Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah Staying Awake

[Vicianus]

@Fedodika
YEAAAHHHH!

@RickRichards
Of course! Thanks so much, man! :'D

@Grotessive
I don't think it's as much as you think, thanks so much for all your compliments though!

@Pnate
Thanks man!!!

@Nphill19
oh my god, thanks so much! ;A; It means a lot!

All your guy's comments made me smile SO HARD, thanks for the support everybody!

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This week's haul:



I hit my 40 page goal, but several of the pages weren't in my actual physical sketchbook (Throw away drawing exercise sheets) so I'm a little behind to do the 160 pages this month.

Here's the pages I said I would upload from two weeks ago:


And here are drawings from just now:



I'm super stoked, because normally I only get one or two good(ish) drawings from a life-drawing session, but I liked a majority of them this time! All of these are 10 minute drawings.

And the digital life drawing from Monday:



I was actually bummed out earlier today and yesterday because I felt like I was stagnating, but really I had just focused a little too much on boring kinds of study drawing and lost interest. Looking back, I accomplished everything I set out to do this week, I'm making improvements!

The biggest leap I've made is I'm making ACTUAL PAGE COMPOSITIONS NOW!!! Back on page 1/this summer, and even last semester, I remember my biggest problem was that I couldn't make my pages look good, I was always just drawing random stuff on random parts of the pages and it was a horrible mishmash. This is my first sketchbook where (almost) all of the pages look at least somewhat neat!

Now that I spent a whole week focusing on photo studies and thinking about what real people look like and I feel pretty confident with my knowledge of limb rythms which I was super stupid about before, I'm going to buckle down again on really learning the muscular anatomy and executing this stuff from imagination. I'm going to keep working from reference, but also be pushing to really get this stuff nailed into my brain in ways that I can use straight from my head. I'm also going to be focusing down on heads again, studying skulls and angles and capturing closer likenesses than just random facial features.

Onward to next week!!!