Hi everyone! Let me start by saying that I have never felt as happy about posting my art progress as I have for this week. My renewed approach to delivering on a single commitment a week kept me motivated and geared my focus toward learning. I learned a lot more about how to draw hair from this week than all the other weeks combined. I attribute this positive outcome to my prioritization of studying the form and volume of hair ALONE. Apart from my studies, I watched lots of videos, namely vods from Kaycem and Mike Mattesi on how to draw hair—they were instrumental in my learning. I now present to you this past week's work:

Gesture Drawings (3 min):

Hair study #1

Hair study #2

Hair study #3

This Week's Commitment: Learn how to shade hair

Hi fellow artists. A little bit late with my post - sorry. This past week I focused on how to shade hair, although I think it is more appropriate to say that I focused on shading as a whole. After putting my skills into practice, I realized that I still don't understand how light and shadows interact. And despite my lack thereof, I focus on the details. Nevertheless, I am satisfied with the results of my studies as I would not come to know my shortcomings otherwise. Hence, I will shift my attention to drawing, or better said, painting in broad strokes with a very limited range of values. More on this below. In the meantime, enjoy my work from this past week.

Gesture Drawings (3 mins):

Studies:

This week's commitment: Conduct 2 value studies of human and nonhuman models (objects, animals, etc.) and quick sketches with smudge tool.

- Although it may seem that I am setting up two commitments instead of one, my plan is to pause gesture drawings in order to try something different and, most important of all, focus on the big picture, that is, avoid detail-oriented thinking

@funslub1996 @patrycja.lerch @mitsuki-youko thank you all for your kinds words. Shading is complicated but fun. Imma put more time into understanding the fundamentals of light and shadows. In fact, I got the book titled as such from Scott Robertson. I will have a look at it this weekend and report back at beginning of next week

Hello peeps! Sorry for the tardy post. It has been pretty busy and I got a pink eye (I still have it ) I will make this quick since staring at the screen hurts my eyes. I will go back to this post and add the references I used, but here are my first attempts at painting and smudging (ever). With each painting, I explored different techniques, hence their dissimilarities. It is not the bet of my works but I feel proud that I tried something different.

As you may have noticed, I did not attempt 2 value studies after I realized my ignorance in the subject of shading. Therefore, my new commitment, which may take some time, is the following…

Read and put to practice Scott Robertson’s “How to shade” book

Once I have completed this commitment, I will formally move on to term 3.