{"id":1055,"date":"2024-03-01T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2024-03-04T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:09:32","slug":"learning-to-draw-people-challenge-day-12-2024-03-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/01\/learning-to-draw-people-challenge-day-12-2024-03-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Draw People Challenge \u2013 Day 12 (2024\/03\/01)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nThis was written March 01, 2024 as part of the 2024 Learning to Draw People Challenge<\/a><\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Introduction<\/h2>\r\n

\r\nHello everyone and happy March! Today marks the end of my first week back (Reminder that I’m only planning to draw Monday through Friday now, as explained here<\/a>). Unfortunately, today was a bit underwhelming. I started my session while extremely tired and under the weather, yet decided to undertake something challenging…while also cutting some corners. Definitely not a recipe for success. Thus, today will be a quick one.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

Exercises<\/h2>\r\n

\r\nNothing much to say about the exercises, other than I somewhat rushed through them. Still a good warm up, but not the best of results. All the same, they took me about 6m30s, which is shorter than usual. Here they are if you want to see them:\r\n

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Day 12 – Lines exercise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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Day 12 – Circles exercise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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Day 12 – Wavy Lines exercise (Horizontal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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Day 12 – Wavy Lines exercise (Vertical)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Drawing<\/h2>\r\n

\r\nToday, I decided to go for an angled profile. I started by drawing the contour with some guidelines. However, I also cut corners and skipped a few of the guidelines, along with the neck’s cross-section.\r\n

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Day 12 – Outline (With Guidelines)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nOnce that was done, I placed some eye holes, eyebrows, a nose and a mouth. Unfortunately, I believe that my eyes are a little too low here. Also, the eye on the left should be at a different angle, to account for the face’s angle.\r\n

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Day 12 – Face elements outlines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nNext, I took the first step to refine the eyes, and redrew the cranium, to try to account for poor placement of the eyes.\r\n

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Day 12 – First eye refinement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nFor the next step, I added an ear with some detail, and also opted to modify the placement of the nose and mouth. Overall, I’m not too disappointed by the ear, I think it might be the best aspect of this drawing.\r\n

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Day 12 – Ear added<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nAs my last step for the face today, I refined the eyes further, and added a blush. There was a lot of erasing and redrawing for the eyes, especially the one on the left. And even then, I’m still unhappy with them. Their placement and proportions feel a little off. I definitely need to spend more time working on this in the future. This different angle is something I need to better understand.\r\n

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Day 12 – Final face refinements<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nFinally, I added outlines for the hair. Here is the final result.\r\n

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Day 12 – Final Drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\r\n

\r\nOverall, I think it’s a disappointing result, likely due to a combination of my tired state and rushing through things (i.e.: cutting corners), while working on a more complex task than usual. This kind of angle is definitely less intuitive, and something I need to better study.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nBeyond that, I’m glad I still managed to put something out today. Overall, this means I successfully drew and wrote a blog post every day this week, which has been the primary goal here. Thus, even though the week may have ended in a whimper, it was still successful, so I’ll take that as a victory! On that note, I hope you all have a lovely weekend, and a great month of March. See you next week. \r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nThis post is followed by Learning to Draw People Challenge \u2013 Interlude<\/a><\/i>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was written March 01, 2024 as part of the 2024 Learning to Draw People Challenge Introduction Hello everyone and happy March! Today marks the end of my first week back (Reminder that I’m only planning to draw Monday through Friday now, as explained here). Unfortunately, today was a bit underwhelming. I started my session … Continue reading Learning to Draw People Challenge \u2013 Day 12 (2024\/03\/01)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-skill-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}