Daily Art #2899

When a piece takes this long to figure out at some point you start second guessing your abilities.

I’ve spent 23 days on this drawing and even though I’ve lowered the time I work on it daily I’m still feeling self conscious about it.

The portrait is working great, love it. But the background of the ghost like shapes are just not there. It doesn’t have the quality I’m looking for… Yet.

Challenges, they’re great, but uncomfortable. I’ll keep plugging away at it.

Warm-up

The normal 15 minute warm-up in graphite.

What went well, what was awesome! Celebrate It!

Feeling that I’m out of my comfort zone. This is a great sign that I’m pushing myself to new and greater heights. I can’t help but learn something after this.

What needs work? What did you learn?

The drawing needs work and I’m going to keep pounding at it until it works or I learn.

How am I going to Optimize moving forward?

Daily art, keep consistent.

Session Details

Session: 2899
Work: 1755
Width: 18
Height: 24
Medium: Charcoal
Art Time: 1.5 hrs

Charcoal, Fandom Fitness, Figure, From Photograph, Severus Snape

Chris Beaven

I'm an artist on a mission to do at least 30 minutes of art every single day for the rest of my life and track that progress on my website for all to see. I'm past the 10 year mark and I'm still going strong. Now it's time to give back and help other artists create a life long habit of creating.