One way to get better at drawing quickly
Added 2024-02-03 02:32:57 +0000 UTCThese are some sketches from around February of 2020. I was trying this 100 portraits in 10 day challenge thing. I found it to be a super useful exercise.
They started like this
And this
I was studying portraiture at the time from books and videos. So I knew kind of what I was looking for in terms of forms and landmarks and all that.
These weren't my first ever portrait attempts. And I realized that even though I had been studying the theory and concepts of constructing a head, I still wasn't exercising the muscle of drawing actual people.
But doing 100 of them really quickly, made me have to apply all that theory and stuff and experience the process of applying it to life.
At the end I was doing watercolor ones that looked like this
and this
And the pencil one at the top of the post.
So if you're trying to get better at drawing or painting anything, not just portraits, I'd recommend:
1. study it from books or videos and practice a little
2. Do about a hundred sketches of the subject. Either from references online or out in the wild
Happy Feb 2nd Everybody
The highlight of my day was explaining the concept of "creating the illusion of depth through atmosphere" to a bunch of six year olds.
Even though it's a bunch of big words and conceptual we got to understand it by figuring out what the words meant together. It was a proud moment.
Then we painting a foggy rainy atmospheric scene. I didn't take pictures.
I just wanted to get the heck out of there.
I'm editing an Intro to Drawing Bad art Course lesson that I'm super excited about and just wanted to get home and work on it.
Here's a quote from the "Art of Worldly Wisdom book" I've been nibbling on recently.
"Most of the time things are not obtained because they were not attempted."
Have Fun
Goodnight Sweeties
