So Reddit has a community that does daily sketches. I decided I'm going to start participating just to flex the old brain and draw some things that I normally would never attempt to draw. One thing that I don't like about painting is that I tend to get into phases where I only want to paint certain things. Its great in that I expand and explore themes very thoroughly but its bad because I don't seem to see outside the themes that I'm exploring.
I've also been trying to paint more representational work in order to provide a balance to all the abstract work I do these days. I don't like the idea of losing skills due to neglect.
Also got out all my old anatomy books and have been trying to force myself to draw people for a half hour a day to get better with form and proportions. I feel like I learned a lot in college and then just sorta sat on it for the last decade instead of developing what I knew.... So my figures have suffered as a result and I'm going to fix that.
So all that being said, these are the posts I did yesterday and today. Otters and Vertical were the words of the day. I'm going to try and post these every day just so I can get back in the habit of writing on the blog. Plus I think it will be interesting to see improvement over time and this is an easy way to record my progress provided I'm diligent in keeping up with the sketches and posting them.
End transmission!
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