Daily Drawing With Timer Challenge
1yr
Gannon Beck
I enjoyed the habit of drawing everyday during the 12 Days of Proko. The timer tool is great and there are lots of professional photos to work from. I took one day off from it and got right back on it. Now the habit is a fixture in my daily routine.
I've been posting the images in the two week challenge thread in the Drawing Fundamentals Course, but since a.) this will be a longer habit than two weeks and b.) not everyone on Proko is enrolled in that course, I'm starting a thread here.
Anyone inclined, feel free to join in. Use the timer and whatever photos you have packs for, or are freely available.
Here are a few two minute sketches from me--mostly from the Viking Volume 2 Pack.
22nd Day of Proko and counting.
445th Day of Proko and counting.
Just a few 10 minute watercolor sketches tonight.
Writing a script set in the ancient era, but not sure which armor to use for it. Greek armor might work but it can look so aggressive.
I like how you keep practicing portraits of varying age groups and clothings of absolutely different personalities. Your sessions are a complete package!
Tried a new way of doing gestures by loosening up a bit following a gesture lesson by Michael Hampton.
Day 88: 2nd March, 2025
3 min gestures
444th Day of Proko and counting.
I spent the day working on master studies so this one was a short session for a good reason.
Five minute portrait.
Realized it's important to flip your clothing studies or you'll miss a lot of proportion issues.
Great studies! How do you mean though? Do you mean flipping the canvas horizontally?
I think these are some of your best yet. The pelvis on the second to last drawing on the second page is amazing. I can really feel the underlying structure.
442nd Day of Proko and counting.
Frustratingly busy today. Rushing through these so I can get out of here and get to sleep. Sorry I haven't had time to comment, but It helps me stay consistent because of the group here. I'll spend some time admiring everyone's sketches more closely this weekend.
Just some one minute portraits from me.
Going extremely slowly today. Guy's hair gave me trouble. Soldier's uniform was so complicated I didn't have time to fully shade it.
Good job. I can tell you that lots of combat artists complain about how hard helmets are to get just right, but it looks like you nailed it.
441st Day of Proko and counting.
I'm a little under the weather today, so just a couple quick ones.
Bit exhausted today trying to finish a project on deadline but managed to work a little overtime to do some practice.
Took a break due to irl stuffs, trying to get back to routine again hehe
here're 30sc poses
Did an untimed value study today. I'd really love to get some advice on these, like if the shadow feels wrong or the values look out of place or anything that you feel that's not working. I am quite new to this and not very sure of what I'm doing. Specially, in the lower one, I invented the light direction and I am not sure about the chair's shadow. Any suggestion will be helpful.
Day 84: 26th Feb, 2025
These look good. I'm afraid to give you too much advice because I'm no expert. When I try to do studies like these, I pretty much do what you're doing. I simplify the values, and try to remember that cast shadows, and abrupt plane changes have hard edges and rounded forms have soft edges.
Well, it really depends on what you're going for. One thing I like to do is do my shading passes on different layers. I also play with the opacity of each layer to determine how dark the value should be and also to limit the contrast for each individual layer of value, which reduces the variability of the brush (which can be a bit too much, especially on streaky brushes or any brush with opacity on). I add a layer of details on top of everything that can be black or white done with a thin brush. I def also use different brushes for different jobs and like to use a fat round brush with opacity for most shading because it requires less strokes.
I would say on the invented light one, it's tricky because the shadows will always look less realistic on made up lighting situations. Even the old masters had this issue. One thing that can help is to practice rendering simple shapes until you're confident that you can make up the shadows on any basic form, as a complex figure pose is basically a collection of simple forms with some blending. But honestly I haven't figured out making up light yet so your guess is as good as mine.
You could check out the book How to Render, but it didn't solve the problem for me so I think it's really just practice, observation and experience for this one.
440th Day of Proko and counting.
Some bad sketches today, although these two turned out okay. Busy day, so I'll have to scan the rest tomorrow.
