Summary of my drawing practice for weeks 16 through 23 This period of my drawing practice, which spans most of February and March, has been almost completely devoted to learning figure drawing. Since my last update I completed all of the modules of Brent Eviston’s Gesture drawing course, and began his follow-up course which covers …
In late January I began learning figure drawing with the help of Brent Eviston’s wonderful Gesture: an introduction to the art of figure drawing course on Skillshare. In this course Brent teaches what need to get started drawing the human figure — from the very basics. I was really apprehensive about attempting figure drawing because …
This covers weeks 11-13 of my year of learning to draw. This was quite an exciting few weeks of drawing learning and practice. My main focus during these three weeks was learning about shading and shadows. Brent Eviston has two courses on shading, “Shading Fundamentals : Drawing with Dramatic Light and Shadow” and Shading Beyond …
This is a week 9-10 summary of my 365-day experiment in applying the principles of deliberate practice to (finally) learn to draw. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks, so I’m combining weeks 9 and 10 into one update. And since it’s been about two months since I started, I thought it would be nice …
Week 9-10 summary and progress so far – learning to draw Read this thing »
Week 8 of my “learn to draw” experiment has come to a close. It’s hard to believe I’ve been at this for two whole months now. This week, I experienced a good deal of frustration. There are some things that are just plain hard and that take time to develop. Even if I can see …
I can’t believe I’ve already been learning to draw for 7 weeks. Time really does go by faster as you get older. I’ve not got much time to write this, so I’ll just stick to a brief overview of what I worked on this week. I had to go to the art supply store for …
