Loads to take in but it is a brilliant 1.5hour lesson from @Chris Legaspi . I have plans to watch it again- watched it twice in this week. The main take away so far is no matter how much render I do, I cannot cover up bad foundations of the figure. It re-emphasises to me the importance of getting the foundations right before shading and rendering the figure. Awesome references too.

One Minute drawing, morning cafe routine

Yeesh, so I've pretty much spent the last month or two dealing with exams and projects. I was basically doing drawing exercises this entire time. I did manage to do lesson 2 and 3 though. Also got distracted trying to learn how go draw hands, which turned out pretty well. But finally holidays begin in 2 days and I've had an annoying itch to do some serious art practice for the last month. Just 2 more days. Here is anything I deemed notable practice from this time period, except the drawing exercises of course.

I often see teachers who say "use only the best oils and only cadmium colors cause only they mix great skintones and it has to be lead primed raymar panel for 100 bucks and lead white and get your sable brushes". This is a 2 buck brush and an earth tone color by Schmincke. Just a sketch/material test so it will stay that way. The supercheap oils are not good tho and are expensive because they have so little pigment. But i let all these comments keep me from painting because i thought I have to have all of this and "only lead white looks great" which is expensive and i have 4 cats that i don't want to poison (even tho 4 are too many 🤪). Don't let those ideas hold you back. People do beautiful work with titanium white and like here on a piece of cheap canson oil paper (2,50 EUR a sheet 50 x 70) which i actually like a lot ! :) oh and trashy brushes have a certain streaky look that can be really appealing. Or maybe try a toothtbrush. Feel free to disagree tho ! Now trying to post this on insta will probably get me bannes again. I might still do it.

I really enjoyed the lesson on shading the figure, I might have to watch it one or two more times to let everything sink in. I made these drawings after watching the video. The middle and right figure are from Grafit reference photos.