Jaylene’s 3rd 100 Day Challenge: Hands & Feet

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Here we go again…well actually I’m stuck coming up with an appropriate topic this time around.  I finished 100 days of gesture figure drawing this month, and before that it was head construction.

I think I often fall into unconscious  grinding away without really thinking about what I am doing and as a result don’t improve.  Maybe I should just move on to more detailed, time consuming, finished pieces.  On the other hand I can see the benefit of focusing on a single subject and working at it each day.  My heads, and gestures actually improved after all.

I have a favorite kind of sketchbook, it makes me feel great to complete one every three or four months.  I have 7 now all lined up on a shelf.  It helps to  temporarily keep the “I suck” voice out of my head.

What I have learned over the past two challenges is that I am most successful if I get the work done first thing in the morning, it seems to take about 45 min to an hour to complete a sketchbook page.  There seems to be a real benefit to me psychologically speaking to call a page complete and turn it over to start fresh the next day.  I think it gives me the confidence to tackle longer projects.  On the other hand, there were days I really hated heads and figures.  If I were to set this third challenge to drawing what ever inspiration suggests, I know I would fall down the internet rabbit hole “looking for references” and waste a ton of very precious time.  The challenge subject must be one that I can easily deduce if I am being representationally accurate or not otherwise I won’t have anything to measure improvement with.

Ok, I  have talked myself into it.  I’m going with hands and feet.

 

 

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