Appologies, I posted this without words by accident, this is a draft, sorry again For this last post, I enjoyed going back and looking at my old posts and drawings. It was weird looking at old sketches and seeing the path I took in an attempt to practice and learn drawing, so I compiled a
This week was particularly difficult as it felt I was making no improvement despite practicing. The progress that I felt I had been making suddenly took a massive halt and left me confused and wondering what I was doing wrong. After struggling for a few days I decided to switch tracks and pivot away from
Even though I have been enjoying practicing the basic head model it started to feel quite repetitive and boring and I felt my motivation to practice quickly dropping. To solve this I decided to start drawing unique head shapes. To do this I created a bunch of test drawings using different shapes as their base,
Taking my motivation and goals from last week, I decided to place my focus on getting better at understanding eyes and how to draw them. This pursuit led to me finding HOW TO EYE by shuen_art. This is a great short video that covered the different parts of the eye, how to shade, color (not
Continuing with my practice last week, I found a problem with my current method was that I didn’t know where to place certain facial features, and as the video I learned from was silent there was no explanation to why it was being drawn as it was. For this reason I searched for another guide
Before reading week, I had a desire to try drawing heads and faces, and maybe make some attempts at body poses and postures. However, right at the start of reading week my family and I caught COVID and being sick completely killed my desire to do anything let alone practice drawing. I got better around
I spent a while looking around the android and google app store trying to find a good app that could help me improve my drawing skills, but most drawing apps were either regular drawing tools(such as Sketchbook which I already have been using), or coloring books. The new app that I decided to use was
This week I got really busy with some school work so I spent less time on learning to draw and looking for additional resources, and instead just focused on the tasks I had done during previous weeks, namely shapes and shading with a smaller amount of perspective. When I found the time to take a
Despite saying I was basing my approach off of Learn To Draw From 0 To 100 by Draw Like a Sir, I decided to skip his recommendation to move from shapes to simple and rough anatomy until later, and dip my toe into perspective as that would allow me to continue drawing shapes (at
Motivation My little brother has always held an interest in drawing and has recently decided to take his hobby to the next level by trying his hand at 2D animation with his friends. Seeing his enthusiasm for drawing when he talks to me about how his progress is going has given me a desire to