Hey! I haven't posted in a while, mostly because I feel like a good 90% of accounts following me here are bots, so i didn't feel like doing it :/
I haven't stopped drawing though! I've been trying to use charcoal lately. These are the last couple of things i did.

Currently trying to draw my Barbatos gunpla! I tried to find the midpoint and use the other techniques to find the correct proportions and i think they're pretty accurate. Not perfect but it's a complex object so i'm still satisfied with it. I've only done the leg for now, i'll finish it later.

I tried to copy this Van Gogh drawing. At first i tried to replicate every single line but it quickly became overwhelming so i simply emulated the style. It was fun, even though the original is obviously way better. I think it has to do with the different thicknesses of the lines 🤔

I will stop counting the days, it was getting old really quickly. Anyway, i did this drawing of a vase of flowers. Let's just say i decided i don't like drawing still life lol. Still, the exercise was about alternating between free and controlled drawing, and that i did, so it's still a success.

Day 11: Today's project was about copying the photograph on the left, while paying attention to matching its tones. I think i did a decent job with the tones but once again the proportions are quite off. I really need to practice them but don't know how, i hope there'll be a chapter about this topic

Day 10: Did six 1-minute gesture drawings, three 2-minute connected-line drawings, and one 5-minute burn of my desk. The burn isn't great, i could have done it better, but i do enjoy doing gesture drawings: i had already done some in the past. I also did a tonal bar, which I think came out alright.

Day 9: I couldn't draw anything yesterday nor the day before because i was super busy, but today i made this copy of Degas's "La Chanson du Chien". It was really fun and interesting :) I think it's the best thing i've drawn thus far, even though it's not exactly original, of course.

Day 5: I finished the first chapter of the book! The last exercise was about drawing a "complicated echanical object". Closest thing i could find was my controller. I don't think it came out too bad, but i gotta start studying perspective pretty soon.

Day 4: As i said, i did another sketch of my hand. Except for the mess on the right, i quite like how this one came out. Also, i read more of the book and did another exercise, which asked to draw a bottle of tainted glass, focusing on drawing the shapes of the reflections. It was pretty fun!

I also did the following exercise: drawing a pepper from memory and then with a reference. As expected, the one from memory sucks, but I quite like the second one! I also went ahead and did the next project, drawing your own eyes. They are... fine, but not very similar to the original, i feel.

Day 3: I did another hand drawing, with a different pose. I'm still not satisfied, messed up some of the fingers and couldn't really recover them, and the proportions are quite off. I like the thumb though. I think i will use this hand exercise as a sort of warm-up sketch from now on.

The second exercise was to draw your own hand, looking at it from the fingertips. It was pretty challenging but fun. I think i could have done it better: I might try it again tomorrow, together with the following project of the book.

To start off, i bought a bunch of pencils, a sharpener and a couple books: Keys to Drawing, by Bert Dodson, and Figure Drawing, by Jake Spicer. I began reading the former. The first exercise, which i did yesterday, was to draw my feet. I'm pretty happy with the result :)