Day 8: Week 2 Summary

Alright, the first full week is down and I haven't missed any of my daily goals.  So far I've worked my way through lesson 24 of Mark Kistler's "You Can Draw in 30 Days".  Going at this rate I'll be wrapping this book up before next week's summary.

Here's are some of the exercises I completed this week.

To be honest, I felt kind bored doing another lesson on rippling flags.  There's still room for improvement here, so I'll be drawing a lot more flippy flappy things in the future.

Pyramids were way harder than cubes and cylinders for me.  I try to scribble them down here and there for practice but most of them look wobbly.

Drawing trees without a reference was fun.  I'd like to do a study on trees when I have free time between books so I can come up with more realistic looking ones.

One point perspective room, one point perspective city, Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Laying the lines for the 1/2 point perspective drills was time consuming.  I need a lot more practice here if I want to put out more than a sketch or two an hour.

After wrapping up Kistler's book I will be moving on to something more challenging.  I snagged a copy of Betty Edwards first edition of "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing" in a garage sell years ago.  It's pretty exciting to finally be working through it.

Metrics

Pages Read This Week	48
Total Pages Read Since Launch	60
Books Completed Since Launch	0
Days Since Launch	8
- Active Days (1 hour or more of practice)	8
Drawing Time This Week	7 hour 22 minutes
Drawing Time Total	8 hour 27 minutes

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