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| 11 minute drawing |
In my spare time, I enjoy reading about and looking up different
artists and their work and one thing they all have in common is that they
practice their craft. Just as Michael Jordan worked on his jump shots or the
Williams sisters work on their tennis, in order to become great, you must
practice. In school it was easy, I was practically forced to practice with live
model drawing and painting sessions along with various assignments but outside
of school, it takes a bit of work to get into the habit of practicing. Recently
I found a cool site called
pixelovely that allows you to set up sessions where
they’ll show you figures or animals in different poses, very much like those
figure drawing classes in college. You may have a few 30 second poses on up to
11 minute poses or longer
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As I started with the 30 second poses, I was awful… man o
man, I was rusty but in one 30 minute session, I went from awful to not half
bad and that was just in one session. Imagine what could be done with
continuous practice over a length of time… As someone once said, each time you
draw [or paint], you get better and better. So here are some of my sketches
from last night’s practice session, the good, bad and down right ugly :-)
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| 5 minute drawing |
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| 2 minute drawing |
As I started with the 30 second poses, I was awful… man o
man, I was rusty but in one 30 minute session, I went from awful to not half
bad and that was just in one session. Imagine what could be done with
continuous practice over a length of time… As someone once said, each time you
draw [or paint], you get better and better. So here are some of my sketches
from last night’s practice session, the good, bad and down right ugly :-)
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