Week 33 Sketch Dump!

Hey Everyone! I hope you have had a great start to your weekend!

For this week’s sketch dump, I wanted to highlight some struggles, as it was a rough week compared to the others. Not only did I spend less time drawing than I would have liked, but I found myself battling the frustration of creating inconsistent level quality even what felt like hour after hour. Some drawings were great one day, then bad the next, some great the first half of the day, then terrible the second. I’m really striving for a consistent sense of quality so its really stressful when it seems like I’m drawing like a 10 year old again lol.

What I do know is that overall, I AM improving compared to the beginning of 2020 when I was focused on this style before I got distracted. I am practicing affirming to myself that its alright, simply part of the process, and to keep going and take things more seriously. I have a tendency to get more and more messy since I am not confident the drawing will even be ‘worth it’ if I can’t get the proportions to look right asap. Focusing on staying calm and determined is the goal here, so that I do not keep sabatoging myself like this.

On some of the pages, you can see my studies of other artists work like ryoo.m5, Shiyoon Kim, and Glen Keene. Their work is amazingly clean and I strive to do the same. When I copy their works, I can get to a similar level of cleanness, but when I use photo reference or try from imagination, its incredibly messy and frustrated looking. I plan to practice more next week on these faces and expressions, and internalize my strategy to build them up more. I also want to start making more clean drawings and take more pride in them, even if they don’t turn out amazing at first. I believe that will help me grow much more than frantically trying to prove that I haven’t forgotten to draw every single day.

Just to put it into perspective, the drawings I am most happy with are the woman from the first meme sketch, both of them on the second page, the woman on the right from the third page, and the two women with pink lips on the fourth page, and then the Ninki Minjage and the woman next to her on the fifth.

If you have similar struggles let me know in the comments or even if you have any advice! I’ve realized last week that there’s a LOT of things I can learn from you all as well. Everyone’s learning!