[Jo Sheridan]

Hi Jac,

I’m so glad I’ve started reading your daily posts – I went onto a live-stream the other day – Dorien Iten – who does some great shading videos – was live streaming about cast drawing, and started off by showing one he did when he was a student – he spent 3 months doing one cast!!! I must admit at that point I did lose the will to live and decided that if that’s what it takes, then I had better not get interested in cast drawing  – so I switched off. I think with all these things its an approach you can take if you have the time, energy and focus – a bit like what I have come across with Bargue Plates – if you do that properly you can spend a few years working through those cast style studies….

What I do know for sure though is that we are not in the minority, and there are loads of folk out there doing great work without this sort of single minded application to one subject – some people might think for example that doing a drawing every day for 100 days is completely crackers!! 🙂

[Jo Sheridan]

Day 47 – Another slightly 3/4 profile concentrating on proportions

[Jo Sheridan]

Day 46 – I’m feeling less grumpy with myself today and happier with the proportions on this one – 3/4 head

If at first you don’t succeed…..

[Jo Sheridan]

Hi Jac,

Thanks for the YouTube video, it does help to hear things like this – we can all say things will be hard work when you are trying to get really good at something, but I often think that we then always underestimate what that means… and the frustration builds when once in a while you get things right, so you think you’ve worked it out, but then next time you get it wrong and realise you still have a long way to go….

You are right about finding ways to enjoy the process, so I have a cup of tea, a chunk of dark chocolate, some good music and am ready to go again for my next posting… Jo.

[Jo Sheridan]

Hi Jac, I really empathise with your post today, and you have made me feel less fed-up with things – my 100 days seems to be making me draw worse and worse and I struggle to draw anything worth posting – today I did four heads, the first one was ok and the following three just went from bad to worse – the last one I had to completely scribble out because I couldn’t bear to look at it – my original plan had been to post the whole sheet with them all on – in the end I zoomed in on the first one.

If I’m being generous with myself I keep telling myself its because my standards are going up that I am getting more critical – I have gone back to basics to try and sort out form and proportion once and for all, but it is something I am finding really tough…

I admire the time you seem to dedicate to this every day and the calm way you explain your activities – when I’m fed up with mine you just get one word – I think today I just wrote “head” and fought hard to stop myself adding some exclamation marks… Anyway, I hope it helps you to know there are others of us out here who are pushing through the same pain barriers – tomorrow is another day 🙂 Jo.

[Jo Sheridan]

Day 45 – another head

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Day 44 – More proportion work…

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Day 42 – proportion

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Day 42 – Oh why is this getting harder and harder – nothing I have tried tonight has been worth posting at all, but this is the best of a very bad bunch of faces…. argh – one step forwards and two steps back…

[Jo Sheridan]

Day 41 – More eyes

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Day 40 – mouth studies

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Day 39 – I’ve never really found the Loomis head that helpful, so I am looking at another method where you start off with a boxy shape rather than the circle – feels better to me.

[Jo Sheridan]

Wow!

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Day 38 – eyes

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Day 37 –  lips

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