I've gotten a little carried away with doing gesture drawings since I dug up an old charcoal pencil. The last few days my 20 minute warm up has ended up running for almost the whole hour I set aside for drawing. Which isn't bad at all, since observation is one of my weak areas.
On the other hand, I still like to soak up some of the expertise that's floating out there and since I looked over one of Mark Crilley's books on Monday, I thought it would be a good time to skim through his YouTube channel again.
If you check out his How to Draw playlist, you'll find 217 tutorials and that doesn't even include the other videos like his realism challenges. At this point I've literally watched less than 2% of the how to playlist.
One of the things I really appreciate about Mark's tutorial is that
he considers the length of the video and uses time lapse editing to skip
through the time consuming parts that might not shed much light on the
topic at hand.
I followed along on his first ear and hands tutorials for a quick refresher.
How to Draw an Ear [HTD Video #1]
There's something about drawing the ear that's still challenging for me. Even when it's reduced to cartoon simplicity I struggle with nailing the symmetry between one side of the head and the next. It's especially difficult when drawing atypical ears like you would find on goblins or aliens since you don't really see those out in the real world.
How to Draw Hands [HTD video #3]
Drawing hands is still hard, but it's starting to come along now that I have basic shapes to build with to establish the general location and motion of the hand and fingers. I still need a lot of practice to draw them on the fly, but at this point I feel much more confident drawing from reference and that's a good first step.
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