I’m not sure how many of these I’ll do. The Making Art Everyday prompts for February are animals, which is fine. I’ll draw a penguin. But the parameters have shifted from just doing something every day to something more tutorial-like, which is not what I want. I am not making these sketches to learn, per se, I’m doing them to build a habit for drawing every day. Any learning that may happen alongside them is incidental–I plan on continuing my actual learning in structured lessons elsewhere.
Here’s how this week’s prompts work:
This week is all about teaching yourself how to draw something from memory. The idea here is to study an animal, identify its unique characteristics, break it down into simple shapes, then develop your own method for drawing that animal. It’s a process that can take time, so I’ve split each prompt across two days.
This is WAY too specific for a daily prompt and splitting it over two days makes it…not daily.
So I cheated and did a bear sketch from reference. It turned out decent.
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