Guillermo - Art Journey

Another Month has gone by, I doubt myself constantly and I'm starting to lose focus on why I even wanted to learn art in the first place, but that's okay because I've got Art Quest, a neat little series of short books that work kind of like DnD and help you build habits and improve art in a fun way, I've also been watching The Secret City, which is a show from the late 80's teaching kids how to draw, someone was kind enough to upload their recordings on youtube and I throw it up and try to draw along as best I can, I have a few other books all from Mark Kistler and I'm hoping to go through them eventually.

Here is most of the things I've drawn for the month, I also have a little notebook thing that I can fit in my pocked if I go anywhere and draw on the fly.

I've kept up with the schedule for the yearly paln Marc released, this month I'm looking forward to start my studies on the human head and hopefully get back at drawing human characters, I guess I've grown too self concious about my skills despite trying my best when I first started out, its not like I hate to draw or anything its just I don't have the confidence to truly draw the things I want and hopefully I can work on that as time goes on, thanks for keeping up with/checking on me and remember to draw 20-30 minutes a day!

Or hours if you're in this course, we're going pro eventually right?

This month had a disturbing 50/50 on good/bad things that happened so I'll spare the mental health dump and try to figure out what it is that I during these trying times.

I'm keeping up with the yearly plan no problem, all the gesture drawing was done and the more I do it the more I start to notice certain details on the model's anatomy, still don't know if I'm doing it right so I'm looking into the topic a little more as I tackle this month's 5-minute poses.

I can finally start on draw-a-box's next lesson, my bad pensmanship brings me down but then I remember I drew this so I'll power through somehow

I'm mixing art quest's "personal project" assignment thing with the yearly plan and I started on a room in 1-point perspective that I have to finish but it seems a little intimidating when I think of all the details I could be adding

I also came back to art school and I'm trying to watch the anatomy 1 video and have started doing some sketches of the human head base thing that make sense to me, so I think I'm ready to move forward.

I don't feel like I got a lot done this month but I did manage to get the gesture drawings, I'm not sure how I'll do April's 10 minute gestures because I'm not sure on what else to draw during the rest of the or what to look for, 5 minutes was already too much time but I guess I'll do my best, I've also been trying to get through the Anatomy 1 class and its kind of hard to wrap my head around. It did get me to look closely at facial features so at least they're sticking out to me so when it comes to drawing them it should be easier in the future.

These are some of the sketches I did this past month, I don't know if lining things up like this counts as perspective practice but it sure helps me draw in 3d

I also learned how to play Settlers of Catan and then learned to hate it