
Daily Art Struggle
Some days are easier than others when it comes to a daily art routine. The last couple days were a challenge to get in enough
THE DAILY ARTIST
Some days are easier than others when it comes to a daily art routine. The last couple days were a challenge to get in enough
This exercise, which was suggested and taught by Jeff Watts in the Watts Atelier, centers around a mannequin head created by John Asaro called The Planes
It may seem tedious but these exercises have really done a lot to increase my dexterity with a charcoal pencil. It’s also quite sobering to
Things are starting to make since now. The repetition of these lessons are starting to stick in my head, and I must say they are
These are not the most interesting work, most will be recycled as soon as I have a stack too big to deal with. Their purpose
All kinds of figure study drawing today. The female gestures went well, but the male gestures fell apart quickly. I need to do more work
Tonight I worked on the Asaro head in 3/4, from the Watts Atelier course. Then gesture and bean from the Proko course. Then I began
Some days are better than others… But, I am not discouraged, I will be here tomorrow giving it my best.
More study on the head. I started with the Asaro head then moved onto a skull drawing then working from reference to match the skull
Still working daily with the Watts Atelier course and I’m exposing tons of weaknesses daily, and it’s awesome. I think a lot of people would
This was the last of the sheet of 9 skulls from Watts Atelier. I haven’t memorized any position of a skull yet, but this is
I almost finished with the plate of 9 skulls today but it hit midnight before I finished the second one so I decided to work
I’m almost through the page of nine skulls on the workbook and these last two were much easier. The views are from the back so
I worked really hard tonight to try and commit this skull position to memory. I took me two hours just to work on these few
Not much to say, I’m just trying to put in as much time as I can every day to memorize the skull in every position.
Drawing skulls are much harder than I thought they would be, especially from memory. I really have to work 3 or more hours a day on
Strange that I find the 3/4 view of the skull harder than the frontal. I only worked an hour tonight, we had a bike ride
Back to painting a bit today. I wanted to keep it mixed up a bit so I don’t get burnt out on drawing all the
Working more on the skull tonight. I was very tired early on so I only worked for an hour.
Working hard with the Watts Atelier again tonight and it’s proving to be more challenging than I thought, again. Tonight is all about human skulls,
Sometimes you just need someone knowledgeable in your field to tell you honestly that you will never achieve your goals if you continue on your current
I’m continuing with the Watts Atelier course and today its all about head lay-ins. In the spirit of Andrew Loomis I learned how to abstract
Tonight I worked more on the still life from photo. I’m was getting very frustrated with the degradation of the photo, I couldn’t see any
My in-laws are in town so I’m spending most of my day visiting with them while we checkout out different sights in Oregon. So, I’m
My in-laws are in town so I have to do my work at night and I won’t have time this weekend to work more than
Today I’m working on breaking down the light and shadow shapes into two distinctive areas. This is a great exercise and one that I will
More atelier work tonight with another set of tasks that look much easier than they really are.
On to more fundamentals study today. I only spent an hour because it was late before I got started. It’s so hot here that most
My lofty goal today was to spend 8 hours on art. I didn’t spend a total of 8 hours doing art but between the videos,
Today I went back to basics. Through this I’m learning that there is a wealth of great information that I don’t know. I took a large