{"id":1288,"date":"2024-03-06T09:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2024-03-08T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T10:38:20","slug":"learning-to-draw-people-challenge-day-15-2024-03-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/06\/learning-to-draw-people-challenge-day-15-2024-03-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Draw People Challenge \u2013 Day 15 (2024\/03\/05)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nThis was written March 05, 2024 as part of the 2024 Learning to Draw People Challenge<\/a><\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nCredits: 1<\/b><\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Introduction<\/h2>\r\n

\r\nHello everyone, and welcome. As stated on the previous day, considering how busy I am, I need to get back on track. Thus, I decided to go for a shorter session: I limited myself to 30 minutes (Ending a bit early at 29m15s). Also, I did jot down that I started at 8:50pm, and evaluated my tiredness to be a 7\/10 (An arbitrary measure that might evolve over time). Will I ever use these stats? Who knows!\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Exercises<\/h2>\r\n

\r\nTo kick things off: the exercises. Once again, I suffered from the “slanted effect”, but it’s manageable. In spite of that, my horizontal lines took less space than usual. Meanwhile, the wavy lines were a complete disaster. Admittedly, I dealt with some friction issues, with my forearms and desk sticking to each other, resulting in unpleasantness and annoyance. Overall, the exercises took about 7m45s…although I did use some of that time to evaluate my tiredness.\r\n

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Day 15 – Lines exercise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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Day 15 – Wavy Lines exercise (Vertical)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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Day 15 – Wavy Lines exercise (Horizontal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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Day 15 – Circles exercise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Drawing<\/h2>\r\n

\r\nBut with such a limited time-constraint, what did I decide to draw? I opted to to revisit ears. I ended up getting some good practice in: 9 ears overall. I also learned a few things. Here’s the first ear I drew, with two arrows for annotations. I was displeased with two things: the placement of the ear canal’s area, and the top of the lobe.\r\n

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Day 15 – First Ear (Annotated)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nNow is probably a good time to take a step back and explain the steps involved in these drawing. Let’s demonstrate it with the second ear. First of all, I drew the ear’s outer outline. I eventually realized that I get better results if I split this in two parts. First the top half, from top left to center right. Next, the bottom right, from bottom left to center right (this is my personal stroke preference, it might differ for others).\r\n

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Day 15 – Drawing Process – Top Half of Outer Outline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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Day 15 – Drawing Process – Complete Outer Outline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nI then add the ear canal and associated lines.\r\n

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Day 15 – Drawing Process – Adding Ear Canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nNext, I add the inner outline.\r\n

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Day 15 – Drawing Process – Adding Inner Outline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nI follow this up by connecting the ear canal area to the inner outline:\r\n

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Day 15 – Drawing Process – Connecting Ear Hole Area to Inner Outline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nFinally, the inner outline loops around to connect back to the previous line:\r\n

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Day 15 – Drawing Process – Completed Ear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nBefore getting into the remaining attempts, a few things I’ve realized through this repeated exercise:\r\n