07-31-2015, 03:25 AM
I believe there's value in not dropping an exercise after a couple of days just because the initial excitement is gone - pushing further despite that is an important skill too. Try making it interesting *despite* having done it for a while, just like doing many thumbnail sketches for a painting will force you to come up with different ideas than the most obvious ones. There's this guy who practiced composition by re-drawing and tracing the same composition over and over again, and I think he also did lots of drawings of the same subject, changing and improving it a bit each day: http://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/dow-three-c (If you're curious, you have to go digging a bit, I forgot where he posted about that)
That said, you're free to adjust the rules to your liking - or at least, I don't mind at all :) This challenge is not to annoy anyone, just to keep people motivated to work on their skills. I.e. I count pure observational (i.e. landscape) paintings as composition as well, not just desktop object. When I'm too busy with other things some days, I allow myself to throw in some master studies as well. Just do what works for you and what helps you learn what you want to learn :) That's what it is all about.
That said, you're free to adjust the rules to your liking - or at least, I don't mind at all :) This challenge is not to annoy anyone, just to keep people motivated to work on their skills. I.e. I count pure observational (i.e. landscape) paintings as composition as well, not just desktop object. When I'm too busy with other things some days, I allow myself to throw in some master studies as well. Just do what works for you and what helps you learn what you want to learn :) That's what it is all about.