after the long holiday weekend of no drawing, I’m finding that I’ve gained a lot more confidence in making my lines. I’m not really worried so much that my pencil isn’t going to go where I expect it to. following this tutorial, I was able to knock this one out tonight, Vanellope von Schweetz.
Although not nearly enough. Is that even such a thing? I feel like I am making progress, however it’s in the individual pieces. Now I’ll try to start putting this all together…..
in my pursuit of learning to draw, i have watched hundreds of how-to videos and have seen some very good ones and some very awful ones. in my travels through the myriad channels on Youtube i stumbled across the channel of Art ala Carte. this is a wonderful channel. she is a very good artist that doesn’t take herself too seriously, and she explains the concepts in her videos in a very easy way that allows you to follow along and not feel that you have absolutely no idea what you are doing! and she likes to draw cats……
Not wanting to just concentrate on the head I decided to move on to something a little different tonight, body proportions. This really isn’t as easy as it looks….
I’ll count this as a benchmark in my progress….
Using a technique called “iterative practice” today to knock out the basic form of the head. Practice makes perfect!
Please keep in mind I’ve never done this before….
I really didn’t feel like drawing the apple, but I did. I know for a fact that I will not improve unless I put pencil on paper with some degree of frequency and I must challenge myself to not to get comfortable with what I am doing…
what I learned today is that I need to take my time and make sure I have proportions correct before getting too committed. that leave is woefully small in comparison to the source image….
Such an elusive animal you are….
Tony Diterlizzi was kind enough to answer me on twitter when I posed a question
So instead of “practicing” tonight I just grabbed the sketchbook and drew up the first thing I saw.
My perspective needs a bit of work….
I’m finding the hardest part of drawing eyes is getting the same shape for each, along with proper proportions. Man do they look goofy if they aren’t approximately the same.
I’m not really worried about getting a super realistic amount of detail in there, just proper normal looking peepers…
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