Day/Lesson 16 – The Wave. Using curling contours, tonight’s lesson was to draw a wave. This brought back memories of me drawing a crashing wave (bottom right) all over my school notebooks when I lived in Puerto Rico and was into surfing. I would usually add the tip of a surfboard sticking out from the curl. That was decades ago during a simpler carefree time.
Only one lesson today, Day/Lesson 15. We are at the half way point. Seeing as how it is the 16th of January, I am about one day behind where I want to be. Next weekend I should catch up.
This lesson was CONTOUR TUBES. Learning how to draw tubes with some contouring to them. And I drew a couple of mummies to show how changing the contour rings changes the illusion of movement. I like my little characters. I may need to expand on them into a 4 panel cartoon.
Anyway I give you contoured tubes.
Day/Lesson 14. Second one today.
This one was drawing a Lily. How’d I do?
Also included is a side sketch of a Funko Pop Demogorgon from Stranger Things.
Day/Lesson 13. Not gonna lie, this was hard. It was just simple cubes but trying to get the foreshortening perspective working was tough when combining into a simple house. I’ve got a mountain of eraser shavings from the constant re-drawing of lines to try and get the perspective correct. I don’t think I figured it out fully. This is an area I’m going to have to practice more. going to tray and get a second lesson in today (Saturday) as I work to get caught up and finish at the end of January.
Lesson 12, getting into physical reality by constructing with cubes. Not the best house I could probably draw but working on it. Not really happy with the roof. And looking at it now, probably should have that interior a little darker shade.
Lesson 11 – More cylinders. More shading. Nothing more to say. This one took a good hour to complete.
1/3 of the way through this challenge/adventure. Day 10 was THE CYLINDER. Getting the basics down. Again, lots of shading to try and make things look 3D on a 2D piece of paper.
I bought a couple of Pentel mechanical pencils (.7mm lead) at the recommendation of the writer of the “You Can Draw in 30 Days” book. I’m liking using them.
Ok let’s see the results.
This lesson was The Rose. This lesson took at least an hour to complete. There was some pre-drawing practice and then the final drawing of a rose. Again, these are not life accurate drawings. They are presented to teach methods for presenting an object in 3D space. So that when you do want to do something a bit more realistic you can.
So a lot more foreshadowing and shading was done. I present to you two pages for tonight’s lesson – Flags and Roses.
Cool Koalas? Yep that is what Day/Lesson 8 was called. This lesson focused on using texturing as a shading technique rather than… you know, shading.
After some textured balls, and who doesn’t love texturing balls, I drew a Koala. I think it’s OK. It is definitely not supposed to be an actual Koala, more like a Kartoon Koala. Let’s call him Kevin the Koala. Say hello to Kevin.
Almost caught up. Today is the 9th of January and I completed lesson 7. So I’m 2 days behind my plan to complete by the end of January.
Day 7 lesson was Advanced-Level Cubes. Basically taking what was learned on Day 6 with Cubes and expanding. Putting together structures. Sounds simple, but not as easy to handle the foreshortening as I thought.
Here are the results:
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