Tuesday Long Pose Workshop

Today I went by Jun's Tuesday night long pose workshop. Maybe it was the fact that I had been crazy busy with working all day, or gotten worked up by missed phone calls. Not excuses, just musings. But I did *horribly.* Was it that I didn't do any warm ups? I certainly didn't take enough time blocking out my figure. I did so bad, that I'm not going to post my drawing. What if I fail out of the class? Could I just be not cut out for this? What am I doing, spending money and time in art school, anyways? I'm an adult with a steady job!

I'm sharing my self doubt and anxiety here with anonymous others and my future self as a promise to myself to keep on going and work hard, even if I am feeling foolish and discouraged. One day I'd like to look back on this post and be proud that I had faith and kept on moving forward, even through the setbacks and bad days/weeks. Peace.

Charcoal Practice

Been so productive tonight for my lady night in. I've been struggling with charcoal a lot during my semester at AAU. Since I work full time and can't make most of the workshops, I figure I should try to understand it on my own time.

~45min 3x6'' combination of vine and charcoal pencil, using a Henry Yan pic as reference.

Intestinal Fortitude Recovery Week

I was super sick with some sort of violent stomach flu this week. :( So I missed about 3 and a half days of work, most of my 2nd day of class, and Valentine's Day, boo! Luckily, I'm back on the upswing for the weekend, although still trying to take it easy and gain back my intestinal fortitude. So here are some substitute sketches for what I normally would post for my new figurative concepts class.

I doodled a bunch of ladies here, just to be doing something while I'm waiting for dinner to cook or the energy to recharge on my stupid free-to-play game, haha. I feel like it's good for learning proportion consistency, and lets me crank out quick cute outfit ideas.

Also as kind of a daily vitamin, I'm trying to work in a couple of pages of gesture drawings every week. I've gotten really rusty over the long break that the Academy has, and I want to regain the momentum that I had fought so hard for last semester. I have a feeling that this semester is going to be tough for me, unless I work hard to study up on my own time. These are 1's.