Month: June 2022
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Speed drill 4
Kenzo of the Love Life Drawing community hosted a session today focused on improving our line quality. So I was trying to focus on that, but my crappy, hairy line work still comes out. I expect eventually I’ll get confident enough in the shapes I’m drawing that I don’t feel compelled to check partway through…
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Low angle poses, part 2
Partway through this week, I began to feel the despair, like maybe I’m not really improving by doing these figure studies. What I’ve been doing is freehand sketching a figure, overlaying it on the original reference to see how close I got, correcting some things, and then doing clean-up and shading passes. What I wasn’t…
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Speed drill 3
A third round of speed drills, back on DrawMe. You tend to get a bunch of facial close-ups on DrawMe, figures on DrawMeNSFW. Both are valuable, so I’m planning to jump back and forth. I think only one of today’s drawings is a total disaster, and number 4 I think is quite good. I’ll put…
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Speed drill 2
Another round of speed drills, this time on Reddit’s DrawMeNSFW, which is a good place to find a variety of figure models. This was again allowing myself 1 hour to do as many drawings as I can at a reasonable level of quality. I think this set turned out better than my first, but I…
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Faye Wong
Sketch portrait of actor and singer Faye Wong, done in Procreate on iPad. Aside from the background plate, this is all a single color, going for that ball-point pen look. This is my first one of these ink shading jobs that feels like it’s starting to really get there. Having the hashing follow facial contours…
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Speed drill
They say the key to improving your art is doing a bunch of it. Fill your sketchbooks! They also say you’ll learn more by doing several figures in an hour than spending that time on a single figure. So, I’ve decided to start a regular sketching drill. I give myself an hour and draw everyone…
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Dynamic and low angle poses
I finally got to the end of the dynamic pose set from Love Life Drawing. Well, the end of the unclothed dynamic pose set. There’s a clothed set as well, mercifully smaller than the 25 in this set, but I figured I’d try a different library for a follow up. I’ve been working on sketching…
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Rachel Bloom
Portrait of actress Rachel Bloom, star of the musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I loved that show. So let’s talk about the painting. Freehand sketch that I then compared to the reference photo. I had it pretty accurate! I came up a tiny bit too wide on the lower curve of her hip, but the rest…
