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About the comments @Stan Prokopenko makes at around 34 minutes about fatigue.
The Law of Diminishing Returns
You've done warmups.
You've been drawing for an hour and feel like each line gets better and better. Your problem solving is feeling strong: you're happy with choices.
Then suddenly... everything starts to feel off. Lines aren't as accurate, thinking is slower.
You notice you are tired and think maybe you should stop.
But you don't.
You keep going.
That drawing starts to fall apart.
You get frustrated and trash the whole thing.
You get mad at yourself and don't draw for a few days, saying you're not inspired.
When you start to feel that fall-off in energy and focus, when you start to doubt your previously unassailable growth, it's time to step away. Go have a snack, a drink of water, or go do something else.
At this point, your unlimited mental data plan is has reached the data cap for 5G speeds and you've been throttled to worse than 3G. Packets get dropped. Latency increases. There is nothing to do but do something else and let your brain recover.
At best, even the most incredibly productive people can do maximum output for 4 hours a day. After that, we retain less, are less productive, and we make more mistakes. So we shouldn't expect to be able to study, draw, paint, exercise effectively, without rest.
Rest is a requirement, not a reward. So take breaks, stay committed, but don't burn yourself out trying to fulfill your dreams, you'll just end up resenting the sleeping.
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In this level 1 demo, I’ll show you how to draw mannequin hands to practice tumbling boxes. Check back next week for level 2!
I think I have mentioned this many times before in a previous post, but the amount of time it took me to produce these drawings is killing me. Especially after watching Stan only take about 15–25m per hand.
Even after watching the demo, it took me maybe 6 hours to redo both of these hands. I am happy with them though. There is clear improvement on the post demo hands (at least to my eyes). I feel like the relationship of the boxes is better in the post-demo drawings. These drawings are still trash compared to some of the other drawings on this board, but hey, the only comparison I should be making is to myself two weeks ago.
Second take on the mannequin hands after the demo. Quite happy with the line quality, yet still struggling with finding the dimensions.
Have a nice one everybody :-)
First image on the left is my attempt before watching the demo. The next three are my attempts after watching the demo but before critique. This is actually really hard cause of foreshortening lol.
Hand Study 3. Not really sure why, but I kinda prefer to draw the folding mechanism differently with space inbetween the finger joints. Tried without it though too.
Hand Study 2. Put a lot more gesture in and bent the boxes more which I prefer. I see my mistakes already like the wrist being too thick / box at the wrong place and I especially need to work on consistency with the finger boxes.
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Really lovely gesture!
Hand Study 1. Did the level 2 of this pretty sloppy, don't even bother, I am so f tired today.. brain not braining lol. Gonna try again probably
Hello! I found this exercise quite challenging. Still I can't get the angles and the propotion right. Here are my attempts.
Here are my sketches after I followed the demo. I was pleased to learn that I made my process much more complicated than it needed to be. I just have to think about the boxes.
After Reviewing the demo.. I think I did a bit better on the boxed. Still have trouble with certain angles I believe.
This was a challenge I didn’t think I could do it , but i totally loved it i really enjoyed it . It took a few days as some how i forgot how to draw a box . 😂
This doesn't make much sense to me because it looks like almost all of his boxes aren't converging and the lines are parallel so how is this 3 point perspective?
Here's another set of level 1 hands. There are still some proportional errors, but I think it's improved from my first attempt. The side view posed quite a challenge though, since I wasn't sure to just draw a single rectangle or a 3D box since most of the hand was side view.
Here is my attempt after watching the demo, I think it turned out good! Much cleaner and more cohesive than my first attempt.
