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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 11

Lesson 11 – More cylinders. More shading. Nothing more to say. This one took a good hour to complete.

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 10

1/3 of the way through this challenge/adventure. Day 10 was THE CYLINDER. Getting the basics down. Again, lots of shading to try and make things look 3D on a 2D piece of paper. I bought a couple of Pentel mechanical … Continue reading

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 9

This lesson was The Rose. This lesson took at least an hour to complete. There was some pre-drawing practice and then the final drawing of a rose. Again, these are not life accurate drawings. They are presented to teach methods … Continue reading

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 8

Cool Koalas? Yep that is what Day/Lesson 8 was called. This lesson focused on using texturing as a shading technique rather than… you know, shading. After some textured balls, and who doesn’t love texturing balls, I drew a Koala. I … Continue reading

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 7

Almost caught up. Today is the 9th of January and I completed lesson 7. So I’m 2 days behind my plan to complete by the end of January. Day 7 lesson was Advanced-Level Cubes. Basically taking what was learned on … Continue reading

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 6

Doubled up on lessons and completed Day 6 last night. Stacking Tables. Moving on.

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 5

Can you believe I’m sticking with this drawing stuff? 5 days in a row. I’m thinking of double up tomorrow (Sunday) so I can finish exactly at the end of January. We shall see. Today’s lesson expanded on the Cube … Continue reading

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 4

Tonight’s lesson was The Cube. Very interesting tips on how to draw a cube. Very helpful. Using guide dots and reference lines made it pretty straight forward and easy. And then adding the shading learned from previous days brought out … Continue reading

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 3

Day 3, Advanced Spheres. More spheres and more shading. How’d I do? I’m getting the hang of the shading, bu I can’t draw a circle if my life depended on it. The second grouping of various size circles I used … Continue reading

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You Can Draw in 30 Days – Day 2

Third day of drawing but second day of lessons (first day was a pre-test drawing). Tonight’s lesson expanded on the sphere and use of shading, but using overlapping spheres to introduce 3 Laws of Drawing. 3 Laws learned tonight, plus … Continue reading

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