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Hello there, my name is Stubbs. I have no idea how to draw, but I have always been fascinated by people who can draw. There is just something so inherently cool about being able to pick up a pencil, lay down a few lines, and convey a message or a story through other means than words. Therefore I set out to study how to draw, and this blog is my (sketchbook) journey.
In this article, I will bring you along on my 120-day sketchbook journey. I'll be showcasing my progress from day 61 to 120, sharing insights I learned along the way. Please note that I'm no seasoned artist, as my artistic background is virtually non-existent.
New blogs will be uploaded every 60 days
If you have any questions or tips, feel free to ask them in the comment section
Hope you enjoy :)
Part 1. – Sketchbook Journey I – Basics and Beginnings!
Part. 2 – Sketchbook Journey II – Colors and Quality!
Table of contents:
- Showcase of different comparisons
- How this journey started
- The plan / My goal
- My Materials
- Mindset
- Part. 1 – Headshot(s)! (day 61-75)
- Part. 2 – Adding colors and torso (day 76-94)
- Part. 3 – Legs and faces (95-110)
- Part. 4 – Clothe and Quality (111-120)
- Tips from the community
- Important take-aways (Read this if you're new to art as well)
- Plans for the future
Showcase:
This is my day 1 drawing vs. my drawing on day 100.
Day 1 and Day 100:
Showcase (2):
A comparison of me drawing the same picture from day 15, 59 and 120.
A comparison of me drawing the same picture from day 15, 59 and 120.
Day 15, 59 and 120 comparison:
How this journey started:
I will keep this short! I was a guitarist for 7 years. Creating has always been my passion, but honestly, music isn't my thing. It might sound strange, but during my university days studying philosophy and psychology, I had a realization, that being a musician wasn't my own dream; it was something my family wanted me to be. To earn their love, I ended up shelving my own dreams throughout my childhood and into my teens.
Fast forward to 2023: I moved to a new country where I knew nobody. Amidst the chaos of settling in, I picked up reading manga again to distract myself. I stumbled upon "Beat & Motion" by Naoki Fujita, and the first chapter struck a chord (pun intended) as it mirrored my own journey into music.
This manga lingered in my mind as I delved into my studies. As December rolled in and lectures made way for winter vacation, I faced a dilemma. Stay in good standing with my family by following their wishes but sacrificing my true self, or choose authenticity, even if it means disregarding my families wishes.
I chose the ladder. And so, on the 9th of December, 2023 this sketchbook journey began!
The plan / My goal:
The plan for day 61-120 is to start establishing a study-flow that will allow me to keep up with my 3-week study plan, and help me improve my technique and overall understanding of how to draw full-body anime figures. In pt. I of sketchbook journey I managed to establish a consistent routine of drawing 30 minutes every day, and I am happy to announce: Drawing has become like brushing my teeth – even on the days where my head hurts and the last thing I want to do is draw, I still pick up the pencil and draw for 30 minutes: it has become routine to do so (and I love it!), though it still needs maintaining ever so often haha.
The goal:
I have a long-term and a short-term goal. The long term goal is that when my university studies come to an end in 2 years, I want to finally have a gap year, and spent set gap year on doing art full time. My aim, is to improve and hone my drawing skills over the next 2 years, to the point where I will be able to start making a living off of art – wether that'd be part-time or full-time.
The short-term goal is the goal I set for every installation of the Sketchbook Journey series. This time I'll be doing a redraw of the Nijika Ijichi reference that I used on day 15 and 59. Thought it would be a fun comparison to see day 15, 59 and 120. I think this reference has unintentionally just become my go-to when I want to test my abilities haha. The picture is an edit, but the artwork of Ijichi is by ClowerWorks Inc.
My materials:
Drawing Materials:
The drawing materials which I use from day 61 and forwards are the following:
| A5 Spiral sketchbook | Mechanical pencil (0,5mm) | A sleeve mini eraser | Pencil sharpener |
| A4 Spiral sketchbook | Pencil-lead (0,5x75mm) | 'No dust' square eraser | Red, blue and green color-pencils (from a super-market) |
| 15cm ruler | Fineliner pencils (0.05, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 & 0.7) – Black pigment ink. | Rubiks Cube (For understanding perspective. Idk how to solve it) | 168 pcs, Colour markers |
Instead of recommending specific materials, I will instead recommend that you try out different materials until you find something that you personally like. What you see above, are the materials I personally prefer to use – but I originally started off with supermarket pencils, a cheap eraser and a sketchbook for a total value of 20€ (22$).
Anything beyond a supermarket pencil is more like a 'quality of life' addition, but won't make one better at making art
Reference material:
Throughout my sketchbook journey, I have been using Pinterest to find all my drawing references. Below, I'll share a link that leads to my comprehensive chaos folder of references I use. Its not to say that I use all of them all the time, but it is my dedicated inspiration folder with stuff I think is cool or helpful for various reasons.
Please note I also just save a lot of pictures on my phone, which are not necessarily on Pinterest, and uploading them without the consent of the original creators is not something I am going to do, so not every reference I used is on Pinterest (but most of them are)
Inspiration/Reference-folder: https://pin.it/19hBx55
Mindset:
Before we dive into drawing, let me tell you that it's a real mountain of work! Whenever people claim it's all about talent, I wish they would read how Maru Mori from the manga Blue Period responds to Yataro Yaguchi (main character) saying "I am jealous of your talent.":
| 'I'm not talented. I just spend more time thinking about art than other people. And, you know, thanks for the compliment but... I actually put in the work to study art and art-making methods. Haphazardly calling this my "talent" is like saying I didn't do anything to achieve this." – Maru Mori (Blue Period, book. 1, p. 46). |
| Is succes in art a matter of hard work or talent?: I’d like to dedicate a small section to the debate about ‘talent’ versus ‘hard work’ in the context of learning how to draw. There is a notion that qualities such as determination and persistence, often associated with hard work, can equally be considered talents in and of themselves. However, it brings with it a concern that categorizing them as such, ends up diminishing the immense effort involved. Overemphasizing the distinction between ‘talent’ and ‘hard work’ overlooks the intricate personal struggles and the diverse aspects contributing to success. Success is often oversimplified, attributed solely to either innate talent or sheer effort, disregarding the complexities of an individual’s journey, acquired skills, and sacrifices made along the way. Ultimately, framing success as a binary between talent and hard work, oversimplifies the rich reality of achievement, not only in drawing, but I’d go as far as to say, in all facets of human life. |
My approach to learning:
My mindset towards learning has been, that when I see my drawings and recognize they're not up to par, I don't shy away from admitting, 'This drawing genuinely isn't good.' However, simply labeling it as 'bad art' would just make me feel disheartened. Yet, it's equally unproductive to ignore the truth or make external excuses like 'I had a bad day.' No room for excuses here! Instead, I confront the reality by pinpointing specific areas I find lacking, or I ask others what errors they notice in my art. After every thought of 'This looks good' or 'This looks bad,' I immediately follow up with a 'why is that?' question. If I find the proportions seem off, I ask: 'Why are my proportions off?', and then point to what mistakes I see. From those mistakes, I know what I should study.
| Part. 1 – Headshot(s)! (day 61-75) – Learning to draw heads and faces |
- Day 61
I started where I left off; studying heads. I realized today that I don't actually enjoy spending lots of time on a single drawing. Instead I find it more enjoyable to draw within a time frame. I sort of adapted the Draw → Reflect → Learn cycle, into Draw (for X minutes only) → Reflect → Learn. I find it to be quite helpful at the moment haha.
- Day 62-64
I mainly spend these three days doing the same Draw (for X minutes only) → Reflect → Learn cycle, trying to notice if I was making any specific repeat errors. This is where I noticed that I have three specific tendencies:
1. I usually place the eyes too close to each other.
2. I misalign the eyes, meaning one is usually higher/lower than the other one.
3. I mess up the head-proportions, usually making one side of the face look 'swollen'
- Day 65-67
Today I tried combining my head studies with my earlier torso/hip studies. There are heaps of mistakes, though I am very proud of myself, that I managed to notice the body to head ratio being way off in my inital sketch, and correcting it, even if my corrections still weren't perfect haha.
- Day 68-69 hehe
My main focus today is aligning the eyes, so that they are at the same height. The second thing (mainly on day 69 hehe) is that I am trying to nail down the landmarks of the face. I have specifically learned that the brow-line, tip of the nose, mouth and chin are the key landmarks that should stay somewhat consistent, regardless of other facial proportions.
- Day 70-72
Today I tried implementing the measurements from yesterday, using the landmarks of the face to get it right. Day. 71, I got a mail from the art-school saying to buy some extra art-supplies (fineliner pens), and an A4 sketchbook.
When I got home though, I began feeling ill, and day 72 I had to call in sick. Getting out of bed to draw on day 72 was honestly a nightmare, because I was running on painkillers and tea, so only spent 30 minutes drawing and then went to sleep the rest of the day.
- Day 73-75
Today I am still not feeling well, but I really enjoy using the fineliners that I bought for art-school. This is also when I learned that one usually use the 0.05 fineliner for almost everything, and then add more volume to certain lines (such as the outline) with the 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 fineliners.
| Part. 2 – Adding colors and torso (day 76-94) – Adding color and trying to match up the torso with head |
- Day 76
In my 'Future Goals' section from Sketchbook Journey pt. 1, I mentioned that I was contemplating selling my bass, and using the money from the bass to buy a 168pcs coloring set – and today I sold my bass, and went directly to the nearest art-supply store and bought the 168pcs set that I have been drooling over. So yeah, this is the first time that I have ever fully colored a drawing, and my oh my! I love adding colors!
- Day 77-78
Today I dived back into my torso/hip studies, and learned from talking to someone else who is also drawing, that when especially when I am drawing the torso, I must always keep in mind, that the shoulders control most of the upper-body movement, while the hips control most of the lower body movement. This means that I need to be very aware of placing so-called "action lines" that indicate movement for shoulders and hips.
With that in mind, I tried drawing the torso and hip from memory, only to realize that I only know the skeleton, but have yet to think about the muscles that also give the human body its shape. With inspiration from Marc Brunets 7-day practice cycle, I adapted his practice cycle to what I've learned from watching Oridays Draw → Reflect → Learn cycle and made the following 7-day cycle, for learning anatomy:
- Day 79-81
I realized that while I am able to get majority of the outer-shapes somewhat correct, one thing I have no understanding of is the belly. So re-using my knowledge on looking for landmarks in the face, I applied the same idea to finding landmarks on the belly to help me understand, and more consistently draw the belly.
I also learned, that I prefer SamDoesArts approach to anatomy, in favor of using boxes (see day. 7-12)
- Day 82-84
Today I did an artist study of Marc Brunets way of doing anatomy. Today is also when I started applying one of the principles that I was taught at art-school, which is to use circles of the same size, in order to keep proportions of the body to be consistent throughout the entire drawing. I even drew a little explainer on day 82, in the right corner.
Day 83, I did a detailed study of the muscles and muscle-groups of the torso and hip. I want to note that I feel like doing such detailed muscle studies, is sort of like when I did skeleton studies on day 41-51: I won't visibly be drawing each and every muscles group as detailed or refined as here, but because I've done this study, I now subconsciously will be able to spot if for example the trapezius is missing or not defined enough.Are detailed muscle studies necessary to become a good artist? (discussing art-style) - From my own experience, I would say that it depends on what you goal is. If drawing characters is a hobby and there is no intention of doing paid work, then I would say no; draw what you enjoy and have fun with it. However, I will say that I think it is necessary to do muscle studies if the goal is to one day do paid work or dynamic/consistent full-body characters.
- I personally think that before an artist can truly break out of a box and find ones own art-style, one first needs to learn where the walls of the already established 'box' is, and how one can get to these walls. If an artist claims to have 'broken loose' from established principles without understanding or acknowledging them first, it seems kind of disrespectful to others who have invested significant time and effort into perfecting their craft.
- I don't think an artist can create amazing or stunning art, if they only rely on one approach alone. I think that emotion in and of itself is a box that can be broken by method, and method is a box that can be broken by emotion – but neither emotion nor method, seems able to find each others walls, unless they've learned from each other – Thus if they don't learn from each other, they can't break each other.
- From my own experience, I would say that it depends on what you goal is. If drawing characters is a hobby and there is no intention of doing paid work, then I would say no; draw what you enjoy and have fun with it. However, I will say that I think it is necessary to do muscle studies if the goal is to one day do paid work or dynamic/consistent full-body characters.
- Day 85-86
Today is the end of the first 7-day learning cycle, and I have deftly improved on my front view! Side-views and 3/4, I will have to come back to study those as well.
- Day 87-89
Today was a very emotional day, as I got extremely angry at my own inconsistency, and that the landmarks I had been using for the face, turned out to be very inconsistent and unreliable. I ended up asking the art-help Discord community, and luckily, they introduced me to Loomis method, and jokingly said "Now draw 10.000.000 heads!" – which I partially took literally, and spent 2 days just doing Loomis method.
- Day 90-91 – Half way!
Today is the half-way mark for Sketchbook Journey II, and so I decided to try and do a full piece, and use the Loomis method in a full piece for the first time. While facial and body proportions are very janky, I will say, that I overall feel a good improvement, using the Loomis method as a more reliable and consistent way of drawing heads.
- Day 92-94
Today I again tried to combine my head studies with my torso and hip studies, and I will admit, that my drawings on day 92, and my absolute favorites because they are so proportionally well-balanced. And day 94, was the complete opposite of day 92, as I did not have a very good day drawing.
| Part. 3 – Legs and faces (day 95-110) – Adding color and trying to match up the torso with head |
- Day 95-97
Today I started doing leg studies, mainly trying to learn the basics of drawing the legs. I learned that there are two main things to pay a lot of attention to when one is drawing legs:
1. The flow / rhythm of the leg (as shown by the arrows)
2. The balance points of the legs (does the leg look balanced, or does it have an unnatural tilt)
- BONUS! – First (kinda) OC character
Today is 95, and I am super excited to introduce my very first OC (kinda)! Technically one could argue that my first OC is the blue haired girl from day. 42, but this is the first time that I have made an OC with a personality, backstory, world and name!
So without further adieu: Meet Cherna!
(Thank you so much Fawne for the name suggestion. I love the reference so much!)
■ Cherna is an excitable, optimistic, and deeply passionate individual, particularly when it comes to the world of literature. She presents herself as approachable and unassuming, often donning a simple dress paired with a modest shirt beneath, eschewing makeup.
■ Despite her tranquil demeanor, Cherna harbors an intense curiosity, often venturing beyond the confines of her bookshop in pursuit of rumored discoveries.
■ While possessing a strong sense of justice, she tends to steer clear of entanglements in others' dramatic affairs. However, when faced with injustice or adversity, Cherna often tries to correct it from the shadows, only reluctantly tapping into her demonic powers, using the obsidian plates she carries, only as the last resort.
■ Her abilities afford her mastery over three eternal flames and the shadows they cast. The flames and shadows are linked, meaning that if all three flames are extinguished – Cherna will permanently lose all of her powers. Therefore she conceals these flames within lanterns scattered throughout her bookshop, using them to light up her bookshop, so that her powers remain discreet, leaving visitors not to question her true nature.
■ Cherna uses the obsidian plates to shape the shadows, creating either illusions or shadow puppets that can interact with the world around them.
■ Cherna has a practical approach to life, honed from her experiences evading trouble, underlining her adaptability to survive in any environment. Yet, as the only demon (to her own knowledge) that has managed to escape the underworld, Cherna finds that trouble has an uncanny knack for finding her, despite her efforts to avoid it.
- Day 98-99
Today I did more leg studies, however, without going into too much detail, my mood has been starting to decline by quite a bit. This also means that I've only been spending the required 30 minutes drawing, and then mainly just been binge-watching anime.
- BONUS! – Expression sheets (discovering Settei Dreams)
I made a pretty amazing discovery during this time as well. I've had issues when using Pinteres, that stuff like expression sheets or proportion sheets for characters from different anime, is usually not consistent in the references on Pinterest. But! It turns out that there exists a dedicated website called Settei Dreams that has scans of the sketches and animation-guide sheets, that were used by the actual animators!
I've been using Settei Dreams to find and practice consistency in my proportions and have been drawing expression sheets when I wake up and have a bit of time to spent before I have to attend morning lectures.
- Day 100! (That's a lot of days!)
Today is a very special day, because it is day 100! It is so fun to redraw my day. 1 drawings again, and see that I have actually improved quite a lot! The main thing I notice is that since day. 1, I now approach drawing faces, shapes and objects much more methodically than I did on day. 1, where I was basically just guessing and trying to copy what I saw.
I still do a lot of chicken scratching when drawing, but I've noticed that it only really happens with clothing and parts of a drawing that I am unsure about, so as I keep studying (and eventually get to study clothing), my line quality should slowly but surely improve as I gain more confidence in my abilities.
- Day 101-102
Today I spent most of my time attending art-school where I ended up making two drawings that I am super proud of. One is a reference I found on Pinterest, and the other is a panel from the manga Ima Koi (It's a good read!). Day 102, I did some quick leg studies, but tbh, my mood has not improved since day 98.
- Day 103-105
My mood has been declining even more, and I will be honest and say I don't feel well. My mood has started to affect my drawings as well, as I have not been able to continue my leg studies for some time now. While I do intend on getting back to the studies, for the time being, I need to take a quick break from dedicated drawing, and just draw and practice what I want to.
- Day 106-108
These days I am taking a break from studying, and more so just drawing what I want to and what I can manage. It's a little annoying that my mood has affected my drawing this much atm, but – without going into detail – I feel that my current irl situation calls for immediate attention, and cannot be taken lightly. Please note that you (the reader) does not need to worry. I have irl friends and people that I talk to and whom support me through this, so you don't need to worry about me :)
Something that may require a quick explanation though is my "drawing" on day 106. I noticed on day 105 that my spacing is very inconsistent, so on day 106, I tried to create a spacing-practice-sheet. Wether or not it works, only the future will tell, but I find it relaxing to just do something simple.
- Day 109-110
Today I learned just how bad the bleeding in the coloring I use is haha. I love the reference and will deftly have to redraw this same reference of Asada Shino from GGO (Have been rewatching GGO). The day after drawing Asada, I thought it would be fun to try and do a turn-around with the head and the torso.
| Part. 4 – Clothe and Quality (day 111-120) – Adding color and trying to match up the torso with head |
- Day 111-113
Today I went outside to do some clothe-shopping, and realized that I am quite fascinated by clothing, so day. 111 I did some still-life drawing of some stuff that was on display, and then on day 112 I learned something quite amazing!
So, line-quality. I think its about time that I point out that my line quality is really bad to put it kindly. I have a tendency to do short scratchy lines, and I am still not very confident in my lines when I draw faces, so will have to work on that. But I managed to improve my line-quality here on day 112, because I finally decided to actually focus on making longer and more confident strokes, at a pace that is not too slow nor too fast, but at a pace that I personally feel comfortable with.Line quality - In terms of improving line quality, the main areas of focus is to firstly try and avoid the two most common mistakes: short scratchy lines (also called 'chicken scratching'), and chaotic searching lines, that don't give a clear direction of about where the actual intended line is supposed to be.
- Speed is also very important for line quality, as going too fast will be imprecise and hard to control, while going too slow will give a wobbly and insecure look to the lines. Instead, try and find a speed in-between too fast and too slow, that you personally find to be comfortable with.
- Follow through with your lines, which means that its okay to have your lines extend a bit further out from where they were supposed to end. A good way of practicing this is also to combine it with ghosting the strokes before you do the final stroke. Ghosting the stroke means that you do the motion of the line you want to make, while holding the pen just a bit above the paper, and then lightly lowering the pencil to just barely touch the paper, while retaining the same stroking motion.
- Anything we draw can also be condensed down to 3 main kind of lines: S-curves, C-curves and straight curves. If we divide up complicated stuff such as muscles or clothing into just using these three kind of lines, and doing the entire thing in portions, this can help make the overall line quality improve, as one is no longer doing the entire outline in one single stroke.
Triangle shadows
I'm a little unsure about this one, but it helped me so much to discover on day 112 and 113 that I wanted to include it!- When doing shadows, make sure that the shadows always form a triangle. You can bend and stretch the triangle as much as you'd like, but it seems to be giving much nicer results when the shadows always form a kind of triangle – especially when drawing the folds and shadows on clothing.
- In terms of improving line quality, the main areas of focus is to firstly try and avoid the two most common mistakes: short scratchy lines (also called 'chicken scratching'), and chaotic searching lines, that don't give a clear direction of about where the actual intended line is supposed to be.
- Day 114-116
I spent most of my time doing clothes because I find it to be really fun to draw, and the results usually end up pretty good (partially because with cloths there is more room for proportinal errors compared to faces, since the human brain has a harder time accepting a face that is slightly off, than clothing that looks slightly off).
I also do these drawings to try and improve my overall line quality, and I will say, that I really feel like it has been helping to draw clothes with a main focus on the overall line-quality, instead of having my main focus on being proportionally correct. It's also nice to be able to just sit down, and do still-lifes for a change.
- Day 117-119
Doing more clothing today, both to try and improve my line-quality and line-confidence, but tbh, I am using this whole drawing clothes, as an excuse to just kind of draw what I want to for the time being haha. Been following the study-plan and while it certainly works well... I am so tired
- Day 120!
Today is day 120, and I am scared out of my mind because my fear of failure is kicking in hard. I haven't been practicing heads or faces for a while now because my mood has been so just... blergh! But looking at how it turned out, I am super proud of myself! There certainly are a few things I can still improve on, but I am mainly so proud of myself for getting the proportions and the line quality to be this good for the final drawing of Sketchbook Journey. II!
Looking at the final comparison, I can deftly see my own improvement in terms of proportions and overall line quality. While drawing clothes for a full week instead of doing the studies I was supposed to do, might've been a bit careless, I will say, it ended up paying off big time! Now I am even more excited to get started on Sketchbook Journey. III!
| Tips from the Community! |
| These are a bunch of helpful tips that I took with me from the last Sketchbook Journey blog. I am thankful for any advice on drawing, and wanted to share these tips from the community, in the hopes that they can help you as well If you want to be included in the next Sketchbook Journey, be sure to leave your best art-tip for the community in the comments! :) |
| -Valery : "An important thing I've learnt is "don't be afraid of starting over". Sometimes when I feel hopeless looking at my drawing that just doesn't work I say "to hell it goes" and start over. I don't think it's of much use when studying, since the process itself is about mistakes and analysis, but if you ever think that the piece doesn't strike with you in the future, consider starting from scratch." Aspirin60 : "I give you the tip; draw hands! A lot of them! Hands (and feets) are the most difficult part from body." Shift Stardust : "To make great art is to fail, to fail is to learn, to learn is to think. Thats what i said to myself when drawing." |
| To be continued – My future plans for day 120 to day 180 (aka. Sketchbook Journey III) |
That wraps up 120 days of learning to draw!
Thank you so much for reading
If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments :)
| My main takeaways from day 61-120 (random nuggets of advice I like): |
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| Future goals: |
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My current stats
My current time stats:
– 120h, 5m spent drawing
– Goal is to hit 1.000 hours (+/- 50 hours) on January 1st, 2025
– 120h, 5m spent drawing
– Goal is to hit 1.000 hours (+/- 50 hours) on January 1st, 2025
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Reading what's basically your end goal, explains a lot about the drive you show to make it reality. No clue (nor do I need to know the exact numbers) in terms of money how a bass compares to a 168 coloring pieces set. But it does says a lot...
In terms of gear, the 'no dust' eraser caught my attention. Does it work as the name suggests?
*makes a mental note about 'creating triangles for shadows' *
*studying anatomy for indirect support while drawing... Makes actually quite some sense in terms what I like to draw & have knowledge on...*
Drawing software & tablet
As a owner of cheap Wacom drawing tablet (with dust collecting months between usage) few things to keep in mind while wanting to transitioning to drawing tablet.
+ tl.dr: see if you can borrow one or test try one for a few drawings before making the plunge or decide on a specific one
+ it's very different compared to drawing on paper
- having a tablet without screen you'll need to relearn/re-calibrate some hand-eye coordination
- drawing space & zoom level on the software can be tricky & weird when used to
+ behavior of the pencil. Probably proper software has some nice presets, but
- definitely spend some time on figuring out presets you like or rather mimic the ones you use in actual life on paper drawings before
- or explore for new possibilities.
These compilation blogs are great & love to see more of them in the future.
They do spark my interest to make my own take on it with some urban sketching. Plus spend some time on actually improving it by asking some questions.
Ps. although you say not to worry - that doesn't mean I can wish you the best ;-)
Also thanks for the tips on the drawing tablet. It will stille be 1.5-2 years before I buy one, and I am aiming for a tablet with a screen, since I'm not much for re-learning my hand-eye coordintion with a no-screen tablet haha.
Urban sketching is super cool! I deftly still need to practice making longer straight lines, and do more still-lifes where the horizon-line is a bit more obvious to have it be in perspective haha. Would love to read about your learning progress, so that I can learn from your experiences as well :D
Ps. haha, that is true. Thanks :)
No problem. The drawing tablets with screen are essentially computers themselves -> you could check/save up for one that can function as a replacement for your macbook as well.
It's certainly cool, I just do it only on long vacations (one is coming soon'ish). For improving long term, that's something I need to change my habit.