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Nov 25


Today is the one year anniversary of my prize winning short story so I drew the MC

I made this value thingy and tried to eyeball the value of the reference.
It was surprinsgly easy. I´m getting closer to learn how to shade properly

I have one big goal for the next months and that is to become good at shading.
I´m not sure how because it is overwhelmingly complex

I agree. I'm no good at shading

Sketch and linework + color.
I made a new plan for a 100 day portrait plan and I will draw
at least one realistic portrait each day. The picture that I attached
is a just for fun cartoon sketch which I made with the realistic sketch

I ordered a shading book and I included the shading process in the 100 day
portrait plan. I´ll start the shading part on day 25 after I repeated the planes
of the head and after I learned about line weight which is another thing I´m not
good at. I know what line weight is and I apply it but without having a clue
about it

Today I added shadows to yesterday's art. But I have more drawings to do lol

Um, I drew a BellatheCow's duck OC as a human lol

Another character design sheet. My Dominicana, but I think her mother was probably Haitian. I've yet to decide

Day 93,
I got the kid in the drawing course under control now, more or less.
I told him that I will have to call his parents and that they will have to
pick him up and after that it got a little bit better. I´m still pretty much
spending 80% of the time on dealing with one kid instead of teaching.

It´s snowing in Germany!

And I´m working on portraits. This is how far I am right now. I will make a carricature
of that guy now for fun and then continue with drawing the planes of the head
in the afternoon. I´m happy how it turned out so far, the proportions are more or
less accurate

Day 94, this is only the traced planes of the shape but this took me a long time
because I never understood how to place the cheekbone planes. I slowly understand
how it works but the whole cheekbone area is really hard to draw

That´s very good and 3 dimensional too

XD thank you. flowers are one of the few things I actually know how to draw lol

My female lead and her horrible fashion sense. This picture is very mid, but I'm burned out lately just trying to get work done TT

Day 95
I´m still doing the portrait stuff, I have a new thing where I first draw a carricature
of the portrait before diving into the complicated measuring and face analyzing.

I know the burnout problem well, it sometimes feels like going from one creative
burnout to the next and always trying to recover + avoid the next burnout.

Here is the carricature portrait I just did and I think it turned out surprisingly
good considering that I did it super rushed

I think it looks good. It makes me think of an old black and white movie actor


Drew this yesterday and added shadows today

Day 96, I´m doing some figure drawing today.
I don´t know how far I´m getting with this one because
I had to finish the course material for the and kids and
I want to record some demos for songs and I have rehearsal
later where we will also record. When I´m finished with the 100
days of art I will challenge myself to do 100 portraits and
100 figure drawings and I will take notes what to work on
and get criitiques from teachers