Ram’s 100 Day Challenge: Gesture and Structure | Figure Drawing

[Shravan]

Day 35:

[Shravan]

Day 36:

[Raven Kushner]

Hi, Ram,

I never saw your response because I forgot to click the notification box! 🙂 That’s good that you stopped the timed drawings. I think that’s better to do occasionally just to check your progress. But, until we have a real handle on the figure, it’s better to just focus on that. I, too, don’t do the timed drawings daily anymore.

As for classes, I was focused on the Russian course, but I got behind on the assignments, so I started watching the Constructive Drawing class, Dynamic Gesture Drawing, and I finished the Landscape Drawing Crash Course. Once I get caught up on Ilya’s assignments, I’ll go back to primarily watching the Russian Course. I’ve learned a lot from all the classes so far.

Are you going to enter the self portrait contest?

[Shravan]

Hi Raven,

I loved your drapery drawing. It was beautiful! Nice to see you working out the assignments with passion.

I am not ready for portrait drawing so I will not be participating in it. As I explore more on the fundamentals, I am slowly realising I shouldn’t have started on figure drawing. So right now, I spend most of my time on practicing fundamentals and I can feel my art improve significantly.

Will you be participating in the contest?

[Ramiro Armendariz]

I should probably do a 30 day challenge with this for December before the New Year starts

[Raven Kushner]

Thank you, Ram.

I think it’s great that you are getting to know yourself as an artist. That’s important, I think. Well-meaning people often have a lot of opinions – about your work, or what you should be doing, etc. It’s good to pick and choose whom you

listen to. But, most of all, it’s important to listen to yourself. Deep down, you know best what you need to focus on.

I haven’t decided if I will participate in the contest or not. I’m definitely going to finish the self-portrait. I’m doing a grisaille painting. But I’m doing it because it’s a fun challenge. A part of me thinks that art contests are a little silly, like

beauty contests. Just because someone can’t win a beauty contest doesn’t mean they’re not beautiful. So, once I’m done, I’ll decide if I want to do it or not. If it feels fun, and not stressful, then I’ll enter. Otherwise, I’ll just keep it for me (and the 100-day challenge blog!)

[Shravan]

Hi Raven,

I would love to see the self portrait! Keeping going!

It is fun to know and understand what you’re doing.

Day 37:

[Shravan]

Day 38:

Time session.

[Shravan]

Day 39:

Timed session again. Bottom pic torso looks better. I will practice torso alone tomorrow for a few days.

[Shravan]

Day 40:

Torso study

[Shravan]

Day 41:

Torso study today, my room has bad lighting.

[Shravan]

Day 42:

More torso study.

[Shravan]

Day 43:

Torso study.

[Shravan]

Day 44:

Torso study continued.

[Shravan]

Day 45:

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