Day 43: Week 7 Summary

Not as much to post this week.  I got carried away with gesture drawings when I found that charcoal pencil buried in my art supplies.  My typical approach to drawing is to over analyze every line and draw the picture like I'm trying to solve some advanced math formula.  Taking a step back to just capture the action lines and train my eyes to really take in the image was helpful for me.

I got into was some random cartoon studies and a bit of Christopher Hart's stuff that has been collecting dust on my book shelf.

I also ran through a few eye tutorials to work on my symmetry and use of values.  Eyebrows still kill me and pretty much any eye that isn't a near perfect circle or rectangle turns out wonky on one side.  I read somewhere that an artist was asked what was the hardest thing to draw and his answer was, "The other eye."  That is no joke.  You can nail the first eye, but that just puts more pressure on you not to bone the next one.

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So far the shotgun approach of throwing a little effort at everything feels like it's working for me.  I'm thinking in March I'll choose a single topic and dedicate the whole month to drawing the crap out of it.  Then I can compare notes and see which method feels more productive at the end of the month.

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Metrics

Pages Read This Week	135
Total Pages Read Since Launch	735
Books Completed Since Launch	10
Total Tutorial Run-time	3 hours 30 minutes
Days Since Launch	43
- Active Days (1 hour or more of practice)	43
Drawing Time This Week	7 hours
Drawing Time Total	44 hours 7 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.