MDravos' Sketchbook

[MDravos]

Hi there, 

I'm starting from "0" with Loomis' Fun with a Pencil. 
I draw only when I have free time, so don't expect a high frequency.

[MDravos]

I've finished all my tasks for today, it's already late here and I should've been in bed already. 
I had to stay a little longer, and do some doodles...

[darktiste]

Good idea to make the line smaller it easier to detected wobble on thin line or when you have problem connecting line.

Your circle are still bit fragile. It good to warm up before starting to draw but i understand if you don't have time.

Seem like you got 5 or 15 minute of drawing per day. So don't be surprise if the progress is slow and if impatience build up as exercise build up in the time necessary to be done.

What the drawing program or App you use?

I recommend to keep redoing the second drawing with the ball and the ball axis for a couple of day but you make the axis go all the way as if the ball is transparent. This a training in feel the form of a ball. The goal is not to end with the ball at the right but those that make a full ellipse around the form the reasoning behind that is that without the full movement your have to visualize the full ellipse that can prove difficult and that generally make the axis weakly wrap around the sphere. For now it more important that you get a better sphere than you get a better ellipse. So draw both ball and those ''transparent'' ball.

[MDravos]

Hmmm, I got your point
I'm using Krita, with a Wacom tablet, but to be honest, I was more of a traditional artist back then.
It was much easier to get geometric solids on pencil and paper than to do them here.

I think I'll watch some Krita videos, I've never used it before too.

Edit: I changed the tablet disposition on my table to get the circles from my shoulder instead of wrist and fingers, got a bit easier, but the lines are still wobbly.

[MDravos]

I've resumed with these...

[darktiste]

Gotta give you a point for being consistent about posting because otherwise you deprive yourself of any feedback and that not a good place to accelerate your learning.

You also showing an small increase in the quantity of drawing per post which is a nice thing sometime. I will always favor quality over quantity but there is also a point of perfectionism that can hurt so just be vigilante. Learning to understand what the point of what your doing can be more important than giving 110% every time because sometime you are more after confirmation that you have assimilated the concept than you are after a finish product. Hitting a good ratio of finish project is important to understand how to problem solve in a longer project and being able to conduct your own study is an other skill.

A problem with book it very easy to follow or copy what inside but it a much different skill to internalize the concept and to be able to extrapolate new exercise that reinforce your growing fundamental. What book are great at is that they often offer a linear approach that make it more easier to digest the content they present but they are poor at point out your current visual limit and way to close the gap when you don't understand certain concept they have poorly elaborated on or just not touch on.

Fortunately for you it never been easier to ask for help may it be from a forum or having a Ai elaborate on certain concept.Personally i would rather rely on someone experience because they offer strategy and they can leave space to humanize your struggle which sometime is necessary to vent out frustration because that exchange create a opportunity to develop were vocabulary and it give use the opportunity to self reflect which i really believe is at the core of find out were weakness and strenght which inform us in were development.

[MDravos]

@darktiste

Thank you for the encouragement, I was thinking about it. 
I've used to enjoy drawing a lot, but before giving up I made an attempt of creating a project where I had to do a lot of drawings in another artist's style, and it made all the joy of drawing go away. I'm still not feeling it, You may notice I haven't tried to do anything besides these studies, not just because I'm kinda embarassed by the lack of quality, but because I'm still trying to get past this bad feeling.

Well, baby steps...