Drawing Basics – Line work practice

Happy new year! Kicking it off with posting to my blog, yay! ^_^ These drawings are from working through the Proko Drawing Basics Course, specifically the CSI Lines exercise. Even though I’m going through the course much slower than I’d hoped, I can’t recommend it enough – Proko courses really feel similar to college level or atelier style workshops, compared to other online tutorials. Not to say I don’t also love and appreciate other courses and tutorials, I just think Proko courses are worth the cost, 10/10 would recommend.

My photo game was very off with these – it was late at night, no natural sun unfortunately. Just sad desk lamp, and quick iPhone photos. Photoshop editing couldn’t save them, even with de-saturating and level adjustments. I want to sort out a better lighting set up! 😩

Anyway, these are from reference images provided within the course. Boots, a snail, a camel, and a skeleton wearing a hat. I had a lot of fun with the boots – it makes me want to get my own boots out of my closet and draw them from life!

A simple line drawing of a pair of boots. Notes in the margin state is a CSI line exercise from the Proko Drawing Basics course. Dated December 16, 2023. — Practice work from the CSI lines project of the Proko Drawing Basics Course: Boots attempt #1.

A simple line drawing of a pair of boots, with the lines very gestural and less detailed. Notes in the margin state is a CSI line exercise from the Proko Drawing Basics course, and that I was trying to be quicker with lines and less detailed. Dated December 16, 2023 and signed Lizabeth Wildwood. — Practice work from the CSI lines project of the Proko Drawing Basics Course: Boots attempt #2

A simple line drawing of a snail crawling on a flat surface, with notes in the margin that it is from the Proko Drawing Basics Course CSI Line project, the source photo is by Alexas Fotos. Dated December 16, 2023. — Practice work from the CSI lines project of the Proko Drawing Basics Course: Snail attempt #1

A simple line drawing of a camel. The margin notes state it's a CSI line study from the Proko Drawing Basics Course. Dated Dec 17, 2023 and signed Lizabeth Wildwood. — Practice work from the CSI lines project of the Proko Drawing Basics Course.
A very wonky looking camel ;__;

A simple line drawing of a skeleton wearing a hat. Notes in the margin of the drawing state the reference photo is from Proko Drawing Basics Course CSI Lines. Dated Dec 17, 2023 and signed Lizabeth Wildwood. — Practice work from the CSI lines project of the Proko Drawing Basics Course. Skeleton with … captain (?) hat.

I was really trying to focus on pulling a confident line all the way through the contour. I’m quite happy with how most of the lines turned out, except the snail. The snail one I just did not have fun with. Is because I don’t like snails? Hah. Maybe.

Can I also just take a moment to appreciate that I spelled my pen name wrong, LOL. I’ve been switching from Elizabeth to Lizbeth online for my art social media accounts, but apparently went into muscle memory and still dropped in the “a” in there. It’s going to take some getting used to!

I’m happy I have today off work, as I’m still sick >_<. It has not been a great holiday weekend. But I did manage to work out today to a Datura belly dance video. I’m possibly going to do the January challenge. At least I’m on track for day 1, haha ^_^*

Now to clean up a bit, and maybe draw? Since Friday I’ve drawn one sketchbook page and made slow progress testing out the Procreate default brushes, but it’s been very BLAH with the flu. I am trying to be gentle on myself.

Happy 2024 & ’til next time.

Lizbeth Wildwood

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