The Daily Sketch

[0xDB]

new "gesture" variantSpoiler

(the "stick" figures in the middle) in these from exercise called "memory drawing": basically stare at three gestures for 30s each, then try to draw all three from memory within 60s(20s per gesture)...during the staring phase don't intellectualize the poses and make no attempt to formalize any kind of system to memorize them, just try to feel them with the whole body and draw from the (muscle) memory of the feelings in the drawing phase

straying from the Spoiler

"modelled drawing" technique a bit here, using "cross contour" hints into eyeballed "contour" (proportions are a bit off especially in upper body/arms but I'm not trying to measure too accurately because measuring hasn't been in the book yet and I'm trying to force myself to forget what I "know" to work with the book)

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[A2J2TIWARI]

I resolve to make something daily, no matter how shitty. 1 year will make a difference.

Trying concept art, shitty obviously.

[PixelPiledriver]

[Kasumi]

0xDB: Bottom one is super cool!
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[A2J2TIWARI]

Quick 5-10 minute paintings

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[0xDB]

Kasumi: ty

new gesture exercise variant is:Spoiler

"moving action"(bottom eight ones) where the practice is to look at looping footage of a changing pose or life action for 180s and drawing multiple impressions of the movement action in place

I am taking the liberty to Spoiler

at least rough in the outlines for the "modelled drawing" exercises now even though arriving at an accurate representation is not the point of the exercise. If there's anything that remotely resembles anatomy at this point it is bound to be inaccurate and it is the result of feeling the figure as the exercise demands by modelling it like clay with the medium, going over the cross-contours in all directions and increasing pressure where a surface appears to curve away and not a result of actively trying to model any anatomy knowledge(which I don't have yet and won't have for a long time... anatomy seems to come in really late in the book, so maybe in half a year or even more).

[Ai]

@PPD: Thanks! I might, after I finally finish my current font-related project.

@0xDB: So are you journalling some of this stuff? I've started to, cause I found I was having some interesting thoughts I wanted to come back to later - for example, whether there might be merit in a color-coding [not actual color] contour exercise, to separate the 'feel's of different objects. Or more recently,
Spoiler: Exercise 3

After recovering from an illness, I've just finished schedule 1E. Adopted a more 'bony' approach to gesture exercise - I felt previous attempts to feel where muscle pushed out and stretched didn't really help me sympathize properly with the gesture, so I would find the gesture but then lose it (particularly when mindful of 'move rapidly'! I think that most attempts to really follow that resulted in sculpting of minor rather than major muscle tensions, or worse, vaguely contour-following wibble.)

[PixelPiledriver]

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