[Raven Kushner]

Marcolino,

Yes, you’re right. It’s a bad habit that I recognized later – the habit of trashing myself when I get frustrated. I did some mindset work later that day! 🙂

[Raven Kushner]

Day 20

Wow, day 20! I’m already 1/5 of the way through the 100 day challenge. My focus for the next few days will be finishing my contest drawing. I definitely bit off more than I can chew, but it’s been fun and interesting. Gesture drawing continues to haunt me and make me depressed. I feel like I’m getting worse every day. When I nail the gesture, the body parts are not where they’re supposed to be. When I focus on construction, I get neither gesture nor construction because construction takes me longer to work out. Each day I study it, and in my head I feel like “Oh, I get it! These next figures will be great!” And then I draw chicken scratchy blobby messes with no gesture or blobby blocks of semi-constructed stiff things on paper.  Whatever. One day I’ll get it. And if not, I’ll lie and say I meant to draw them that way. They symbolize mankind’s struggle against the system of capitalist oppression. Or some drivel like that…

 

[Raven Kushner]

Day 19

Today I listened to more of Glenn’s class, practiced some gesture and worked on my drawing for the contest. I think I’m finally ready to move on to the next skull. Now I’m afraid I won’t even finish, so I’m going to need to pick up the pace!

[Raven Kushner]

Thanks for sharing your work. It’s great! Very energetic lines and a cool style.

[Raven Kushner]

Nice to meet you!

[Raven Kushner]

Hi, Marcolino,

Thanks for that advice and encouragement! I will definitely keep going. I know I will get it someday, but the encouragement helps a lot! 🙂

[Raven Kushner]

I contacted customer service before realizing that, I guess, this is a common issue. I posted this morning to the 100-day challenge but then it disappeared, so I posted again this evening. I’m also on Discord. Should I just post there instead?

[Raven Kushner]

Day 18

My previous post disappeared, but I wrote this morning that I’m determined to master gesture. I posted other comments, but can’t remember what I wrote. And I posted one of my gesture drawings (5 min) and my ongoing project for the October contest.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Raven Kushner.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Raven Kushner.

[Raven Kushner]

Day 17

Today I realized I’m in an important spot in my development. I’m becoming very aware of my own failings and what I don’t know. It’s definitely tempting to feel frustrated or think of what I “should” be able to do. This has come up specifically with gesture drawing. I’m pretty sure I’ve developed the habit of “copying” whatever I’m drawing, and I’ve gotten fairly good at that. But I’m aware that that can only go so far. That’s why I can’t draw out of my imagination. Gesture drawing frustrates me to death because I hate making ugly stuff. But I have to tolerate the ugly until I can get to the good. Today I did some gesture and worked on my contest drawing.

[Raven Kushner]

Wow! Is that RBG in clay form? How cool is that!

[Raven Kushner]

His course is very thorough. All the stuff in the beginning really does help for later skills. I’m on the Eye lesson right now.

[Raven Kushner]

Day 16

Today I took the whole day and watched lessons and did sketch-book work. I’m trying to figure out my plan of attack for study. I think I’m going to finish Level 3 of Glenn’s gesture class, then go back to the Russian drawing class. The Russian class goes through each feature of the face individually, which I’ve never done before. I’ve been procrastinating on it because it seems like it will be tedious to draw cast sculptures of eyes and noses. But it feels important to get that kind of practice in. Today I just worked on gesture drawing, which I’m not great at, but I’m becoming a little less freaked out by them. Time pressure makes me panic! These are 2 minutes.

 

[Raven Kushner]

Thank you, Ram!!

[Raven Kushner]

Really nice!

[Raven Kushner]

Welcome, Ram!

Thanks for sharing your work. I, personally, don’t think 3 hours is too much. I think it’s great! But I also think that each artist should be guided by his/her intuition. When we are quiet and still with ourselves, and think about our art, we often know what we should be focused on, and for how long. However, we often let books, people’s opinions, fears, etc. direct our behavior.

I think if you have 3 hours to spare, and you have the energy and focus to do it, then you should follow your instincts. Some days you might not have that much time, some days you’ll have more. I will often spend 5-8 hours on weekends, and 2 or 3 hours during the week. Right now, I need to practice 8 hours a day, but I don’t have that. So, I do what I can.

You sound very open minded and also hard-working. So, if you continue with the classes and practice, I’m sure you will see the results you’re looking for. 🙂

[Author]

Posts