[Natacha]

Hi Deborah, Nice work! I particularly love the figure of day 29. We can really feel the volumes.
Gesture drawings are hard because of the time but you did a really nice job with them (day30)

Also the volumes in perspective really makes me want to check this course out too.

Keep it up! 🙂

[Natacha]

Hi Bryan, these are pretty colors. I can really see the evolution through these 30 days with your figure drawings, keep it up !

[Natacha]

DAY 9 – 30/05/2020

I continued on the head drawings (from the last day : the three heads on the low part of the paper are from today).

Nothing much to say, just trying to be more in ease with it. Feel the volume, proportions, shapes more easily. I only like how the 9th and 10th turned out

[Natacha]

Hi Deborah, yes I had few little problems with my thread so I couldn’t post but it’s back. I’m posting the last few days to be back on track !

Yes you’re right. I was happy that I could draw little animals (rabbits, cats, dogs) well only with the basic structure but for the horse it’s not possible. Since the horse is the goal animal and the most difficult for me to draw because of all the volumes and forms coming through; I really wanted to be able to draw it “well” after one day. It was obviously disillusionment ! That’s why now I really think of it like a figure drawing ; you work on overall gesture, then you study every elements (head, neck, back etc). So I will be doing the same now.

No I never really study anatomy before for the animals (just a little bit for humans) but I always loved drawing horses. I used references and drew what I was seeing simply ; so overall it was “good” looking (I try to put the contrast where it was on the reference pic and try pay attention to proportions) but I absolutely didn’t know why there was a shadow here. I couldn’t draw a horse without the reference. So “nice” looking but very bad understanding and I feel like it was showing. **(pic)
The course gave me that basic structure to work on and now I try (at least for the moment with the horse) to add more of anatomy studies to complete it.

**Here are what I was drawing (it’s old from a year or two ago, my blending techniques changed too)

[Natacha]

DAY 8 – 29/05/2020

After yesterday, I plan to study different elements through the days. Here it was the head. Don’t mind the notes, it was just some things I wanted to keep in mind while drawing.
I began a 100 horse’s head mini challenge. The head are done in 5-10mins. The 4th has been built but in general it’s just about really keep in mind that’s it’s a volume. You have to use proportions tools to put the elements and then think about bones/muscles structure for the rest.

[Natacha]

Hello, I’m back to post the few days :

DAY 7  – 28/05/2020

I spent a lot of time on overall horse anatomy ressources, hence not much drawings. Then, I drew the horse and I felt that I still lack a lot of knowledges. At that point I decided to spend a few days only working on the horse, and specifically on the different elements (head, legs, etc) to really know every aspects.
So I was unhappy after drawing that horse and just draw that way easier rabbit instead.

The only positive thing about being frustrated from a drawing is that you see the mistakes and you just have to work on them then I guess.

[Natacha]

Thank you Galina ! 🙂 Yes, I’m trying to but anatomy is still so new that as much as I learn every day, I also feel a lot of frustration during the process. Nice, I can only recommand it to you, it’s my first one and I love it. It’s well explain and surely gives you a solid base to learn animals! But yes I know, so many, that’s why I tried to do a program for myself. It helps because otherwise I guess I would just be too excited and begin every courses at the same time (but in fact it’s better for me to take only one and focus, and move on etc)

[Natacha]

Thank you Joshua but I mean the multiple posts of the 2nd page the “day 5”

[Natacha]

Hi Joshua, my thread disappeared, I thought it was a question of time to reappear but it’s still not there. The url lead me to a “404 Error” too.
Should I wait more or do something else ?

 

[Natacha]

Hello, I’m sorry for all these posts. At least now I know how it works. I will post and then wait from now !

DAY 6 – 27/05/2020

I spent a lot of times study the horse anatomy today. I still didn’t finish the horse lesson. I realize I really had a hard times for the head and the legs areas. I focused before on the overall with all the elements so now I should pay attention to the head and the leg’s muscles (specially in different positions).

I did a session of 5min drawings and then I took more my time to do the 15min horse. I also did the same as for the last deer with another “more time” drawing. I could add the contrast and it’s there that I felt the lack of knowledges about the legs’s muscles movement and the head that really felt wrong (in the end it wasn’t that bad but still).

[Natacha]

Hi Gala, it’s very well done ! I love these bright colors, I can’t wait to see more of this.

[Natacha]

Hi Joshua, seeing your work taking more and more forms through the days is amazing. It’s also so inspiring to see what you can do with your imagination!

(I’m sorry, it’s off topic but could you delete the multiple same posts on my thread please if you have the time. I didn’t know they would appear 20 hours later so I thought I did a mistake somewhere and I posted several times. Thank you very much)

[Natacha]

Thank you Joshua!

Notes :
This time I wait for the morning light to take the picture.
So this is from yesterday. These are assignments from the lesson “Grazing animals”. Then I drew a deer during 1hour 30.  I’m glad with the result, it isn’t finish for the legs but I didn’t want to continue yesterday since it was late. I’m not going to finish neither that was just a test, seeing how after the lessons I could draw again a full animal. I realize I wasn’t so much dependent on the reference anymore. The movement is fluid, it’s way better. I feel like proportions are easier too now.

However the one thing I have to work on is what complete the basic structure : bones, muscles. I still have a hard time with this but I will study it. Today I have the horse lesson to do ; horse have a “thin” skin and their muscles/bones are very seeing through so it’s a great way to study this. An exercise that I could do also for this is to take a picture and draw on it only to see if I can recognize the muscles, bones, and not mistake them (because I should be able to do it then in my head, without tracing and without the anatomy book).

DAY 5 – 26/05/2020

 

[Natacha]

Thank you Joshua! I see, I will now.

Thank you too Deborah! I’m glad they look expressive, I feel like it’s one of the hardest part when it comes to animals. Sure, that would be amazing, I’m looking forward to seeing your animals.

 

[Natacha]

Hello,
I posted a comment on my thread with two images but it didn’t post. I tried two times but nothing. Then I type a comment only with text with no pictures ; it was sent. But then, I posted another comment and I edited this one to put the pictures in but when I submitted that comment ; it didn’t show and the last comment (with only text) disappeared too.

I made sure the size of the pictures were under 5MB. Also I don’t understand because in the forum you can see in the “recently upload pictures” my pictures and it’s also written that I’m the last person who commented on my thread whereas it’s not since my comments are not showing.

Thank you very much if you can help me with this problem

 

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