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  • September 25, 2020 at 7:50 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #777900
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    Day 42
    After a tiring day, I wanted to have some fun, so I did exercises from the Loomis book “Fun with a Pencil.” Well, it’s still head construction. 🤷‍♀️
    Tomorrow I’ll be back with the regular studies. 😅

    September 25, 2020 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #777879
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    Thanks, Deborah! Making those drawings from the imagination was good for me to see how much I had retained. I’ll look at my later studies and the models and work on the eye sockets, as you suggested. I notice that I’m still struggling with it.

     

    Thank you, Jonathan! Unsplash is a stock photo site with high-quality images free to use. I used to practice using images from there, but now I’m mostly using the references from NMA.

    September 24, 2020 at 8:55 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #776635
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    Day 41

    I drew on some reference images to better understand the structure of a real head, and I also tried different approaches for the breakdown in each image.

    September 23, 2020 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #774968
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    Day 40

    Some sketches without reference

    September 23, 2020 at 6:26 am in reply to: Deborah’s 100 Days of People and Perspective Drawing #774121
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    Hi Deborah. As always, I love your study pages. I also really liked how you approached studying the eye a few days ago, and since I’m learning how to draw the eye structure too, your notes gave me useful insights and helped me see the parts more clearly.
    You’re doing a great job!

    September 23, 2020 at 5:24 am in reply to: Self-portrait in Watercolor #774059
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    Hi Kat, thank you so much for your lovely comment! Those portraits are very special to me.☺
    I’m excited to start the oil portrait course as soon as I can take time and arrange some space. I find oils a bit messy to work with, and I feel I have to make a good setup before starting, to make things more practical afterward.

    September 22, 2020 at 8:27 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #773686
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    So, in the past few days, I did sketch some things for this challenge, drawing the head structure from imagination. However, I thought they turned out quite ugly, and I was embarrassed to show them here 😩. That, added to indisposition due to allergies I’ve been having these days, refrained me from posting.

    But after getting a little better in health, I decided to post some of my ugly attempts, as they are also part of this journey.

     

    Day 37,38,39
    Those are sketches I made to test an idea. I wanted to make something like a head turn, keeping the features and volume, understanding the forms as 3D elements, and train drawing the same face from imagination in different positions.
    In this first attempt, I think the heads were fine individually, but they don’t look from the same person.

     

    More “ugly sketches.” 😬😂

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.forum.nma.art/773686/cvb3sngxdf60fioijtnma2zpas7amjl4.jpg

    September 22, 2020 at 7:39 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #773645
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    Thanks, Deborah! You and Christopher are right; it makes a lot of difference to study on a larger scale. I’m still getting used to it.

    I didn’t think it could be so hard, but working larger makes me face the areas I need to understand, and it’s not always a comfortable feeling, but I know its necessary.

    September 19, 2020 at 8:59 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #769272
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    Day 36

    Today I watched more lessons on structure and made very loose sketches to grasp the concepts.

     

    September 18, 2020 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #768009
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    Day 35

    Today I made notes while watching Steve Huston’s lesson on eye construction and did some of the assignments.
    (Excuse the crumpled paper, it was a little accident before taking the picture 😅)

     

    September 18, 2020 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #768008
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    Hi Christopher,
    Thank you for your feedback! I loved to read your thoughts on my work here 😊 . It’s been a fantastic experience to do this challenge and receive advice from everyone; it helped me a lot to improve during this time.

    My goal is to be able to draw all kinds of people and convey life and expression. But I see that I have to slow down a little and really study structure, develop accuracy, draw smaller portions of the body, etc. In the last few days, I went back to drawing things I was more comfortable with, even though I tried to apply the knowledge I gained from drawing the skull. But now, I started to watch some more lessons on construction, to help me see the structure in the face more clearly, and I want to start working on those essential areas I need to.
    I also liked your advice regarding the size of my drawings. It was something I noticed before but always went back to drawing small.

    September 17, 2020 at 9:25 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #766618
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    Day 34

    September 16, 2020 at 8:49 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #765082
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    Day 33

    September 15, 2020 at 9:20 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #763595
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    Day 32

    Some sketches where I try to see the structure in the reference images.

    Also, I decided to include here the drawing I made for the Instagram challenge. I liked to draw it and how it turned out, even though the reference was quite small.

    September 15, 2020 at 9:15 pm in reply to: Isabella’s 100-Day Art Challenge: Humans #763594
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    Thanks 😊 !

    I’m using a pad of ribbed kraft paper. I like its color and the strength of the pages, I can draw on it with charcoal, ink, and gouache for example.

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