I’ve adjusted how I do my LoA practice. I do my ten 30 second sketches on one or two layers, then I’ll add a new layer for the five 1 minute sketches, a new layer for the two 5 minute sketches, and finally a layer for the 10 minute sketch and the final line art for that 10 minute sketch. It’s. Shaky. I’m still learning and I can still see improvement (I’m getting a bit faster, so I can add additional details in the 10/25 minute sketches that I didn’t think of on previous practice runs), but it feels like a long road.
I tried to do some expression drawing, which will show on one of the time lapses, and I was overwhelmed almost immediately. I’m not sure if it’s just me being insecure or my process with trying to draw faces/expressions, but I would barely draw the outline of the head before the image switched to a new expression, and I got through maybe 6 expressions before I went back to figure drawing. I asked some people I know about their process with expressions since I wasn’t sure if it was me or the process, and they kinda reminded me that I’m still new to the process and should take my time for things like this, and also to not limit myself purely to figure and expression drawing studies. It was probably something I needed to hear, and while I don’t think I’m pushing myself too much with the emphasis on figure studies, I am going to try to leave my comfort/practice zone and. Create. I want to make portraits, and comics, and fanart, and original art, and I’ve been so paranoid and clinging to the idea of doing them “right” that I haven’t done them at all. I’m going to still do my daily figure drawing practice, but I’m also going to push myself to do more “fun” art. More sketchy comics that I can create now and improve upon later, characters that don’t have proper proportion now, but will once I learn more. It helped being told to slow down and just. Do.
Time lapses under the cut.