Forum posts by Narquelion

A 30 minutes class mode of animals
https://imgur.com/a/oX7ezpR

And this marks the end of vacations for me :) hope everyone is doing fine!

Here is mine. I followed this croquis video by New Masters Academy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNNSwITdPIM

Hello, here you can post your drawings for today's session:)

For each day we can open a new discussion (for example "31 July 2021"), post all our drawings as replies and talk about how we can improve.

You can open a new discussion too, just check that someone else has not done it yet for the day!

Let's help each other out :)

I choose a single expression, hopefully it's easier to improve by doing more of a single genre. Took 2-4 minutes each, moslty 4mins cause the angles of the heads were hard too.

https://imgur.com/a/C1HPpob

Hands and feet...but it happened to pop up mostly hands, not that i mind:)

https://imgur.com/a/JGbFYma

Done for today:) Spent 2 minutes on each, it wasnt that bad of a session.

https://imgur.com/a/ROdFsuU

Ok so today animals. I think i spent between 2 and 5 minutes on each, no idea of the structure of most of them, i need to study a bit of anatomy as well.
https://imgur.com/a/P2hzXKA

Yesterday's session, figure drawing class mode for 30 minutes.

https://imgur.com/a/GKffbbE

2 minutes each, i thought it would go worse :)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835154481494753321/859155115458297866/hands_and_feet.jpg

Figure drawing using another website, 2 minutes each
https://imgur.com/a/IhwAdMN

A face and a figure session with discord friends to keep me motivated :), the same day to make up for the inactivity.. so hard to stay consistent for infinite reasons, but i need to find a balance i guess and make more time for this!

https://imgur.com/a/0ys3O8z

I agree with you, I probably didn't explain well what i meant. Of course you re drawing from observing a 3d world, so there s no way you can improve in the visual representation of it without understanding this. What i meant is that by doing different practices you hone in a different set of skills, but of course this is my way of thinking. I can paint portraits but sculpting a face is a different thing and i need to practice in it to get better (just to compare two things that are usually considered separate skills).

In my actual state when i sketch my figure looks more alive than when i do a finished painting. I feel that figure drawing helps me in this more than other exercises, like the drawabox for example.

Pencil and paper today ✨

http://imgur.com/a/X3AbdDF

Started the drawabox this month, i finished lesson1, im halfway the 250 boxes and i started lesson 2 meanwhile.

Figure drawing is a different skill in my opinion, nothing to do with drawabox where you basically tackle 3d space and objects in it. Figure drawing it's that, drawing the human figure whilst not making it feel stiff (unlike when you study anatomy, there you focus on a different skill and knowledge).

The repetitiveness is a crucial point for the brain-muscle connection, and i'm noticing it while im improving in drawing through the boxes.

I think they follow the dynamic drawing from Peter Han method, and they extended it to be a full free course. Most elements are similar in the approach.

What i'm doing is following the drawabox but not keeping myself busy just with that to finish it faster. I prefer doing it slower, understanding better, not burning out by doing other things (figure drawing as often as i can, master studies, anatomy, color, composition etc.)

Hope it's helpful and good luck!