Asked my 4-year-old what to draw. “A spider thief!” she said. “And then the police spider comes in his spider police car!” “But what has the spider thief stolen?” I asked. She got a worried look on her face. “ALL the presents.”
Silly wizards.
Was doing some 1-minute sketches from random prompts, when this stupid gag came out of nowhere.
Managed to fill the entire A4 sheet, in the end.
Some pencils, for scale.
Mice and giraffes and a treasure, oh my!
Got a few more minutes down on my daughter’s fantasy map tonight. Love that little fiddle-playing creature, it came out of one of her scribbles.
30-second, 1-minute and 5-minute studies from reference images. (Montage)
A couple of longer studies, broke out the watercolor markers. (Montage)
More figure sketches from reference photos. (Found another great source of pics at characterdesigns.com)
Still have very little idea what I’m doing; just drawing off photos feels like learning a new language by parroting the TV or learning to cook something by blindly following a recipe. (Both good first steps, though.) Will have to dive into the anatomy books to get a better feel for the underlying shapes and proportions.
Pigma Micron 02 on spiral notebook paper – if I’m ever going to fulfill the other goal of drawing every day, I gotta use whatever’s at hand! Love that pen, though.
Same new year’s resolution every year: gonna up my figure drawing game! Found some of the sketches I copied off of Loomis’ “Figure Drawing...”, those were from 2020. Didn’t draw that much last year, I guess.
Tonight I did a quick sketch of a random image from the SketchDaily Reference Site. Not great, but the point is to return to these after some time and (hopefully) laugh heartily at all the wonky proportions. Exercise baselines and whatnot.
Hoping I’ll find some local life drawing sessions this year.
Jan. 1st: Added a beach.
Jan 2nd: Added some train-robbin’ varmints.
Did some drawing with prompts from my 4-year-old during the holiday. Whenever she sat down to draw, I’d sit next to her and borrow some pencils. Over the last days, an A4 sheet of paper has been slowly filling with tiny doodles. I get a real kick out of her creativity, and she likes seeing my dumb interpretations of her ideas.
It’s so enjoyable to just play and tell silly stories with drawings this way! (I’m learning a lot, kids are way better at this than adults.)
(Future updates: part two, finished drawing)
Having fun making imaginary posters to hang on the walls in Fishbone. (Made with Procreate on the iPad)