Laura’s 100 Day Challenge: Portrait and Figure Drawing.

[Laura Espinosa]

Hi to everyone, my name is Laura.
I’m from Colombia and I’m 16 years old. I want to challenge myself, improve my abilities and be more consistent.
My goal is to draw stuff related to portrait and figure.
Let’s take advantage of these 100 days!

[Laura Espinosa]

DAY #1

Planes of the head, practice using graphite pencils.

[Josseline Jeria]

Hi Laura and welcome 🙂

Fantastic start to your challenge! Well done. You draw so well for such a young age! Thanks for including your instagram tag. I’ll find and follow you. It’s nice to see what fellow students are doing, very inspiring and motivating. Looking forward to seeing your work on this forum.

[Lucas a.k.a “Roams”]

very nice 🙂 I did this study a while ago aswell. looking forward to seeing more 🙂

[Lucero]

Wow, great work Laura! Thank you for joining the challenge. How long have you been drawing?

[Laura Espinosa]

Hi Josseline, thank you so much, I followed you back on Instagram; like your work.

Hi Lucas, thank you.

Hi Lucero, thank you I have been drawing all my life since I was a little child.

[Josseline Jeria]

thank you! I love watching everyone’s progress, especially students of NMA.

[Laura Espinosa]

DAY #2

Study of the shoulder´s anatomy, using graphite.

Very happy with the result and learning a lot.

 

[PaulDidier]

This is nice! What size are you working?

[Laura Espinosa]

Hi Paul, thank you, the second drawing is 45x30cm.

 

[Shazad Madon]

Wow that looks great to me. Its a long way before I get to these studies. 🙂

[Laura Espinosa]

DAY #3

Muscles of the neck, using graphite.

[Laura Espinosa]

Thanks Shazad!

[Peihong Jiang]

Nice! Your drawing is calm and rational. I like it.

I’m watching this thread. 😛

[Joshua Jacobo]

Laura, great work here. You draw well and you render beautifully.

My advice for you for the time being is to spend less time developing the drawings and more time getting more drawings done. The more pieces you do, especially applying the construction techniques that you’re learning in the Russian Academic Drawing program, the more you will gain knowledge on the most important parts of the drawing. So for every beautiful rendered piece like this do several shorter more analytical constructive drawings.

Focus on:

1. Finding more corners. Sometimes your forms appear too evenly rounded or too soft. Try to find the breaks more and try to see the straights as well as the curves and to play those together.
2. Draw through the form more. Imagine the far sides of the form. Wrap your lines around to the unseen backside rather than just ending them on the silhouette.
3. Try to be bit more sensitive to the gesture or the overall movements of the form before you nail them down.

Most importantly, keep studying. Keep doing the courses. Keep drawing and keep sharing your work here.

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