100 days of art

[Leyelle]

Track your journey with me. It's okay to take up to two days off a week (because carpel tunnel is bad) but the goal is to draw at least five days a week until you reach a total of 100 days and see how much you improved over time.

This was my first day for digital art:

And here was yesterday's art day #19 (day 5 of a different challenge)

[Lensing]

That´s a good idea, I will use this to get better at drawing hands
and also to keep track of what I´m learning about the planes of the head

[Leyelle]

ahh, hands. I really need to work on those too lol

[Lensing]

Day 2, some hands I struggled with when I drawing a page yesterday
and some more planes of the head. I´m trying to finish to learn the complete
cheek bone area which is the most complicated part of the head for me

[Lensing]

Day 3
just a quick hand and what a quick visual reminder what I learned today about the planes
of the face

[Lensing]

btw, the best tool ever for hand posing is "handy art reference tool"
I use it all the time to pose hands. They have ready to use and turnaround
hand poses, you can modify them in all ways. put shading on them etc.
I take screenshots and then use them as reference. It´s easier then looking
for hand poses or posing them with your hand.

This is how I use it. I could also trace over the reference but that would 1) feel like
cheating and 2) I want it to be unperfect looking and fitting to my style.

The picture is how I quickly sketched the hand, then what I made out of the reference

[Leyelle]

cool, that sounds really useful

[Lensing]

Day 4
I rushed this because I can´t wait to get back to working on my comic,
And I learned to draw Mickey Mouse, I play an online drawing game sometimes
and just found out that I can´t draw Mickey Mouse

[Lensing]

Day 5, I´m almost done with the planes of the cheek bone area.
it´s the most complicated part of the face for me, that´s why
it´s taking me forever to remember it. I will do a longer portrait
once I remembered all the parts. I tested if I can still draw
MM and I wasn´t happy with the hand sketch today but it
doesn´t look too bad when I look at it now

[Leyelle]

Lol, I can never draw other folks characters

[Lensing]

I can´t draw my brothers main original character for some reason.
It´s a super simple character with just 4 lines as hair but he says I
always draw him too cute

[Leyelle]

Well that's better than a the alternative ig

[Lensing]

Day 6
I did the last part of the cheekbone area plane which is the side thingy.
Next thing I will do is to watch the tutorial how to attach the planes and
where they are exactly. I have the feeling that this is one of the main keys
to draw better 3 dimensional looking faces and for shading.

No Mickey Mouse today but I can draw MM in my sleep now

[Lensing]

Day 7
I´m not really getting forward with the theory right now so I´ll just take one small
step after other. I just try to remember one plane today and that is the back triangle

I also did this color thingy today. I really have to do a step to step coloring course
or some at one point of my life. I don´t have the patience for coloring and I don´t
know which brushes to use and everything

[Lensing]

Day 8,

totally messed up that head but I got better at remembering the planes of the head,
they are just not placed good because I didn´t draw head correctly.
I´m quite happy with the hand turnaround

[Leyelle]

Practicing drawing highlights and contouring with the help of reference photos, And some advice i've received.

[Lensing]

Day 9
it never feels like I´m improving but sometimes I realise years later that
I improved

[Lensing]

Day 10, I did my least favourite hand pose today, the fist.
It´s so hard for me to draw a fist because it always just looks like one big
mass and there is no option to make it look good with dynamic fingers or
anything.

Then I did a quick head study but didn´t have the patience to do it accurately

[orchidesyl]

I take on too many things to start this as a side mission, but I believe in you guys! And I believe in anyone else who participates! Commenting join the thread :>

[Leyelle]

it never feels like I´m improving but sometimes I realise years later that

yeah, that's too relatable lol