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Last week’s sketches: Sewing notions, seashells, croissants, and pumpkins
Took a week break from blogging and then I’m back, hooray! It’s been a busy few days so I have a few things lined up to share. Color pencils and graphite pencil still life studies for tonight. The 14 day observational drawing challenge didn’t stick, unfortunately, but I have been drawing other things. Mostly keeping it very simple and relaxing for sketchbook number 9.
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Daily Drawing Day 4
Gah, it’s already 9:30pm and I still have a lot left that I want to get accomplished today. I did sketch today in a coffee shop, which was a nice change of pace, but I want to add more to that page before posting it, so here is yesterday’s daily drawing, from the Proko 14 day challenge.
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Pumpkin sketches
The weekends always go by way too fast. Still, I managed some quick sketches. Didn’t quite finish the page I was working on, but I’d rather post a WIP photo here then wait until it’s done. Seasonal studies, yay! ^_^. My mom gave me a pumpkin on a recent visit – it’s larger than the small ones we grew in the garden this year, and barely fit in my still life box/lighting box, but it still made a great object to study. Especially the twisting planes of the stem.
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Sketching apples, peppers, & leaves
I managed to finish day 2 of 14 days of graphite drawing yesterday, yay! Of course I haven’t done today’s drawing…yet ^_^*. I got to use my cardboard box still life diorama thing for the first time, too. It has a hole cut out of the top that I can place a light against, to have really harsh shadows, rather than the general ambient light of a typical well-lit room. And I’ve also got a bonus page with studies of leaves to share – so that next time I’m hiking, I feel better prepared to draw forest landscapes.
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Quick digital paintings inspired by Howl’s Moving Castle
I’m still planning to make time for day 2 of 14 days of observational drawings in pencil…buuut I felt the inspiration to make some digital paintings, late last night and today. ^_^ Ricky and I saw Howl’s Moving Castle in theaters last night as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2024, and when we got home, I painted a quick shooting star study based on the scene where Howl catches Calcifer.
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Making Time
I’m going to try to commit to 14 days of daily sketching, specifically for posting at Proko’s drawing basic’s course, but I have tried to commit to this several times over the last year, and I always end up skipping out. It feels a little like a cursed task, every time I add “Day 1 of 14 days of drawing” to my daily to-do list. The idea of blocking off time in my calendar is nice and all, but chores or sleeping at least 7 hours or whatever takes precedence. I still like to think I can just wake up 30 minutes earlier and draw, it’s just no matter how…
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Practice or Procrastination?
I think an artist could get stuck doing practice drills and basic drawing exercises forever, and never really make whatever they have inside of them, waiting to eventually be expressed. The thought is kind of haunting, and it makes me worried when I practice art: am I just wasting my time, “practicing”, when I should be trying to make the art I want to actually have in my portfolio, or make prints of to sell at artist alleys?
Art with a dash of old school blog rambling
