I drew some boxes on the 5 point grid.

I'm still struggling with daily practice. Sometimes it's a fight with myself to get going but once I get going then it's much easier. Just starting is the hardest part for me. Especially when I am already feeling burnt out with everything else that's going on in my life.

Even one small thing a day is better than nothing at all though.

I tried the man in 4 point perspective. This was turning out soooooo wonky looking while I was working on it that I burst out laughing because he was so wide! I must have gotten the initial measuring proportion off, so i slimmed him down by squishing the art horizontally. I also had to go back and adjust the head since it was super tiny compared to the rest of the body. I think it turned out ok in the end, but don't think I am ready to attempt more of this just yet on my own.

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I took a bit more time to render these eye studies than the others. I had to cut myself off though cuz i could just keep going further into hyperrealism.

I want to study some anime and cartoon artworks next I think since I kind of want to get away from realism eventually and I'm interested in learning more about stylization.

Thanks for the comments. The 3 point perspective stuff was a note taking copy from Marc's lesson. I haven't actually tried applying that to any art yet.

Taking notes while watching the lesson helps me to remember what he said, but I think i'm going to do some perspective lessons out of a book soon though since his lessons on that topic aren't very in-depth.

I did some studies from the 100 heads challenge pinterest board. I stuck with just line art for these since they were pretty time consuming.

Back to some gestures and feeling rusty. I really need to make time for these every day.

Maybe we should ditch the timer in favour of learning the other approach and just be mindful not to overdo it? The timer actually might be hindering growth and cementing in bad habits since we are approaching it in the same ‘outline the contour’ way every time. Maybe it benefits pro artists that already have the skill set, but I am now thinking it might not be doing people that are new to gesture any favours. We want to get better while doing these exercises and improving our approach isn’t always about speed.

From my understanding too, the point of gesture is to find the spirit or essence and push the pose beyond what we are seeing so that we can develop under drawings that have a more dynamic look to them so that when we actually do that final drawing over top, there is still some dynamic ‘pushed’ aspect left in it. This just isn’t coming through to me in my gestures at the moment, which is why I think I am approaching it in the wrong way since i am still so focused on those contour lines. I also seem to have a tendency to try to complete the full outline and not leave any areas for the eye to just fill in on its own.

I was watching Glenn Vilppu’s approach last night and it’s more about ‘feeling’ the flow of the body and he uses numerous curved lines with breaks in between them to lay in the flow of the rhythms. He then does another pass over the drawing with the wrap around contours and what he calls containing or ‘bracketing’ areas like the ribcage and pelvis and leaves some areas completely undefined. From what I have seen of Michael Hampton’s drawing, his also looks similar with the contour lines and he has more of that flowing feel I am after.

Some studies of the planes of the head from a book called Special Training Animation.

More gestures. I was trying more wrap around lines with these. It feels like it is taking me forever to get through term 2, but I'm happy with the pace I am going. It's nice to look back on how far I have come already. It's motivating me to keep going.

Thank you! I think our conversation about them other day helped us both to level up our gestures a bit. I still don’t feel like I have established a consistent go-to method for them but I feel like they are getting a bit better.

The Manga heads are from a reference book on how to draw hairstyles. I don’t have a ton of experience drawing manga characters other than my practices here, but I want to learn more about how their features are stylized.