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Next lesson was about combining shapes, building form, and drawing through. I still have 1 more example to work through on this one, but I’m noticing I’m still having trouble on proportions (and in some cases, basic shaping 😅)
Making the chicken fuzzy was fun tho :)
Oh well, nobody ever got better by *not* practicing 😅
Ngl, got a little intimidated by my last art attempt, so had to force myself to do the next one on lunch today. Turns out, it wasn’t scary at all!
This one was just about using light, circular shapes to really quickly figure out shapes and shadows. Not too bad at all lol
Uh oh, I haven’t quit yet!
(Please ignore the like.. several week hiatus. Life be crazy so I spent some time with more familiar hobbies like 3d modeling and miniature painting 😅)
Anyways, today’s lesson was to draw Chestnuts and shade them with strokes, then put a darker shadow under everything to differentiate?
I’m not exactly sure where the light source(s?) are exactly on this one.. but I tried to copy the reference 😅
No one gets better without putting in some effort!
Well, that was an unfortunately long break from learning to draw 😅
I went back to Blender and Miniature painting for a second there, which are fun and all, but I do want to keep on these lessons!
Tried two different approaches for the dice on the second page with the rounded edges. I think it worked better focusing on the edges first and filling in details instead of starting with a cube and trying to chisel it down.
I got distracted for a bit with other aspects of life (some creative, some stressful) but it’s cool I guess that I have enough basic skills to make frustrated art now 😅
I can see why people do that, it’s therapeutic somehow…
(Also just going over the lines with pen and lightly erasing does *tons* to hide the guide shapes, which is really cool)
I forgot to upload my last lesson, and this one I did today on lunch. The last one was a still life deal about starting with basic shapes and refining them into what you want.
Today’s lesson was about trying to draw boxes so that you can properly orient non-box shapes to help with perspective. I think I messed up the perspective with the boxes and had some unintended downstream effects, but practice practice practice
Forgot to post earlier, but I did another art lesson on lunch.
It’s interesting how the structural shapes end up connecting, and how you need to fill in some gaps. It’s still not as good as the book examples, but I feel like I’m at least building up some of the skills I need to honestly do some drawing :)
Last of the “basics” section! One last negative space exercise, and I re-tested how the different pencils worked with the kneaded eraser. 6B is obviously the darkest and the most contrasting, but needs more scrubbing to get rid of the existing marks. The exercise was about sketching out something and filling in the other side of the space.
Next time we’re onto shapes and finishing sketches! 😁
