also, now that I’m looking at it, I realized I could’ve simplified this a lot more.

Here is my camel after watching the demo. I felt more confident about my lines and found myself using my whole arm instead of just my wrist this time. I can honestly say I enjoyed working on this one and I’m open to any constructive feedback!

Here is my before & after the demo. I can’t even tell you how free I felt while sketching and sticking to the project requirements: lines/outlines using the CSI method. Watching the demo helped me a lot, I tend to get stuck in the details, and being able to limiting myself to just lines this time felt really good. I was able to look at the whole picture, simplify using shapes and mostly straight lines. I spent half the time I had spent working on the drawings before the demo. I know proportions are a little bit off in the boots drawing, but I tried to focus on my lines and simplify as much as I could. This time I feel I sketched with more freedom . However, I feel a lot of insecurity when making my lines, but I know confidence and confident lines will come with practice. I would appreciate any constructive feedback you can give me.

This is my 1st attempt for level 1 assignments. I feel my lines are not confident enough: I see a lot of short and shaky lines, especially in the snail. Also, I am aware I went overboard with the boots drawing, and it was really hard to stop myself from adding unnecessary details. I tried to add intention to my lines, but I gotta say this was pretty challenging. I had to stop several times to make sure I was actually seeing and thinking before executing using the CSI method. I will attempt these again (or something else) after watching the demo, and I will make sure to stick to the contours of the shapes for level 2 assignments. I know confident, intentional, and flowy lines will come with practice, but it is really hard to make amends wit the fact that it will take time. It is in my best interest to improve the quality of my lines so I'll make sure to keep practicing. I will appreciate any constructive feedback.