05-14-2017, 11:20 PM
Apologies for not posting Friday or Saturday. had to go to bed early on Friday as I was in work Saturday and I had to stay longer to help out because one of the other workers didn't show up and I ended up being too tired to do any work when I got home. :(
I've been struggling the past few days, feeling like I haven't been progressing at all but in fact somehow going backwards instead, kept on making mistakes and re drawing things over and over again and still messing up. Normally at the start of the day I'll have a list of things that I want to get done that day but get frustrated with myself when I only manage to accomplish half the things in that list and just getting angry with myself for not getting alot done in a day even though I had been working all day long. - gonna stop here with my little rant because you've heard this a million times before.
Foe the past few weeks I've felt like I haven't really been pushing myself as hard as I should and I feel like I've sort of been wandering around aimlessly so starting tomorrow I was planning on following Dave Rapoza's weekly schedule the best I can, perhaps change some things. I've been worrying lately about all the things that I still need to learn such as colour, value, perspective, actually doing finished illustrations etc and I was thinking that perhaps it is best to just focus on one area at a time until I am confident in it and then move onto the next, e.g. focus on figure drawing now because that is my weakest area and once I feel comfortable with drawing figures from reference and imagination then move onto perspective and then start constructing scenes for final illustrations? (would like to know what people think about this if possible.)
Anyway enough about that, here's what I've done from last Wednesday to Friday. I wanted to try redrawing the same pose a few times instead of just doing one and moving on so abit of that, some 5 minute gestures since from my life drawing class I feel like that is something I needed to work on, some anatomy studies from Loomis drawing the same thing a few times while referring to the reference and then a few times from my head to see how much I could remember, then making corrections in orange. And lastly some portrait paintings that I started but got annoyed at since I struggled so much with getting the drawing right (re drew each head a good 5-6 times and still wasn't happy) but I plan on trying them again next week.
Apologies for the lengthy wall of text, had alot to get off my chest and since I only post once a week I tend to have alot to say anyway haha.
I've been struggling the past few days, feeling like I haven't been progressing at all but in fact somehow going backwards instead, kept on making mistakes and re drawing things over and over again and still messing up. Normally at the start of the day I'll have a list of things that I want to get done that day but get frustrated with myself when I only manage to accomplish half the things in that list and just getting angry with myself for not getting alot done in a day even though I had been working all day long. - gonna stop here with my little rant because you've heard this a million times before.
Foe the past few weeks I've felt like I haven't really been pushing myself as hard as I should and I feel like I've sort of been wandering around aimlessly so starting tomorrow I was planning on following Dave Rapoza's weekly schedule the best I can, perhaps change some things. I've been worrying lately about all the things that I still need to learn such as colour, value, perspective, actually doing finished illustrations etc and I was thinking that perhaps it is best to just focus on one area at a time until I am confident in it and then move onto the next, e.g. focus on figure drawing now because that is my weakest area and once I feel comfortable with drawing figures from reference and imagination then move onto perspective and then start constructing scenes for final illustrations? (would like to know what people think about this if possible.)
Anyway enough about that, here's what I've done from last Wednesday to Friday. I wanted to try redrawing the same pose a few times instead of just doing one and moving on so abit of that, some 5 minute gestures since from my life drawing class I feel like that is something I needed to work on, some anatomy studies from Loomis drawing the same thing a few times while referring to the reference and then a few times from my head to see how much I could remember, then making corrections in orange. And lastly some portrait paintings that I started but got annoyed at since I struggled so much with getting the drawing right (re drew each head a good 5-6 times and still wasn't happy) but I plan on trying them again next week.
Apologies for the lengthy wall of text, had alot to get off my chest and since I only post once a week I tend to have alot to say anyway haha.