Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans

[Debbie H]

This looks great Isabella! It reads really clearly to me. You’ve put a lot of work into this 🙂

[Isabella Borges]

Thanks, Deborah! I liked the way it turned out after all (even with my struggles with the digital rendering), and your insights were crucial for me in the process of this drawing 😊.

I’m happy that it reads clearly. Usually, I tend to rush ou hide the areas I don’t understand in the reference, and I tried to overcome that in this one.

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Day 31

[Debbie H]

Nothing looks rushed over 🙂. Glad to help. This is an interesting drawing surface! My guess is corrugated cardboard?? I would never have thought of this – it’s really interesting!

[Isabella Borges]

Thanks 😊 !

I’m using a pad of ribbed kraft paper. I like its color and the strength of the pages, I can draw on it with charcoal, ink, and gouache for example.

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Day 32

Some sketches where I try to see the structure in the reference images.

Also, I decided to include here the drawing I made for the Instagram challenge. I liked to draw it and how it turned out, even though the reference was quite small.

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Day 33

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Day 34

[Christopher]

Hi Isabella,

I now I’m late to the party. Even if I already looked at your thread a few times I just went through the whole thing again just to catch up and I don’t even know where to start 😅

First of all I do think there’s already a noticable improvement in your overall work. Your skulls are a good example for that. I also really like the diversity of your work, especially considering that it’s still all about humans.

I think your rendering skills are already pretty good so I agree with some of the other comments that your focus should lean a bit more towards accuracy, mileage and structure.

Most of your drawings, especially the head drawings, look like they are pretty small so I would suggest mixing it up and trying to do some bigger ones. At least I found it to be much easier that way to practise structure. Imagine sculpting a complex figure with just a tiny bit of clay against a big chunk of it. For me a larger scale equals more space to add and remove things of your drawings.

Anyway I think you’re are doing a good job so keep at it! 👍👋

[Isabella Borges]

Hi Christopher,
Thank you for your feedback! I loved to read your thoughts on my work here 😊 . It’s been a fantastic experience to do this challenge and receive advice from everyone; it helped me a lot to improve during this time.

My goal is to be able to draw all kinds of people and convey life and expression. But I see that I have to slow down a little and really study structure, develop accuracy, draw smaller portions of the body, etc. In the last few days, I went back to drawing things I was more comfortable with, even though I tried to apply the knowledge I gained from drawing the skull. But now, I started to watch some more lessons on construction, to help me see the structure in the face more clearly, and I want to start working on those essential areas I need to.
I also liked your advice regarding the size of my drawings. It was something I noticed before but always went back to drawing small.

[Isabella Borges]

Day 35

Today I made notes while watching Steve Huston’s lesson on eye construction and did some of the assignments.
(Excuse the crumpled paper, it was a little accident before taking the picture 😅)

 

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Day 36

Today I watched more lessons on structure and made very loose sketches to grasp the concepts.

 

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[Debbie H]

These look really good Isabella! Your eye structure is reading really clearly, especially in this last post. I agree with Christopher about working larger. I’m finding that too – there’s just no room to move in a small head. Keep up the good work 🙂

[Isabella Borges]

Thanks, Deborah! You and Christopher are right; it makes a lot of difference to study on a larger scale. I’m still getting used to it.

I didn’t think it could be so hard, but working larger makes me face the areas I need to understand, and it’s not always a comfortable feeling, but I know its necessary.

[Isabella Borges]

So, in the past few days, I did sketch some things for this challenge, drawing the head structure from imagination. However, I thought they turned out quite ugly, and I was embarrassed to show them here 😩. That, added to indisposition due to allergies I’ve been having these days, refrained me from posting.

But after getting a little better in health, I decided to post some of my ugly attempts, as they are also part of this journey.

 

Day 37,38,39
Those are sketches I made to test an idea. I wanted to make something like a head turn, keeping the features and volume, understanding the forms as 3D elements, and train drawing the same face from imagination in different positions.
In this first attempt, I think the heads were fine individually, but they don’t look from the same person.

 

More “ugly sketches.” 😬😂

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