Alright. Completed the 50 pages of drawing heads! Heads are so complex that you could spend a lifetime mastering drawing them, and for sure I think that I'll add another 50 pages to my own studies :P
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Heads
Some more Loomis studies. I feel that this time, now that I spent some time on skulls. It's sinking in a big better, the landmarks are making more sense. Eventually it'll all sink in :P, 2 more page studies to complete the 50 pages of head drawings challenge.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Grinding
Continuing on the sketchbook challenges of 50 pages in: the Loomis Mannikin & Buscema Artist Study. The hope really is to do keep this up every day, even when life gets busy. 30 minutes a day should be enough to fill even just 1 page. Consistency with anything is more important than quantity.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
No reference pages
So an important step in the studying, is to also do pages of drawing without reference. Not to replicate perfectly what you've been studying, but to see how much sticks and where you are struggling / missing information. A constant back and forth is the recipe to improving your skills. Just studying alone doesn't do it, it's like learning a paragraph from a book, you need to learn how to make your own paragraphs by experimenting and making mistakes :)
New week!
So continuing my (daily) sketching habit, working through 50 page studies for HEADS, MANNIKIN and artist study : JOHN BUSCEMA (aka Big John :P).