Sycra hosts one of my favorite YouTube channels and has some of the most interesting lessons I've seen. The tutorials he posts are helpful, but it's the in depth analysis that he does that made me a subscriber. They can run long and that might not be great for everyone, but if you have the spare time check out these videos as an introduction:
How to Practice Drawing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKFfSl-EBfI
Iterative Drawing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ufz75UvHs
His video on iterative drawing was a real gut punch for me. Especially when he talked about drawing heads in the hundreds as being on the low end of the scale. The example he used of drawing 20 rough heads per day would have you at the 1,000 marker in less than two months. At this point in my drawing career I've probably only drawn a few dozen heads tops. After watching the whole hour long video I was hyped up and ready to work it into my own daily routine. The only problem is that the exercise would take an hour or more for me to complete at my current level.
So for now I'm going to stick to the basics and keeping refining the fundamental skills. I will be incorporating the iterative approach into the exercises that it suits. Like the lesson I'm working on today sketching the human eye. Taking an iterative approach to improving the same eye feels more rewarding than just doing a bunch of random sketches that could turn out to be a mixed bag of good and bad.
If you like what you've seen, you can find more at his official home page over at www.sycra.net.
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