Hello everyone. Happy Sunday (although I am really writing this on Monday b/c I had a 7-page paper to turn in last minute 
)!
I want to start off by thanking everyone who took the time to view the start of my journey, whether they commented or not. Now, let's move on to this week's progress...
On Sunday (9/4), or the day I created this topic, I started by working on my line art for about 30 minutes. I do this EVERY day, so I won't bother mentioning it again b/c it will just become repetitive 
. Anyways, I then move on to copying the following image of Akame from Akame ga Kill...
I just drew her head and neck b/c, up until this point, I had only practiced drawing the head (i.e., eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, ears) from online tutorials. Here's the result...
The drawing on the left-hand side was from Saturday (9/3) and the one on the right-hand side was from Sunday (9/4). I redrew it b/c I didn't like how it looked. I moved the eyes farther apart, protruded her chin a bit more, and brought back the neck. Also, if you noticed, I did not mention that I learned how to draw hair. The reality is that I did look up some tutorials, but hair gives me so much trouble, for which reason these two drawings took me like 40-50 minutes each (I know, it's bad
) . Everything but the hair I finished in like 5-10 minutes. So, if anybody knows how I can improve drawing hair, please let me know.
On Monday (9/12), I began term 1 (hooray!). I watched "Term 1 - Visual Communications" and "Term 1 - Nude Figure Drawing." I then again drew from reference. This time, I chose Mai Kawakami from Myriad Colors Phantom World... 
Same deal as w/ the drawing from Sunday, it took me 40-50 minutes b/c of the damn hair!
Everything else I was able to accomplish within the span of 5-10 minutes. And yes, I lightly sketch before drawing more solid lines. Nevertheless, any feedback is appreciated.
Moving on to the drawing in the middle, that is my first figure drawing attempt from "Term -1 Nude Figure Drawing." I wasn't exactly satisfied with measuring proportions using the pencil method, so I looked up some videos that would help me simplify the basic human anatomy, and I stumbled upon this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT9Vbb7WDMo&list=PLh33PBNTMQJd3WE3q4djHolYvDOBUptDp&index=1&t=169s. At the time, I thought it was a really good video, so I gave it a go (drawing on the far right).
I finished the day with some gesture drawings. I did not set a time limit b/c this was my first time doing gesture drawing, though this will eventually come back to bite me (more on this later). Here's how these drawings came out...
On Tuesday (9/6), I just practiced tracing on top of some different images in Procreate using the same method Marc used in "Term 1 - Nude Figure Drawing."
I also tried practicing gesture drawing within 30 and 60-sec intervals. I have to be honest...my drawings were so poor that I gave up after drawing 17 of them 
. Here's how they ended up looking: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xsmG-bG6Tny58cMcmrih0ywgfxAgP_KN/view?usp=sharing
On Wednesday (9/7), I filled out the "Male-Female Proportions" template, not from memory (yet). Here's how it came out looking...
Lastly, I did some more tracing practice but w/ some different build blocks as you will see below...
On Thursday (9/8), I tried figure drawing w/ the same time intervals but on paper. I have gotta say, I like the feel of drawing on paper way more than on iPad, and here's what I ended up with...
I stepped up my basic-anatomy game (or at least I like to think that I did 
) and drew some more refined building blocks. I took inspiration from David Finch and Kuzomari. The two videos I watched are:
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPxn1yLy_U&list=PLh33PBNTMQJd3WE3q4djHolYvDOBUptDp&index=6&t=159s).
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90HFBblWMw&list=PLh33PBNTMQJd3WE3q4djHolYvDOBUptDp&index=2&t=749s
I then took what I learned from the video tutorials and traced the following images...
On Friday (9/9), I again practiced my gesture drawing game w/ the same intervals...
I tried tracing the anatomy of the body in some more dynamic poses and found it very difficult...
I then realized I was not imagining the shapes in 3D right (especially the torso), so I took a piece of paper out and drew Kuzomari's model while also using Marc's method of measuring the male and female proportions...
On Saturday (9/10), I resumed my gesture drawing practice and drew the same model that I drew on paper the day before but on my iPad...
When I finished drawing the model above, I had a realization of just how ill-prepared I am to draw the full, human anatomy, even if all I am drawing are shapes. I say this because I have a hard time drawing boxes from different perspectives which are the foundation to all kinds of shapes. A good example of what I should be focusing on is what Dan Beardshaw is doing from timestamp 2:00 through 4:42 ONLY in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5vg-jA_utE&list=PLh33PBNTMQJd3WE3q4djHolYvDOBUptDp&index=8&t=363s
Given all of this, here are my daily commitments for next week:
1. Practice line art for 30 minutes
2. Practice gesture drawing for another 30 minutes: https://quickposes.com/en
3. Draw male and female proportions from memory within 10 minutes each
4. Draw boxes in different perspective like Dan Beardshaw for 30 minutes
5. Start and finish watching "Term 1 - Perspective" (by the end of the week)
