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Without wanting to go into too much detail I’ve been massively struggling with art for the last year or so. I just don’t get the available time that I used to have, especially to polish art off and get it to a decent standard.

So I’ve decided that I’m going to try an ‘art diary’. Inevitably, things will get in the way and I won’t always be able to do this, but where possible I’ve allocated a different thing to learn each day, so I’m not always drawing things like anatomy (comfort zone) and pushing myself to draw things that I wouldn’t ordinarily draw. I’m hoping this will broaden my horizons a little bit whilst also making me more familiar with some of the more mundane aspects of drawing, because they will help ground things in reality. Plus I’m trying to discipline myself with drawing the things that I don’t find that interesting as it’s one of the greatest difficulties any artist will encounter.

So Monday (even though I said I wanted to move away from anatomy) is anatomy! Here are some sketches from my noggin. Even though it helps in terms of speed to be able to draw the figure from memory, I would still 100% advise using reference where necessary.

Description
Without wanting to go into too much detail I’ve been massively struggling with art for the last year or so. I just don’t get the available time that I used to have, especially to polish art off and get it to a decent standard.

So I’ve decided that I’m going to try an ‘art diary’. Inevitably, things will get in the way and I won’t always be able to do this, but where possible I’ve allocated a different thing to learn each day, so I’m not always drawing things like anatomy (comfort zone) and pushing myself to draw things that I wouldn’t ordinarily draw. I’m hoping this will broaden my horizons a little bit whilst also making me more familiar with some of the more mundane aspects of drawing, because they will help ground things in reality. Plus I’m trying to discipline myself with drawing the things that I don’t find that interesting as it’s one of the greatest difficulties any artist will encounter.

So Monday (even though I said I wanted to move away from anatomy) is anatomy! Here are some sketches from my noggin. Even though it helps in terms of speed to be able to draw the figure from memory, I would still 100% advise using reference where necessary.