cartharsis

"i had just learned enough to know that i don't know anything again!"
---richard williams
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i've been doing a lot of reading since summer started and so far, it's been a wonderfully astonishing journey: i can't count the number of times when i've been utterly awestruck by the ingenious works of my predecessors. meanwhile, it's also been tremendously agitating- even devastating at times- to discern how truly inexperienced i am as an amateur draftsman.

but hey, no pain no gain right?

i'm trudging on.






haha alright this last one's a total cop out. instead of operating outside of my comfort zone, i regressed right back to drawing pretty faces... but really though... i needed a break from doing master studies and anatomy lessons.

diamond in the rough

thought i'd brush up on the fundamentals this past week, thus, i present you with:

studies of FEET!!



AND HANDS!!!

lol i'm too lazy/cheap to get stubs so i just used my fingers to blend XD i was scared that it'd make a mess and ruin my lines but canson's paper actually stood the test :)

new beginnings!

following the completion of my sophomore year @ NYU, it became painfully clear to me that i needed to drop the slacker attitude and get my shit together over the summer.

so the first thing i decided to tackle was anatomy (my archilles heel!).

after reading willy pogany's the art of drawing and barrington barber's the basics of drawing, i made a couple of homely sketches based on pogany's studies:



my plan is to get a good feel for how figure drawing works before attempting life drawing. after that, i'll hopefully feel confident enough to start working on a sequential art project that i've wanted to do for the past 3 years.

i'm pretty impatient when it comes to making progress so i've vowed to draw every day of the summer to maximize the results.

fingers crossed that it'll pay off!!