Sorry for the unresponsive last few days.

I went through a withdrawal from my assignment and was decompressing. Though I didn’t get as far as I hoped, I didn’t entirely forget about what I had to do and watched some videos about drawing heads and one of Vilppu’s gesture video. I was completely discouraged about my last timed gesture sketches and that contributed to a blow on my self-esteem.

I was distraught over the appearance of my head constructions, too. But hey, practice makes perfect and getting stuck on this is not good for me in the long run.

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That didn’t go the way I thought it would.

Before trying to practice drawing heads, I wanted to see what would happen if I sat through a longer session and shorter amount of time than my previous gesture practices. No erasing or tuning up the drawings. I wanted to see where I was going.

Well, it was worse than I thought. At 30 second intervals instead of 45 (and 40 weird poses per session), I panicked more than I anticipated. No time to think where to put down my strokes. It didn’t help that I didn’t draw yesterday either.

I’ll try again tomorrow since I wasn’t use to the pace. I dove into some notes in Hampton’s figure drawing book since it went more in depth than his videos.

This is pretty embarrassing too, but I forgot so much steps in his head construction lecture. I think I have to refer to skull studies to understand it more. I’m not even to the muscles yet, but I regret not learning figure drawing when I was younger. Oh well. Better late than never.

Tired today.

I will be spending time today looking at Vilppu gesture vids and browsing Hampton’s figure drawing book. Using Vilppu as a supplemental guide is a great benefit. He even explains the box body that Hampton didn’t explain in the first video.

But yea, I’m tired. I created three other secret blogs about other studies to update along with this blog, and I also clean and cook around the apartment because my youngest sibling can’t take care of herself.

Also I’m spending too much time browsing 4chan so that’s my mistake. I won’t go on 4chan or other networking sites until the end of this year.

I’m going to sleep early.

(I have like, three days to finish my head constructions.)

Edit: Starting on value study for a tree. Now I go to sleep.

Head notes.

Finished notes for Hampton’s head construction.

Giving myself five days to complete the assignment. It seems easy but I doubt my head angles.

Gesture warmups, then notes.

Yesterday I went to B&N and got a cheap skeleton book. It didn’t have a lot of pages but it was pretty much the only other anatomy book I can find that didn’t lean towards medical ref. The selection for artist anatomy books was disappointing.

Today I’m sitting through a session of quick poses. I stopped cleaning up the gesture lines because it was eating up my time. Watching head construction video again.

Edit: Stopped at 27 minutes to go to bed. Due to the rain I am tired earlier than expected.

Woke up late but at least I’m done. QQ

I had so many questions about construction, but I think there would be more explanation in future Hampton vids so I can just continue to Week 3. I mostly worked on landmarks. Scapula was a hassle and so was box construction for the pelvis.

Tomorrow I will be hanging out with my siblings so it’s probably my day off, but I haven’t taken notes for head drawing yet.

Gestures to become construction anatomy.

I sat through a session on Quickposes to finish sketching through some gestures before refining them to turn into construction drawings. I thought I would be done but I got distracted with some watercolor videos. I also watched Week 3 of Hampton’s videos so I know what to expect when I get done with Week 2. Gonna have to take a lot of notes for the next one. I’m tired.

Anatomy notes.

I didn’t understand much of the landmarks on the forearm and legs when practicing anatomy, so I watched a few videos and took notes instead.

My sibling bought Arkham Horror LCG so I’ve been playing with it. That ate up my time yesterday. Now I will go make sticky rice.

Forearm hassles.

Watching vids on the movement of the forearm.

Slow drawing day.

I was busy today and wasn’t able to do my assignments but I was able to do a few more gestures. Long day. Now I sleep.