Good morning everyone!
I’ve been meaning to get around to this for months now, but my motivation came and went like the tides. I went though a bout of no drawing (BAD, I know), and with my recent aquisition of the Loomis .pdfs I’ve picked it up again and I think I’ve got a better idea of where to go and how to get there. I’m going to post everything that’s in my sketchbook right off the get-go, and hopefully update a couple times a week. My goal is to have a new page every day.
For a bit of background, this is the first sketchbook I have ever owned. As a kid, I drew plenty (particularly out of one of those ‘how to draw bugs’ books). At some point, I sort of shut the door to my right brain and didn’t really consider it until my graduation-crisis. I’ve opened the door again, and I’m just dusting that room out before start furnishing it.
The first few posts are going to date back to about September of last year, and I’ll provide a brief explanation of each as I can best remember.
Pre-instructional drawing. First thing I [actually] drew in almost a decade.
From Betty Edwards, the New Drawing on the Right Side of the brain - hand-eye exercise drawing upside down.
Right now I’m working on just visualizing the cross-sections of the sphere. The exercise is simple enough, but visualizing it has proved to be a delightful brain-teaser for me. I’ve been holding a quarter up and turning it to match the rotation, to I have an idea of what the lines would look like. I’ll keep working on this as I feel that this is an important thing to be able to do!
Thanks for your patience everyone, I’ll relinquish your monitors at this point.
Cheers,