Fritz's Sketchbook

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Artweek artdrop week #4!

I like to do little summaries so that my sketchbook acts like practice journal so I can keep tabs of what went right or wrong each week:

Overall, I gained some good knowledge throughout the week. I'm dipping my feet back in color again. I have two wips of color studies that I'm going to post next week. I need to really start practicing landscapes because my mom's birthday is next month and I know she's always wanted a landscape painting. If anybody knows any good resources for landscape painting let me know! One or two days of the week were very strange for me. I only got like 3-5 practice hours in and my brain felt super unfocused and fuzzy. I find that I can do pretty well juggling university and art if I DON'T get distracted. Aside from that I'm excited to start finding and painting more of my personal "voice" I guess if you can call it that. This week I drew at a total blank when I set out to draw random stuff from imagination. I had ideas but they didn't feel very interesting or exciting to me! I was feeling kinda bummed about it until I saw Jake Park's on maintaining a "creative bank account." So I was thinking that next week, I'm going to have 30 minutes each day of pure entertainment. I've been getting back to reading a lot, maybe I'll continue reading for those 30 minutes or watch 30 minutes of a film or art gumroad or so each session. There's a lot I've never done before apart from say highschool/university work and looking up how to always improve technically so I want to use those 30 min to fuel my brain with new and interesting ideas and images.
It's just an idea. Sounds pretty fun too! Creative bank account here I go! :)


Haha that last one proves what Noah Bradley says: practicing drawings from imagination is a big skill on its own. I'm very rusty on it. I will practice it more. That's it for this week! Thank you so much guys for taking the time to watch my progress! I really appreciate it!  See you next week Daggers! :D