[Josseline Jeria]

Well done for pushing through and getting some drawing in. I felt that way yesterday, but I feel so much better. Overcoming is part of process. Looking forward to seeing the cat develop 🙂

[Josseline Jeria]

Oooo I love how you’ve captured the baggy sense of her clothing. It doesn’t look that you’ve spent too much time on the Corgi. As an animal lover, I think you should devote equal effort to both the figures 🙂 looking forward to seeing you push this further.

[Josseline Jeria]

Thanks @JoshuaJacobo I will work on improving that for my gesture sessions to come.

I find it extremely difficult to get myself to get information down in time for these timed sessions. I’ve been trying to work with a step by step approach – line, basic shape, basic volumes, then add the more organic  quality/ information like musculature. Doing this has been useful for learning but I didn’t do well for the timed component. Still very early days for me. Thanks again.

[Josseline Jeria]

I’ll keep at it!

[Josseline Jeria]

Getting smooth blends is tough! So I admire those who do it well. You seem to have a knack for it. We do whatever we can to do our arting right 🙂 I bought this small table easel to start with. When I wanted to paint bigger, I used a big kitchen cupboard shelf and put that on it. I’m suprised that little thing held up! Yeah acrylics are challenging for that. You must try oils sometime soon!

Yeah I’ve got a lot more time at the moment too which has been great! yeah I am similiar with the 3-5 time frame. I take  a few 5 mins breaks when I need them, usually just to sit down. Podcasts are great for painting. Any particular ones you listen to?

That Kookaburra painting is so sweet. Do you happen to be Australian?

[Josseline Jeria]

You’re bringing up the reflective quality of the surfaces well. Nice work Birgith.

[Josseline Jeria]

Lucas – Most were one mins. about 5 2 mins. 3 5 mins and one 10min one. I may give your suggestion a go. I’ve been doing gesture drawings as part of The Spirit of the Pose course I’m doing. They’ve come out better than the ones above but I spend at least 7mins, up to 25mins on each of those gesture studies, so that helps.

[Josseline Jeria]

I’m actually not much of a blender, I try to do it as least as possible, but I’m not skilled enough yet with my brushwork so I do it more than what I’d like. I like the bolder brushwork style of paintings in general. My “studio” is half of a tiny room, which has large windows and gets a lot of light and warmth throughout the day, so my paints actually dry relatively quickly for oil, usually dry to touch by the next day up to 3 days at best. Oh that sounds soo good. I have a couple small tubes of acrylics, I may bust them out sometime this year. Hard to because I love oils SO much.

Do you work in solid blocks of time? like 3 hours plus or do you break your painting session up?

[Josseline Jeria]

Not paying attention to reference must be such a challenge. I admire all you lot that can draw brilliantly from imagination, haha.

Art IS hard.

Aww this is so sweet. I personally think the thicker nib works well for this style. Admittedly I’ve not seen the original work, but from just seeing your work I would have assumed the original was done in this kind of thickness. Finding it hard to provide any useful feedback because overall it looks great. just need minor general improvements in each area

[Josseline Jeria]

I like your drawings Paul. Always a pleasure to see them. I admire you doing these drawing sessions in pen.

[Josseline Jeria]

Haha, I struggle with sticking to one thing too. Yeah I think sticking broadly to value and form is good. Ultimately, the challenge you set is for you to get what you want out of it. It doesn’t have to be super specific for you to benefit from it or to feel challenging. My brain loves novelty. Hence why I set my challenge as just “do two pages in your sketchbook a day” because I know focusing on one main thing for almost three months just isn’t realistic for my current art endurance.

I’m currently working through Gnass’ course, which I’m really enjoying. I’m meant to be getting back into the Russian course (just up to the the geometric forms) but I’ve been leaving it aside, I think because observational measurement feels so dry to me. I have to push myself so I can get to the more in depth drawing. My ultimate goal is to be a good painter. Not sure yet what specifically I want to paint, I just know that painting is a part of who I am, so I’d love to be much better at it. Part of that is becoming a much better draftsman. You may have mentioned it prior, but what about your personal art goals?

Watched your animation – that squishy drop is so satisfying, haha. Aaron Blaise is great. I’ve watched some of his YouTube videos. Yeah I think that’s a rela good goal Zach. I set mine in a way that I knew it wouldn’t take away from my own daily studies and work,

[Josseline Jeria]

Yes! Steve’s advice on being kind to yourself when setting time spent sketching has helped build my confidence so much. I’m a very slow worker, so I can empathise, but every single thing we draw or paint adds up. Have you worked much with watercolour? I actually quite like the simplicity of what you have so far.

[Josseline Jeria]

oh this is going to be so cool! I can’t wait to see how it all pulls together. Painting is my first and true love, but yeah it takes a lot of time. The cleanup is the worst for oils. I usually use 8 brushes or so, and I have in the past worked on more than a painting at a time, so I’ve ended up with 16 brushes and a builtup palette to clean. I don’t wash my brushes and palette between sessions for the same paintings though. I keep them in a separate compartment in my freezer. Helps save a lot of time, and saves the brushes from being worn down prematurely. How do you go about cleaning brushes using the household acrylic paint?

[Josseline Jeria]

@ZHISU thank you 🙂 working to improve my drawing – mileage very important for this.

@Zach Awww no need to be! but thank you. Haha, my “I can’t decide/think/know what to draw” anxieties leads me to drawing a heck load of lines – least I’ve gotten something out of the anxiety rather than not drawing at all, haha. Plus I’ve done some Zorn etching studies and a couple painting studies all in fineliner – gosh, so SO many lines.

@Lucero thank you so much for the reassurance. I was about to cry this morning posting these, haha. Yeah it’s all about that mileage for gesture. I think that’s in part what makes it frustrating – you feel you understand the concepts and try to draw what you see, but hardly any of it translates into your drawing output. I’m feeling all the learning and growing pains right now, haha. I did some master studies – figure form breakdowns – for Gnass’ course in pen, thought- let’s put yourself up for a challenge… well, it sure was. Totally showed me I really need to work on my line control for gesture work. These drawings did the same. Hard to be confronted with that, but necessary. Thanks 🙂

[Josseline Jeria]

Is it Day 7 already?! This is the longest consecutive run of days spent drawing that I’ve done since I started drawing May last year. The most I’ve done I think was 4, maybe 5 days. I find drawing very mentally taxing, much more so than painting. Part of this challenge is to build my drawing endurance. I am feeling it, did less total drawing this day, but keen to push on and through.

Did some gesture drawings from the daily timed sessions. First time doing them outside of coursework assignments. I REALLY struggle with these. I get so nervous and flustered, tighten up a lot – I in a sense lose the plot, haha. I am wanting to try do a 30min session every day, or at the very least x/week to help build confidence.

Feeling very embarrassed to show these, as they came out awful, but this is part of this challenge, so here goes.

     

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