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Challenge yourself to draw every day for 2 weeks! See if you can get into the routine of drawing daily.
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@itswaker
2d
@itswaker
4d
@itswaker
4d
Better proportions with this one
@itswaker
5d
I can see I got the proportions wrong. Head and torso too small. AAAA
Jacob Hebda
5d
No worries, Itswalker. Please don't feel you need to match the reference exactly. When we practice drawing from reference, we are interpreting the image, so there will always be slight differences between your version and the reference. I tend to make the heads too big myself, and it's something to be aware of, but I think the head in the reference is a bit larger than normal proportions anyway to fit anime/manga style, so you might have been unconsciously adjusting that element to be more realistic (or heroic, because smaller heads are usually associated with heroic proportions too) without even realizing it! I think it's important here to concentrate on the strengths here too. I'm impressed by your attention to negative space. Two areas that really stand out to me are the curve formed by the belly and the raised leg and the knife arm, back, and weight-bearing leg. This practice is challenging, tough work, but I can see by this great focus that you are well on your way as an artist. Keep on practicing and growing, and who knows what amazing things you'll do in the future!
Michael Giff
6d
Day 1: Cheeese!! No not that one.
@itswaker
7d
Michael Giff
9d
Day 4: Stressed out, plus 4 hours of sleep, equals... a very, very, sad Snoopy.
Michael Giff
9d
Day 3: Been really struggling with my Isometric perspective assignment... so I decided to copy someone else's XD. Sorry, lwel your work deserves much, much better than I. Also did a quick sketch from my favorite comic book. (Fantastic Four 236 "Terror in a Tiny Town" John Byrne 1981) Need to carve out some time and start going through one of these "How to draw books", I can already see the rocky cliffs I'm heading for in the perspective course at my current skill level. (edit: lol... Or maybe go through this drawing basics class. I thought this was a in the Proko challenge thread :P)
Christle Panickar
10d
Day 7: decided to draw some lamps in my sketchbook instead. Also some kangaroos that turned out ugly but not everyday is perfect 😁 Trying out the principle of "If you make a mistake, just move on to the next one". Developing a habit where I tell myself that its ok to fail.
@mwalker
10d
Ok this is 11 and 12 and I get the message - I really need to draw (anything) on a daily basis. Some days I’ll use pencil and paper to force myself to develop the feel for drawing lines - other days I might “cheat” a little by using some of the features of my digital drawing app - so long as I’m drawing. I’m confident that the only way I’m going to make better drawings is to make more drawings.
One of the things I’m learning from the lessons and critiques is to give myself permission - especially permission not to be perfect. I may not be posting any more for this particular assignment but I will definitely try to keep up the daily drawing practice.
Michael Giff
11d
Day 2: Another day with only enough time to do a quick sketch T_T
This sketch is of a manikin I created back when I was working through George Bridgman's book a few years back.
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9d
Cool drawing! Make sure to line up the angles of the boxes to give the drawing some perspective.
Good work with the drawing challenge! Keep it up!
Christle Panickar
11d
Day 6: Bread
@mwalker
11d
Trying to make up for a couple days I took off for vacation. Sometimes I feel like I’m making progress - this is not one of those times. :/
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11d
Very normal to hit a plateau. It can be discouraging, but I think about it like stair steps. You flatline in your progress for a period of time, and then your skill level shoots up, to flatline again -- and the process repeats. Just have to keep working through it. You're doing great!
Michael Giff
12d
Day 1: Not really how I wanted to start off but I only had 20 minutes to spare and I promised myself I was going to start filling up sketchbooks instead of being surrounded by random loose leafs of scribbles. So here it is! Grabbed a couple figures off my desk (Cheat Commando and Psyduck) spent about 10 minutes on each.
Christle Panickar
12d
Day 5: Just a backpack
@itswaker
12d
@mwalker
12d
Day 8 - actually the reference picture was taken on day 8 and the drawing was done on day 10. Can you guess where I was when I took the picture? I’m still trying to find my confident line strokes - it’s especially difficult to make parallel curves. I find that I lay down really sketchy lines first then
partially erase and then attempt single strokes. The second image (red lines) is an attempt to go as fast as I can by tracing over the first image (this is all digital). It’s all a bit skiwampus but it is what it is.
Christle Panickar
13d
Day 4: Kettle
Christle Panickar
14d
Day 3: Phone
@itswaker
14d
Man, I got the angles so wrong.
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14d
The shadows look nice
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