day #107 - DAD: Draw All Days
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I liked the above phrase. Dad, draw all days. There is the belief that if you draw everyday, you improve. I don't know if it's true, buy I remember a few months back coming across and it felt natural. Then again, at other periods of my life I had come to the realization that if I give myself "downtime", time away from drawing this speeds up learning since you also need time to digest. Often always, the biggest improvements were not when I was practicing, but the long stretches of time that I wouldn't practice.
Anyway, today had been pretty productive. Other than ellipses, I did lots and lots of doodles (I'm starting to think that it might be time to break them into separate sheets because they get lost in their miniature size. Anyway, lot's of cool stuff here; buildings, cards, statues in nice dynamic poses, perspective, machinery, heads, successful attempts at foreshortening and what not; wild beasts, mosques, tomes, robots, aliens, simplistic cartooney characters, antlers, nice shoes, diverse body types, strange illustrative styles (perhaps I'm onto something?) with extra fine/sharp lines and smooth shadings, horse-like beasts, spaceships, alien cowboys, and above all, more understanding in muscles of the legs, the shoulders and discovering the rhythm in the arms!
And then I did some gesture/posture drawings. I did only 30-45sec ones, since by that time I was wasted, and I also did 30sec head studies from reference that I hadn't done before. I'm very satisfied with all that; bodily gestures are consistently alive, hands are starting to be more often hit than miss (I'm even trying different hand-styles) and head gestures are interesting! I wanted to study eye, facial expressions and noses, and never really thought that a way to do that would be simply by repeated gesture practice.
Today I also worked on the typography of the logo which I hope to finish at some point.
That's all for today. The tl;dr? I'm improving, and I'm being creative these days; these endless random doodles are paying off!
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