Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

Do you have any suggestions at all?

It's kind of up to you. The guys at Watts are really good artists. Way better than me. You can trust their advice. But you don't want to just internalize their mannerisms. 

I think that sometimes the answer isn't just drilling and practicing the same thing, even if that's what you want to be good at ultimately.  Studying something else can make you understand the thing you're really trying to arrive at (mysteriously).  The approach you're taking now is really heavily constructive. You're not bad at it at all but you still have trouble with proportion. So try an impressionist approach which deals almost entirely with proportion and recording what is before your eyes. Try working from life more. It's good to make your own observations about nature. Try copying Charles Bargue drawings or something similar. Research the ideas of various schools of art of the past. 

That's my advice. I'm afraid of steering you wrong, but I don't think what I'm suggesting could hurt.

I get what you mean. I've been trying to get a master study done a week but with my schedule I think that won't be possible so I'll just make sure to atleast have 1 study going at all times, and rather than that always being a study of one of the Watts instructors I'll branch out to other artists I like.

I'll give some of your ideas a go. Currently reading thorugh the Russian academic books, forget the guys name, it's the one Tristan and Roanna mentioned the other week. Also got a few Juliette Artiside's books aswell so I'll add them to the list.

Tried working through the Bargue book before christmas but never got back to it. I'll give that ago this week at some point.