Lemon
Colored pencils again today.
I used yellow and the complementary color purple to give the lemon structure and highlights. With the light coming from above, the highlights are strong on the top and cast a strong shadow.
Progressing
I was hesitant to draw today. I had the pressure and negative energy of failure. I was procrastinating because my drawing wouldn’t be good and would frustrate me. The opposite happened; I am one drawing closer to improving my skills. 1% improvement daily. I will improve my drawing by drawing.
What do you want to improve, but you are generating friction and procrastination?
Donald Duck
Today I drew Donald Duck.
If you follow my Instagram feed JDHayes50, you know I’ve been on a Disney Character kick. It started when we were done at Disney’s Food and Wine Festival, and the Tropical Storm came through. My wife and I were at Disney Springs and came across Learn to Draw Disney Celebrated Characters Collection book. I picked it up, thinking we would be quarantined in our room for a while.
I am enjoying the step-by-step tutorials.
A rookie question, but the step-by-step tutorial has overall shapes you draw and then refine down to the detail. So how do you remove the general shape lines to get to the final drawing? I’ve tried erasing it, but the overall shape gets out of whack.
I hope you enjoy this.
Inked Up
Today’s sketch is my recent fountain pen ink bottle and box. I wanted a subject to work on perspective and depth with both the square and round shapes. Still working on that bottle top shape – still too round.
The good news is that my images are not leaning as much as earlier as I focus on the landmarks and perspective. Making progress.
Squares
Another way to trick your left brain to stop telling you, you can’t create art is to draw in squares. Today’s exercise broke sketching down into bite-size chunks. I drew twelve drawings. Even though they are small, I practiced observing, looking for contours, and determining what could fit in the box. Finally, I went through twelve drawings.
And the exciting part is that they look good when they are all on one page. Another tip to break down sketching.
Thanks to the Sketchbook Skool art class.