A tad late, but this is a good start to scrape off the rust and study some more. I am much more comfortable with digital, but there's a mix here. Essentially all of the traditional ones were done on my train commute to or from work. Also keeping notes! Found I really enjoyed it as I went along, really helped organize my thought process and post draw feelings.

Forgot how fun gesture can be, this was an awesome motivation this week! First image is 1 minute, then the rest are all 5 minutes.

I rarely draw for myself, basically 90% of my art is just study. When I feel in a rut, just scribbling away aimlessly reminds me that I AM learning, and it also shows me my weaknesses in imagination. Really it reveals a lot of wear I lack in fashion design, honestly it's very weak, but I don't think my fundamentals are strong enough to focus on something like that yet. Also a completely generic unreferenced sword because I think big swords are cool, could have benefit from a bit of reference, ahaha.

oh boy, I feel like my gestures suddenly got worse, that's worrisome. Suddenly too self-conscious about them maybe, I hope that this negativity doesn't stick. Somehow 2 minutes suddenly isn't enough and I can barely get anything done, this was never a problem before, just can't let it get to me.

I know he said don't get stressed out, but I get stress as heck when I can't figure something out, because then suddenly it feels like I'm lost and don't know what to do or where to go, I hope I can get some enlightenment. I can actually draw hands quite okay without construction, but this just breaks me apart and it looks terrible. It took me like 2 hours, following gesture (which I feel like I can't do well in hands by themselves) I just see so many proportion issues, which is annoying because I measured and used rhythms, perhaps too much, which I really DIDN'T want to do. I suppose there's nothing for it but to keep doing these, should probably just copy Proko's ones first instead of going out of the gate on my own. After I was done, I overlayed mine onto the original, the fingers were quite close, but originally the palm was too small, I just realigned it and it looked much better, but still a lot of issues, I'm sure.

Are we supposed to eyeball the colours for the assignment or should we be utilizing the eyedropper tool throughout?

I was recommended to do some 10 second gestures. I should keep them going. I wasn't sure it would be very feasible for me starting out, but it got comfortable quick and started to flow pretty good. Give me any harsh critique or advice you can, because sometimes I'm not sure if I'm getting much out of it, I'd love some advice.

I have a lot of trouble with shadows it seems and a lot on the blending side. I'm not really a big fan of blending tools, I've always loved the painterly look, so I'll learn to blend using just the brush if I can, but blurry transitions I can't quite figure out yet. Another thing, I've always painted these things just from solid blocks of colour, but I end up having proportion issues, it's probably in best practice to actually sketch the objects first, that's a bad habit that I never grew out of. (I'll be doing a few of the others, like Dobby and Weird Shapes, but I'll sketch them myself.)

Not the best figure, but I do need to brush up and really internalize all the landmarks.

Just following Marshall's example because I have no idea how to actually do any of it on my own. BUT! Will be a good exercise to construct later ones on my own for practice. Face is me thinking of how I would figure it out.