Kelsey’s 100 Day Challenge: Foundations

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Hi Mirian, and thank you!

 

Day 92:

Had to rush out the door so I didn’t have time to upload it. Yesterday was figure drawing 1 or 2 min poses poses plus a 5 min (top left). I was very slow!

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 93:

Lessons and notes from Steve’s head drawing tutorial followed by some practice of model Bridgette’s head.

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 94:

Yesterday’s drawing was live charcoal sketch of my plant. The focus was breaking complex organic objects into simple shapes and tried to keep it all proportional.

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 95:

Wanted to see what I remembered from the perspective drawing course, so I tried a one-point perspective based off a park nearby. I’m not sold on doing art on a tablet, but maybe it’s because I’m not sure how to do it.

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 96:

I tried drawing a Gibson Girl, from one of the works by Charles Dana Gibson. I couldn’t recapture her expression. I think it’s the eyes.

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 97:

Kept thinking about eyes, so I decided to start the RA lesson on David’s Eye. I am still very slow about getting proportions and angles correct. I hope this is something that just improves with time and practice.

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 98:

Today’s session was shorter than I’d like, but I still made a bit of progress at least!

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 99:

More of the eye. Tomorrow I’ll be finished with both the eye and the challenge. Wow!

[Raven Kushner]

Woo hoo! Congratulations! How does it feel? How do you think you have grown in the past 100 days?

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Thanks Raven! It’s a relief to not have a pressure but I am also determined to keep the good habit.

Wow, I made it! I am so grateful for doing this challenge. I certainly wasn’t able to make it every day, but I was much closer to making a true habit of drawing than if I hadn’t done this challenge.

Highlights:

• Started scheduling art time in my calendar.
• Worked on longer pieces consistently.
• Explored new mediums and was motivated to finish work.
• Showed up and worked even when I didn’t feel like it.
• Really started getting into the Russian Academic approach (love it!)

Challenges:

• Could not actually do every day. I had anticipated that at the beginning because of life events (moving, finishing grad school, etc.) but I was hoping to be more consistent than this.
• Frustration with lack of progress  – this has much less to do with the challenge than with my own burnout. I had intended on bringing focused effort every day but I mentally could not do that. I think my skill would improve more with better intentional practice.
• Scheduling: I did not want do art late in the evening, but on some days that was my only alone time. I also felt guilty drawing during work hours when I had things to do.
• Embarrassment: I had a hard time posting something that I didn’t like or looks/is technically poor.

Day 100:

Finished (?) David’s Eye. I struggled to not get into details on the eyebrow. Got a few tonal issues to correct tomorrow once I can get fresh eyes on it, plus a few more strokes for the background/shadow.

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