Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Feb 26 »

This is the first day I really started to try to learn to draw. You can see a lot of different things I was trying out to understand form, perspective, and shading.

I remembered basic shading from middle school art class, but everything else was novel to me. I did a lot of hand gesture exercises from Line of Action

Shoutout to my friend Aki for giving me a ton of good resources to learn these things!

  • implying form only with shading
  • loomis method for heads
  • 1 point, 2 point, 3 point, and orthographic projections
  • hand and foot gestures
  • compositions of basic forms
  • manupulations of basic forms (bending, twisting, stretching)
  • sketch from reference of my friend baldark and a doodle of his banjo
  • hand gestures
  • modified basic forms (contours, tapering, bending, cutting)
  • reference drawing (soda can)
  • heads (maybe an attempted self portrait? I don't remember)