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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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My day 1 sketch :) I drew a sculpt from my friend @Alec Brubaker
LESSON NOTES
Establish a Daily Drawing Routine
Challenge yourself to draw every day. Try to get into the routine of drawing daily. Set aside a specific time, and put it in your calendar. If you're already drawing every day, push yourself a bit further. Draw a bit longer or try something new. However, don't go overboard. Set a manageable goal, especially since we'll have another project coming up later.
Daily Drawing Exercise
Each day, fill up one page with linear drawings from life. You can go outside and draw when inspiration hits, or find something at home to draw. Take a photo of your object if you like.
Steps for Your Drawing
- Observe your subject for one minute without drawing. Imagine it as a drawing.
- Begin drawing by sketching a few lines.
- Look, think, and execute. Repeat this process until you're done.
Each drawing can take 5 to 30 minutes, but don't worry about timing them.
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Challenge yourself to draw every day for 2 weeks! See if you can get into the routine of drawing daily.
Day 5. Did better on time, but still about 50 minutes :/ I unfortunately had to move the lamp to a new location to get a decent photo of it so can't figure out if my proportions are so off from the angle or just so off 🫣
Ok this is technically Day 4. But the 1st 3 days I spent way too much time (!!) drawing a pic I liked (yes, same pic, ergh, and still not finished). So today I switched to something "easy"... which.... still took me 3 hours.
Anyway this is my poet sofa - which seems like it should have been very easy! Altho once I started trying to do softer lines to distinguish between contour lines on the outside of objects and the lines from the patterns within the objects, that ended turning into light shading and then I wasn't quite sure where to stop and so ended up also shading the purple of my sofa to show contrast (and finally going over that part with a tortilla - it's not called a tortilla, I know, but I can't remember the right name 🙃 )
(All I can see now is how off that front left leg is! I guess probably the back left too - clearly that was what my brain thought they should be - angled out - not what my eyes see. Oops)
Final 7 days of the challenge!
I share the same with some posters below, I found drawing from real life reference to be much more challenging. For the last few days, I went outside to sketch and despite it being messy and a struggle, I loved it! It felt like journaling places you've been to and things you've seen.
Day 4, it felts a bit more easy than yesterday to copy 3d models. I need to do another version of the sunglasses, it was harder.
This was really hard and it's looking pretty bad ! I couldn't get the right proportions, faces directions. I felt that copying 3d things in front of me was harder than copying the same things in 2d on a picture. Need to do a bit more of that cause even the usb key was not that easy haha !
Day 2 two and another version of the left boot from previous lesson. I forgot a bit to focus on doing only CSI lines at first so note to myself : do not forget
I'm a bit frustrated. I know I probably shouldn't be -- this is my first "two week" CSI exercise. However, whenever I initially lay in my subject, I get the proportions off. I realize this as I'm working on the details and relations of the other elements. The precision proportions of this car I attempted really show the errors. I know practice and working through the entire class will be the biggest help, but any techniques that can help the proportions of my initial lay in? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
FYI: practicing accurate proportions is something covered in the Shapes section, which is after the Lines section! So I wouldn't sweat it right now.
If you would like to experiment, here is advice that helps me: leverage construction lines more during your initial lay-in by blocking in your subject as large simple shapes. Without rushing, visually measure and compare those shapes with the reference and adjust them as needed. Now repeat this process, gradually laying in smaller simple shapes at each iteration that carve out more of the drawing. This top-down iterative approach makes it easier to identify when the measurements are wrong and at what stage of the process the errors took place.
First two days of the drawing challenge :) some still life (plushies, peripherals, backpack, sneakers).
I really like the subjects you've chosen and how they contain so may CSI opportunities. I hope you don't mind if I borrow a couple. Very nice job on the drawings, too!
