Danny's crappy book of sketches

[Fedodika]

Another novel post from me

MMM yess!! Gurney! hmm I think though it is often reffered to as the cardinal sin of practicing, it actually helped me assloads when i was learning color to actually color pick some of my references. Like in this painting

http://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/willi...b-1869.jpg


The tones on her arms in the shadow tones somehow seem light or as light as the highlight/midtone as her arm. I wouldn't have known that this is just a dark desaturated yellow without color picking haha..

Or this one

http://cryptcrawler.deviantart.com/art/D...-363210566

How insanely accurate it is, but how almost the entire image is grayscale with some tiny saturation but crazy hue variations it is. Wouldn't have known that w/o sampling the colors. :>

and for staying focused. I used to watch this guy a lot the KNKL show; interesting take on productivity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9G-jsQghA

though something happened to me personally to where i can't be on the internet for more than 300 hrs a month for browsing and 24 hours of streaming video (unless i want to pay 55$ each time i go over) :/. So i became very grateful for the internet i do have and use it in a very minimalist fashion. This eventually ended my desire to look at things that are mindless (but i still do it alot just not a quarter as much) LOL

Uhh.. i kinda became forced to want to draw, so i can literally move somewhere else that has unlimited internet? I think it's actually best if you just let yourself do these things; If you try to discipline yourself you'll just get frustrated and stressed and i used to do it too. I just can't grind like i used too i really miss it.

But i find the most effective way to stay focused it to make an insane goal like with quantity. Say drawing 2000 hands. Like when i did that it took me over a week and a half drawing 200 each day about 4 hours each session, but i still allowed myself to do stupid shit and eventually it evened out to 4 hrs. Say i sat there and drew em straight in one day drew like 200 hands in 3 hrs. I'd get burnt out and go sleep for 6 hrs; So burning the midnight oil has its cost.

Did the same thing starting out with gestures. Like i said, I'm gonna do 1000 gestures since i was reading nicolaides. Did it, then realized i had to do 1k more, then 1k more... But it was all worth it, even if the goal itself is mindless, as long as your doing it, it somehow works. Still need to do a trillion more...

You either take time off and do stupid shit for however long and get back to work for a few hours or go straight and then get burnt out and rest for much longer periods. If you really force yourself to not rest you're gonna damage your progress anyways since your brain can't catch up.

So yea, enjoy facebook/Social media all that stuff it gives your brain time to put itself back together. And if you think you can truly escape this "wasted time" you're only fooling yourself.

Eventually you'll prioritize how much you need to do in the amount of time you've allotted yourself. If you're in a comfortable position mentally, you probably won't train as hard, is a way to sum that up.

Say like you're some rich kid with a million bucks and your parents want you to just have fun do whatever; Well you're probably not gonna practice art that much because you don't care.

Say you meet your dream/perfect woman who really appreciates your skill and takes you into her home to be her lover. She says you have 2 years to get an art job or she'll leave you and you'll be broke again; You probably will do everything you can to get that art job because you are compelled by some outside influence.

Just wanting to do this isn't enough and you'll see tons of examples on these forums. All these people "art is my dream job" "art is my passion i wanna be concept artst" etc. They are on these forums for years and don't improve a fartsworth in comparison to like algen or someone. Why? because they are in a comfortable enough position to not TRULY give a shit about getting art jobs. But you notice as soon as something bad in their personal life happens they really step it up

Why did algen improve a ton? because he was scared/desperate for the first year, where he improved the most. Why not as much in 2009? because he was comfortable, spending time with his Girlfriend who made him not care as much, but then when she left him, he started practicing very intensely and made up for in 2010 what probably was his lost year in 2009.

Just somethin to think about; You get there when you get there.