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Daily Draw 029-039 (4.14.14 – 4.24.14)

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Car trips, Easter weekend, lots of stuff happening without a moment to breathe. A couple of sub-par drawings came out from it, which is unfortunate…

Lessons learned:
1. Don’t try to draw while in a moving car.
2. Don’t draw with a ridiculously tiny pencil.
3. Don’t attempt a combination of the two. You’re going to have a bad time.

Daily Draw 022-028 (4.7.14 – 4.13.14)

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Happy foods! Baby animal! People! Blue pencil!

What is this… Week 4/Round 4? I’m starting to re-find (that’s right; finding again) my “style” of drawing. Whatever that is. Quasi-angular. Simplistic. Anime-ish?

It also occurred to me that I forgot to put whiskers on the cat. I meant to. Sorry, Angular Cat Idol.

Daily Draw 001-007 (3.17.14 – 3.23.14)

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 Try #2 with the whole Daily Draw project I want to do. I’m a little disappointed that at the first go-round, I failed. Miserably. After a month of doing it, I stopped due to not coming up with ideas, getting frustrated at my skills, and generally things getting in the way. For a while, I really thought about the factors that contributed to my failure. Why wasn’t I getting into it? Why am I frustrated?

The factors were narrowed down to:
1. I didn’t place the correct parameters. I work well when certain boundaries are set.
2. The perfectionist side of me got in the way. If something was off, I got frustrated.
3. Concentrated too hard on a completely finished product instead of sketching.

So, how to fix these issues… Well, I have several packs of blank note cards (3×5), just refound my ColErase pencils, somewhere between 10-30 min., a podcast (so it’s like I’m sitting in a class, where I apparently do my best sketching), and away we go! I found that if I limit my drawing surface (and use it to my advantage) and when the inspiration strikes, draw whatever it is, I’m more compelled to do it.

So far, so good, right? RIGHT?! Man, I really hope this works…

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Drawing: 365 Daily Project – Rule changes

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Judging from this past month and a half, I’ve come to the conclusion that I have to change my rules for my daily drawing project.

Rules as they were:

  1. Set the timer for 30 min. and go for it!
  2. Themes are broken down to either drawing from a book, using imagination, still life, or even doodles.
  3. There will be days where a session will be skipped due to time, work, real life commitment. In that case, double up on the next day.
Rules changed:
  1. Draw something. Anything. But not “half-assed.” Something decent.
  2. Theme: Try to stick to a weekly theme, but don’t feel obligated to stay in the theme.
  3. No skipping days. Otherwise it will confuse you.
I realized that due to my schedule constantly changing due to my part-time job, things get constantly shifted around. I constantly wish that my drawing time can be saved until I come home from work at 11pm or so, but I get way too exhausted from being on my feet for 8 hours straight and try to be on top of my game helping people out while keeping a non-weary smile on my face. (By the way, I work at an independently owned toy store) 
Long story short: something needed to be changed. I realized that at work, I have these moments, maybe a minute or even ten minutes where I can squeeze in a doodle or a thought on paper. And I started doing that. My hope is that if this will clear up some time (and worry) I can add time to animation now.

Drawing: 365 Daily Project Recap – Week 2

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Posting a recap a little later than I wanted, but at least I am keeping with the project, which is the most important part of the whole process. And of course, you can follow the posts which are regularly posted (every day/every other day depending on what it is) on my deviantArt: auseklis1984.deviantart.com

Here we go, week 2!

Drawing: 365 Daily Project Recap – Week 1

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Different from the 365 Daily Photo Project, this project is centering around drawing for at least 30 min. a day (depending on what my part-time work schedule allows).

Right now, the ideas, rules, and execution are simple:

  1. Set the timer for 30 min. and go for it!
  2. Themes are broken down to either drawing from a book, using imagination, still life, or even doodles.
  3. There will be days where a session will be skipped due to time, work, real life commitment. In that case, double up on the next day.
I figured that this month I would start off easy and start going through “Anatomy for the Artist” by Jeno Barcsay. So right now it’s all about bones! Although, during this past week it’s been interesting. I realized I have a hard time focusing quickly from book to sketchbook due to an eye issue. So my short-term visual memory is getting a work out. Not that I’m complaining.