Continuing with the one-point perspective, today’s Lesson 23 was A City in One-Point Perspective. Like the other lesson, I enjoyed this one as well. I added a sunset and clouds to enhance the sketch. I also turned the sketch pad sideways to get a wider view.
Day/Lesson 22 – A Room in One-Point Perspective. Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Right angles, rulers and preciseness. The engineer in me hearkened back to shop class and drafting.
Trees. when I think of Trees I think of the Rush song on the Hemispheres album. Day/Lesson 21 was Trees, or more specifically a tree.
I’m happy with the upper branches and the shading there. Not that enthused with the leaves. And the roots look like Sideshow Bob’s hair style. But I know what to fix if/when I draw this again.
For your critique and comment:
So. I went and bought a drawing tablet last weekend. At the moment I’m continuing my 30 Day Drawing with old school pencils and sketch pad, but I wanted to get some buy-in to drawing and, to be honest, was getting tired of all the eraser shavings everywhere.
So I bought a XP Pen Artist 15.6 Pro drawing tablet. Pretty cool, but a huge learning curve. Tonight I messed around after Lesson 20 and tried drawing some craters and coloring it. Kind of amoonscape. Like I said, big learning curve to get the right pencil to sketch and then the shading. Still working it out.
Day/Lesson 20 – Volcanoes, Craters and a Cup Coffee. This was a fairly enjoyable draw and kept me busy for an hour. More foreshortening of circles and shading. How’d I do?
Walk like an Egyptian. This Day/Lesson 19 was The Pyramid. And shading. Cause you know… its hot in the shade, in the desert, where pyramids are. This was a fun draw, probably because I like straight lines and hard shapes more than circles and spheres. Easier shading.
This is the second of two lessons knocked out this evening, so check Day 18 for that completed lesson.
Knocked out two lessons tonight, so be sure to check Day 19 as well. Day/Lesson 18 was The Scroll. Taking Lesson 17 and turning flags into scrolls. It came out ok. Getting the hang of shading.
Day/Lesson 17 – Rippling Flags. Not much to say, Contouring and shading to create flags whipping in the wind.
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.
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