
Xena Drawing Finished
I’m happy to announce that this Xena drawing is finished and I’m done with this character. Time to move onto the next one.
THE DAILY ARTIST
I’m happy to announce that this Xena drawing is finished and I’m done with this character. Time to move onto the next one.
The Xena drawing is almost done. I would have finished it today but I’m not a tight schedule of creativity throughout my day.
Xena has such wonderful jet black hair and in order to go pure black with graphite I needed to really work my arm hard.
Instead of just drawing what I see in the photo I focused on drawing with motive today.
I’m back on track today and working on the same drawing of Xena I started from two days ago. I also got some great gestures
Lots of challenges today with web stuff so my art time turned into a very short day.
Having more fun with another practice called “Group Poses” plus I started a new Xena drawing.
I’m trying hard to see structure in the photo of Xena I’ve been drawing from for the past couple days and it’s not going well.
I really dislike this latest Xena drawing. I’ve overworked it and killed any emotion or feeling in it.
I really enjoyed the reverse gestures exercise from The Natural Way to Draw this morning.
Instead of constantly getting discouraged I try to focus on the process not the outcome.
Drawing Xena and measuring before every stroke I realized the problem with drawing methods upon checking my progress.
Today I switched gears, picked a new image, and tried a more traditional approach to drawing Xena.
I was pushing myself to just let the drawing happen and it turned into a pretty bad drawing.
We need to have a deep willingness to do “bad” or “ugly” art when trying to see rather than copy.