[Isabella Borges]

Day 57

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Day 56

I made some corrections

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Day 54

I attended the online workshop but didn’t do much besides that because I was a little I’ll.

 

Day 55

I’m am very excited about the update of the Russian academic drawing course! So, I decided to start the cast drawings and carefully correct and developed them in the following days.

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Day 53

More structure studies over El Greco’s “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz” and  Luca Giordano’s “The Fall of the Rebel Angels”

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Day 52

This is part of the (huge) assignment for the workshop I mentioned. In this one, we must make studies over the figures from El Greco’s painting “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz” using box and cylindrical forms.

It is my second attempt, I have to to this one a few more times to get some angles right, improve the boxes; and then go into the other assignments.

[Isabella Borges]

Hi Jan, thank you for your comment!

That was my reasoning for including the live stream sketch as something in this challenge. Seeing some of his processes was beneficial for me because costumed figures are one of my main goals and something I want to draw confidently by the end of this challenge.

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Now, about the challenge, I didn’t give up!

Here is what I’ve been up to in the last few days:

 

Day 47
I attended an online workshop that will last 4 Wednesdays and which will require lots of box studies as homework; for now, here are some notes:

 

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Ear study

 

 

Sketch from watching Iliya’s live stream on drawing drapery (Ok, not on the topic “human,” but I’ll count it anyways 😬)

 

 

Another ear drawing

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Hi Deborah, thank you 😄 !
In the eye studies, I noticed that I had to exaggerate a little what I would draw. For example, I saw a curve; I tried to make it slightly more curved than what I would typically do, and I think that helped.
As for Rogerio’s Lupos’s document, I’m delighted to know that you found it helpful!

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Day 46

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Hi, Mattias, thanks for your comment! It’s so exciting that I’m almost midway through this challenge. Since the beginning, I’ve learned so much in technique, but it also helped me develop a more consistent practice habit.

I’m trying to train my eye measuring, along with using measurement tools. I think it used to be better a few years ago, but then I stopped practicing. Now that I restarted to study drawing, I sometimes get frustrated with the results. Still, I think I’m finally improving this skill.

 

Day 45

I am rendering the drawing a little to understand the form better.

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[Isabella Borges]

Hi Cristopher,

Your first 100-day challenge was a real inspiration! I’ll definitely follow this one.

As for your goal with this new challenge for rendering, it came to mind the work and lessons of Rogerio Lupo, a Brazilian scientific illustrator. He has a quite delicate approach to drawing and rendering very precisely with graphite.

I studied his approach in college, in a class on Botanical Illustration. I understand that maybe your goal isn’t scientific illustration or this kind of rendering, but I think you could get some useful insights about a different process of drawing and rendering with graphite, as I did when I was in college.

He made a free guidebook on his process (available in English), very thorough, with detailed instructions about holding the pencil in certain angles, pencil movement, gradients, exercises to make an even tone, and so on. I recommend you to check it out:  https://pt.slideshare.net/bioartes/graphite-for-scientific-illustrations

I also think that it is worth checking out the work of Stephen Bauman, especially his portraits using graphite and white chalk.

 

Keep up the good work!

 

[Isabella Borges]

Hi, Christopher, thank you!

This healthy relationship with failed drawings and bad work is something I’m working on. For a long time, the pressure of making things perfect stopped me from making and sharing anything at all, and, as a consequence, I didn’t improve. I think your approach is correct since we can only get better at something if we keep working and moving on. It may seem obvious, but for me is something that I’m still learning, that in practice the process is more important than the outcome.

The overlays were really helpful for me. I was having a hard time bridging schematics of the structure to real references, and sometimes I got lost in what I was drawing (also because of my habit of drawing too small and just guessing where things should go 😅); this exercise provided some good answers.

The last block in was actually of Barry, but I see the resemblance with Yoni 😄.

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I didn’t notice how dark was the last photo until I saw it on my computer.

Here’s another one with better lighting.

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Day 44

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