[GordanKnezic]

Day 64

 

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Day 63

 

[GordanKnezic]

That is great Alex, I agree with you the more variety in subjects to draw the better.  I am not there yet, but I am working on it. At the moment I am focusing on figure and portrait as part of my second 100 day challenge. That alone fills up my daily art time. After the challenge ends which is towards the end of the next month I plan to follow the learning path program that Joshua and NMA team created. Actually these are drafts, they are still working on them, but they are sufficiently clear in their intent. The dynamic sketching is somewhere on that path. I will just follow the program starting from the beginning. What I already covered in past courses I won’t just skip over, I will review it, and anything I missed, now will be the time to learn and cover it. There seem to be finally some method to the madness and structure to the learning.

Thanks a lot for the references you created! And I yes I did receive the dynamic sketching PDF’s you emailed me, that was very nice of you. Thank you very much!

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Day 62

 

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Natasha I love your portraits and variety of mediums you work with. The whole thread is amazing, they all look very interesting! I just started with drawing portraits and really admire your contour hatching technique. It looks logical and simple when you look at it, but I know it is hard. Any advice on book or other resource where to learn more about this technique? Keep up doing great work!

[GordanKnezic]

Alex these drawings look great, they are unbelievable! Very interesting and engaging! Did you draw them from imagination and where did you learn the skeleton structure?

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Day 61

I will have to limit myself to 15-20 minutes portrait drawing and use different medium then polychromo pencil. I like to draw larger and pencil takes way longer than what I like to cover the large surface, even when it comes to adding just few basic tones. I think I will try with Conte tomorrow.

 

 

 

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Hi Marcolino, thanks for your comment!

What I don’t like is the following:

• Portrait on the left: the mouth placement is too low
• Portrait on the right: the line of the mouth is not in parallel with other facial features (eyes, nose, eyebrow line), the shape of mouth is also off, it does not show well curving around the mouth muzzle. Each eye is placed under the different angle.

That is what I see and what I like to correct in my future  work.

 

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Day 60

Not very good at all, but that is what I managed to work on today.

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Day 59

Thank you Jan for you kind words, I appreciate it!

Continued drawing along with Charles and did some practice drawings of skull and portrait. Initially I found Charles difficult to follow especially because once he starts drawing from the model he takes totally different approach from constructing. Instead he tries to capture general shape and character of the pose relaying strictly on observation. That is interesting but was also confusing and felt as too big step for me. It assumed that I already have a solid understanding of underlying structure and now when drawing from observation just lean on that knowledge and pull it in as required. I am really enjoying his lectures now, but at the same time I am employing all what have I learned in two other courses (Huston, Villpu). I stop the video and construct the head first with all the landmarks before proceeding with drawing along with him and that is really fun.

 

 

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Day 58

More timed nose drawing exercises and trying portrait quick sketches with the main focus on structure and proportions. These are portrait baby steps I know that, and I know that they don’t look particularly good, but I am actually enjoying this. For now I think I got the understanding of basic head structure landmarks and I did some practice to solidify what I learned. I don’t do any rendering or at least I am trying to avoid it at this time. I had to switch out the order of lessons in series for the head drawing for the beginners. It just did not fit me well the way it was laid out in the series. So I did S.Huston first following with G. Vilppu (supposed to be the last in the series) and now I am working through Charles Hu lectures. I am enjoying drawing large with Charles. I am getting more and more comfortable with overhand drawing grip which I never did before this challenge.  It is so much fun when drawing large, looking forward to more of it.

 

 

 

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Day 57

Drew along with Charles Hu, trying to get ahead with head drawing basics and take a pause with figure drawing.

 

 

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I am sorry for your loss Deborah. I hope you find true meaning and sufficient strength to pull through these difficult times. Take care and stay strong.

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Day 56

Timed draw of lips and ears from assignment in S.Huston’s “Beginning head drawing”

 

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Day 55

I decided to take a break from figure drawing and listened Glenn’s lecture on a head drawing. It was very good, I liked it a lot.

 

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