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  • July 19, 2020 at 9:44 pm in reply to: (100) Days of Drawing #636569
    James ThamesJames Thames
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    Day 4, and it was another struggle. I am starting to see progression but I feel a bit aimless as I draw. I think in addition to upping my drawing time to 2 hours I need to pick a simple subject matter or theme to study. My greatest hurdle in drawing right now is that when I sit down I just don’t know what to draw. Hopefully as I progress in the Beginners Guide course I can hone in on stuff to study. Some positive take aways are that drawing on my Cintiq is starting to feel natural again. Also streaming everyday and archiving what I do digitally really makes me feel like I’m doing something substantial even though I’m just sketching loosey goosey.

    My end goal is to get into portraiture, but my current goal is to finish the 2 beginner’s drawing course here before I dive into any of the head stuff. Moving forward I think I may incorporate watching some lessons before my draw time so I can repeat exercises and have something a bit more substantial to draw.

    July 18, 2020 at 8:38 pm in reply to: (100) Days of Drawing #635206
    James ThamesJames Thames
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    Day 3. I’m definitely going to double my time to 2 hours for the rest of this challenge. Today I didn’t draw at all except for the hour I carved out to stream and it really showed. I really felt off as opposed to feeling on yesterday. In comparison I had a lot of trouble focusing on and finishing ideas. On the positive side though I found some nifty brushes that I want to experiment emulating traditional shading with.

    July 17, 2020 at 7:51 pm in reply to: (100) Days of Drawing #633918
    James ThamesJames Thames
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    I actually used this really neat Windows/iOS app called Handy. It’s got planar heads, heads, skulls, and some really cool pose ready hand and foot models. I’m pretty new here so to be honest I forgot there was reference here too.

    July 17, 2020 at 6:38 pm in reply to: (100) Days of Drawing #633813
    James ThamesJames Thames
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    Day 002 for me. I ended up sketching skulls because I wanted practice something fun from multiple angles. I noticed I really struggled with measuring/proportions and grasping the shape of the mandible(expressing depth) so I may bust myself back down to basic form studies. On a positive note, streaming while drawing has encouraged me to work through my mistakes and make corrections to drawings I would otherwise abandon. Moving forward I think I want to double my drawing time to 2 hours and segment my time into 1/2 studying, 1/2 making corrections.

    DAY 002

    @erikdennes I hear you, but my focus is definitely digital art. I’m not ignoring traditional but digital art is where I want to improve ATM. I’ll also check out that ellipse trick.

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    July 8, 2020 at 7:43 pm in reply to: Hello From Sacramento #620461
    James ThamesJames Thames
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    Thanks for the welcome, and I’ll definitely check out the course. I haven’t been this excited to draw in years.

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