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  • May 9, 2020 at 10:44 am in reply to: Lady B’s 100 Day Challenge: Studying #518349
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    So admittedly this isn’t finished, but it was supposed to be just a quick sketch off the beginners series – 3.4 on using your pencil to judge distance and shapes – where I ended up picking up a coloured pencil… Yeah – I like this. You can see that when I’ve been teaching myself I’ve concentrated a lot on faces. I’m really comfortable there, but my bodies – less so. And hands – hah! But that’s what I am here for, eh? Gonna keep going with study. He looks like a clown (he’s a wrestler). I like that. I want to go to him again and do more.

    May 4, 2020 at 3:10 am in reply to: [COMPLETED] Joshua’s 100 Day Challenge: 1 Daily Drawing from Imagination #508184
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    Hi – thought I’d come post as you were kind enough to comment on mine. It’s nice to see that we both have the same goal in mind – drawing from imagination, though you are further along your drawing journey than me. I like your figures. They seem very tormented.

    May 3, 2020 at 12:31 pm in reply to: Lady B’s 100 Day Challenge: Studying #507064
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    Oh thank you. It felt like great work 🙂

    May 3, 2020 at 10:20 am in reply to: Lady B’s 100 Day Challenge: Studying #506828
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    That won’t look like much to you, but for me, this sketch is a huge liberation. I’ve been drawing for three years, tied to copying photos in painstaking detail, pencil clutched between the tips of my fingers. I want to ‘just draw’ – to let my imagination take over and to be honest I have been failing miserably. My brain doesn’t seem to want to let go and hasn’t seemingly taken in the way the basic blueprint of a human form. Now, part of my struggle I know is that I am autistic. It isn’t exactly natural for me to think about how people look. But I do have a big imagination. I’ve been writing stories since I was a little girl and visualising whole worlds. I just think I need to coax my scared autistic brain a little.

    So far I’ve learnt to draw from my shoulder, to grip my pencil in different way so that now, instead of being crouched over the paper, I am sitting back and seeing it all. Tonight I drew him. Now – he’s based on a photo of a wrestler called Minoru Suzuki, but I drew him in my own way. He doesn’t actually look like that. I’ve kinda drawn the guy like he’s 70 yers of age. And for the first time, I can actually see my art style there. plus – he hadn’t got that expression in the photo. I gave him that. This is progress. This is me.

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