Friday, April 22, 2016

Day 113: Week 17 Summary

I either need to improve my time management skills or find an extra hours in the day.  The anatomy drills have been pretty ... meh.  I haven't had a lot of luck with doing dedicated proportion practice so I went back to mixing it with gesture drawings.  A little application to go along with all that theory.

The Bamboo Fineline never felt right to me.  I had to put an uncomfortable amount of pressure on the screen to register a full line.  So I decided to take the dive and order my own Gen 3 Bamboo Stylus Solo.  The soft mesh like tip makes a funny squeaky noise when I'm drawing, but it has a much better response to pressure.  Now I just have to practice drawing at two-thirds speed so the slight delay on my iPad doesn't mess up my lines.

Didn't get as much drawing done this week.  The gesture drawings and what not are mostly NSFW so I'm going to skip scanning this week.  (Sorry to the one or two people who follow this blog.)  I'm still set on pushing through the anatomy lessons.

My goal is to be able to draw a consistent body type in multiple poses sans-reference material.  It's a pretty hard limitation right now that I can only finish a passable drawing if I lean heavily on resource material.  So far I haven't found any good advice / tutorials / books on how to get over that wall but I'll definitely make not of it when I figure it out.



Metrics

Pages Read This Week 0
Total Pages Read Since Launch 1450
Books Completed Since Launch 13
Total Tutorial Run-time 12 hours 32 minutes
Days Since Launch 113
 - Active Days (1 hour or more of practice) 108
Drawing Time This Week 6 hours
Drawing Time Total 109 hours 54 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.

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