Chardon - Art School Journey

[Chardon]

Hair and face training

[Chardon]

Today's hair and face training

[Chardon]

It's late but I did the daily training. Now I can go to bed happy

[Chardon]

Not that much time today, just some daily gesture drawing

[Nosnibor]

Your 4 point perspective drawing is very clean, it is cool : )

[Chardon]

My graphic tablet decided to not work as intended today. Pressure was not registering and small strokes didn't worked. It was really interesting to have this strange constraint. I kinda like how it turned out. Couldn't do faces, I tried and it was impossible to make any details. Windows restart should fix it for tomorrow

[Chardon]

The drivers on my computer were functional today !
Keep the grind going

[Chardon]

Daily minimum grind.

[Chardon]

Not my best day but it's ok, at least 1 of the face seems good to me

[Chardon]

Missing motivation today. Still did a bit and tried different approaches

[Chardon]

2min Gesture drawing. Tried a bigger pencil, makes it interesting. Maybe I ll try it more tomorow

[JimSt]

Nice job with the 2 minute figures.
For your face practices, you may want to look into varying your line weight. Make the lines that will be further from the light source thicker than the the lines that are closer to the light source. I think you might be pretty happy with the result, when you are ready to try that.

You mentioned missing motivation, but yet you are still grinding, so that's great discipline! But don't get burnt-out by getting stuck on doing the same exercises. Everything in this course basically repeats itself and you'll be reiterating over everything. And once you get further in, you can revisit whatever you want. Sometimes the thing we need is something new to push us to the next level.

[Chardon]

Hi, thanks for the feedback !

For the line weight, it is something I am struggling with to just think of it, so practice is quite sporadic on this point. But I ll make sure to try it on my next not timed practice. Do you think it is something I should be able to do as I construct the figure? Or can I do it after on a new layer for example ? (until it become more natural)

I try to stay on a daily streak, I don't want to miss a day or I will lose more motivation. I think it's a mix of motivation and time too, daily life trend to take a lot of time. But my 'daily streak' keep reminding me that I wanna go forth ! I even push me to be more innovative like today's gesture drawing. As long as I advance, even if it's not fast, I focus on improving and be better than last month me ! Thank you so much for the motivational talk and the kind words, when I get the time I am sure to get back to it.

Meanwhile 1min gesture drawing with a more minimalist approach

[JimSt]

Go for an additional layer after you've done your construction, consider it a finishing layer. That way it can be "extra credit" and not a big deal if you don't have time for it.

You could try to incorporate it into your gesture/figurative drawings, probably during a 5 min one where you have a little time to think before throwing a line.

[Chardon]

Quick gesture drawing, browsed over last month gesture drawing, it's nice to see the improvements. I remember the struggles of a few month ago, it's nice to see it like that now
Started to draw faces about a month ago, and I can clearly see it is getting better and more precise

[Chardon]

Tried 5 min figure drawing for the day. Didn't quite felt anything doing theses. Might come back to it after muscle lessons.

[Chardon]

Some 1AM gesture drawing. Feels strange to realize I am learning and improving without lessons to tell me.

[Chardon]

Quick 1min gesture drawing. Nothing more to it

[Chardon]

1min gesture as usual. I should find the time to work on my faces a bit more.

[Chardon]

Today some hair and faces training from imagination