I tied up the last lesson in Mark Kistler's "You Can Draw in 30 Days"on Thursday. Which actually works out nicely since it gives me the weekend to break in the next book. As a closing note of sorts, I really enjoyed this book as an introduction to drawing though it ended on a bit of a let down.
The final three chapters had a big jump in difficulty. You go straight from channeling your inner tween to write 3d characters in Lesson 27 to drawing the human face, eye, and hands. If you've taken a shot at learning anatomy before you already know how crazy hard these are to do well. I would have expected more lessons to be dedicated to anatomy in general or for the topic to be saved for another book.
Lesson 26 was more fun with cubes in one point perspective.
Lesson 27 was just weird. I admit that it was harder to do letters in two point perspective than I would have guessed, but it wasn't a skill that crossed my mind when I decided to start studying art again. Lesson 28 is where the book goes from beginner to a level 300 course. No instruction in anatomy = god awful heads.
Lesson 29 covered eyes and the final lesson was hands. I've put some time into drawing eyes before, so they turned out better than my heads. Drawing hands is still super difficult because I have a hard time imagining where the fingers are going and I'm weak on foreshortening.
New book, new exercises. Value shading and chiaroscuro were introduced in the first couple of pages of Mark and Mary Willenbrink's "Drawing for the Absolute Beginner" which makes me really glad I decided to run through more than one beginner book. I'll be writing more about this book on Monday when I've had a chance to cover more of the material.
| Pages Read This Week | 88 |
| Total Pages Read Since Launch | 148 |
| Books Completed Since Launch | 2 |
| Total Tutorial Run-time | 2 hours 3 minutes |
| Days Since Launch | 15 |
| - Active Days (1 hour or more of practice) | 15 |
| Drawing Time This Week | 7 hour 10 minutes |
| Drawing Time Total | 15 hour 37 minutes |
* I'm considering Friday to be the end of the week for tracking metrics so that it lines up with my summary posts.
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