The 10000 Hour Rule - Art Edition - 7626/10,000

[JakeB]

No posts for a little while, but I'm back for March, with a new focus... I want to start putting together a portfolio at some point in the near future, but I'm kinda shaky on my initial sketching skills. So, that's what I'm going to focus on. Basically, I want to get faster at the early stages of a piece so that I can create more variations, and have more time to focus on the later parts.

Get ready for lots of quick, crappy, loose work for a little bit.

To start with, I'll be doing this exercise, and we'll see how it goes.
1. Study - Direct copy of the reference
2. Angle Study - Working from a reference, but drawing the subject from a different angle. I find this helps a fair bit, really makes you think about forms
3. Sketch, With Reference - Pretty self explanatory. Make a sketch, then pull up a few different refs to help flesh it out. Try not to pull too much from any one reference
4. Memory Study - Pull up a reference. Make a load of notes, try to visualise it as best I can, pick up as much as possible. Then hide it, and try to draw it from memory. Compare to the reference afterwards. Note mistakes
5. Imagination - Draw without reference.

Aiming for ~10 mins for each one, but to allow for taking notes, and fleshing out the imagination piece a bit more, the whole set takes around an hour :)

And the categories are
1.Faces
2.Figures
3.Composition
4.Characters
5.Hands

Going to rotate through that list, and alternate between digital and pencil.

So yeah, that's what March looks like for me ;)

Stuff so far..
Portrait thing from the other day


And work from that schedule












Pencil stuff












And some other random sketchbook pages





Sweet. As always crits and stuff more than welcome. <3