Alex's Sketcbook

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Long rant (mostly so I remember what the hell I'm doing when I read this later.)

I've been following Isra's perspective workshop for about a month now and while I'm learning a lot I've come to realize my ability to draw straight lines or confident ellipses is pretty close to 0. This is incredibly frustrating after almost 2 years of doing art so I figured I should sit down and do something about it.

After some quick searches I found the Dynamic Sketching master class on CGMA. Since I'm poor taking the class is a pipe dream, but with some more searching I think I can pretty much figure out what the homework for each week is and what the main ideas behind the class are so I'll try my best to follow along.

For (my) future reference here are some student blogs talking about the class and the homework.

Gina Florio
Tyler Chow
Creative checkpoint
Jonathan Nagel

Unrelated but somewhat interesting class course

Anyhow, here are some quick sketches of the 5 basic shapes, a bamboo (Plan to do a plant a day for the next week) and some old portraits I forgot I drew. Probably photo reff.