Day 22: Week 4 Summary

This is my first week without structured daily lessons.  I did a little speed reading to wrap up "Drawing for the Absolute Beginner".  I mentioned the reason in my Monday book review, but if you're just catching up on the summaries this is why:

This is one of the demonstrations they provide for absolute beginners to practice drawing.  I know two people who have gone to art school that can't draw at this level.  It's ten kinds of crazy to suggest someone who just started learning to draw should start with this kind of exercise.

The earlier lessons covered rocks, planes, and trains which were only a little easier to emulate at my current level.  It's difficult enough to get the perspective, line work, and value shading right at this point.  I don't know why every example has to be jam packed with details.

I got bored with the impossible exercises and switched gears to trace from one of my comics, Giant-size Little Marvel: AVX (2015) #1. It didn't turn out as clean as I was hoping but it was way more fun to draw than anything I've been studying so far.

I took one last stab at learning heads from the Absolute Beginner's book before shifting gears to Klaus Janson's "The DC Comics Guide to Pencilling Comics" and some random head tutorials I found on dA.

My first anatomy study in a very long time, also from the DC guide.  I'm kicking myself for dropping the studies for so long because I had this all committed to memory before.  Now I can't draw a decent action pose even if I dump hours into the sketch.

If the anatomy sketches look a little beefy, that's because I'm following a guide for DC comic super heroes.  They don't really show how to draw someone with a willowy frame.  I dig it though.  It's a good read so far and this is pretty much an industry standard for American comics so it's definitely worth improving on.

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Metrics

Pages Read This Week	150
Total Pages Read Since Launch	298
Books Completed Since Launch	3
Total Tutorial Run-time	2 hours 16 minutes
Days Since Launch	22
- Active Days (1 hour or more of practice)	22
Drawing Time This Week	7 hour 15 minutes
Drawing Time Total	22 hour 52 minutes

* I'm considering Friday to be the end of the week for tracking metrics so that it lines up with my summary posts.

** I had to use a some fuzzy math to figure the page count for some of my Kindle books since they only have location tagging.