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Art Progress 01/07/2020: Return to Drawing

I fell off the bandwagon with regular drawing before the middle of May. Thankfully, after reviewing some comments on a YouTube video yesterday, I realised the value of regular drawing and modified my goals for it. 

Previous progress updates here:

25/04/2020

26/04/2020

27/04/2020

28/04/2020

29/04/2020

30/04/2020

02/05/2020

02/05/2020 (continued)

05/05/2020

05/05/2020 (continued)

07/05/2020

10/05/2020

10/05/2020 (continued)

11/05/2020

I think the lynch pin of this return centers around the importance of drawing as an anchor for remembering things (words, phrases, book extracts), as well as a method for deeper concentration (something I have struggled with for years), as well as for aesthetic pleasure. 

In the previous installments, I focused more on training myself to draw, but without a system. Now that I am working on a book, I have a frame for which I can work on drawing, as well as using smaller grid squares in order to develop my skills. Most importantly, however, I use drawing while reading as a way to remain focused and anchor certain etxracts inside my head. 

Here’s a set of spheres that I sketched yesterday inside my Bullet Journal:

Beginning with shapes always helps, particularly since I want to draw castles. Furthermore, the smaller squares help me to focus on smaller details at a time. 

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Art Progress: 29 April 2020

Drawing: 30 Minutes

Number of Sketches: 1

Good Points: More accuracy with shapes and shading. 

To improve: cleaner lines, drawing leaves

Here’s the drawing of houses outside my window from 26/04/2020:

And here’s the same drawing again that I made today (partially out of a lack of any other things to draw):

I think that my observation has improved in the latter picture, as well as the shading. I still have problems with maintaining a steady hand and I wonder whether I should use a harder pencil. 

Right now, this was drawn using an increasingly blunt HB pencil. I might get cleaner lines from a different pencil. At the same time, I also need to loosen my grip on the pencil. I am still too reliant on the scribes grip, which I use for writing. All of this is also linked with developing a better posture at my desk, which allows for more free lines. 

I must say, however, that part of this difference has come from using a grid, as well as using dots to outline the semicircles here. 

I have just reblogged a picture called Chipovnick by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, which contains the same semicircles and columns which I intend to practice. Yesterday’s Art Progress entry included my practicing of shapes and tone using a grid. Already, I had made a quick outline of what I would copy.  We shall see whether this will come to fruition.

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Leafy mandala

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